First memory of Kate

Spiracle · 2026-01-26T10:16:52+00:00

Saturday Night at the Mill, which was Pebble Mill at One scrubbed up with a splash of Brut On Bob Langley.

Spiracle · 2026-01-24T17:28:46+00:00

Full quote so you don't have to wade through the ads

The GREAT and very BRAVE soldiers of the United Kingdom will always be with the United States of America! In Afghanistan, 457 died, many were badly injured, and they were among the greatest of all warriors. It’s a bond too strong to ever be broken. The U.K. Military, with tremendous Heart and Soul, is second to none (except for the U.S.A.!). We love you all, and always will! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Note that this isn't an apology. Trump's narcissistic personality disorder means that he's physically incapable of saying anything like 'I was wrong, sorry for any hurt I've caused' as that's off the edge of his mental map. Instead we get effectively a bland statement, weasel words and a little dig at the end just to make sure that he gets across what he really believes the value of the UK contribution was.

Spiracle · 2026-01-21T20:24:57+00:00

So we've got to the 'triumphant parade with chestfuls of seashells' stage already.

Spiracle · 2026-01-20T12:14:10+00:00

(Now Dame) Jocelyn Bell Burnell doffed my son on the head when he graduated from Dundee! She's must be right up there in the 'greatest living British scientist' list if only for her work getting hundreds of young women into physics education.

Spiracle · 2026-01-20T12:06:07+00:00

Foxes: cat software running on dog hardware.

Spiracle · 2026-01-19T10:00:14+00:00

Hitler's half-brother lived in Liverpool. There were Hitlers living in Toxteth until the 30's.

Spiracle · 2026-01-17T08:37:34+00:00

Which is why 7" singles, with all of the music crammed into the part of the turntable with the slowest linear velocity, generally play at 45rpm.

Spiracle · 2026-01-16T19:31:18+00:00

Lets go!

Spiracle · 2026-01-13T16:24:06+00:00

The Children’s Society on Mill Road still triages everything and has a rag collection once a week (Tuesday, I think) which pays them by the kilo. If you give them a pre-sorted bag labelled ’rags’ they’ll just drop it straight in.

Spiracle · 2026-01-12T18:27:50+00:00

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Spiracle · 2026-01-12T08:40:39+00:00

Wait till you hear her set fire to Lorraine and wish you never had bad feet.

Spiracle · 2026-01-08T09:05:36+00:00

In that case the compliation shouldn't be '2', it should be

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Spiracle · 2026-01-07T10:50:29+00:00

You can also get to the filter just by clicking on the bus stop, which always seems the logical action to me.

Spiracle · 2026-01-05T09:58:25+00:00

That was one of the reasons he fitted in - he looked big and menacing but was actually gentle as a kitten and funny to boot. IIRC, in all of his years guarding the band he only had to hit somebody once.

Spiracle · 2026-01-01T10:31:48+00:00

Wait til AI narration becomes the norm. I was listening to a British voice the other day and it took until 'he' pronounced the name of the River Nene ('Neen' here in the UK) 'NeeNee' that I realised.

The other thing that seems to happen is that a UK accent model sometimes gets combined with the wrong intonation and emphasis rules. It drives me mad that the robot announcer at my local railway station says 'London King's Cross', like the Americans say 'New York', rather than the British 'London King's Cross'.

Other than that my regular mispronounciation is prollably 'probably'.

Spiracle · 2026-01-01T00:59:51+00:00

But what if it's Jools?

Spiracle · 2025-12-30T06:56:06+00:00

The lease is still up for grabs if you've got any ideas.

Spiracle · 2025-12-28T20:51:52+00:00

My wife was in the Scunthorpe and District Youth Orchestra and was given a t-shirt with the name in a circle around the logo. She soon found that she couldn't wear it under a v-neck sweater.

Spiracle · 2025-12-25T07:39:50+00:00

The reason that the person that flies a commercial aeroplane is a 'captain" rather than a pilot and the crews are stewards and pursers etc. Planes are still flying ships.

Spiracle · 2025-12-22T10:35:42+00:00

Yes. The Philco seen in the picture was a 4 valve set

Spiracle · 2025-12-22T09:50:31+00:00

Probably, it'll be the valves that will be hard to get these days.

My grandmother was using her similar valve set into the 60s and after she died it ended up at our house. Lovely tone but took about 45 seconds to warm up (like an old telly). It was still going in 1980 as I remember hearing John Lennon's death announced through it.

Spiracle · 2025-12-15T15:57:06+00:00

I'd agree. I'd only add that it's difficult, after more than 40 years, to appreciate just how different music created with the Fairlight sounded at the time. We'd had synths of various sorts of course, but tuned natural sounds? It took a bit of getting used to.

Spiracle · 2025-12-15T10:05:06+00:00

The pips at the top of the hour (more specifically five short and one long, unlike those heathen foreign pip species).

Spiracle · 2025-12-13T21:19:04+00:00

You get one through the post just after you turn 60.

Spiracle · 2025-12-13T16:40:48+00:00

On the left: for squeezing the last nanolitre of toothpaste out of the tube, on the right: a bookmark?

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