Tweets for Today

  • 19:46 delicate knife skills required to stick hanpanda money to wall. #
  • 09:16 I’m trying to be disciplined, it’s a very odd feeling getting up on a Monday morning to work for yourself. #

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I’m going to spend my Christmas with a Dalek

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One with a cold, it seems when you listen to this frankly awful, but somehow wonderful Christmas single. Daleks’ voices are done electronically (I hope I’m not spoiling the magic there) – not here it seems.

That’s What I Like

cheese and onion sandwiches and derby chinaware
fiddles and jigs, and wogie my dog and aunty vi having a swear
taking my dad for a pint or two on a sunday morning stroll
licorice pipes and baggy suits, glen hoddle scoring a goal
catching a pike and riding me bike, old wooden wheels and a bowl of eels
yes… that’s what i like, boy
that’s what i like

pie and mash in liquor, a-walking about in the rain
readin’ ’em books, and comical looks, pianos, trams and trains
coals ‘n cockles and thunderstorms, and plays on the wireless and all
grandfather clocks and coke and brandy, fountain pens and beano & dandy
that’s what i like, i said
hey, that’s what i like

little pubs out in the country, mother of pearl and barnet fair
the sound of a banjo, barbershop singing and having a kip in the chair
burnt toast and beer from the wood and old terry thomas’s teeth
jerry ‘n chet, cannon & ball and banjo pickin’ bill keith
and ol’ bank loads and wood burning stoves, shirley maclaine and petticoat lane

that’s what i like, i said
that’s what i like, yes boy
yes, that’s just, ohh

bubble and squeak and jumble sales, little richard and jerry lee
bonfire nights, southend lights and paddling in the sea
polished brass and copper, salvation army bands
violins and old coach inns, and coloured elastic bands
tea in the morning and winter beginning
fishing rods, frogs and spurs are winning
yes, that’s what i like
hey, that’s what i like

a day at the races, off in the bases, going down hopping in kent
a new pair of braces, little kids faces, sleeping out under a tent
and waggons and chickens and picking blackberries
and swallows and sledges and devon and cherries
and haddock and trotters and horses and nippers
and cider and celery banjo and kippers
yeah, that’s what i like, boy
that’s what i like

Tweets for Today

  • 19:04 trying to remember what happened in january, for a review of the year #
  • 01:16 have remembered what went on in 2007, it wasn’t very funny #

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Tweets for Today

  • 13:35 trying out google reader’s ‘friends’ fubnction #

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  • 18:26 Black Country voting has closed, tidying up apps and badges – with fingers crossed. #

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Tweets for Today

  • 12:57 lol captioning is addictive #

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Tweets for Today

  • 16:06 @podnosh – sell it you’ll make a fortune… #

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Review: The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain at the Town Hall

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Who ever heard of a concert starting at the time stated on the ticket? This is the view of the uke guys doing Splodgenessabounds’ ‘Two Pint of Lager’ – it’s the last song in the first half and I’m outside waiting for a ‘suitable break in performance’ before being able to get in. Gah.

On top of this, my mood isn’t improved when the usher tells me to put my phone away as I get in – it was the bloody interval, and I only had it out to see just how late I was. Git.

So anyways The Ukulele Orchestra – a lot more cabaret that I expected, I mean skits in between and during some songs. This distracted from some superb musicianship and some great songs. They also seemed to pick obvious covers, ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go’ – when they pulled something truly unexpected out Chic’s’Le Feak’ in the encore, for example they were a real joy.

Still could of done with a touch of George Formby.

Craig Johnson is angry

We should be too.