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April Fools' Day, celebrated on April 1st, is a day dedicated to practical jokes, hoaxes, and good-natured pranks, with origins that remain somewhat mysterious.  Some believe it comes from a Chaucer tale relating to March 32nd - but there are other French suggestions of the origins The Wiki bit.. Although many theories have been proposed throughout the years, the origin of April Fools' D...

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What you got ? What's he want? What he's promising you to go his way ?  Support the show

Insider trading , people making hundreds of millions on bets on the oil price, meanwhile people are losing their lives. Is anyone even remotely comfortable with what's happening under our noses ? Support the show

Obliterate - word of the week Support the show

Bullies - they're everywhere, Internationally, locally at work and even in your leisure time.  Taking them on is great if you're prepared and quite happy for the consequences. Support the show

One of my highlights of the week is driving home from a late finish ( for me!) and listening to the Monday Night Club on Radio 5 - with Mark Chapman - who is one very down to earth and excellent presenter both on Radio and TV. Ginsters pasty in my left hand Costa coffee in my right ( how on earth do I drive ?) it makes the very tedious 50 minute drive tolerable... Support the show

I would have loved to be a Bee Gee when the album Main Course came out and they realised they'd hit the jackpot - Jive Talkin' and so on.. I was doing my GCSE's at the time.  Last Man Standing was written with Barry Gibb in mind - as I think he is the last of the four brothers still alive. Support the show

The last few days music has been a bit morose - sorry about that - a bit knackered. I've got a few days leave where I seem to get given the same work load - except I'm not at work - moan moan moan ... Fight back  - don't take it lying down.  Support the show

This one is self explanatory - Thanks to Rob for the percussion on Cajon and Djembe. Happy Birthday little man ... Support the show

My Mum - who's 98 today says it all seems to have gone so fast. When we were young the summer days stretched on and on and on - seemingly endlessly. Now I'm not so sprightly they race by - oh my Lord. Happy Birthday Mum Support the show

Naw-Rúz ( Persian : نوروز, romanized : Nowruz) is the first day of the Baháʼí calendar year, and one of eleven holy days for adherents of the Baháʼí Faith . It occurs on the northern vernal equinox , on or near March 21, which is also the traditional Persian New Year We lived in Alcobendas in the north of Madrid for a while. I was there during lockdown in 2020 and remember the local Persian Restau...

This is a rather sarcastic comment on retirement . Keep your nose clean all of your working life ( what an expression) and if you're still alive after all that grift and graft - enjoy (?) your retirement. I can see how us oldies become gradually irrelevant to society as we deteriorate. The world should turn itself upside down . Let you have everything when you're young and then take it a...

This was an observation I first made when Trumpy was challenging the enquiry of January 6th when he challenged ( or perhaps he didn't ) the outcome of the US election. Support the show

I'm really really bad at this ... I don't like mobile phones and now I have 3 !!! Don't ask .. The whole thing defeats me I seem to answer when its a waste of time and then miss all the important calls, or the codes coming through, or the text messages, the whats app notifications , the face time calls - it goes on and on ... So does the phone ringing . In fact the ring tone in the...

Tune from September 2023 - worth a re-visit : the new Ayatollah seems to be playing quite an effective game Support the show

The media is giving conflicting views on the strike on a school in Iran on the first day of the war. It does seem likely that we've lost some children, Support the show

The Israeli's are issuing warnings to evacuate areas in various parts of Iran prior to bombing raids. The warnings are issued on social media. Iran is under an internet blackout. Support the show

Constantly - although we're only two weeks into this military operation - it must seem never ending to those on the receiving end. Support the show

When you're being hit so hard and in such a bullying fashion it must be very hard for those being bullied to back down and capitulate - these are proud people - whatever you think of their leaders. Support the show

Investigations continue according to the Secretary for War Pete Hegseth - but the tragedy of the girls school hit by a Tomahawk missile on day 1 of this conflict is hard to deny. We don't target civilians is not a very good defence - even looking at it generously. Support the show

There's a fair amount of that going on in the White House at the moment.. Support the show

This is a beautiful duet - taken from the ABRSM Grade 4 syllabus. It's an arrangement of a piece attribute to Alfonso el Sabio -  a 13th century musician/nobleman. Its taken from a collection of single line melodies "Cantigas be Santa Maria" and arranged by Stephen Goss. Support the show

The use of these things is questionable. I had a situation where two protagonists ended up filming each other for "evidence" . The only good thing about it was they were both so concerned about. getting a good recording- they almost lost the thread of their argument. Support the show

Maybe we can. Maybe we can't ... Glass half full - glass half empty. I'm always going to go for glass half full - maybe... Support the show