Ian Baxter

Wot no Gavin Strang?

Just introduced my son to The Chicken Song.

The IRA famously waged their terror campaign to...checks notes...United Ireland...end to occupation..yes..yes...ah here it is "the right to invite ourselves to University debating societies"

Their extended bass response really brings Clement Freud alive. Should you want that.

The cheap adaptor I had before that was so shoddy with a ridiculous design flaw where it powered down if there was a nano second of no audio. Every full stop in an audiobook would result in the sentence cutting out then fading in again.

I sacked them off as usb ports seem so bloody fragile and constantly disconnecting. I got a bluetooth thing that you can plug old fashioned headphones into as I won't be seen dead with airpod things.

Went to the Pokémon exchange stall with my son. Late capitalism, bloody hell. What a time to be alive.

Looking at the devol kitchens website and find myself with revol stuck in my head "raus raus! fila fila!"

This really tickled me.

Dinner parties are like some semi-mythical beast aren't they. Constantly invoked but I can't say I've ever been to one, not know anyone who has. Is it possible to say a dinner party has ever occured outside fiction?

It's unbelievable that anyone paying the slightest attention - let alone the person whose actual job it is - would look at the current system and say "yep, this is fine".

This. Couldn't put it better.

Feels like our national motto sometimes

You just feel so safe in it

John Logie Baird's memoir, Television and Me, is very entertaining by the way.

It's picked up considerably and I'm enjoying it - having never seen JFK I found it very useful to read the Lee Harvey Oswald and Kennedy assassination Wikipedia entries though. Spoilers!

Reading Libra which seems very worthy, a modern classic and so on but I'm not sure if I give enough of a toss about Kennedy getting shot.

Making him what about 10 when snake on old Nokia phones was a thing? I suppose his parents might have let him play on theirs.

Just knowing this exists has brightened my day

What a shame Adam Faith didn't live to see it

Isn't that quote actually Napoleon? That's what I shouted at the TV anyway. Google seems equivocal.

"West Country" was next on the drop down to "West Street"

Reading my Xmas present "Perfection" - I know it's meant to be satire but the apartment described in the opening section sounds quite nice.

Secret weapon this year...mahoosive gravy jug

Ah man. RIP Chris Rea. Was just joyfully singing along to Driving Home for Christmas on Saturday.

I was stumped the other day when asked what my goals are for 2026 but having just done the kitchen I've got it: the uniform one brand two sizes tupperware project

Spent last night trying to remake this old piece and ending up making quite a convincing fake Feldman work. Not sure if this a success or not.

Same folk who were suddenly professors of epidemiology during COVID and Napoleon's heir after Russia invaded Ukraine...some folks need to shut up and listen.

The last couple of audiobooks I've listened to the dates have been read as "May One Nineteen-Thirteen", "August Twenty..." etc rather than May 1st or 1st of May. Is this sone weird audiobook standard set by publishers? It's a bit...weird.

'person so laudable' has me scratching my head a bit.