Simon Evans

So helpful to have a second, needless and undoubtedly hard-to-remove sticker on there with the artist name and album title in much smaller lettering than the actual bloody title and name above it!

Homicides at lowest level in nearly 50 years, ONS statistics show The 499 homicide cases in the year to September were the lowest in England and Wales since 1977.

Let's hope this positive news gets as much attention as the people who try to convince us that the UK is a murder ravaged hellscape.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

That is crazy but also so very human, so many of us underestimate our talents. And hers were considerable.

I look forward to listening – her 1957 album Stormy Weather is a bona fide underrated jazz classic. She often seems to get forgotten in jazz conversations; with all the kudos going to the equally fabulous Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday.

I guess, for the 6 years in that youngest bracket, there are ~4.5m people then. Quite a difference but I would hope the future is brighter especially as people can now see in real-time the problems with right-wing governance in local government.

I feel nervous with Schmid in goal in a way I don't with Bursik.

Check out the title track from Drive By Trucker Patterson Hood's latest solo album Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams. It's all about when it happened in Alabama when he was 6.

70 minutes of tedium and then a moment of joy. Power to Segecic!

#Pompey #PFC #WatvPor

This would have even more impact if we had some idea of the size of these groups – I am assuming that there are many more in the youngest bracket than the oldest, for example.

Bought the splendid Drink Maps in Victorian Britain by @drinkmaps.bsky.social on Saturday and finished it in 2 days!

Fabulous glimpse into Victorian social history and the perfect accompaniment to the reprint of the 1886 Temperance Drink Map of London that I acquired some years ago!

Well, to desperately seek a positive, it was one goal fewer conceded than the abject performance at Bristol. And perhaps this will unlock the striker's block that has been afflicting Bishop for a couple of months now.

Won't somebody think of all those poor discarded pine cones currently occupying thousands of NT chairs dissuading visitors from sitting down? What will be their fate?

That's an hors d'ouvre!

Wait until you get to the parts about Meta's approach to parental leave and childcare arrangements.

Seriously though, everyone should read/listen to this book.

So close to being up there too! Ended up on the old Hayling Billy Trail as we fancied food at The Ship Inn as a treat afterwards!

To be fair they could be wearing wetsuits and flippers and it would still be working for them they way we're playing.

I would think so but it's not worked. Balance is all gone with too much defensive emphasis.

Ah! Should never wear away kits at home though.

Why are #Bristol wearing white? Strange.

Ooh, love Jimmy Smith. Chicken Shack is a terrific LP.

I'm doing the same but instead of Quo I am listening to late-period, less well-liked era The Byrds (Dr Byrd and Mr Hyde to be precise!)

Differences between office life and #WFH part 1,312:
Rarely in the office am I asked to reduce the volume of my music due to a child needing to get back to sleep.

Especially when I am on my third cuppa of the day!

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas.

Be a love, and pay it today.

There will come a date, and we may already have passed it, which people in future will use as a guide whether to buy translated foreign-language books or not.

Not sure Mercury Rev have ever bettered Car Wash Hair. What a track! Top two spot alongside Very Sleepy Rivers for me.

Nothing underlines the utter pointlessness of the Scottish League than seeing fans of the two Glasgow giants bereft at their clubs’ current form.

I was at school when the title last left Glasgow. The sense of entitlement displayed these fans is laughable. At last: competition! Long may it last!

Designed for armchair fans I feel. Those who are not at the game and therefore don't have a matchday programme or real interest in either team.

Worth a shout out for librivox.org too who create free audiobooks of the same books.

Yep! I know my own team and couldn't give a shit who the opposition are!

Reminds me of the old Half Man Half Biscuit lyric 'If I were a linesman
I would execute defenders who applauded my offsides' 😆

Well, I'm still not a fan of names on shirts but I think that is now a me problem! And staying with the shirts theme teams wearing away kits when they don't clash, Newcastle, for example v Sunderland last weekend.