Futtocks

Queuing does get rid of a b*stard barsteward's tendency to play preferences and/or serve the pretty girls first. Or for someone not really experienced enough to spot who's supposed to be next.

Currently 7.4k watching the stream.

Great intercept and lots of pace!

The blue kit does look smart; it just doesn't look like London Broncos.

Here's quite a story: https://www.birdguides.com/news/nesting-on-the-go-incubating-white-wagtail-travels-2-000-km/ A truck driver discovered a nesting pair of White Wagtails inside his vehicle which travelled over 2,000 miles while he was doing his job but also making sure the birds and chicks were safe.

Ah, Kingsley is playing Trevor Slattery again. He had a lot of fun with that character in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be though.

Also bought from Lidl today, smoked pork and leek sausages from their Greek "Eridanous" range. It is a pack of just two bangers, but they are about a foot long and weigh over half a pound each!

Worth picking a county and looking at their fixture list, to see when they take a match somewhere other than their home ground, such as Yorkshire playing at Scarborough.

One of the things I like about a good internet radio station is that they archive their playlists on the website, so you can go back and identify a track you liked but didn't recognise. I see that Boom are one of the stations that do this.

DAB was hurriedly implemented in the UK and has various technical drawbacks and when you get interference, it makes a much nastier sound than analogue radio hiss. Plus, with so many independent and/or local stations being swallowed up by corporate blandcasters, most of the music stations are essentially the same apart from local weather/traffic reports. But internet radio is streets ahead now. Find a few stations playing what you like and it doesn't matter where they are, plus the sound quality is usually much better than DAB/DAB+. I was an early adopter of DAB because of Test Match Special, but the internet stream of the same station is in stereo, which greatly adds to the atmosphere. I have quite a few classical stations boomarked, from Japan to Mexico to Switzerland to the USA. My tuner does FM & DAB+ too, but that's only used when my internet's playing up.

Lidl have a "Wine Tour" promotion for February, although it is already up and running in the branch I usually go to. Some interesting and sometimes unusual grape varieties such as Aglianico, Greco and Fernao Pires. https://www.lidl.co.uk/c/february-wine-tour/a10086974

Talking of streaming income, here's an example. Roger McGuinnn of The Byrds posted a few years ago that "Pandora played Eight Miles High 228,086 times in the second quarter of 2016 and paid me $9.15".

1. I work with much younger people and they are a lot more broad-minded in musical taste than the cliquey, excusive days of my youth. Every Thursday at work, we have a teams "jukebox" chat where everyone gets to post YouTube links to songs that fit the week's theme. 2. Journey's Don't stop believin' was not a big UK hit originally, but featured in an early episode of the hit TV show Glee, which gave it a second life. Airplay is also gamed by promoters and a big budget can get lots of exposure. Or it can backfire, like when iTunes forced a single by U2 onto an unwilling world by adding it to everyone's libraries whether they wanted it or not. 3. Definitions - royalties means sales income. PRS means live performance income. MCPS means recordings, broadcasts and usage in media (i.e. soundtracks, background music, etc.). A lot of the time artists are not making much, as platforms like Spotify pay an absolute pittance even for hundreds of thousands of plays. Bands used to be able to earn enough from a record contract to at least make their next album. Now they have to play live (if they can) and also merchandise their image just so they can afford to keep going, let alone find the time to write new material.

How many days 'til he's predicting yet another "crisis" on some media outlet? I'm betting it'll be before the start of the 2026 NRL season.