@pedant @winston

They are amazing. Gawd, no wonder pancakes are……intriguing. Oh boy, I’m salivating now! I can imagine thin pancakes with ricotta cheese and brown sugar mixed with berries and vanilla whipped cream….or, during a 6 month period where I stayed with friends on a farm every morning we had lemon and sugar on pancakes. They were…[Read more]

@pedant  Thank you for the pictures, they were lovely. The green grass, blue and white checks and cute little pony made me happy. The town and the church are so beautiful and all the people looked like they were having a good time. Your spring and mine look a lot different right now. When I look out my window all I see is white, grey and snirt (…[Read more]

@pedant and @thane16   I second thanes “whoa”  and add a…… what!

@pedant

my inner dummy spoketh

Ooh, I’m averting my eyes now. They’re averted…..Whoa!

🙂

@Winston @pedant and @whisht

Yes, that’s the one, isn’t it? The song people say “hang on, THAT’s Chicago??” Great stories about who wrote it, why they were struggling to complete the album & the name of the song as well.

You can see Cetera still performing today but in a suit & tie 🙂

But Kath was the prima donna guitarist with RSMag commenting…[Read more]

Hi @pedant @winston @thane16

I only heard about Peter York’s death a few minutes before checking in here and I’ll admit a certain “awwwww no”.
I grew up seeing them on the TV, sandwiched between The Banana Splits and I thought of them as a joke band, though couldn’t figure out how some of their songs were so damn good.

Sometimes it can take me…[Read more]

@pedant Cheers – spammer (or strangely confused person) duly removed.

@thane16   @pedant and @whisht   I heard about Peter Tork earlier and although I am very sad at his leaving I also remembered all the fun he brought me as a young girl watching the show ,singing the songs and trying to decide who was the cutest. .As a much older person I have learned to appreciate their music and even took a Monkees CD  on our…[Read more]

@pedant  @whisht

Oh I know. His death popped up on my feed.  Such lovely memories of the whole band. Even dad liked them which says something (maybe)

Thank you for the Jeremy Hardy. And Rebecca Front! And bees….And buttons.

Phobias. That was actually very interesting.

Puro

@winston @thane16 @pedant Many thanks.  And @pedant – that Buffy quote has come to mind so often lately, it just sums up the experience of losing someone, at whatever stage of life and in whatever circumstances.  It’s always sudden.

oooh @pedant – yep, that Spitting Image song brings back memories.

Still wincing after hearing it again.
You’re right about A Bit of Fry and Laurie sometimes trying too hard. As I cycled through a bunch of their sketches on YT I was struck with how it felt like a couple of Pythons doing Two Ronnies sketches.

Still, they hit me and a couple of…[Read more]

@pedant – I’ll admit to not remembering that song when it was originally aired.
Not sure if I’d have appreciated it at the time but now I’ve heard it, I can say I’m a big fan of Kinda Lingers!

I’ve now been down a rabbit warren of YouTube (a video warren??) and have nothing to reply with but here’s a Bit of Fry and Laurie.

a really early…[Read more]

@whisht  @pedant

It’s funny that real people in the ACTUAL UK watched Mind Your Language or Are you being Served?  🙂

My dear Mum loved those shows. Gawd.

I was waiting till she mentioned this adoration to my year 5 teacher who was born in London and arrived in her mid-30s, husband and two children in tow. Boy, on PT evening Mrs Boski give me a…[Read more]

@pedant – ha ha! I didn’t bite on Plaistow Patricia as its erm, well, well it isn’t sweet like chocolate.

And after hearing it once I would barely play it at home let alone in a shop or school!

;¬)

But I wasn’t politicised at all at that time (I was still quite young!) and even when I was of an age you’d have expected me to be more ‘woke’ I…[Read more]

@whisht

That’s very interesting! It has a punk feel but it’s the chord structure & refrain which is REALLY interesting. That ‘twiney’ steel sound, lots of heavy bass, a deep voice, niiice chord changes which go somewhere different than you think.  @pedant @geoffers

I have another ear worm -more so a need to resolve what it is that makes 80s and…[Read more]

@Thane16 – Puro

He he – don’t worry – I think we all knew “its easy” was tongue in cheek!
I loved the wild meanderings my Youtubing and listening took me (much I saved everyone from!) trying to get it.

And it may shock you to learn, but you could have posted the song as a hint and I still wouldn’t have guessed it!

;¬D

I’ve not heard of the…[Read more]

@JanetteB that is bloody awful! “Bloody” tends to be quite an Aussie thing, says Thane. I remember various people shouting “bloddy hill.” 🙂

45 degrees is no joke. It’s not easy to stay cool, here, but you’re far worse off.

I know Thane purchased a $2 pkt of ice and tipped it the bath to have an ice bath. Yeah, right. The so-called cold tap…[Read more]

@geoffers

That’s the argument against a lot of music, isn’t it? Just how impenetrable it can be. Despite trying, JM Jarre wasn’t easy for me. Oxygene’s brilliant. But after 30 mins I panic and freak out. I find the intense orchestration and lack of pitch variation monotonous. Obviously I was hated for this opinion! “Ah, Puro you are SO lite! You…[Read more]

Ah, TRB, Tran Stacey. Niiice. I mean, Stan Tracey -links with Ambler etc. Very talented pianists. Parents were considered pretty far right conservative in the late ’80s and Ambler  against advice, played for the TRB for a few gigs “just temp, mind, lads, OK?” and ended up staying for awhile

@whisht That’s a terrific story!  The da-da duh in p…[Read more]