I am posting this as i believe that Fred departed this life and i feel that he should not go unappreciated. He came onto the AB some two years ago and immediately his posts, based mainly on personal...
Any suggestions for great rock tracks featuring female lead singers? I Love Rock'n'Roll by Joan Jett, One Way Or Another by Blondie, and Art-I-Ficial by X Ray Spex are among my faves. I also like...
That Holly Willoughby's dress was the subject of complaint, as being too revealing, was news last week, not only extensively in tabloids but in a small paragraph in The Times. It turns out that 130...
(Other papers are available ) A war memorial has been built in Bradley Stoke, Glocs, though nobody from the village has ever been killed in action.Are they pessimists? Kanye West's daughter has been...
The Bank of England is considering which woman to have on a banknote, a proposal not advanced further by Mervyn King saying that we have one already, the Queen! Who would you have? She must be dead...
I like watching Wimbledon, but can't understand the BBCs love of John McEnroe. As a player he may have been talented. but what a whingeing, whining brat he was. I went to Queens Club years ago when he...
Mrs May proposes to charge any intending immigrants from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,Bangladesh, Nigeria, or Ghana £3,00 each before any application to enter will be considered. The scheme will be...
Today is World Sauntering Day,according to Radio 3. As they then added that they were cancelling one programme in favour of playing Wagner "Which will be a treat", this may be a sick joke but,...
The press are having a grand time speculating whether her husband will be present when the Duchess gives birth and whether the prospective parents know the sex of the foetus. Where was your father...
Anybody watching the golf? Who do you think is going to win? I fancy Mickelson to do it. He's not playing too badly, and he's been there in so many majors that he's got the game and the experience to...
For some time I have been looking for a short story that I read in some sort of compilation of short stories in the late 1970s. A family is on vacation at the beach when the tide not only goes out......
I can't think of mine. Maybe "This is not for you" printed on a blank page at the beginning of Mark Z Danielewski's "House of Leaves"? Or maybe any of McCarthy's run-on lines, like...