Should you care, the brain teaser solution is;
Alf has £10, Bert has £5 and Charlie has £35.

This is the sort of thing that early teenage Zaph would have wanted on the wall beside his bed. Beautiful composition 📸

I’m cranking up Darkness On The Edge Of Town through my headphones right now on my teatime break because management here have no clue what’s going on and have just thrown me as workplace coach to the wolves. If I’m not told what’s going on how can I tell the casuals?

Take me to Whamhalla.

He can have fun with all the doll friends he seemed to attract. Were they all his groupies or something?

I’m already counting the shifts until Xmas (seventeen after this one) mainly due to clueless managers and apparently the entire planet deciding to mail their Xmas cards today.

I don’t like being the only adult in the room either.

Didn’t they nominate an emoji as word of the year once? If so, they’ve got form for this kind of thing…

Oh, incidentally, just a heads up that Groupie and I have cause to return to Manchester/Salford in the first half of 2026.

Try not to get sick this time, yeah? 😉

Last year when I was looking after the basement operation overseeing the casuals; mainly African students who brought their own music in, I made it till the early hours of the 19th.
And then said to myself “ok, I don’t have to play this anymore”

I ran away from home at seventeen and I’m very glad smartphones didn’t exist then.

I love the concept behind this.

And even if it didn’t, we orbit it every year.

I’m trying to work out where the concept of a “far side of the sun” fits into things. General ignorance, bad research or a form of clickbait?

Nice to see a Northern edition for a change so I can see what would have been showing in our region!

The episode where Maxine’s Doctor was knocked out outside a flat roofed pub and regenerated into Inman was one of the best ever.

Election 2029: Vote Goatse for a glorious new decade.