I've said it before and I'll say it again; it'll be a sad day when Alan Bennett pops his clogs. There should be a national day of mourning. ‘I feel I am not yet grown up’: Alan Bennett’s diary of his 90th year | Alan Bennett | The Guardian share.google/F3IB3pKBD8Fo...

I've just got the bonus word in today's Squaredle. Congratulations, and well played, Squaredle.

What wonderful noises. New Fever Ray www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjVq...

What an astounding performance from both groups. Check out the new Plantoid album, Flare, for all your psychedelic jazz prog rock fusion needs.

Plantoid at the Hope And Ruin tonight, ably supported by Call Me Franco.

Couldn't get it out of my head, so now it's on here.

Ok, I've watched Man On The Run and despite reservations, it's fucking great. The despair. The joy. The fuck it attitude of Paul and Linda (who cares she can't sing, it's what makes it!). The despair again. The chutzpah. The overwhelming freedom. Joie de vivre.

With Trixies, Squeeze's fifteenth studio album, arriving this week, here's a 2024 look at the singles that fell short of the UK Top 40 - and the ones that missed the charts entirely. gayleramage.co.uk/the-non-hit-...

Remember my infographic about How Books Enter the Library? In this new version, I’ve added an annotated summary of Kelly Jensen’s “Books Don’t Just Appear on the Shelves.” Use this mashup to help folks understand how the claim of porn in school libraries makes no sense. tinyurl.com/how-books-2026

I've just purchased a clown horn. It's for work purposes.

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: the songs of Fred Halibut and his little banjolele.

Is it too early to declare Gorillaz' The Mountain as Album Of The Year?

I wish my brain switched off from thinking such things at times.

BBC News - Small Prophets and the £7.5m book at centre of plot - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another c/o House Of Jabba.

Today's walk: Berwick to Glynde through Charleston and Firle.

I'm sure it's what he would have wanted.

I see it's Welsh Night in celebration of St David's Day on BBC Four after #TOTP tonight with the usual suspects, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Stereophonics (yawn!). Rest assured, if I was Controller you'd be getting new episodes of Super Furry Animals or Gorky's Zygotic Mynci At The BBC. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

It’s 20 years since Linda Smith left us. Such a unique comic voice. So dazzling in everything - JAM, Clue, Brief History of Timewasting… effortlessly witty and regularly speaking truth to power (and taking the piss out of Boris seemingly weekly) I was absolutely gutted and still am to be honest.

Haven't listened to this in a while. 'Tis a thing of beauty.

Another one. I now know this is House Of Jabba on Instagram, so like to give credit where due.

The Tripods, goddammit, The Tripods. How many more bloody times?! THE TRIPODS!

This week's viewing is Tales Of Unease, an anthology series from 1970 made by London Weekend Television. Thanks (I think) to @accordingtojond.bsky.social for introducing me to this... interesting series! It joins other series such as Beasts as some of the most bizarre telly I think I've ever seen!

Not sure from whence this originates, but bravo!

The Goon Show's parody of Quatermass and the Pit is on BBC Sounds for the next 30 days. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

#LookAndSee 338 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Flying - The Beatles youtu.be/Z1ONJQLdZrk?...

Just to amuse myself really, but also in honour of the new Gorillaz album coming out this week, here are my personal top 10 guest vocalists. Latin Simone (Que Pasa Contigo) (Ibrahim Ferrer) youtu.be/5xQzNkkedKI?...

This is the best version of Wuthering Heights and I shall be taking no questions.

#LookAndSee 336 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Roadrunner - Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers youtu.be/Gy88-5pc7c8?...

#LookAndSee 335 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Library Girl - Squeeze youtu.be/D-6VPkZToYU?...

This is my moment to have a poo #TOTP

I'm sorry, but you do not have the music in you. #TOTP

Really looking forward to the release of early Super Furry Animals stuff. This, with Rhys Ifans on vocals shows their already brimming potential. youtu.be/nth8jdyseD4?...

RIP Conrad Poohs

Currently listening to this banger. youtube.com/watch?v=p1VQ...

I too am going to recommend Small Prophets.

Not bad for a first attempt considering I'm partially colour blind (it's why I always lost at snooker). 41.1/50. dialed.gg

I'm watching Smiley's People for the first time, and OMG! It's a blink-and-you'll-miss-him Alan Rickman!

TV show pitch: ‘Tome Team’, where a group of rare books librarians and book historians are sent to investigate an uncatalogued library for interesting incunabula, marginalia and provenances - and they have just three days to do it.

In a library - Emily Dickinson

I mean, this is essentially two of your five a day.

That's more like it.

Remake of #Threads but after the blast just a series of forlorn faces staring blankly at blank screens. No response from the family WhatsApp group, mushroom clouds not uploading to Instagram, gentle sobbing as it sinks in that Deliveroo won't be delivering and Bitcoins all blown away. Chilling... 😱

I don't like Moonpig's valentine's marketing and the emphasis its question "Is [name redacted] still your valentine?" a) None of your business. b) What are you implying? c) What if, no, we're not together anymore due to some unfortunate circumstance and you've now driven me to the pit of despair?

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I nominate the actor Paul Ready to be the next Doctor Who.

Yeah, AI can now beat chess masters, but how would it fair in a game of Mornington Crescent?

there's a new found footage doc about J. G. Ballard out this month by B.J.A. Samuel, and it's free to watch on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj0V...

BEST. DAY. EVER.