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But how much is the h/t Bovril?

YouTube on TV or smart speaker for me. Still have have my separates set up with Mission speakers etc but I never bother with it. So much easier to tell Alexa what I want.

Yes Harry, I was there for that memorable day, stood in the northwest corner.

86 years old. Last saw him live at the Festival Halls, South Bank one very rainy night in October 2010. Backed by Richard Hawley and Ellie Goulding as a backing singer, plus a young saxophonist from Poland who was so good. So good in fact if you closed your eyes you would think it was Steve...

My guitar playing hero dating back from the late 1950's. Rebel Rouser - Peter Gunn - Forty Miles of Bad Road. Such a part of my youth and life. Even featured on Mark Knopler's latest album. Thank you for the music Duanne.

That takes me back to Patcham Junior School in the 1950's when under Miss Horsley (the headmistress) the maypole came out on May 1st and classes took it in turn to dance around it.

If ever there were clearer examples of 'The Peter Principle' I've yet to see them.

It was shocking refereeing. Their second goal was not a free kick. Their fourth goal (if it were us) would have been disallowed for both feet at the keeper. so discount those (it would have happened if the teams were reversed). Gross foul continued into the box (potentially 1-2. Handball by...

Sitting in the stand tonight - surely not?

There was a good article in The Times a few weeks back that set a lot of of the misquotes straight, including the beer prices, the 'so called telling the staff to go to Tesco'. You can read it here if you like...

On my local patch yesterday pre-dawn I had 14 Nightingales in full song. Poor old Blackcaps are now being drowned out by them. Had first Common Cuckoo 2 weeks ago. Whinchats & Western Subalpine Warblers, along with all the other warblers back and singing. Sadly though numbers seem to be down...

According to The Times, Harrods have already sold one.

Disappointed with your choice as I had you down as a man who liked a bit of luxury. So I really thought you may just treat yourself to this - it's only £430,000 (yes, that's not a mistype) https://www.savoirbeds.com/the-worlds-most-luxurious-bed/

Sort of related to this thread is how often do you Dyson/Hoover/vacuum your mattress? We do ours now each month and the amount of dead skin cells that are collected is amazing when you see them in the container. Those are the ones that escape through the bottom sheet and mattress protector...

Help here; https://www.tayna.co.uk/tutorials/change-car-battery-without-losing-radio-code

It all depends on what variety of tree your olive(s) are. There are hundreds of varieties throughout the world (think apple trees) and about 150 are cultivated in a form or other. Some trees are for eating olives (like ours) others, smaller fruits, are for pressing for oil. A worrying and...

My Spanish neighbour let me into her secret regarding processing olives. Cut a cross in the top of each olive (saves bruising them with a wooden mallet) and make up a brine - this is the foolproof recipe; Place a fresh egg into a clear demijohn or similar glass vessel, make a salt brine...

It's very noticeable here that since the cost of EV olive oil rocketed (a decent Arbequina, the nicest on bread, is now 10 - 14 euros a litre) the sales have dropped considerably. Coupled with the decrease in price of sunflower oil, now down to 6.50 euros for 5 litres a lot of the Spanish have...

Not so much a shortage of anchovies Harry - more the cost of production and canning them in olive oil. A small can (170gm) of quality ones now 8 euros more than double last years price.

And tins of anchovies into security tagged boxes (Carrefour - Malaga this morning).