Here are the answers to yesterday’s piece challenging you to name UK #1 hit singles containing boys’ names. In year order: Name Artist Song Year Joe Frankie Laine Hey Joe 1953 Hernando Johnston Brothers Hernando’s Hideaway 1955 Mack Bobby Darin Mack The Knife 1959 Johnny John Leyton Johnny Remember Me 1961 Michael Highwaymen Michael 1961… Continue reading UK #1 hit singles containing boys’ names (the answers)
As a follow-up to last month’s piece, asking you to name as many UK #1s as possible that contain a girl’s name, how many boys’ names can you find in UK #1 hits? There are fewer of them, and when I have challenged people to come up with them I haven’t had to say “It… Continue reading UK #1 hit singles containing boys’ names
It’s a while since I wrote about any of our favourite catchphrases. I recorded many of them in the first few months of this Blog, and created this Category to find them easily. A phrase that my wife and I have used throughout our married life relates to the best hundred pounds (or fifty pounds,… Continue reading “The best hundred pounds I ever spent”
Farewell to the Pipeline, which was, all too briefly, the centre of rock ’n roll London. In the early years of this decade my nights out frequently incorporated three rock venues: The Pipeline, The Intrepid Fox and the 12 Bar Club. All three have now closed. A typical night out would involve beer and pinball… Continue reading Farewell to the Pipeline
Earlier this year I wrote this piece about how much I dislike Questionnaires. Since then I have been meaning to tell the following story. Back in the 1990s I was a frequent visitor to software companies and software trade fairs. The big three companies for the work that I did back then were Lotus, WordPerfect… Continue reading More on Questionnaires
Just a quick Word of the Week, or six, all based on the same four letters. Can you think of a group of four letters that can create more anagrams than “opst”? I’m using the Scrabble convention of arranging them in alphabetical order. “Opst” is not a word but opts, post, pots, spot, stop and… Continue reading Word of the week: opts (post, pots, spot, stop, tops)
Looking back through the first nine months of this Blog I see that there was an unbroken run of over 150 days when I posted something every day. I really did publish each piece on the date shown, from 26 January to 4 July. Often I would post something short (maybe just the title), set… Continue reading Stopping, and starting again
Windows 10 is taking up more of my time, at home and at work, than when I wrote about it in this piece. Microsoft tell us that this is the last-numbered version of the operating system. There will be no Windows 11. The word that I use most often to describe this new version is… Continue reading Word of the week: busy
Occasionally you think of something that you could have said, or should have said, or wish you had said, just a few seconds too late. I have had an example of this in my head for over 30 years now. It was at the start of my second year at university and followed on from… Continue reading Things you wish you’d said
In many day-to-day ways my instincts are to do things the way we used to, either in the “pre-digital age” (and I appreciate that typing that phrase makes me sound like a dinosaur), or in ways that have been superseded by newer technologies. I spent decades using landlines before acquiring a mobile phone, so my… Continue reading Still adjusting to the modern world
The Compartments 