Craig Sawyers

And a happy belated from me too!

Our daughter, having lived in Australia for the last 10 years, developed the characteristic rising inflexion at the end of each sentence (listen to the Wombat walkers). She then decided that it sounded just wrong as an ex-pat Brit, and eradicated it totally from the way she speaks.

Happy birthday both!

I was lucky enough to meet Prunella Scales around 20 years ago. She gave an acting masterclass to our local pro theatre company, Creation Theatre, that for some reason we got invited to. She was very nice, and was really tiny.

Timothy West - also a great actor of stage and screen - predeceased his wife Prunella aged 90 in late 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_West

RIP Prunella Scales, who played Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers. Aged 92 after a long decline from Alzheimers. 93 apparently. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd0yn5gyndo

Happy birthday you Dusty Chalk!

Belated triple birthday, birthday and birthday wishes!

If Henry Kissinger can get it.....

Happy birthday Morph!

Happy birthday Andrew you tall thing you.

That is the weirdest room. And what is with the ceiling speakers?

The Anne Boleyn rubber duck is available from the RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) shop in Stratford on Avon. https://shop.rsc.org.uk/products/anne-boleyn-rubber-duck , Now £7.50 Of course if true to life, its head should fall off.

D'Agostino Relentless. The mono power amps are $£Euro (all about the same these days) half a million for the pair. Each unit weighs a quarter ton - so half a ton for the pair. I have absolutely no idea how they are removed from the pallets. Or what safety requirements are for floor loading.

I was 26 then. And I was an early adopter, with the Philips CD104 in 1984. And then I began to wonder what was going on. CD's at that stage, and players too, sounded like a bag of hammers by comparison to vinyl records. Thank heavens the technology has moved on, although digital, while sounding really accurate is somehow less engaging than scraping a fragment of diamond over a piece of plastic. Maybe I just like listening to the inherent raft of distortions from record reproduction😁