Mark Sparrow

Ep 71. We go format crazy with @avavsystems.bsky.social. Taylor Swift has done some variants. Madonna has annoyed us, again, counterfeit scams... a gloomy post box...plus news, quiz and all your usual crate digging larks.
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Funghi foraging today…..

So sad. He'd been unwell for a time. You think of Non Stop Erotic Cabaret. Of fabulous singles like Torch & Bedsitter & Memorabilia - all with proper 12'' mixes. Soft Cell burned SO brightly in the early 80's. What a shame but WHAT music. Thankfully Marc goes on. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye....

The lady who poured coffee dregs down the drain is fined whilst Ofwat admit they’ve been weak on corporate sh*t dumpers. People who project Epstein images on Windsor Castle under pressure while the real offenders continue to get away with it. It’s quite a grind, just now….

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media — the 30-second sound bite (now down to 10 seconds kind of celebration of ignorance.”

Top Halloween tip.

A return to the North Downs Way. Harvey walked the whole 153 miles a couple of years ago.

Amazing ‘shrooms this year…

Nice post.

This lad used to live in a disused hen coop on a farm. Cold & lonely. No more! 12 year old Rocky aka Rock Star lives with us now.

wrote about zappa for IHTOV

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Soggy in Tunbridge Wells right now!!!!

Never married.

Amazing.

Beer price list from 1976

Interesting beer price list (I believe from a wholesaler of the time) dating back almost 50 years to 1976.

It's good to see some familiar names!

@atjbeer.bsky.social @petebrownbeer.bsky.social @rogerprotz.bsky.social @totalcurtis.bsky.social @drinksmaven.bsky.social @beesononbooze.bsky.social

Crap lawyers paying referral fees to crap agents to recommend is a disaster too!

Cheap lawyers using teams of bods who badly prepare documents for real lawyers to sign off. Scared surveyors. Overworked proper solicitors. Public as disingenuous as ever ‘cos they’re under no legal obligation to behave. A mess.

A great record. Full of sweet melodies and interesting twists and turns - with a bonkers track at the end (erm, Road to Raratonga? Nuts!) I'm not sure of the politics but it could easily have been a Crowded House LP. Enjoy!

Amazing to think that any brewer producing 6X would be on the list!

An afternoon by the Thames at Chiswick.

366 Meditations. You got me going & I thank you.

LAPD officers dressed up as women to go undercover to catch a purse-snatcher in 1960.

An afternoon at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth. The history! The musicians! Even met Tim from Hawkwind. All too much!!!!

The reduction is good news. This being said, I thought their only concern was meant to be inflation which is (in truth) out of control. Hmmmm. The economy is in a poor state right now….

Dear God.

Eye popping costs on occasion. £26 for 2 pints and one wine recently. My favourite pubs are always worth a go but otherwise? Cans in the fridge. Sorry.

Rightly so.

I think they’re a bunch of clowns.