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Pub lunch in a pub that didn't have a big screen. Then a walk along a few miles of beach to walk off the roasties, a coffee and a giant slab of cake and a walk back again to walk off the cake. Plus a walk by of one of my fave buildings, god bless brutalism, eh!

Did your mum work the South Wales hotel and restaurant circuit, early 1980's? True story alert: I went out partying one Saturday night, met up with a new girl I hadn't seen before, turned out she was new in town. Went back to her place had to stay quiet because of the parents. Anyway, I stayed a few hours, we got to know each other quite well. But I had to work Sunday morning shift at the hotel, just a block up the hill from this house I was in, which was handy. So I stayed as long as possible then slipped away. A fifty metre jog up the hill, in to the hotel, a shower in a vacant room, bit of breakfast and start work. Mid shift I'm passing reception and there's a new receptionist, nice enough woman. Get chatting, ask her where she lives and she says 'ooh, really close, this job is brilliant I live just down there.' She pointed at the house I'd left an hour earlier. I'd been with her daughter all night! I might be in the wrong thread...here's some Conway Twitty..

Yes, I'd say Small Faces are my fave band. Kinks are up there too, with a handful of others, but Small Faces have been my thing for well over 30 years. I had a bit of a fish tank malfunction recently, thankfully all the Small Faces albums were fine, totally unscathed. This Kinks record, not so great. Had it since about 1980 in perfect condition, now the cover is badly warped and torn. The inner sleeve is a mess too. But saddest, I'd written a load of notes inside the sleeve in blue ink and it's all washed out. Yeah, don't store your good shit under a **** fish tank. Lesson learnt.

I love a bit of Blondie. I like to think that it was me that discovered Blondie and introduced it to the UK. I base this on the fact I bought a Blondie album (Plastic Letters) in a NAAFI supermarket in Germany back in 1970 something. So I had Plastic Letters before Parallel Lines came out. Which I think was a pretty rare thing. I’m not claiming a deep musical insight though. It was there and I had money burning its hole as it does and an itchy spending finger and didn’t have a clue what it was but was desperate to buy something. It looked cool and American. Also, having since gone back and checked, Plastic Letters wasn’t any sort of official release in Germany and in 1978 certainly wouldn’t have been a big UK seller. So what the hell it was doing in a grocery shop on a military base in Germany I have absolutely no idea. But there it is, there it was. So I bought it. Later that summer, on return to the UK I would surely have been lording it over my mates that didn’t have it. I certainly remember taking it from house to house for my mates to tape. By tape, I mean a microphone in front of the speakers and everyone in the room sat silent. Proper taping. Anyway, that new Blondie track. With time and health and all that as a given, and the fact they never were the most polished of performers, I still have to say that the quality of the vocals are a bit disappointing. They’ve made me a little bit sad for Debbie’s hey day.

Yeah, I didn't have time to switch threads just had to let it out. Like a pee after a long car journey, once you've mentally committed to it, it's happening no matter where you are.

The main mosque in my little town used to be a bible college in a former life. It's claim to fame was that it's where the rev Iain Paisley learnt his schtick. Been in there a few times over the years. Disappointingly mundane. I pressed loads of walls and at no point did I find the secret weapons room or a dungeon full of fallen wimmin. That's both as a mosque and as a bible college. Some people just got no flare or vision.

'the greenbelt' **** off with you, you nimby pretend concern but just worried about protecting your own house price dickheads I wonder what the correlation is between greenbelt nimbyism and people that think we're sinking literally sinking under the weight of immigrants? Pretty much 90% the same people plus a few hippies I reckon.

https://twitter.com/trumpdraws for your further enjoyment...

Sounds like the phone conversation to Australia went well! Scheduled for an hour, Trump apparently went all Trumpy declared his dad to be bigger than Malcolm Turnbull's dad and cut it 30 minutes short. rag

needs to work on those tiny wheels

The best Indian restaurant in england is the Agra (backstreet midway between Warren Street & Goodge Street tube stops). None of your trendy johnny come lately northern bollocks, it's been there since the 1930's it's small, shabby looking and the food is always always excellent. We had a meal there one time with a 'new' member of our little party. This guy wasn't interested in tasting the food or accepting recommendations from people that have eaten there a few times. No he wanted the hottest sauce they could get him. Billy big chilli bollocks. Anyway, they brought out the food as per usual, plus they brought new guy a bowl of his own sauce. As the waiter was putting the sauce down he gave the following advice: 'This is a special sauce for the gentleman. Please don't anyone else eat it. It will **** up your life.' Sure enough, he ate it, but he didn't join in the talk very much and was pretty much the first to leave. Personally, I prefer more taste than heat.

errrmm, I'm responsible for part of that spike. I don't suppose you've been receiving some hastily written tender documents? I've had to write up some notes on metal corrosion and it's consequences and what the remedy is presumed to be. Lots of sentences where corrosion led to the need for lead on a long lead in time. It was a nightmare. I got word blind and distracted whilst under silly time pressure, started ignoring the helpful grammar and spelling notices from word. I'm doing a guided speaking tour of the building for the tenderers on Friday. Anybody picking up on my spilling stands little chance of winning.

I **** knew it. Absolutely **** knew it. I was saying it over and over on the bus, but I couldn't catch anyone's eye. This ends tonight.

Never been anywhere near facebook. I've only got two friends, and I made them from balloons, a couple of old hoodies and some stolen hair. I think they talk about me when I'm out.

From the press association, the amount of time it takes to invite a President of the U.S.

yep, right you are I'll park this up now

D'you know what, I've done that all day. Literally included that same spelling of that same word in two planning submissions today, even after word kindly put a blue squiggle under it.

Everybody understands that chasing a model of perpetual consumer lead material growth is just a suicide mission, yeah?

Steve Marriott would've been 70 today. I'd have loved to have got to one of his gigs.

You speedin' bro? What you got?

early Trump ancestor found Scientists have identified an early ancestor with a tiny brain and a big mouth that doubles as an anus.

@tonyh29 is going to be gutted if he misses that gig list. Chuck a Big Country cover band in the middle of that lot he'd think he'd died and gone to devon.