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Also from the same article by Madeline Grant:

He’s from Essex and sounds like he is. Although these days the Essex accent seems to have changed as well. He’s been a fixture for much of my musical life - the Evening Session with Jo Riley was a staple of my youthful listening. He likes a certain type of music (white boys with guitars), but...

She’s a fiery character now. So I can only assume those years will be tough. My sister was shocking from 15-18 (would disappear for days to goodness knows where with goodness knows who) then it all stopped overnight. Was hellish for my parents (I was no shrinking violet but did know where to...

Sorry, I meant from the context of everyone having to change how they live their lives - hosts and guests. But as for someone threatening to smack my child - the shit would have hit the fan too..! (Our daughter did ask my wife the other day why her hairbrush was broken and I had to remind...

My take on this is twofold: I have a great relationship with my parents, but was keen to go out and find my way in the world. I pretty much left when I went to university. 25 years on I do feel that I haven’t seen as much of them as I would have liked. My younger sister hung around for longer...

We have 150mb (current Openreach product is now sold as 100). Night and day vs the 2mb copper previously available before the last mile was finally upgraded. It is asynchronous, which made sense before the home working revolution - that said I’ve never had any issues on video calls. For me the...

Done. Good luck to her. A really interesting area to be focussed on.

Way too simplistic. Even with the likes of BT this had to be enhanced by some serious regulation to create a level playing field in the consumer telephony (and then broadband) markets. Look how competitive pricing is for these utilities (including mobile telephony) - that’s because these...

We use powerline plugs on our SkyQ main box and mini box - they’re hopeless with non-Sky wifi. Very rarely get dropouts compared with the many times a day issues previously.

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My very good university friend Tim (also of this parish) created a simple table in Word. This formed the template (to be cut out) for the cassette inserts. I used this method for years until a cassettes fell out of use in favour of burning CDs before that all stopped altogether. There are...

Packing away various music media earlier today ahead of a new round of building work at home, I glanced at one of the cassettes I have retained. It’s labelled “Interview Tape 1999”. The year of international anxiety over the impending Millennium Bug was also the year I graduated from...

That’s excellent. She’s very talented. Thank you for sharing. Good luck to her on her application to LIPA..!

It’s very Le Carré in my view - doesn’t move his oeuvre forward but neither does it diminish it. I read it in a couple of sittings at Christmas. I’m currently working my way through The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. I’m half way through and, while his style is easy to read, I’m not finding it...

Aha. I’ll have another look into them. Thanks!