Phil McMullen

I have to say, the new Opera Air browser I just download to my MacBook is an absolute game-changer. Completely different look, quick as greased lightning, and I'm LOVING the breathing exercises and mindful music / rainfall sounds they've packaged into it. Refreshing in every sense of the term!

That wasn’t a defeat, that was a spanking

I like how the LibDems have been outed as the cowboys in this whereas it was previously hidden as LibGen

And less counties too, don’t forget that…

To be honest I haven’t seen a single moment of the war in Ukraine but I still want people to know I don’t approve of it. Just because you’re only tangentially aware something exists doesn’t mean you can’t express an opinion, does it? Or is that frowned on now as well?

Maybe suggesting that Sky is the Home of Cricket and as the Hundred™ isn’t cricket, there’s none of that on Sky?

Yes, I was given an old Spear & Jackson plane. Needed a new blade, but still had plenty of life in it.

Spot on. Love love love his playing!

I don’t mind this so long as it’s a month or two after the magazine’s been published and no longer in the racks. Any extra exposure after that is credit in the bank of future interest in my work.

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That’s not the same Meic Stephens who is also known as “the Welsh Bob Dylan” is it?

Hope it includes the insert with the explanatory sleeve notes written by the music critic that found Tom and rescued him from his self-imposed retirement after a quarter of a century…

It's been a while since we ran an interview feature in the Terrascope, but this one was just too good an opportunity to miss...

Nigel Cross chats to James Roberts the genial genius behind the mighty DELTA

www.terrascope.co.uk/Features/Del...

Sits back and waits for the inevitable advice from helpful Americans regarding Olympia regional airport in Washington state…

Absolutely spot on. I genuinely don’t believe the players are “arrogant” - I just think the system that underpins them is broken, or misguided at best, and any arrogance comes from the management. If the current West Indies scenario is the model they are aiming for, they’re doing very well indeed.

But only 12 sleeps for insomniacs!

Can’t you ask your MP for help? The government has full access…

Well if you did just invent it, please don’t reprint word for word interviews and features from the PT in your early issues, as the other one did!

Sad to hear (via Bill Bruford) that percussionist Jamie Muir passed away yesterday, 17th February. We featured Jamie in Ptolemaic Terrascope issue 8 back in 1991, so this seems as good a time as any to reproduce the interview here: bit.ly/4i0SkJ7

So now we need to know if it did the trick! Was Jim suitably impressed as I predicted?

Hell yes. Yes!!

What’s the mustard made from in an “all meat hot dog”?

Rainfallers Yorkshire…

That’s cool, in a way. All I ever see listed here are band and artist names that look very familiar at first glance, then you realise it’s a pun name because they’re a covers band, too unimaginative to write their own music or craft their own image

They even spelled Jeffrey’s name wrong on the cover

Estrus was a fine label. I owned numerous singles released by them.

A single LP (sides 1 & 2) with a gatefold sleeve is invariably stored on the right-hand side as you open it. The left side is usually a sealed flap. So why do new double LPs always come with sides 3 & 4 stored on the right-hand side and sides 1 & 2 relegated to the left-hand side? It's just WRONG.

Doesn’t make up for the scent of their leaves though, which is one of the few things in my garden that I truly detest

This is superb. Am so very envious of your skill and artistic flair.

Just to add, there’s actually 24 issues that you’ve missed - there’s a one-off from 2 years ago which also includes a free 7”EP featuring two of the bands featured. Was too expensive to make to be anything more than an interesting experiment in typography & paper folding though!