@darrg.bsky.social
Fat old misery
Bob Dylan’s ‘Forever Young’, believe it or not. It is frankly terrifying. He makes ‘May you stay forever young’ sound like an evil curse.
29.10.2025 11:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I was given it as part of a trio of EMI discs that were sent as review copies to a journalist relative in 1979. They’d obviously given up on new wave and were knuckling down to their core audience: the other two were by Pete Murray and Marlene Dietrich.
29.10.2025 10:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Though a committed TV theme hoarder, even I had to let the ‘It’s Bernie’ single go.
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Rebuilding Avebury stone circle, 1937
historicengland.org.uk/images-books...
That aged well.
27.10.2025 17:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I would have trouble with this! Though I remember you summed it up in two once: No Milk Today and Stockhausen 😁
19.10.2025 10:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I wonder if he ever did manage to write a classic in an attic.
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Tony Hart was born 100 years ago today.
15.10.2025 16:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Caunter has gone 😥
14.10.2025 18:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It was better, though 😁
13.10.2025 19:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Unfortunately…. I can’t remember what it was!
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My sole brush with screenwriting immortality was in 1986 when me & my mate Mark wrote a sketch for a BBC kids’ TV show called Fast Forward. Watched the show today. It is irredeemably awful. This is our sketch. They changed the end. We thought ours was better.
youtu.be/Al3zZboqFkA?...
And also, as you might derive from ‘1’ - there’s a volume 2 ….
11.10.2025 16:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Unfortunately….
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Followers of @fromefm.bsky.social’s Space Folk Horror Lounge … could the mystery of Slim John finally be solved … ? I found the book!
11.10.2025 16:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0At the same time, I’m sure when you originally handed over your £800 they didn’t say, ‘oh, watch out though, in 12 years it’ll do a factory reset & you’ll lose everything’.
11.10.2025 12:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Did nothing get saved to the cloud? Miserable news indeed.
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Morning
11.10.2025 09:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Destination: Darren
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Three Doctors … Carnival of Monsters …. Maybe not 😕
09.10.2025 09:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I had all the right symptoms but two negative tests.
09.10.2025 09:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I had a sore throat for four days at which point it turned into a horrible chesty cough which I still have five days later🙁
09.10.2025 07:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Your next mission, should you choose to accept it: the Tayto man 😱
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… and …
07.10.2025 18:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Builth Wells … i really needed to be half-a-dozen sizes smaller to navigate it successfully.
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… and it was …
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Went to this place and amazingly found something to buy.
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In recognition of a hard-working toilet.
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