Ullman
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Was listening to Saxon live last night at Leeds Academy.
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It's a grand day for cycling. A bit nippy but hardly a breath of wind. A little bit of pale sunlight and the smell of woodsmoke all around. Lovely.
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I went to the memorial service here in Camp Bastion this morning, as you would expect from a good atheist.
I found it unusual to paticipate in a service without hearing Eternal Father, Strong To Save (better known as "For Those in Peril On The Sea"), though I guess there's no love lost between the Army and the Senior Service.
However, it's absence never stopped me thinking of my Uncle Arthur during the silence. He was on a freighter called the Imperial Star during the Malta convoys when it was hit by an Italian Swordfish torpedo. He was rescued and the Imperial Star was taken under tow, but was scuppered a few days later as it wasn't able to be saved.
His face springs into my mind every year, smiling as always. It's how I best remember him. He was the very gentlest of gentlemen.
It is a beautiful cold clear sky tonight in Helmand. The stars are out in force, despite the light polution and the dust stirred up by a Black Hawk that just came in to the Meds. I hope whoever they brought in is OK. No sign of Op Minimise yet which bodes well.
And I've just had pizza.
Like you, I'm an atheist but I find Eternal Father Strong To Save very moving. We were always singing it at school for obvious reasons.
From where I'm sitting I can see my grandad's medals. He was lost on the Arctic Convoys.
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they weren't in very good nick, and most of them I've got on CD
That's eased my pain. Thank you for your compassion.
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For most Fev families, that would mean that you had nothing to sit on.
Nah, the handle snapped off the record player.
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just thrown my vinyl collection into a skip.
I can hardly bear the thought.
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My new toolstation catalogue has arrived in the post.
I am embarrassingly excited, perhaps it should be delivered under plain wrapper
I suppose that depends on what kind of 'tools' they have in this catalogue.
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Went to Hull Truck's new gaff last night, very nice.
Despite the play being 25 years old, I'd never seen Up 'n' Under before.
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Lee's presently taking his keyboard apart to clean it....so it's goodbye form me for a while, because you just know he's gonna have to pog mine anytime soon
I once decided to clean the keyboard on an old IBM PS1. What I didn't realise was that they were all spring-loaded with proper actual springs. I cracked open the keyboard and the keys shot all over the place.
Took me ages to put it back together.
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Saw that advertised in Blackpool. Hope it was at least 1% as good as the series and that you therefore enjoyed it.
Cheers, I did enjoy it. Shaun Williamson as Fletch diddn't manage to provoke the belly laughs of Ronnie Barker's brilliant delivery, but I wasn't expecting him to. He made a decent fist of the role. The star of the show for me was the bloke playing Mr Mackay.
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Off to see the stage version of Porridge tonight.
Some bloke from Eastenders is playing Norman Stanley Fletcher.
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Saw Budgie supporting Gillan years ago - good live band
I was a huge fan of Budgie in my teenage metal-head years.
Saw them at Sheffield City Hall many many years ago.
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Always good to get a head start.
Much better than the ###### joke I was going to make about having to run holding a book for thirteen miles.
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The Reverend Horton Heat - Death Metal Guys
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The security guy on the front desk has just greeted me with a good morning and a "my you looked knackered this morning"
He was maybe doing that bloke thing where we try and say something sympathetic then moments later realise we've got it wrong yet again.
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You want to get to Hull Fair, from the 9th Oct to 17 Oct - the rides are usually about
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Another Perfect Day - Motorhead
Motorhead's 'forgotten' album, but there's some cracking tunes on it; Shine, Back at the Funny Farm, Dancing on your Grave...
Agreed, but Lemmy really needs to get over the fact that it didn't sell and stop beating us over the head with it at every gig.
Motorhead's last three albums are gems, among the best they've done, but they hardly play any of those songs live.
At least they've stopped opening with Dr Rock though.
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Slight contradiction there Mick
I read that as 'slight contraction there Mick' at first.
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Ramones live in Bremen 1978.
Ein, zwei, drei, vier!
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You want to get to Hull Fair, from the 9th Oct to 17 Oct - the rides are usually about
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Presumably you know this after hearing somebody else called it.
The Bonny Boat pub of course.
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I've just been to the Wigan club shop and been called Bonny.
I understand that this means I am now officially fat.
That's a compliment in this part of the world. Does it mean something else in Wigan?
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Rammstein - Pussy
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No yat watter at yam or summat?