Lichfield Dean

The Norwich Brighton highlights were hilarious. Crazy that neither side could score.

Yep, my postal PCR is positive. Lateral flow test never was. Still feel a bit rubbish, but overall I've been lucky and it doesn't feel much worse than the traditional winter cold for me. First night was definitely the worst. Now it's just an annoying head/throat/blocked nose thing.

I'm enjoying this series of Picard. Much better than the mess of the first season. But I get the point about it being a bit joyless, that is definitely something that is missing. I liked that...

Ohhh, Ings became a Dad overnight!

Lopsided team? Coutinho in the middle and Bailey on the wing? Or both as wide strikers? Or number tens? Curious how it'll pan out.

Where have you seen this?

Oh, I've played with several bands over the years. I'm not really any good, but I can do enough for covers bands and some original stuff with local bands. Highlight of my "career" was a handful of gigs headlining with a band at the Jug Of Ale playing to the other bands that were on those nights. This is what my main kit looks like (but has been tidied away in a corner of the garage all through covid). It's a Premier Artist Birch in red something or other, with an aluminium snare drum I made and a floor tom I made (when I had crazy notions of being a drum builder)

Here is my electronic Traps kit repurposed into an acoustic practice kit. I use a little Pearl piccolo snare with it at the moment. It sounds surprisingly good (although I need to do something about the pillow in the kick drum as it's making a slightly weird "boing" sound for some reason)

The Netherlands have played a blinder by hanging back in Pot 2 there.

So in theory the second strongest team in our group is the USA. Mad.

They probably are all two-ply to be honest, it's been a while since I looked at any of the cheaper stuff. And yes, the noise thing and the storage are the two big reasons to go electric.

Ok, let's see how complex they have made this..

Jermaine Jenas? Wow. They could have chosen anybody in the whole world...

Oh noooooooo!!!! Forgot to top up the electric car before the rate increase ... Dammit!

Definitely get mesh heads. But even the most expensive kits ... Don't expect a genuine real acoustic sound, you just won't get it. Also, check the mesh heads are at least two ply otherwise they'll just keep breaking. I have an old electric kit called a Traps kit which is basically a variation on an old Arbiter flats design. The advantage is I can whip the mesh heads off and replace them with real heads and bang I have a real playable kit. I think some of the more expensive kits out there can be switched into being an acoustic kit of sorts. Personally though... I hate playing electric kits. Never found one I like, I just can't be dealing with them. They just never respond like the real thing, they never sound like the real thing. And yes, I've had a go on recent £4k plus efforts at music shops. But for a bit of a bash they're ok I guess. I'd rather get a cheap small acoustic kit myself for the same money.

Is it Saturdsy?

Got my PCR test delivered. However, we ordered two. At the same time. For the same family in the same house. One of them was accidentally delivered to West Brom. Huh.

I like them. I find them calming to look at. I suspect many people do and that this idea that everyone thinks they are ugly is just actually a small number of grumps that whine at everything.

It has a QR code on the front, linked to an NFT. And that is the dominant feature on the display rather than, you know, the time!!! Eeeurgh.

What in the name of God is this monstrosity?

Being a defence counsel for a known criminal - it's a Bing thing

At the risk of breaking VT with endless images of a certain person with a cheese-oriented surname... I'm watching Community again. I love this show so much. Currently on the zombie episode.

We ordered one earlier today... Did we catch it just before they stopped the service? The LFT tests seem very unreliable on their own... Or at least they can be misleading.

We've been hit too. Wife had it for a week, I felt pretty bad on Tuesday night and Wednesday. Feeling generally better today. LFT is negative, but pretty sure it's covid given my wife is positive. Have a postal PCR to do tomorrow now that the test centres are all closing. Everyone I know is getting it.