We are about to embark on the Golden Summer of 2012, we have a song about snow, and it's raining.

Vote Mathdaniel Squirrel.

The Brandreth Papers take a turn for monstrous. Fairies do what fairies do.

A few more thoughts on Name of the Year.

Some people don't love funny names. That is not our fault.

Mike Westcott is a Champion.

This demonstration features high society high jinks, some horrific godparenting and a thrilling new version of a Pearse classic from Annie Gill and Nick Mulroy, who Annie would like me to say she is married to.

Be not afraid.

It turns out that if you concentrate you can produce audio that sounds great, and Benet and Kosha Brandreth have done so to tremendous effect. We are sorry that most of Tall Tales is not like that but if it were, we couldn't do it, if that makes any sense.

Have a lovely weekend.

Today's demonstration features lovely new recording of two Pearse classics from Harry Sever, featuring Clare Auger and more news of Igor.

If you haven't stopped listening to Skiing Safari from yesterday, you're not the only one. 

Can mere words describe the majesty of this demonstration of the System? No.

It features the awesomest band in the history of Northern Ostrobothnia! It features one of the two equal best choirs currently re-working the Mighty Fin back catalogue! It features the song which first showed that Susannah Pearse was not afraid to rhyme safari and Campari!

Today's demonstration features Anna Savory from her usual field of wheat, and Tom Lyall leading the Mighty Fin chorus in a sort of diabolic fairy rock opera.

If you still aren't listening to Simon Kane's narration of Journal of the Plague Year or reading Marie Phillips's newsletter, then that's your loss and not our fault. 

Today's demonstration of the system features an uncertain amount of truth and a song about talking animals that took about a month and four thousand drafts to write. You will notice (you probably won't notice) that we have changed our title algorithm and are using digits rather than spelling out the number. We only spelled it out in the first place because Apple said you shouldn't put numbers in there and we were being careful. If this suddenly gets us blacklisted we will go back to how we were. If you have read something more boring than this today, we're sorry.

If you learn the truth about the Blackwater accounting scandal before we find it, please email talltalesnight @ gmail.

In the last demonstration of this week we reveal* that Nature is never absent, even in the city. And if hens aren't enough, and friendly dogs, we also have horses and pigeons in the song. A decade later, I still say 'I'd give pigeons to hear from you,' as if it's a real English expression.

*We use this term in the specialised sense that Garth Crooks once used it when he 'revealed' to Sven-Goran Eriksson that England had qualified for the next round of a major championship when probably S-G Eriksson probably was aware of that, because it's the sort of thing that even a moderately successful England manager would keep himself abreast of.