Finchoid | Berlin

Here's hoping @mrjamesob.bsky.social refers to "Twitter, formerly known as junior doctors"?

We are going to Africa tomorrow but I will have a word with the pilot. (How would they work out DEI in Africa? It must spin their heads.)

It's been a pleasure to meet you sir/ma'am and take this crazy coach trip down memory lane. I ought to have kept a diary but I had no idea that this madcap nonsense would have been so significant in my - err - 60s

Image, we are actual "Porky Prime Cuts". That's fucking headstone material!!!

I would kill for that, cheerfully. In fact, I would kill it myself and love it with lemon.

'kinell, it was >40 years ago and I don't really recall the granular detail. I think we then went to the food stall at what is now the firestation for noodles, wanton soup, and wine smuggled past the licensing laws in a Chinese teapot.

#Indestructible

I turned up with cash and he said, "Don't worry, I bill the label directly". I spent it in that wonderfully dodgy record shop in Hanway Place (?) on scruffy, hard-vinyl dub plates and New York Dolls bootlegs.

The maddest thing ever is that that was perfectly normal.

I have an Adolf sticker book with those that came free in fag packets. I bought it so that a Nazi couldn't stick the pages together.

The youngsters have been robbed of the sheer excitement of schlepping your ¼ inch tapes up the back stairs off Tottenham Court Road and watching the great man etch his sig in to the run-out of your master. Those were life's highlights eh?

It was actually my own band's and an EP. Porky (of Prime Cuts legend) had burned it and I just had to have it.

I had nothing to play it on, mind.

How many wannabe restaurant reviewers out themselves as 5-star arseholes?

Answer: quite a few.

Preoccupations: egg and petrol (gas) prices, rather than a chill wind of fascist isolation. Are Americans completely stupid?

A delightful and insightful read by @ccohanlon.bsky.social . TLDR; the Bürgerämte are still shite.

Done. A "Heroes" ordered and ready to be smuggled to Berlin, quite literally By The Wall.

OK, can I order and pay for a signed Heroes on your site, and then I will take care of the logistics, squaring you up if any more postage etc is required?

#FuckBrexit

Mate, Germany isn't listed as a delivery destination on your site. Would be great if you could sort that and please DM when done. Itching to buy!

Breathtaking!

Selling newspapers to people who don't, won't, and never will know any better. #telegraph is an unflushable toilet.

Reich Said Fred

In absolute fairness, even then, you could see that Sultans of Swing would pay for their retirement. But, by jingo, their stagecraft was as anodyne as the rest of their very average output.

Sending vibes of goodness, Miss @reecypontiff.bsky.social

Me at 16 at a Dire Straits show, largely because they hadn't yet made any records.

#LongestEveningOfMyLife

I had high hopes when the #HovisKid said he wanted to work at t'paper or be on't telly.

Another of my woeful misjudgements.

FREEZE PEACH !!111!

Having a violent, right-wing thug deputising for @mrjamesob.bsky.social isn't very Christmassy, is it?

Don't worry about the follow back. I'm just here for the good stuff.

I rather "like" the fact that most ReFlux voters closely match that profile.

Archbishop and/and Duke of York. What the fuck is wrong with that town?

Frightening North Sea emergency – a year on A northern lights cruise turned into a nightmare for 266 passengers when Storm Pia disabled their ship in the North Sea

Frightening North Sea emergency – a year on eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/... Bylines represents a wealth of humanity and humility. Here's a boat load more with a gripping tale by the very good Kate Moore.

Unless you want to see your racist neighbours on Question Time ...

Questions? Why is #rewe the worst delivery service in the history of the planet and why do they lie to their customers?

Six hours after the due date and they are still giving us the "Cheque's in the post" bullshit.

Was it all Bay City Rollers and Jimmy Shand? I feel your pain.