Yeah yeah. And I spent two nights sleeping on the floor of Beirut airport in 1989 whilst someone was dropping shells on the runway. I also got arrested as a spy in Tunis (needless to say I wasn'… (View Post)

Abbey Road remains my far and a way favourite Beatles album. Just brilliant. (View Post)

The Beatles certainly didn't lack it. They stopped at exactly the right time for them and probably for their music. As a group they ceased to exist in 1971 and went on to have extremely successf… (View Post)

Witout in any way excusing the atrocious performances of Johnson and Trump, it was interesting how the incumbents at the time of the pandemic found themselves trying to deal with the situation with t… (View Post)

All of mine - Ash, beech, Oak and Sycamore - are largely still in leaf. The only ones that have had large scale defoliation so far are the Horse Chestnuts. I am very much hoping the high winds stay d… (View Post)