Archives: 31 May 2022

I was asked to put together an easy picture quiz for a local organisation to print out and use at a Queen’s Platinum Jubilee event. Here it is, in case you want to use it yourself. It features people who’ve …

1. It’s the birthday of loads of people I’m proud to share a birthday with. They include Paul Weller, Frank Oz, Mike Myers, Sir Ian McKellen, Julian Clary, Cillian Murphy, Sir Jonny Wilkinson, Sugar Minott, Alastair Campbell, Igor Sikorsky, Richard Dimbleby

Everyone will have seen the ‘league table since Christmas’ and we’re all quite aware that for Town it was a season of two halves. But I thought I’d look into the numbers a bit more deeply across the division.

For …

What a horrible start to the year. Overall –8.1%, the worst month since I started keeping detailed monthly records a couple of years ago. Just the commodity funds showing any signs of life, and even dependables like Halma turning in …

A popular item for after our Christmas dinner! People always ask for a copy, so here it is (below, click for printable PDF). All you need to do is to identify the faces who have been in the news in …

A recommendation here for Mike (Michael) McDonnell, a personal trainer based in Braintree but working all over Essex and even in London.…

Just thought I’d add my son’s natty new investment blog to the list of sites I recommend here. Brave of him to put his investments out in the open like this – I tend to keep mine to myself! I …

What’s not to like about this? A crowdsourced playlist of decent Christmas songs on Spotify that won’t make half of the room groan when they start playing. Thanks to all who contributed. Featuring (at the time of uploading) Alison Krauss …

“When you’re trying to find tweets about a specific topic on your timeline, it can be a nightmare sorting through all the tweets from friends, celebrities, news sources, and everyone else you follow on Twitter. While you can search Twitter …

I hate it when people post on Twitter: “Here’s my list of the best…, what’s yours?”, because I simply can’t resist.

****GREATEST NO. 1 POLL****

As you all know, the only good music is CHART MUSIC with No.1 hit singles

A roundup of the decade appears to be compulsory for anyone who’s so much as commented on a film in the last few years, so here’s my contribution! This is not a list of the ‘best’ films I’ve seen – …

December 2019

Always popular at our Christmas party, this one, and people always ask for a copy, so here it is (below, click for printable PDF). All you need to do is to identify the faces who have been in …

My son did his Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) in 2018, at Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, and it was really interesting to watch. For something worth just half an A-level (and in reality when it comes to university applications, …

A few websites I feel obliged to recommend to you, mainly because I had a hand in making them.…

Getting better! My last few years’ totals of new films viewed have been 46, 52, 61 and now 73. Beating that is going to be quite the challenge in 2019.…

I was nerdy enough to get on Twitter really early on (August 2007), as @CherryHintonBlu. Quite a few even more curious people had been there before me, as I was only user ID number 8,015,922. Here’s my first Tweet (Twitter …

Please Note: this year’s (2019) “Faces Of The Year” Printable Christmas Picture Quiz will be published on Monday 23 December. Sorry it’s late, but so is our Christmas party this year. If you like the look of last year’s quiz …

• Someone said that you only really like a band if you have real trouble deciding what your top 10 songs of theirs are. Good point. It turns out that not as many acts meet that criterion as I would have

• Someone said that you only really like a band if you have real trouble deciding what your top 10 songs of theirs are. Good point. It turns out that not as many acts meet that criterion as I would have

• Someone said that you only really like a band if you have real trouble deciding what your top 10 songs of theirs are. Good point. It turns out that not as many acts meet that criterion as I would have

• Someone said that you only really like a band if you have real trouble deciding what your top 10 songs of theirs are. Good point. It turns out that not as many acts meet that criterion as I would have

• Someone said that you only really like a band if you have real trouble deciding what your top 10 songs of theirs are. Good point. It turns out that not as many acts meet that criterion as I would have

• Someone said that you only really like a band if you have real trouble deciding what your top 10 songs of theirs are. Good point. It turns out that not as many acts meet that criterion as I would have

I always enjoy compiling end-of-year lists. For the past few years I’ve added all the new music I like to a Spotify playlist, then selected my favourite songs from that year’s list to make a top 10, or 20. It’s …

I made up a quick quiz for our Christmas party last night, and one or two people asked if they could have copies to recycle at their own gatherings, so here it …