Gus Mears

It's Vince, the same man who thought ZZ Top were at the bleeding edge of culture until about 2012. He'd probably end up hosting it all on Bebo.

Always thought All Things Must Pass had one of the greatest discrepancies between album quality and cover quality. It's the best Beatles solo album and we've got George sat with gnomes. Rubbish.

Mrs Mears passed her driving test today. Very proud, especially as she's in her 30's and from foreign lands without roundabouts.

Deadly Derek Underwood has shuffled off his bowling boots at 78. One of England's best ever. He'll be taking ten-for's up on that sticky wicket in the sky.

Maybe this ought to be posted in the dull man thread, but I'm enjoying this very long and very boring series of Farming Simulator videos. Perfect fodder for the last 20 minutes before I go to sleep. The person making them isn't particularly interesting and often doesn't have much to say, so there's nice long pauses while he bales hay and plants fields for me to drift off to. 'Questionable priorities'. Apt.

Continuing the Deathrey trend of vaguely funerial scenes. Banging album. Banging cover.

I'm sad to report that I didn't make it. Was great fun until the parachute didn't open. Thoughts are with my family at this difficult time.

Not planning on using a parachute. Will that impact my odds?

Jumping out of an aeroplane tomorrow. Will cheer me up loads if I don't die.

's are go.

What were you buying there? Was it a lovely lumpy lumpy lovely chicken wrap?

New year. New celebrity deaths.

Place for any BirdChat, robins to condors. Coming out of a conversation in the things that cheer you up thread. It gets you like gardening does. Went recently some local lakes and marshland where rare migratory birds sometimes hang out and saw an advert for a local bird watching group. Ten years ago I would have ignored it completely but now? I'll have signed up by the end of next year I would imagine. One of the worst things about the house I live in now is the lack of birds in the garden. Last place, despite the fact it backed on the GWR mainline and was in the centre of Reading, had shit loads - red kites and buzzards overhead, robins aplenty and blue tits nesting in the end of the bathroom which was the highlight of the pandemic, watching the brood grow and fly away. Just pigeons wallowing the bird bath now.