Neil
neilinbrum.bsky.social
Neil
@neilinbrum.bsky.social
Coincidentally a Lidl self check-out weight error this week gave me the chance to explain with "it didn't like them apples" Tumbleweed. Disappointing.
November 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Luckily, like my local Reach abomination, it is still available on Pressreader - free via local library membership. For now at least.
November 30, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I'd never thought of Pilot as being the new Badfinger before.
November 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I find it is harder to keep in the loop after jettisoning facebook and twitter. I only found out about an Andrew Wasylyk gig at a new-to-me Birmingham venue thanks to Gideon Coe mentioning it on air. Now I just have to work out if I entrust my card details to their unsecure looking website.
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Sometimes paywalls are annoying but in this case I'm happy to leave the details to my imagination.
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Nobody asked (or cares) but mine came from:
Samantha Crain
Modern Nature
James McMurtry
Half Man Half Biscuit
The Divine Comedy
Cass McCombs
The Autumn Defense
Midlake
Strange Pilgrim
Professor Yaffle
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A backlog of 80,000! So twice as many people awaiting a court appearance than there were asylum claims from small boat arrivals in 12 months up to June 2025.
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Which in turn reminded me of another of their achievements www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lleq...
Something For The Girl With Everything (Sparks) on Crackerjack (1975)
YouTube video by Miscellaneous Debris
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Indeed. Incidentally I approve of double Breakfast Blend.
November 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Aw no, she was brilliant in the role. I loved the Columbo style titles too.
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
With great timing, Sky's Sophy Ridge was on Armando Iannucci's Strong Message Here (BBCR4 today) making the point of how difficult it is to do justice to stories in a 24 hour environment. Well, stop doing it then!
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Alex's proposal for the BBC to abandon the adrenaline rush of 24 hour news is spot on.
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Collective sharp intakes of breath from podcast advertising execs. Still there's always Shopify and Indeed.
November 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
"It's in the trees. It's coming"
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The intro had a hint of Gladys Pugh on the xylophone but dues given, she made a decent job of those high notes.
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Loving You, that's either brave or very misguided.
November 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
His band's smiles were probably hiding the same feeling. A terrible record I'd managed to forget.
November 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Excellent chat. On Emily's closing point about social media company's algorithmic feeds, the Netherlands is trying to act. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/10/meta...
Meta has until year end to give Dutch users control of feeds - DutchNews.nl
Meta has been given until the end of the year to allow users in the Netherlands to set a chronological, non-algorithmic feed as the default on Instagram and Facebook. Earlier in October a court in Ams...
www.dutchnews.nl
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
That is early. I'll throw in Edgar Jones' Here's To The Holidays (jaunty) and Dean & Britta's Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Made (very much not)
November 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Unknown portion of 1973 of pocket money, Berkeley Music Studio, Maypole, Birmingham. Closed decades ago.
November 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I can picture Kevin Ayers having ended up in that predicament. Without the cycling bit.
October 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM