As mentioned here and previous.

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That was fun.

Someone else is looking after my hangover and the 4AM fire-alarm was nothing to do with me.

On the way home, a four-pot chopper (in my day it were all H-D or arthritic English twins & singles) came howling the other way. Well, howling until Biker Bill took his hand off the throttle, at which point it went Clat! Clat! Pop! Rorp-rorp! Clat! because the carbies had been hauled out from underneath a pile of nudie-prod mags in the back of the ( Read more... )

I dunno that it's worth the wear on fingers, brain and keyboard to fulminate about the supreme uselessness of Guardian journos, but I may as well get it out of my system here rather than gesticulating outside the newsagents. And, really, the Guardian motoring section is more of a tick-list inclusion in one or other of the Saturday throw-outs, along ( Read more... )

Perhaps I should construct a life where I wander through pleasantly empty and welcoming boho bars while listening to New Order and pass through the slipstreams of curry houses on the way to somewhere else, using the passages that I find for myself rather than the ones the city provides.


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Hm. I might be mildly beered up, slightly sunburned and cheered by the discovery of sloes in the wilderness at $work.

I also have mixed emotions, as they say, in the direct aftermath of yon motorway programme. About halfway through, some woman who lives in Warrington and drives an Alfa started on concerning writing a story in her head about liking ( Read more... )

Just back from the Trad Northern Malarkey. Saw some people, did some stuff, drank a metric fuckload of beer, bought CDs (Congotronics 2 and a Keith LeBlanc item that contains the single best Tackhead/Fats Comet mix ever. That and clothing purchase from the Tog24 shop seems to indicate that I can throw myself at g*th and comfortably miss. Result!) ( Read more... )

On BBC-2 now: Cruickshank traces the path of Betjeman during the making of Metroland.

At ten, Metroland itself on BBC-4.

Marvellous.