#diddymen

I would very much have liked to have bought a really cool first record, but I didn’t, at least not from most people’s point of view. I can’t remember exactly what year I bought my first record, a 45, but I think I would have been 6 or 7 years old, so somewhere around 1973-4. The reason I was thinking about this recently is because I stumbled across a video from 1980 which very briefly has a shot…

Knotty Ashes To Ashes

How tickled I am. Yesterday was Transvaal Dead Lion day, the day in the football calendar when all of Transvaal’s dead lions are thrown onto a big pile outside Old Trafford so that the manager can shout at his players while pointing to the carcasses to indicate that even dead lions could play better than they’ve been playing this season. No, I’ve no idea if there really are lion in the Transvaal…