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Keaveny and Blackburn having a lovely chat is not something I ever expected to hear (Radio 2).

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Read/reading about crumbling E Yorks coast this weekend - Alex Wood's Yorkshire Post report & Adam Farrer's Cold Fish Soup book. Both mention lost port of Ravenser Odd & sea defences. Adam's mum played a groyne in a Withernsea am-dram show about Ravenser!

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(To the tune of Pilot's January) 'February It's gone rather qui-i-i-ckly' (Needs work)

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Cold latest - Darth Vader breathing with a nose whistle solo.

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Ian Judd. Dean Clough, Halifax.

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Old Ormskirk Advertiser snifter haunt. Pub has been revamped (purses lips). Ormy is looking well. Few empty shops, looking handsome. Nice bar Tap Room No12 is down the road from the Buck.

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And while I'm rummaging around in my sheet music archive/tatty cardboard box, here's Anita Harris with her 1967 top 10 hit, Just Loving You, written by Dusty's brother Tom Springfield.

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The mighty Kate Robbins - Victoria Wood sings James Bond themes. m.youtube.com/watch?v=AmFD...

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Another Super Bowl. Ho-hum. Why is this sport taken so seriously? Helmeted buffoons charge into each into other. Long pause for the umpire to shout something. Stop-start cobblers. Rugby league and rugby union are so much more skillful.

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'We've got it all in West Lancashire - a church, a canal & boat, fields, trees, two houses and five geese.'

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Tommy Ducks pub, Manchester, demolished overnight in 1993 by its owner, Greenall Whitley, when a preservation order expired. A loyal protester raises an empty glass. (Mirrorpix/Manchester Evening News)

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I love Thank You For The Music's opening lines: 'I'm nothing special, in fact I'm a bit of a bore/If I tell a joke, you've probably heard it before.' Gloomy/quirky indie bands would love those lines. See also Britney's 'My loneliness is killing me.'

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Film star Albert Finney, a bookmaker’s son from Salford, died #OTD 2019, aged 82. Here he is at his dad's betting shop, Broughton Road, Salford, 1970s.

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There is, of course, a famous 1971 Hockney painting entitled "Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy". My photograph predates that by a good 35 years and is entitled "Mr and Mrs Burnett and Cat". The two main subjects are my parents, and the photo was probably taken in Bradford in about 1936. ...

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Brian and Maggie had its moments but it was a flimsy tale and needed more Frost/Nixon tension. I felt Coogan was doing a Walden impression with a few pursed-lip reminders of Partridge, whereas magnificent Walter was Thatcher - the voice, the looks, the smile.

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Also in the 1976 Western Mail - an advert for Bridgend clothes shop 'the gingerbread man'. Imagining a life-size gingerbread shop assistant with a fixed icing smile and tape measure popping up out of nowhere like the shopkeeper in Mr Benn.

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How about this for a headline? Preview of Wales v France rugby union game, Western Mail 1976. The subs were ambitious, but is it too obscure/smartarse? Think it's a variation of 'If ifs and ands were pots and pans...' Don't wish for the impossible. But France could have won in '76. Mmm...

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One of the many amazing things about Marianne Faithfull is that she lived in Ormskirk, the Lancs market town a world away from Sixties London. It's like saying Nico had a paper round in Chorley.

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Sharing this all day so don't get mad, this is important to me!! I spent all last year making this zine, I'm really proud of it. Pre-sales are super important. As @pelliclemag.com's first print publication, I would love it if you could show your support xox www.pelliclemag.com/shop/a-place...

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Smoke On The Water sounds too familiar and a little tired, but Full Tilt are doing a hefty version that sounds good at The King's Head, Huddersfield. They also do a meaty version of Saxon's Wheels Of Steel with unexpected harmonies.

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Busy morning orchestrating

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Looking at my ye olde blog, it's nice to see I'm still in touch with folk I came across back then via Blogspot, Flickr, & The Word site. Loved the tunes on the Dusty Wheels site and Ten Inch Wheels' stuff.

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Great to see Wendy Erskine in The Observer's debut novel list. Her short story collection, Sweet Home, is one of the best things I've read. The novel, The Benefactors, is due out in June.

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Looked at my old blog to check on a pub name. The blog is so old I called eBay 'new media outfit eBay'. Written in ye olde 2015.

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Two fish in a tank, one says to the other: 'You drive, I'll man the guns.'

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We’re releasing (well doing pre orders) for our first piece of print from @pelliclemag.com on Monday, very exciting times. I reckon we’ll get two or three volumes out this year if we sell enough of this one.

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Fantastic bus destination names: Marsden Dirker - 1960s Yorkshire spinner who fell out with Geoffrey Boycott. Scapegoat Hill - Wild West town where blame culture was rife.

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Whenever I see Huddersfield Camra mag Ale Talk, I sing the title in a Bee Gees Jive Talkin' falsetto (in my head at least). Interesting piece about the mainly crap pubs in Lindley. Lindley's a bit chi-chi, but a decent alehouse would clean up

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Love Skunk Anansie's new single An Artist Is An Artist: 'She don't stop being an artist when she's old, you know' m.youtube.com/watch?v=QjzZ...

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GIGS! March: 27th Pelirocco, Brighton Art Exhibition w Gaye Black, Charlie Harper (UK Subs), songs from Charlie & Helen April: 3rd Rock & Roll Brewhouse, 19 Hall Street Birmingham ticket247.co.uk/LinkOpened/3... 5th Album launch, Betsey Trotwood, London: matinee wegottickets.com/event/646434 1/2

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This Traitors task of carrying heavy objects up hills is a bit It's A Knockout. They need daft costumes.

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'Hello sunshine, come into my life.'

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David Lloyd George, last Liberal prime minister, was born in Manchester #OTD 1863, but brought up in Wales. (Pic of his birthplace in Chorlton-on-Medlock by L.S. Lowry 1958).

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Really sorry to hear about Tony Slattery. He was gloriously daft, a real one-off even at the height of alternative comedy. The 1984 Edinburgh show, The Slattery Vranch Irrigation System, was one of the funniest things I've seen. (Pic from Richard Vranch's site)

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Enjoy the Sunday caption contest! Include #GirlsOwnCC with your caption. Please be generous with ❤️s for captions that amuse you, and repost to encourage your friends to join in.

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The King's Head pub, Huddersfield. Lasting tribute to the late, great landlord Bruce Travis, who came up with the idea of restoring many of the old railway station waiting room features

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Air Friar

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It’s 25 years since Philosophies of Exclusion was published. I am still not sure people get it. I see it listed (a bit lazily and probably by people who haven’t read it) in references for liberal or cosmopolitan arguments for open borders but the book is not about that.

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