Cantabrian anchovies are often mentioned as the best - but imo, it’s the ones from L’Escala, Costa Brava.

He's a right brainbox and no mistakin'

Wiki: ‘During his 1542 expedition, Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos named the islands of Leyte and Samar "Felipinas" after the Prince of Asturias, later Philip II of Castile. Eventually, the name "Las Islas Filipinas" would be used for the archipelago's Spanish possessions.’

Been dipping those toes in white chocolate again …

Steely Dan ❤️

People have known this since 1886

If only Queen had sunk without trace ...

A favourite bit of trivia is Ian Bairnson (Pilot guitarist) played the solo on Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights.

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cool, you don’t care if blind and visually-impaired people can’t understand the photos. 👍🙄

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I would loved to have shared a mint tea and small biscuit with her.

I used to have one just like this in my garden in Greenwich - it was my favourite.

Adore her

He wasn’t a fan …

Two framed oil paintings - the top one is a pastoral countryside scene with a moody sky, trees and fields, the bottom painting is a snow scene with a brick cottage, fence, tree and snowdrift.

Two of my late father's oil paintings. He loved John Constable but tried different painting styles – the snow scene is a favourite.

Arm’s length etc …

Of course you do …

BBC London are great at this …

Saturday night on Radio 1 ‘In Concert’: Renaissance

How times have changed.

Tomorrow it’s ’Dance Anthems’.

There's a woman in our local village that looks like him too who we've named Gwen Dodd.

Goats cheese for me - love ALL cheese except that. Not sure if it’s a genetic thing though …

Did Motörhead get it wrong ?

It was ... only time I ever encountered another musician rehearsing alone was the great bassist, Ron Carter - aged 50 at the time. Saw him enter the studio with his double bass. No fuss, no one helping.

When my band used to rehearse in the mid-80s in a studio in London, Mel Gaynor would hire a room to himself to rehearse. Would also hear Cutting Crew next door (among others) and quickly realised we weren't going anywhere!

@graemethomson.bsky.social No doubt you have all this stuff, but just in case …

Nice read. When we lived in Granada, Spain we’d visit a bar tucked away in a backstreet off the Gran Via whose owner loved Tom Waits and had stuff about him on the walls.

It’s not the kind of thing you see often in Spain - it’s usually football flags … or the virgin.

Beautiful, it's like shit poetry

If you complained about getting food poisoning, did the manager say: No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering. ?