Terry Barnes

I was painfully shy so crushes just felt cruel - I would just go red faced when the person I had a crush on was in the same room.

Suede at the Brighton Centre

Suede!

My mind is forever blown that Musk appears to have read all of Iain M Banks' books and Asimov's, yet has failed to understand a single bloody word of any of it.

Adrian Tchaikovsky writes some great hard sci Fi though you almost certainly already know that. Andy Weir (wrote The Martian) also had a great one a year or two ago, Project Hail Mary,

We were Herbert and The Fried Spaniels. Home keyboard, one string guitar (I tried to tune it like a violin which I could play and the strikgs snapped) and an Oric-1 home computer.

We still exist but tend to use HFS.

I watched Marty Supreme last night. Blimey. I may have misread some parts though as I laughed out loud at some dialogue in an otherwise silent cinema.

That's a jaunty punt

Understandable. I've set a very high bar indeed.

Proboscis?

As the parent of a trans kid, this makes me incredibly sad. My kid has *always* been the person they are now. There was not some other version that ceased to exist. I didn't lose the child I gave birth to, I gained deeper knowledge when that child decided to trust me with their reality.

Me and Maria. She is Axl Rose. I am some kind of escaped criminal.

Before the badly adjusted wig went skewiff and refused to realign.

I have photos. Though I wish I didn't.

I dressed as Phil Oakey for a party once, wearing my wife's high heeled boots. I looked like a crazed murderer.

The Human League (and related bands) always claimed to not be part of the New Romantic scene but instead were Futurists (though not from the identically named Italian fascist movement).

Yo're always welcome to spend a day with us if you want to leave the big city for a while - we are an ND safe home!

I find myself in the weird position of knowing this year's Eurovision entrant.

You run around town like a fool and you think that it's groovy...

Are you keeping your VL Tone?

I have requested that theme to be played at my wedding!

I started buying CDs some time before I was able to afford a CD player. The lure of the bonus tracks.

Is there nothing that really stings you might have to apply?

Famously younger than Brad Pitt

The only advantage I have discovered from being deaf in one ear is the ability to rotate my head or body to eliminate annoyances.

That and the eternal comedy value of mishearing what someone said for something bizarre and just running with it.

At the Royal Ballet with Becky watching Woolf Works. Absolutely astonishing. No idea what's going on, but wow.

Given their disdain for water I don't know how they ever discovered that they like fish.

One of his earlier wives left him for their decorator, which is what 'in the air tonight' is about. Somehow the opposite of the question Mrs Merton asked Debbie McGee about what attracted her to the multi millionaire Paul Daniels.

There's a tiny bar in Manchester in an ex public toilet underneath the street. It's very cool and doesn't smell!

I am quite looking forward to being home!

Last half hour of my journey home. It's a long day when you take the train from Brighton-ish to Hull and back.

Whatever you do, don't buy a new order pizza. They won't know what it is due to the lack of title on the packaging and the assistant won't ask you what it is because that breaks some unwritten rule of record shop cool.

Yes, I did have to wait 30m in a record shop once for that very reason.

Acronyms flung around so freely in telco and isp land that we just presume that everyone knows what we mean!