New Year’s Day at Hastings.

The Odd Couple. Merry Christmas folks…

Wolfgang Flur playing The Forum in #tunbridgewells next year? Unbelievable. I’m going!!!!

@webuyrecords.bsky.social Loving the pod! On the subject of £30 12'' singles, I note Queen are selling a £30 copy of BoRap on blue vinyl via their store. They must need the money, poor loves..

Ep 71. We go format crazy with @avavsystems.bsky.social. Taylor Swift has done some variants. Madonna has annoyed us, again, counterfeit scams... a gloomy post box...plus news, quiz and all your usual crate digging larks. link.chtbl.com/_MA6rrYD Support the show. ko-fi.com/webuyrecords

Funghi foraging today…..

The lady who poured coffee dregs down the drain is fined whilst Ofwat admit they’ve been weak on corporate sh*t dumpers. People who project Epstein images on Windsor Castle under pressure while the real offenders continue to get away with it. It’s quite a grind, just now….

Top Halloween tip.

A return to the North Downs Way. Harvey walked the whole 153 miles a couple of years ago.

Amazing ‘shrooms this year…

This lad used to live in a disused hen coop on a farm. Cold & lonely. No more! 12 year old Rocky aka Rock Star lives with us now.

wrote about zappa for IHTOV

SCARY MONSTERS IS 45 TODAY “He opened strange doors that we'd never close again” Follow the link below for ‘Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)’ at 45: A Track-by-Track Guide to David Bowie’s Uncompromising Art-Rock Masterpiece by Jason Draper. www.facebook.com/share/p/1BGu... #BowieScaryMonsters

Soggy in Tunbridge Wells right now!!!!

Interesting beer price list (I believe from a wholesaler of the time) dating back almost 50 years to 1976. It's good to see some familiar names! @atjbeer.bsky.social @petebrownbeer.bsky.social @rogerprotz.bsky.social @totalcurtis.bsky.social @drinksmaven.bsky.social @beesononbooze.bsky.social

An afternoon by the Thames at Chiswick.

LAPD officers dressed up as women to go undercover to catch a purse-snatcher in 1960.

An afternoon at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth. The history! The musicians! Even met Tim from Hawkwind. All too much!!!!

Quatermass and The Pit (Roy Ward Baker, 1967)

albumreviews.blog If music is your thing, check out this useful & very interesting site from New Zealand….

Buy CD's & vinyl. Yours forever. Nobody dies.

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

Top find today - the first two Soft Machine records on one CD for £3. Kevin Ayers on Vol. 1. I love the Canterbury Scene but even reissue CD’s are rare & pricey. Playing now. Why are we sleeping?

RIP Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath frontman and icon of British heavy metal, dies aged 76

A pub in Kent, tonight!

David Bowie, Boston, 1976, by Paul McAlpine. Isolar Tour #thethinwhiteduke

@ukbutterflies.bsky.social Please help - which fritillary have I seen? Thank you.

@theoldbatsman.bsky.social Jon - I thought you & Mick had gone quiet. Just found out why & what you’ve done for him and his wife in the interim. Well done. I’m so pleased that their future is so much brighter. Mark.

Trump: the comprehensive Mexican food acronyms From the new Private Eye, out now.

My latest piece in Private Eye on Carlsberg's Fresh Ale fiasco: filtered & carbonated keg served through dummy handpumps. #BskyBeer @camraofficial.bsky.social

Free coffee, cut-price theatre tickets and birthday upgrades: 42 genius ways to beat the system

Whenever I'm visiting someone who has a smart speaker, I like to set random reminders or alarms for months in advance. My latest one will happen in 3 months telling my sister to clean out the rabbit hutch. She doesn't own a rabbit.

Beautiful Solstice sunset from the South Downs

Who at Monterey 1967 posted a few minutes ago by @patthomashistorian.bsky.social and rendered by chatgpt in impressionist, art nouveau and rensissance styles

St. Leonards beach last night.

Duck fed on sourdough becoming unbearable buff.ly/QchsARu

Haribo recalls sweets in the Netherlands after traces of cannabis found

@burningshed.com Daft question - we’re up your way in July. Are you mail order only or can I visit, browse & buy? Thanks.

Dear God!!!

Hot! Hot! Hot! On the #southdownsway today. Only 20 odd miles to Winchester now…..

Refried???

Is Putin stringing me along? Was the Pope Catholic? Subscribe to Private Eye: subsonline.co.uk

This fantastic album was released 40 years ago today. Memories of lazy college days….. #suzannevega

A plea to the West: help us save America’s democracy | Anonymous

TELSEY begins tracking price increases over the past week. Some highlights: * Abercrombie jeans: up 33% * Amazon Echo: up 38.5% * Target / Barbie doll: up 42.9%

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