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I have this Humblebums song on a compilation album I bought over 50 years ago.

Fortunately for we Hardy Northern types..We get strong winds quite often and everything that wasn't nailed down blew away years ago.. Countless ridge tiles, TV aerials, shed roofs and fence panels have gone over the years. Even three chimneys in our street. So these days everything tends to be very well nailed down.

Nahhh.... lt's about 97% carbohydrates.

"The weather here today is a bit wild, as the full fury of the Atlantic weather skips over Liverpool and crashes headlong into the forbidding slopes of the Billinge Massif".. he said .with typical British understatement.. Today I made bubble and squeak, from roast spuds, parsnips and sprouts which have been in the fridge since Christmas Day. I don't add carrots and definitely not onion, because it's all about the 'umami' sort of flavours I also boiled up a couple more spuds and sprouts last night. They have to be at least left overnight and without them the stuff won't hold together.

Very nice day yesterday. We went over to youngest daughter's and joined by oldest daughter and family who live 3 doors away in same street in Worsley. So..got to see all three Grandkids for first time in months which was fab. It turned into quite a cosmopolitan party what with my Caribbean son in law, plus a nearby Venezuelan couple and their delightful kids..then another neighbour from Ukraine and one from Poland. All lovely people and good to swap info on how we all celebrate Christmas. My oldest daughter is the linguist, but it was the younger one.. the designer..who suddenly b

Mull is the diminutive of my user name on another site. I get confused...

Corrected version of my last post.above because the edit function disappears very quickly. Quiet Christmas Day. Just me and 'Er Indoors'. I did a simple but very tasty roast chicken (much better than turkey) with stuffing, carrots, sprouts plus roast spuds and parsnips. Also made a courageous assault on lots of stuff with expiring dates, which Mrs Col's shopping features with increasing frequency these days. Didn't even get 'ordered' out into the street mid morning to join neighbours for the customary hour of forced community jollity, because the Oberleutenant is away.. Phew! Hig

Quiet Christmas Day. Just me and 'Er Indoors'. I did a simple but very tasty roast chicken (much better than turkey) with stuffing, carrots, sprouts plus roast spuds and parsnips. Also made a courageous assault on lots of stuff with expiring dates, which Mrs Mull's shopping features with increasing frequency these days. Didn't even get 'ordered' out into the street mid morning to join neighbours for the customary hour of forced community jollity, because the Oberleutenant is away.. Phew! Highlight were WhatsApp vids of Grandkids opening prezzies, especially the oldest two opening an e

Been a lazy morning so far. Need to get a move on..need to get the sprouts on..

Great to hear from you Carni! Hope to see you at a meet up in the New Year! Meantime I'd like to wish all Nottstalgians everything you wish for yourselves for Christmas and the New Year.

In other news, I just watched a film about the Gucci family tragedy, featuring Lady Gaga, Jeremy Irons, Al Pacino etc.. The final music was this extraordinary duet of Tracy Chapman and Pavarotti, which I'd never heard before.. Gorgeous...

Or it's both... I always liked pretty much everything the Beatles did. I still have all of their albums, including all of the 'At the BBC' stuff etc. They stood apart from every other band at the time, or since, by virtue of their exceptional song writing. My first ever single was 'I Wanna Be Your Man' by the Stones.. but a Lennon McCartney composition... I liked the Stones' first couple of albums, which were mostly covers, of American R&B stuff.. as were their first 5 singles. The Stones, like the Beatles and the rest of the UK 'beat' explosion,sort of redefined the 'sound' o

I'm not. Labour don't presently fully represent my principles, but at least they don't seem to be intent on selling everything, including Larry the Cat, to the lowest bidding Tory donor, or quietly 'papering over' the cracks in their failed privatisation of Water, Energy and many other functions,at our expense. They don't seem to be populated with blatant crooks like Schapps, Jenrick, Mone and all the others, so numerous I struggle to recall them all. Neither do they seem to specialise in gross incompetents such as Truss, who allowed herself to be used as a front for the Tory Far Rig

Well done Kev! I've been wanting to see nacreous clouds all my life and came to Nottingham a week too early!

Exactly. As it is, the improvement takes the set up close to the next model up in the range, which costs around £3k.

A self fulfilling prophecy if ever I saw one...

And that, Phil, is the most important point of all. I've lost count of the number of times when some clown has expressed shock, scorn, or disbelief at the cash I've spent on some bit of kit and then been silenced by me pointing out that they spend much more chasing some football team around the country and up and down the league tables. What's more... at the end of the season they have only memories.. not all good.. whilst I still have the bit of kit and the pleasure it gives me, for the forseeable. It's certainly partly subjective, but when it comes to loudspeakers, it

I knew I shouldn't have posted the Audio Plus Review. It's a notoriously 'high end' Mag, which I don't buy. But I posted that as a general article about the Innuos Zen Mini which it is, not as a justification for anything, which it isn't. I don't read its comments on the the switch mode v the linear psu the way you do, but then we don't have the same agenda. I also detect not only your pragmatism, but your cynicism.. 'in spades' in your response. What you don't seem to have picked up on is that the Innuos Zen Mini is the entry level product in the range and therefore has a

Rather a lot of assumptions invoked there in order to justify you making your point. Here's what I wrote about 'wires' recently elsewhere. https://pinkfishmedia.net/forum/threads/soundquality-of-different-rca-cables-using-tunemethod.286547/post-5155170 et.seq. I was actually wrong to post that, because it's arrogant to say that I can predict outcomes in all cases, but I was being deliberately provocative. 'Cable Threads' on such sites are basically good natured War Zones. As is the Politics Thread on here... mostly..

Jim, whilst I agree with your assessment of Mone ..I'd say you've seen lots of this stuff since Hamilton. Just the tip of the Tory corruption iceberg.

Well I'm not rehearsing my arguments again,so we'll have to agree to differ.

Very wise Lizzie..

Out of interest.. Did anyone watch the 3 part 'mini series' about Julius Caesar on BBC? I can thoroughly recommend it apart from the unfortunate way that the chap playing Caesar appeared to have only one fixed scowl in his arsenal of facial expressions. A real object lesson in the perils which face democracies, the way in which one determined 'populist' can undermine everything, etc. Many resonances with current politics and obvious parallels with the likes of Putin, but also some much closer to home, given added nuance by the input from Rory Stewart, one time Tory

He is indeed, and he's appropriately named for the role. He may not be of local (i.e. Nottm ), interest, but he's of interest to me. I'm sure he's a decent sort but I would find myself disagreeing with him on practically everything political, since he's a Conservative M.P., sitting in the safe seat vacated by Cameron. He's an ardent Brexiteer, and firmly on the right of the Conservative Party. His membership of the ERG (European Research Group) alone confirms that.

OFSTED is an arm of Govt. and as such it is fair game for criticism by any voter. Childish speculation and personally insulting. I'll be fairer to you than you are to me. I agree that you understand my point. I accept your right to disagree, but I reserve my right to continue debating. There are other participants in this debate and yet more observing. I'm arguing that it is unneccessary, confusing, unfair and counterproductive, for all of the reasons I've given above. What is the point of it if it is going to be so heavily 'qualified' b