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Half listening to the TV this morning was I got ready to go to work, I heard of the new National Spam Bank. Delicious.

I'm here, and over there is my coffee... and over there are my lecture notes. Beside me is a USB stick with the Powerpoint on it for thi...

Strangely, I was talking to a group of students two weeks ago about how odd it was that UKIP hadn't got a band. Other political parties ...

It was Sarah's birthday on Sunday and she and Little Bruv (who is bigger than me, but younger than Big Bruv, who is younger than me but ...

There are a lot of lost young men on bicycles, searching, searching. With neatly-fluffed beards and checked shirts, they seek the prairies ...

On Thursday I will be taking part in a panel chaired by Zoe Howe (who wrote the fab book  Typical Girls: the story of the Slits and many ot...

I'm looking down the day. It's going to be another nine hourser; I've done a few of these recently which is why I'm too tire...

I'm not Hip, and I love that. Hip hip hooray!

I don't have middle aged spread around my middle; well, not much. But I do have middle aged spread  at the tips of my fingers, quite lid...

The extremely funny and talented Stephen Foster Pilkington and his wife Katy, the lovely opera singer, put on a very quirky gig last night. ...

Vivien will be coming in to talk to some students at the University of the West next week and I was delighted to go along to her Punky Regga...

Making up Powerpoints for my lectures sandwiches between reading assorted books on the music industry, production and trashy crime novels. L...

On Friday I sat in front of the computer for nine hours, planning this, juggling that, tidying up loose ends and creating more loose ends, t...

Thanks to Gideon Coe for playing 'Anarchy Skiffle' on BBC Radio 6 on Tuesday. DIY still rules! Recorded in the garage by   Colin Mee...