Awww.

On the other hand, that’s 8 high-quality kidneys you have to sell.

Some of the works that Mozart wrote when he was 5:

Yeah, but I bet he couldn’t play it very fast when he was 5.

Ooh god yes, Lidl was piled high with stollen, mince pies etc today.

I thought you were posting to tell us she’d poppinsed her clogs.

I don’t fancy all that tedious messing about in hyperspace

Mornington Crescent!

A cunning double-bluffoon then.

Our local Spar has stopped stocking UHT. Presumably to make more space for their 76 varieties of fizzy drink.

Paul drummed on Back in the USSR and Dear Prudence and doesn’t disgrace himself but he is not better than Ringo IMO. Listen to “Rain” – also, coincidentally, where Macca’s bass playing explodes into life, probably as a result of getting a better guitar that stayed in tune all the way up the neck.
Please tell me if I am boring you.

A link to the break-down of what Ringo was doing on Oh Darling. Not easy
https://youtu.be/5E18Yayg-MQ

CountZero I had exactly that’ thought- I suppose it counts as a send-up so maybe not plagiarism.

Electric yoghurt makers ensure a consistent temperature. Our climate is not ideal. Mind, the Swedes eat a lot of runny yog called fil so they must have way s of keeping the temperature steady. Probably by burning elk

^😂 I read the other day that Lennon said he really liked the song but he would have sung it better.
I found a drum tutorial that breaks down Ringo’s part. It boils down to triplet rolls. I might post a link tomorrow.

Boom tish….

We have a Lakeland yoghurt maker, works a treat. Put in a live yoghurt, top up with UHT and stir. Leave on overnight. Pisswarm fresh yog by the morning.
We like it best left in the fridge for a couple of days which improves the texture and thickness.

I went the other way – stopped trying to be a riding god, got back to old-style getting out int the country, exploring the hidden corners – and alsao fell in love with it again.

We cycled from Ijmuden to Amsterdam central station – must have taken about an hour. Not very pretty, but excellent facilities.

I was here before The Hack

Eddiebaby – when I was working for the BBC I invited The Hamsters in to record a session in ou sound studio. I still have a copy of the songs they recorded, including an epic “New Delhi Freight Train.

^How we can base our economy on making each other cups of coffee. It’s not going to end well.

Wow! Can you make me one?

Are you gammon?

A bee-eater on a diet?

There’s a good route using the Inn Radweg to Innsbruck, up the Brenner Pass on the old main road and down to Bolzano.Excellent cyclepaths and road riding to Trento.

Be kind to yourself, bud.

Marginal gains, though.

^ That was a bad day at the office.

In an art gallery, I always like a landscape painting more if it has some singletrack in it.

“Rubbatiti! You’re alive!”

Thinner tubes dent easily.
My main issue with the Old CdF was the horrible fork, I assume this is long gone of they are now bolt-through.

^How would they replace Kenneth Williams?

In my recollection, the soundtrack for Banana Splits was always so poor I couldn’t hear the jokes. The studio audience Laughter track thought they were hillarious.
And Animal Kwackers – Good God, a bit of my childhood died when I first saw them.

Slightly off-topic, the RSF and CTC must have reams of ride reports that would be useful for establishing that people were using bikes over certain footpaths for many years and before the first definitive maps were drawn up.

I also helped fund this book and am very much looking forward to its arrival.

You say it doesn’t seem like depression, but I find one of the weird things about depression is I often don’t recognise it until I come out of the other side. The mind has a way of putting it down to other things. I try and stay alert to this now.

^^ I fancy that might sting a bit.

“I know a bloke tried to blow a Webley 1400 with gelignite. When the smoke cleared, the safe was intact and he was standing there stark naked with his dick in his hand.” (Eric Chappell, Theft)

45k a year? They’ll have a hard time replicating that at Burger King.

^ That kind of thing is the realm of the Environment Agency. I think they would take a dim view of it.
I believe the AONB have agreed to look at the work that’s been done and check it against the planning conditions. But as bajsyckel says, you can’t put the single track back again.

Ted Liddle is on Northumberland LAF and he’s raised it there. I sometimes get to the AONB access forum and will raise it there took.
But I can’t see this ending up any way other than all the Hexhamshire tracks getting the same treatment.