Just another typical night on the British high street. I walked right through the middle of a massive brawl on Friday night in which, bizarrely enough, people were turning up in cabs, getting out and piling straight in to the fight. They were also mainly girls.

The two have traditionally existed side by side, with the highly trained and highly skilled librarians being the higher earners. But it's the same here in the UK the days of the librarians, in public libraries at least, seem to be numbered.

I can believe it. Libraries very much in the cross hairs once again in this coming round of cuts.

Love that Anne Briggs album~so beautiful!

Amen to that! In the library I work in it's very much a culture of middle management justifying their existence by making up ridiculous new directives which all take away from the time we need to do our jobs properly. More work less pay and not enough people in the union to make it an effective force in protecting…

Thank you very much, they're a couple of crackers.

Thanks, just got back from seeing them today. Holding newborns should be available on the NHS as a stress buster.
The writing in Last Panthers can geta little bit hokey at times but there's definitely enough good stuff to keep me enjoying it.

Takes me back to water play at playschool~I might be getting old but it never does.

Thanks very much. The boys are not identical and already have very different personalities. Did not know that about Cynthia, very sad news. I saw the reformed Family Stone a few years back and it was absolutely terrible and I ended up leaving after a few numbers before they could further sully their name although I…

I genuinely love washing the dishes~that's my time.

Joan Blondell's Remember My Forgotten Man is one of my all time favourite songs.

Friday the thirteenth of November, with all its attendant carnage and craziness, saw the birth of my second and third grandchildren. My eldest daughter now has twin boys and, after many complications and difficulties (staff at the maternity unit and special care baby unit at Harlow's Princess Alexandra hospital were,…

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All of Tampopo and also Clemenza's meatballs in The Godfather.

Great article and such a great record. I once saw Ken Swift of The Rock Steady Crew up rocking to 'Listen To Me' at a b-boy convention and it was truly one of the funkiest things that I've ever had the pleasure to see.

Spot on again.

Spot on, I've nothing valuable to add to that.

Or planted, I'm not a conspiracy person but alarm bells were ringing the minute I heard about it.

It was sarcasm, raw nerve, my apologies.

If I hit any nails on the head I assure you it was entirely inadvertently. And I graciously bow to your superior knowledge of German immigration policies, I must admit I don't really understand the intricacies of citizenship. I'm English and you understand it perfectly correctly we are definitely not pulling…