What Did Chamberlain Do?

Brilliant. The sussed out guy just keeps going. Worth watching all of it.

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Jensen Interceptor

There was one outside work, so I took a photo for all you lovely people. This of course put me in mind of The Saint. So that’s Song Of The Day.
I’ve never seen the The Saint on TV (it was probably on ITV). I always vaguely thought Roger Moore drove the Volvo and then at [...]

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Money Makes the World A Bit Mad

No, never will I post Money Makes The World Go Round, but, in light of this thread on the Sam Smiths forum which Mr Web3point11 pointed me at, I suggest Depeche Mode – Everything Counts today.
Disclosure: I am Spanger, the poster who suggests a reason why; I like beer; I like some Sam Smiths beers; [...]

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Eurovision Madness

Russia won. Gutted.
Ukraine should have had it. Turkeys wasn’t a Eurovision song, way too good. Ditto Britains Andy Abrahams who was cruelly, but totally predictably, ignored to the tune (ahem) of joint last on about 16 points with Polands answer to Ken’s Dad’s prayers (sorry, that was evil comment, but blimey Poland). Those three were [...]

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Above the Gulf of Arabia

Top one from the 90’s today… The The – Sweet Bird of Truth from the album Infected. Awesome song, awesome album. Amazing how the mind plays tricks. I was convinced it reminded me of 6th form Common Room in the late 80’s, usually fitted in between the genre defining miserablists The Smiths (who I’m not [...]

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I Am a Kia Owner

After three weeks of agonising over Parkers and Honest John, with a few What Cars and phone calls to various friends and family, we’ve picked up the new Niall Cab. A Kia Carens.
We selected it from a shortlist of:

Ford C-Max – car was adequate. Service at Gates was bad. Unenthusiastic despite giving the sales person [...]

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Ready To Go

Republica – Ready to go today. A crap day, with some crap thrown in, rounded off with mega crapness. Republica are happy anyway.
Learned how to post server down panic messages to twitter though. So that’s nice.

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Greetings from the Everton Jury

It’s the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest tonight. 8pm on BBC3. Don’t miss it! Pick your SOTD from that and vote for it as many times as your bank account/conscience can handle
I may be posting almost live (or possibly dead) from the sofa.
Interesting article from the BBC about Eurovision voting [...]

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Criminal

We’ve been looking at “previously enjoyed” cars this weekend. More on that later… maybe.
Song of the day is Criminal by Public Image Ltd off the Point Break soundtrack (perfect casting of Swayze and Reeves in that film).
Current book is American Gods by Neil Gaiman, and I’m really into it. Not as amusing or uplifting as [...]

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Rusty Brain

Sisters of Mercy – This Corrosion – dunno why but it’s been rolling around my head half the day along with the mother of all headaches (actually not that bad if I ignored it). Great song though. The album Floodland is a guilty pleasure too. Others may assure you it’s really childish gothic and self-important [...]

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