Sun Dried Sparrows

A ‘significant’ birthday looms this week – ooh!   I can’t quite get my head around the idea of being this old.   I’d somehow assumed that b...

The other day I had the biggest laugh that I’ve had since, oh, I don’t know when   (well, actually I do: since reading your comments on Cha...

Lying in bed this morning, Mr SDS and I started talking about Chas ’n’ Dave.   As you do.   He and I both have some tenuous connections...

It didn’t seem to matter that my dad was in a well-paid job.   I don’t know quite what his work involved, but he went off to ‘The Labs’...

Yeah, I know, I know!  I've been gone ages - and I only nipped out for a portion of chips (a large one, since you ask - salt, vinegar bu...

Yes - I watched Eurovision.   Didn’t you? My personal favourite was Dracula from Romania .   I tried to convince Mr SDS that this entry...

As he stood in our doorway with the large bag of rare records that he had just bought from us, he reached out for my fingers, bent forward ...

I was absolutely blown away by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on 'Later with Jools Holland' last week.  That is all. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: U...