I’ve not read any of them but then I don’t pay close attention to new releases. Books that I’ve read from the 2010s and liked:

Octonauts is defnitely the best kids show on UK TV (for under 5s at least). Most similar shows are so formulaic but Octonauts episodes manage to be different and interesting. I love it.

Ah, different one then. I don’t remember the 90s one. You mentioned Winnie the Pooh above - my youngest started taking an interest in the stories and pretends he’s Christopher Robin so for Christmas we got a book that combines some of the stories from the two Winnie the Pooh books with some of the poems from the two…

I find the new-ish BBC one very disappointing. There is so much scope there for decent adventures for the main trio but every epsiode just revolves around them being chased by Mr Todd. Both my four year-old and two year-old are scared of Mr Todd (and Tommy Brock) and don’t want to watch it.

Smith and Burrows’ Funny Looking Angels is one of the best recent indie Christmas albums. A couple of good original compositions plus some decent covers.

For a second I thought there was a new Ocean Colour Scene album.

OWLs are like GCSEs (O-levels in the old days) and NEWTs are like A-levels.

We love Tabby McTat too in our house. Definitely one that I can recite from memory.

You might be right about Stereophonics but I would argue that was post-Word Gets Around, which is a great album.

The original film is great. Colin Firth's speech about it not being "just a game" and having something that he's cared so much about for so long always puts a lump in my throat.

Today in the Guardian he is calling it "Slayer making Pet Sounds". Does Dave read the AV Club?

Pretty much anything by Julia Donaldson is brilliant. What the Ladybird Heard is one of the favourites in our house. We've had a few books by Emily Gravett from the library recently which are also excellent. The design of them is amazing and the stories are simple but imaginative.

The Suburbs felt to me like they were making a mainstream rock album in order to laugh at people that like mainstream rock. I like the album so it sort of felt like I wasn't in on the joke. I prefer Funeral to Neon Bible and Reflektor was a good change.

Blood Bank is a great track. I'm always putting that on playlists.

I've seen the White Stripes a few times but I would have loved to see them around that time in a small venue.

There was a young Dutch band called Pip Blom on BBC 6 Music a few weeks back and I've been listening to some of their tracks since then. Really enjoying them and looking forward to what they do in future.

Gonna take pollution down to zero?

Finally got round to refreshing my mp3 player last night. Currently, I have the new Laura Marling album, Band of Horses (not a fan of Mirage Rock but the first three are good), Velvet Underground (triggered by the discussion on VU & Nico a couple of weeks ago), Gemma Hayes (catching up on what she's done since the…

I would say so, though more up-tempo than most of their stuff.

Was definitely Greensleeves where I lived and the chip van was Colonel Bogey I think.