There is something especially 'cheap yet cloyingly luxurious' about them that I sometimes think would have made a very good start to an Orwell article. (View Post)

I can still remember getting a Scalextric (well, knock-off version) set in late January as a 'Christmas Present' . The explanation from my parents was that 'Santa had been held up'… (View Post)

Listen to my last words, anywhere! Listen all you boards, governments, syndicates, nations of the world, And you, powers behind what filth deals consummated in what lavatory, To take what is not your… (View Post)

As I'm a about to head to bed and fall asleep listening to the Nine Tailors - happy new year. I may even go crazy and fall asleep to one of the 'new' Poirot novels that's on Audib… (View Post)

Oddly enough - I quite often have nodded off to the R4 production of the Nine Tailors on NY eve, then polished off the remainder on NY day. Bit of a tradition now. (View Post)