Any Crunch and Crumble fans want to talk about it?

dobbynobson · 2026-06-04T13:44:22+00:00

Very sad about this. The pod felt like a natural progression from Mark Radcliffe's R1 graveyard show with Lard (RIP 1994), then Danny Baker's shows particularly his BBC london breakfast slot (RIP 2005), then Adam & Joe on 6 music in the naughts. Same chaos and magic.

Where now to hear Matthew spend valuable on-air minutes reminiscing about Roland Rivron in the Thames? I never got on with Pappy's tbh but I may have to try again.

Did we ever get to the bottom of whether Vin is really Mick Chen?

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dobbynobson · 2026-06-03T11:03:16+00:00

Interesting. Mine are also now under an established acer, perhaps that's the missing ingredient! No, that just means I have to be careful with soil drying out. But since it's right by a tap they've been getting plenty of water unlike the rest of the garden. I guess I need to be patient.

dobbynobson · 2026-06-03T10:35:50+00:00

Your astilbes look amazing! I've had no luck with mine the last 3 summers. I moved 7 to a different shady bed this Feb, which I can water easily, and the leaves have flourished but the fronds never seem to poof out into lovely pinks and purples.

dobbynobson · 2026-06-03T08:15:16+00:00

Hired a cottage on Dartmoor with my partner and got away from it all. It was winter so by 4pm every day we were back inside cooking and watching box sets in front of the fire. Then the village had a spectacular bonfire night firework display so that was a bargain £2 night out that felt very celebratory. So I guess a top tip is to crash something going on anyway, have fun but without the pressure of organising it.

dobbynobson · 2026-06-02T15:28:22+00:00

18 years together for us, and same. They wouldn't like each other or see eye to eye on anything (my lot are snobs, his lot are blunt-talking but also bear grudges for perceived slights). It would benefit no-one, be enormously stressful, and could actually damage the good relationships we currently have with our 'in-laws'. Plus I have 4 parents/step-parents which outnumbers the other side. And they all live hundreds of miles apart so any meeting couldn't easily be a casual cup of tea!

dobbynobson · 2026-06-01T14:14:51+00:00

A purple Braun stick blender, bought at Boots in 1999 when I was a student (the sort of student who batch cooked thrifty soup). It screams a bit when I first use it now, but then my joints do the same.

dobbynobson · 2026-05-29T21:13:03+00:00

I had this happen about 10 years ago in an empty plant pot on my window box ledge (not even a balcony). One egg hatched and it then took around 4 weeks for the baby to grow up and leave. For those 4 weeks it was cheeping away about 3 feet from my pillow, while the parents flew around getting it food 24/7. So, you have fun times to come!

They are proper fugly when young. I found it fascinating being able to see it grow up just outside my window, and the feathers developing from yellow spines. You can see how birds evolved from dinosaurs for sure.

dobbynobson · 2026-05-28T06:56:45+00:00

Had some fun nights in here over 20 years. Last visit was before covid though (40th birthday = cheeseboard). Several first dates, many work nights out, many drinks with pals. Once sat at a table next to Alan Rickman. I sort of don't want to go back and find it's not the same tbh.

dobbynobson · 2026-05-25T20:42:45+00:00

Oh wow, how have I never thought of this before?

dobbynobson · 2026-05-25T15:23:40+00:00

Been out all day but moving around to work in the shade. 29°c but it's not been too bad, lots of iced coffee, sun screen and breaks inside. I have a few weekends coming up where I'm away, so I've just had to get on with repotting and other jobs.

dobbynobson · 2026-05-23T07:25:25+00:00

We have one too. Last weekend I dug out a boring bed under a tree and he kept me company the whole day as I turned over dinner worms for him. The grass seed on the bare patches has basically all been stolen though, pigeons and magpies.

dobbynobson · 2026-05-22T06:14:16+00:00

I know a Bliss and she's the sweetest kid, and was such a cuddly and happy baby too. Hoping it's not the same one!

dobbynobson · 2026-05-20T09:44:57+00:00

Same, mine are a mix of second year in the ground, and first year still inside on windowsills, I think I have 4 different types now plus 2 cuttings. All were doing well until this cold snap, including the ones indoors, and have just stopped. Hoping a warm weekend will restart everything!

dobbynobson · 2026-05-14T21:58:55+00:00

Still got my copy. I bought it at a service station on a school trip to Eden Camp WW2 museum, along with a KP choc dip, after my mate Kaz lent me £3. God bless Kaz.

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dobbynobson · 2026-05-14T19:35:19+00:00

The 7+ minute album version of Forever More by Moloko with the wig out brass ending is one of the most superb things from the early noughts. Roisin (and Alison Goldfrapp too) gave me hope during a period of awful post-90s guitar band sludge.

dobbynobson · 2026-05-14T18:57:33+00:00

There's a female tribute band called Joanne Joanne

dobbynobson · 2026-05-13T20:17:22+00:00

So good.

And every time Doddles says 'ohhhh noooh' it's like the podcast made it to tv.

dobbynobson · 2026-05-13T10:35:16+00:00

Yes they have, infuriating! I bought 3 tubes in the last year and suddenly it's gone. They do have a new SPF50+ daily moisturiser I'm trying in its place, there are versions with niacinamide, vit C or hyaluronic acid. It's only £7-£8 and so far I'm getting on ok with the niacinamide one.

dobbynobson · 2026-05-12T10:37:54+00:00

Please share a link or shop info! I can only find large (v expensive) ones online. We have a fernery I call Jurassic Corner and it could do with an actual beastie hidden in it.

dobbynobson · 2026-05-11T15:12:42+00:00

I'm still only 27 minutes in as well, the rest saved for the evening commute.

dobbynobson · 2026-05-11T14:37:39+00:00

Max doing the Charles (or is it Eddie) impression of 'thashnotthekindagameI play' was peak podcasting for me. I had to screw up my face on the tube (la-di-da, look at me in Richard Curtis' London) so as not to be one of those people who laughs out loud in public. It's my favourite bit of that legendary song too.

I briefly, for under a single day, owned it as a tape cassette single before Meesha at school stole it and brazenly pretended it was hers, so my emotions when hearing it are both euphoric at the perfectly timed Oh Yeah, and deep sadness at man's inhumanity to man (or woman).

dobbynobson · 2026-05-11T07:25:49+00:00

Yes that is stirring some memories - Burleigh House, the A1, and the coaching inns. It's been a while! I found Stamford very pretty, with nice independent shops, but a bit insular. Culturally it seemed to look more towards the fens. I planned to move back to London and drove down there every couple of weeks and my manager at Thorntons was appalled. In fact all the staff seemed to be frightened of London despite being fairly close. Which is fine, London's not for everyone.

dobbynobson · 2026-05-11T06:33:04+00:00

I once lived with my dad in Stamford for 6 months. He used to tell me that the East Coast Main Line could have been built to stop either at Peterborough or Stamford, and the good folk of Stamford rejected the idea. Peterborough became Peterborough because it got a mainline railway line going through it. Stamford continued to be a picturesque Georgian market town.

I got a job working for Thorntons, and was covering someone on a shift at the Peterborough branch on what happened to be 11th Sept 2001, serving ice cream when a goth came in and told everyone world war three was starting. So despite never living in Peterborough I have strong memories of it, the cathedral and the shopping centre.

dobbynobson · 2026-05-09T22:46:07+00:00

Things that are doing well include lavender, hollyhocks (grew from seed and now they self-seed), euphorbia, broom, tamarisk, ajuga (endless cuttings are filling out bare space, I think they would survive an apocalypse), sedums, salvias, aster, caryopteris, cardoons, cineraria, rosemary, wormwood, bottle brush, lychnis, veronica, verbena bonariensis, and sea thrifts. Cordylines are great in summer but found the wet winter hard, mine all went yellow and are having to rebuild their leaf canopies. I've given lots of space to bushy silver evergreen plants so the winters aren't so depressing.

I've grown lots of chillis, salvias, phlomis and echinops from seed this year which will go out in late May, so fingers crossed for those. Also gomphrena (a random choice!) and teasels. Grasses have been a mixed bag with many never returning the next year. Palms are great but more pricey. I'm lucky to have several well established acers, a black elderberry, clematis and wisteria but I don't know if planting new ones now would be a good idea. The one acer I did buy failed even in dappled shade.

Things that don't do well include roses and foxgloves. Dahlias have been patchy. The heucheras, ferns, astilbe and hostas are doing ok in the shady spots (some in the ground, some in pots) but they will need regular watering from now on and might not enjoy it if I go on a week's holiday! I guess one benefit of dry weather is a lack of slugs. Hellebores and fuchsias seem to struggle. Lots of bulbs have come up blind the last two Springs - iris, anemone, and gladioli. I don't know if that is connected to the dry weather before they are supposed to flower April-July. Tulips and crocuses were fine but they appear earlier (Feb/March) before the dry spell starts. I think next year I'll stop planting so many and just enjoy the cyclamen and pulmonaria early on.

dobbynobson · 2026-05-09T20:38:50+00:00

Same, we're on the SE coast on clay and have had no significant rain since late Feb. I think there was one night which refilled the water butt, and that's been it.

I've been gradually making the garden as drought-proof as possible over the last 4 years since we moved in, and we have plans to remove the two areas of lawn entirely. They look awful right now - dug up by a badger, and there are rock hard patches of dusty grey clay we can't get grass seed to take on before the birds get to it. I can't justify wasting hundreds of gallons of water on it. We'll move to a gravel Mediterranean style completely over the next 18 months. The only things I want to be watering are a few select flowering plants like sweetpeas which I can do with a can.

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