Hello the Austerity Programme and Justin Foley. I thought you were smashing last night, and loved seeing some old PRF friends for the first time in a while. I am rueful I allowed mundane working week prep drag me away once your set ended, but thank you for coming. I hope you enjoyed yourselves as mu...

Gah I Her Royal Majesty d the spelling of your band name and cannot correct it on my phone. Please œProgramme as a mark of acceptance by our stuffy, waste-indulgent dictionary.

Happy birthday Steve, and thank you.

flytox wrote:Please all you good people...suggest me some great colors (or color combinations) for an old racing bike!Mine is red trimmed with white: obvious, but cuts a dash.However, I like the cruel bling of this gold and black job I saw during the same holiday:If I ever get another bike, I've a m...

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:Excellent! Wow--had never seen that before and hadn't thought of Bunting in ages. Many times I have paraphrased his belief that a poem on the page is akin to sheet music, its sonic grandeur unknowable until it meets the air in recitation.I've listened to that every day this ...

Basil Bunting reading from Briggflats: mighty sound.

I just read of the death last year of the film editor Sally Menke, who was best known for working on all of Quentin Tarantino's films. New York-born Menke was an NYU graduate who made her editing debut with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990). Then she read Reservoir Dogs. œIt floored me, she said. ...

endofanera wrote:White noise machinesThat's worth a punt to improve the situation. Thanks for the tip. I'm writing this in bed whilst the rest of the flat is asleep and am acutely aware that every step I take outside the bed produces a crack or creak that will seem to be twice as loud on the other s...

Non-sex noises, blue\_thunder, non-sex noises. (But they're the worst kind.)Thanks for these excellent and detailed tips, guys. We're waiting to hear back from the landlord now.

Faiz, you are quicker than Errol Flynn in a convent school dormitory!Pathetically, I bought furniture for the first time only 3 months ago. The room is not large, a bedroom, and whilst I have a medium sized bookshelf, there is not much I can put against there.Looks like we are going to have this lan...