Thank you Philippe- there are people on a Prefab Sprout/Paddy Facebook page who are quite excited by this development.

Happy birthday to you 🎂

Do you know if there will be an English version?

Ok…painful as it is, are we overthinking this? Is it just the case that City have timed their dash for the finish line better and that this is less some psychological narrative than emblematic of an incredibly exhausting season that even last summer’s recruitment couldn’t assuage? #arsecastextra

Mike Love level twattery.

I liked it but no more than that really.

Quatrain 24.3.26

The song first heard in early youth
Still thrills when now heard sung
The singer, long gone, hails the truth
So short the time we’re young.

Quatrain 23 March 2026

Equinox anoints the spring
The light vanquishes gloom
Magnolia petals fallen bring
The world’s awoken bloom

Question: do you think the final was Arteta’s Arsenal being ‘found out’ or just a bad day? And if it wasn’t a day when the entire team was found out, were some players exposed for their fundamental limitations at this level, and should we be seeking upgrades this summer?

Spot on. Disappointing but it’s best we don’t dwell on it. The goal would’ve surely come irrespective of Kepa’s clanger. I just wish it hadn’t been City.

Curtains before then.

The former plumber has said that she'll arrive at Parliament on Monday, some time between 8 and 5.

“The guy did a great job for a competitive rate. I’m really pleased with it”

Listening to side two of Abbey Road and trying to imagine how it must’ve felt listening to it for the first time when it was first released. I wonder if I would’ve felt, there are the Beatles just being astonishing yet again or perhaps, I’d better enjoy this now because it surely can’t last forever

A Secret Service Agent Explains What Trump Is Like Behind The Scenes A Secret Service agent who has served seven presidents says Donald Trump is weirder than all of them put together.

Ewwww!

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I’d forgotten this album. I loved it at the time.

Am I right in thinking that the quotation marks cover is something of a rarity?

Johnny Marr maybe?

Essential is the word - especially for those of us who didn’t live in London. Great photo…I love the light of it.

The woman looks like she stepped out of a feature in The Face in 1983 who sang in a band that were going to be huge and made one single on London records and then disappeared forever. But twenty years earlier.

He’s only as good as the last great thing he did.

Billy concurs.

I mean, who amongst us, hasn’t at some point…

Not even his cult members actually believe this.

Great piece btw 👍🏻

Back in 1980 my brother was an art student at Bath Academy of Art and he invited me up to see a band he’d designed a poster for. What a wild, hypnotic, groovy racket they made, and what a unique figure Ted Milton cut. Never imagined I’d be reading about Ted Milton and Blurt 46 years later. But I am.

Well there wasn’t much luck in growing up in and around Swindon otherwise

It was a matinee show at the Swindon Affair, a club owned by the band’s then manager. They did a set for the, ahem, ‘kids’, and photographer Dennis Morris captured them. There were only about 20-30 of us there. Late 1977…my first ever gig, and first of four seeing XTC.