Rick Welch

any idea on this one, Andy… taken cocaine, kills somebody but the authorities didn’t bother testing how coked up he was?!?! today’s Times:
Driver who killed pedestrian at 91mph guilty of dangerous driving. www.thetimes.com/article/f4c8...

surprised he hasn’t had a go at curling too… maybe it doesn’t get wall to wall coverage over there

can’t believe he took his clock off: how’s he gonna know what time it is?

obviously it’s wrong to laugh at someone’s physical appearance so I’m laughing at the skeet - but they also talk similar amounts of sense #kinship

oops, sorry about that, what a dope. in terms of the postponements, very very strange. Presumably it has been fine for track & field in the rain since the year dot

sorry, I was unclear… there was a warm-up (extra) track for the games where the pitch is now. Either way, sub-optimal. My pic from 5/4/24 when I was shocked and amazed that they were resurfacing that area yet again

yeah, not sure, they switched a few things around over the years but it wasn’t always all grassy down there. Plus wasn’t it a running track even after the games? general lack of joined up thinking

pretty sure that was a concrete car park til the Commonwealths…? fair to say it looks like sufficient drainage for a pitch wasn’t installed

agreed, just wanted to check. No point in any bookie ever being over-generous with the mug punter’s obvious bet though

7/2 looks too long or too short?

yeah, nearer 75 for 3,000,000 of us in the West Midlands. Used to be 1.5 hours drive, but probably nearer 2.5 hours now so it does take a bit of effort

Dear God, three weeks… ?! nice to know there’s always someone worse off, eh?

United only signing English players now then..? paying off the contracts of foreigners and paying their Ubers to the airport

‘aptly named’ - you bastards…! reminding me of my failed campaign to get it called the trudgy mcplod swamp - still think mine was better

grass verge opposite our nearest school

Something compelled me to make this

for those old enough to remember when the thatcherites wanted to demolish the skateboarders before they destroyed decent British society

Jamie says ‘cabb-arje’ and ‘soss-arje’ on tonight’s show. holding my breath for a meecro-wahr-vay type backlash

RIP Greg Brown of Cake (writer of The Distance). Fashion Nugget has been a bit unfashionable for decades now, but I still focking love it

Holly Johnson eligible for his pension today (66). That certainly seemed like a 25/1 shot forty years ago. Mersey Travel is one of three (?) bus companies to provide a pass at 60 so he has been hopping into town freely for a while now

yeah, good times. was away at University for the latter half of Click Club time but still got there a fair bit

passed me by a bit, alas, apart from Fade Out - maybe your vote helped them on this chart (from Click Club third birthday fanzine)

It’s official… late 80s at the Click Club: half a dozen better support bands than mbv, and a few also better than pixies

listening to John Cash on Cerys… hoping that somehow Johnny did the occasional Ju-Ju-Ju-Ju-June at home in tribute to Terry Scott. probably unlikely.

Book extract showing excerpt from a letter: “I am still just as frightened of bombs, & guns going off, as I was at the beginning. I turn bright red and my heart hammers, in fact I’m a beastly coward but I do believe that a lot of people are, so I don’t mind! Well darling I must stop, and I do feel sure that all your present work is useful, and if you can put in a little refresher in nursing – well all the better. Tinkety tonk old fruit, & down with the Nazis always your loving Peter

That splendid sign-off of the Queen Mother’s – “Tinkety tonk old fruit, & down with the Nazis” – celebrates its 85th anniversary today

this guy was definitely 100% opposed to a GE the last three or four times it happened (i.e. when his party was in power)

Ed Miliband is now third favourite to be our next PM. I’m up for this and his social media skills. Bacon sarnies on the front page of the mail and the express every day for years: bring it on

heartwarming to learn that people are seeing the Mike Skinner clip for the first time ever today #madmandelson

for a country who has seen the tories dish out knighthoods to jeffrey archer, fred goodwin, jimmy savile and similar shining lights… you thought we’d have a mechanism for removal by now

over £100,000 matched on Betfair - at least there are two people matched on each bet rather than potentially just a bookmaker sticking a finger in the air