It's also World Amateur Radio Day. Lucky white heather, indeed.

As a city-dweller, I see the value, particularly today, of showing the countryside before mechanisation (and factory farming even he couldn't have anticipated), but I just couldn't watch him.

We don't even have repeaters anymore. I sense toys being thrown out of prams.

#RSGBAGM and 145Alive-Alive-O, and I'm not in. Typical. I presume that the AGM will be available on YouTube later?

He used to give me the heebeegeebees, and thanks to TPTV, he still does.

There's a Plaice for us...

Available on BBC Sounds, through your smart speaker or by telepathy, clearly. Vinyl is back, cassettes are back, the iPod is back, the Walkman is back, even bleeping religion is back; all that's needed is for GenZ to want to tune into Atlantic 252, and we'll be sorted. North Utsire, South Utsire...

You rarely hear any of it on the radio. Boom Radio has a sister station called Boom Light, which is meant to play '50s music, then it drops tne odd recent track and I switch off.

That's what I'm saying. They all found themselves in the pop charts together in the early 1950s. It was extremely diverse. The Beatles, and particularly the Stones and all the London crowd, also listened to American Blues/R&B musicians from records brought back by Merchant Seamen.

Ditto.

He started off as a jazz musician, but there was less and less money in it. He was an entertainer, too. If you listen to Choo Choo Ch'Boogie and Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens, etc., you hear Shuffle & Boogie Woogie, which begat rock'n'roll. Add white guys playing country and you get Bill Haley.

You could also argue that the former Big Band singers like Sinatra, Jo Stafford, etc., and various 'crooners' were 'pop', in the sense that they were 'popular' and sang 'popular' songs. They were all in the early pop charts in the States and here. The Beatles, et all, were 'beat groups'.

Would some not argue that it was earlier with some of the Louis Jordan recordings? The death of Big Bands except for Ellington, Basie, Kenton and a few others, plus Bebop, left a sort of gap which was filled by small group swing which kind of morphed into R&B shuffle which preceded Rock'n'Roll.

I'm sure it was free at the start of this named storm season.

When did Marine Traffic start charging people to see wind?

Coughing. Lots of coughing.

I thought it was delivered by Superfast broadband, hence the speed (no pun intended) of the roll-out? Some of the installations by a company called City Fibre (who did my area) look horrendous. As for 5G, we still don't have it, but I only have a 4G phone because it was cheaper. I'm Scottish.

Yes, I know, hence my dislike of it.

It was meant to be hail, but I watched it fall. It only lasted for 5 minutes, but the weather has been (more) weird (than usual).

Freeview is going a couple of years later. Everything is going online. I hate streaming.

Why is it snowing? 🤬

You've got about four years left to enjoy it. 🤬

😂😂

I thought that Asparagus Piss was a Death Metal band.

What were you last week?

That's my excuse. 😂

What if they get lost?

No one could read, anyway, bar Monks. I wonder if there's a parallel text of, say, The Canterbury Tales for the Middle English stuff and maybe Le Morte d'Arthur for the (early) Early Modern. I think there is for Old English with Beowulf. It's all about cracking the code.

Some of it looks Welsh, too.

I see that a former Church of England Vicar is standing for nomination as a Director of the RSGB. I wonder if there are any Bible passages which can shed light on the changes to the QSL Bureau. Germany? Ich verstehe nicht. 🤯😱