Reasons to be cheerful

[gradus]

We bought a Fuchsia Boliviana last year never expecting it to survive Winter but lo and behold.

[Jonathan]

Sunshine and sitting on a bench in the garden. Oh look, here's a beer!

[Serial_Apologist]

I've just managed to salve a cassette, on which there was the second two-thirds of a recording of Messiaen's Le Livre du Saint Sacrément, but a rare film suite of music by Silvestre Revueltas from 1935, titled "Redes". Revueltas was way ahead of other film composers on the evidence of this. The tape had come adrift at one end, and this took several attempts before I thought to roughen the plastic a bit to give the Locktite some purchase with the tape end.

Oh and I've just "liberated" a blue bottle that had flown in through one of my open windows!

[Bryn]

I've just managed to salve a cassette, on which there was the second two-thirds of a recording of Messiaen's Le Livre du Saint Sacrément, but a rare film suite of music by Silvestre Revueltas from 1935, titled "Redes". Revueltas was way ahead of other film composers on the evidence of this. The tape had come adrift at one end, and this took several attempts before I thought to roughen the plastic a bit to give the Locktite some purchase with the tape end.

Oh and I've just "liberated" a blue bottle that had flown in through one of my open windows!

How about little Jim? Has he fallen in the water again?

[Serial_Apologist]

How about little Jim? Has he fallen in the water again?

You've got me there...

[french frank]

You've got me there...

Blunebottel?

[Bryn]

You've got me there...

A Goon Show reference.

[cloughie]

A Goon Show reference.

I bet ff doesn’t remember Eccles!

[french frank]

I bet ff doesn’t remember Eccles!

I remember the whole crowd: Grytpype-Thynne, Bloodnok, spotty Minnie Bannister, Neddie Seagoon (spellings not guaranteed), Eccles and the child Bluebottle (it sounded like Blunebottle). Also Max Geldray on the harmonica halfway through.

[LMcD]

I remember the whole crowd: Grytpype-Thynne, Bloodnok, spotty Minnie Bannister, Neddie Seagoon (spellings not guaranteed), Eccles and the child Bluebottle (it sounded like Blunebottle). Also Max Geldray on the harmonica halfway through.

Don't forget announcer/straight man Wallace Greenslade!

[Dave2002]

I remember the whole crowd: Grytpype-Thynne, Bloodnok, spotty Minnie Bannister, Neddie Seagoon (spellings not guaranteed), Eccles and the child Bluebottle (it sounded like Blunebottle). Also Max Geldray on the harmonica halfway through.

.... and Moriarty ....

[cloughie]

I remember the whole crowd: Grytpype-Thynne, Bloodnok, spotty Minnie Bannister, Neddie Seagoon (spellings not guaranteed), Eccles and the child Bluebottle (it sounded like Blunebottle). Also Max Geldray on the harmonica halfway through.

‘Didn’t I see her on the stairs?’

[Bryn]

I remember the whole crowd: Grytpype-Thynne, Bloodnok, spotty Minnie Bannister, Neddie Seagoon (spellings not guaranteed), Eccles and the child Bluebottle (it sounded like Blunebottle). Also Max Geldray on the harmonica halfway through.

But not Little Jim?

[cloughie]

But not Little Jim?

Ray Ellington?

[Bryn]

Ray Ellington?

And, of course, Angela Morley (Wally Stott).