W/C 2nd December 2024

Of course there are flip sides to everything. As you will hear I am going to make a plea for more impromptu conversation, and also talk about an epic gig in an epic venue.

In both cases near disaster was only just averted. Take note;

a) Whilst helping the Australian Lady with her bag as we all got off the train, I put down my rucksack because her case was quite heavy. I realised as I walked through the station that I had left it behind and only just made it back to retrieve it before the train was due to alight. It's the fastest I have scaled a flight of stairs in a good while, as I literally pushed people out of the way and left human debris in my wake.

b) I managed to park in the wrong car park at the Cathedral in Liverpool, and only just got back to my car before it would have been locked into the basement for the evening. I then had to walk back to my seat at the front, and disturb the entire proceeding. Its a good job they know me.

Stay safe.

Take Me To Church - Hozier

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W/C 25th November 2024

I am currently sat in the McDonalds car park just off J35a of the M1, waiting for Josh to return with £8.08 of food.

I literally have no clue what he has ordered, I was merely required for payment. This is one of those times when you are most certainly a piece of flesh connected to a credit card.

After a fairly nail-biting game we are driving home with three points. Two sendings off (one for each side) a fine penalty save and lots of nervous noise, but we won out by a single goal. It feels good, though the Sunderland fan I just bumped into in the gents wasn't quite on the same page about it all.

Stay safe

Once in a While - Barry Bostock

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W/C 18th November 2024

I am dedicating this week's TFM to the person I sat next to on the train travelling to Manchester on Wednesday. You are going to hear all about it (obvs) but just to be clear the naming of the episode is most definitely for you.

Which brings us to the album that particular track originates from, which is of course Full Moon Fever by Tom Petty. As it happens I had been listening to that long-player just the week before, and one particular moment that I had completely forgotten about had made me smile.

At the end of Runnin' Down A Dream there is a little interlude where Tom instructs the listener that because you are listening to the CD version of the album, there will now be a slight pause to allow those listening on cassette or record to get up and turn the album over.

Genius.

Stay safe.

I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty

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W/C 11th November 2024

Where are we all at in terms of Christmas Lights?

Don't get me wrong I am a big fan, but I went for a run in London on Thursday morning (around 06:15 so still very much dark) and as I stepped from the hotel I was met with the full twinkly, majestic force of the display as I proceeded toward Russell Square.

I found myself wondering if the middle of November wasn't just a bit too early to be in full chrimbo-mode.

I feel grinch-like just suggesting it, but shouldn't we wait until at least the beginning of advent?

Stay safe.

Mr Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra

9-42 John Wiles aka The Old Grey Guitarist

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W/C 4th November 2024

The simple fact is that irrespective of whether the outcome is the one we wanted or not, we just have to keep going.

It's fine to feel the way we all feel at the moment, and it's fine to try and make some sense of what just happened. It's also fine to want to distract your self with other stuff, take comfort from something that might seem a little irrelevant, or unimportant and it is certainly fine to find a disproportionate amount of happiness in a piece of optometry.

So with all that in mind, I give you this week's TFM.

Stay safe

America - Razorlight

Kitty Cafe

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W/C 28th October 2024

A bit of 80's pop you say? Go on then how about this banger from Erasure....

And it does talk to at least two things I have mentioned in today's TFM, albeit loosely, so I am on point in a roundabout kind of way.

Other than that not much to say in way of set-up for this week, partly because it will detract from the content, and partly because I am late for my morning run.

Stay safe.

Stop! - Erasure

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W/C 21st October 2024

Here we are then, episode 250 of TFM...

Yes, you could say it has gone by in the blink of an eye. But then again, if you think about what we have lived through in the backdrop to those 250 episodes, it has been a crazy ride.

Whilst the COVID pandemic dominated the first couple of years, how could we also forget the transition of Presidents in the U.S, the nonsense around Brexit and the slow death of the car-crash that was the last Government.

I have ranted, I have pulled my hair out, I have laughed and I have cried. I have sat at my desk, in the garden, and at various locations around the globe.

I have tried to make sense of the noise, and often been left short, but I have coped, carried on and because of you I haven't felt on my own, So thank you.

Stay safe.

And So It Goes - Billy Joel

Accident Claim Management Firms

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W/C 14th October 2024

Although I will mention Keir this week, the episode title is not meant as a comment on the whole Taylor Swift affair/gate/scandal.

Admittedly the idea that a politician meeting a famous pop star, and the police ensuring her safety doesn't take me to quite the same place as say illegally proroguing parliament, or breaking your own lockdown laws. But I will leave that one alone.

The choice of song is inspired by John, who I met this week, and how amazing things can be the result of doing something in all innocence of what the potential outcome could be. Doing something because you can, and with no expectation attached.

I like that, it kind of made my week.

Stay safe.

Innocent Man - Billy Joel

The Old Grey Guitarist (1)

The Old Grey Guitarist (2)

Ian Dunt Article

The Big Red Building

Furnivals Inn

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W/C 7th October 2024

However I was also very wrong, though as it turned out probably not because of a well thought through plan.

The fact is that the Tories are now going to lurch to the right, in a desperate and misguided ploy to try and regain some of the votes they have lost to the Reform Party. One group of headbangers try to appeal to another group of headbangers, all with the zeal of the converted.

I find it hard to believe that we are going to have to listen to even wilder diatribes on why the UK isn't sovereign enough, or didn't Brexit hard enough, and that all the answers lie in a referendum on membership of the EHCR.

You may be right, but that isn't the place that you win from.

Stay safe.

You May Be Right - Billy Joel

War Game Documentary

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W/C 30th September 2024

You will hear me talk about the Penshaw Monument in this weeks TFM, and pretty much everything I said about it was (on further investigation) wrong.

It is in fact a memorial rather than some sort of Victorian Folly, and was built to commemorate the death of John Langton, the first Earl of Durham and the Governor-General of British North America. It is indeed officially know as the Earl of Durham's Monument.

What is true is where it stands, on Penshaw Hill near the village of Penshaw, between the towns of Washington and Houghton-le-Sping in County Durham, and that for many locals it is the reassuring sign they are in the right place

So I got some of it right.

Stay safe.

The Tipping Point - Tears for Fears

James Blunt

Penshaw Monument

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