He’s covering ELO? Nah, some Fifties song Classic Bob. Anyone recognise a line yet?

Something extra relaxing about coming across an old Poirot when it’s the Captain Hastings, Miss Lemon era, and there are steam trains and lovely overcoats, and they look startlingly younger.

Mikey the wonder cat, who often looks as if he’s running through the words of Is That All There Is in his head, or perhaps pondering Fermat’s Last Theorem.

To local library to find a book by crime novelist only recently discovered, Susan Steiner,whose writing is brilliant though now she’s no longer with us. And there on display a Walter Moseley Easy Rawlins just published newbie I had no idea existed. Hats off to Richmond upon Thames Libraries

Everything that could possibly said about Rishi Sunak’s character, judgement and integrity is encapsulated perfectly by his final act in office: giving a lifetime honour to Chris Grayling, the most destructive and incompetent minister in recent history.

He's been! He's been! Happy Christmas, everyone!!

A new day in Westminster has dawned...

Remembering Peter Green - four years gone today. andnowitsallthis.blogspot.com/2022/04/he-too…

The outstanding stage and screen actor David Warner #botd was the youngest actor to play Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Company when cast by Peter Hall in 1965. His first leading film role was in Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment opposite Vanessa Redgrave...

Thanks to Charlotte Stroud in the Financial Times for this wonderful review of Sam Leith 🐝's The Haunted Wood: 'A bird’s-eye view of history, from Aesop to Rowling... a Gringotts vault of everything you could possibly want kept safe about children’s literature.' ft.com/content/fce221…

An old poem for #NationalPoetryDay, which is not relevant to this time of year, and is sort of about counting, but mainly about something else. But it is a poem and it’s Poetry Day.

Should interest you Richard Williams if you wanted to join Aquarium Drunkard.

Some Blue Moment reflections on Bob Dylan's return to Nottingham last night: thebluemoment.com/2024/11/09/rou…

Lord Gnome’s latest Private Eye Magazine organ carries an, in the circs, somewhat understated piece by editor Ian Hislop reporting on the failing-to-read-the-decent-side-of-the-room chutzpah of Justin Welby alongside a chronicle listing the not-yet-resigned Anglican reticenti…

Not really here any more but dropping by to say how awful Virgin Media are at dealing with customer problems. Just getting through to a real person is a succession of hurdles. The emails seem to be copy and paste AI with minimal personal interaction. And fix by dates come and go