Recent content by Carol

Bat Out of Hell Still can't type properly - saw it Monday night and clapped so much my hands hurt... singing, stomping and howling were also on the menu. My chum would vouch for the fact I ambled across Trafalgar Square in the moonlight using the mantra "happy, happy, happy, happy, happy...."...

Oh, please do! Start a thread on Stonehenge theories and I'll be right there - my best theory is that it was built as a tourist attraction, by the ancient dwellers on Salisbury Plain (so named because it's dead boring), to entice visitors from forest and seashore tribes - so instead of (a)...

Fireworks WHILST lawn-mowing could be a new extreme sport - I'll leave the details to you but look forward to a safe front seat for the inaugural... Not sure when I'll get round to a cream tea, but I will promise to raise a glass to you today during a (hopefully) full on Italian Sunday lunch -...

Funny: that's going to be the chapter after "Elvis Built Stonehenge" in my forthcoming tourguide's guide to keeping American students baffled on the British leg of their European vacations....

What ho! Young Metal - just passing through and thought I'd say hello and hope you had a splendid 4 July with all the trimmings....

Oh, sweetie - the definition of THAT is "well-read" not "broken" - as garish, gruesome and vile the real-life murders were, the attempts of so many writers to wrap their heads round those atrocities, and ours to fathom what makes sense to us of it all, is surely a sign of our humanity (though in...

@Doctor Omega Thanks, my friend - entertaining, educational AND informative - are you sure you are not, personally, the Avatar of the BBC charter? (You'd be worth the licence fee any day!)

Wow! There are such things? I was hankering after Coronation Street monopoly till now! Any other soap out here considered worthy of its own board game tribute, I wonder?

Michael Bond RIP Thanks for Paddington

? [have a question mark on me - you seem to be missing one] (1) apparently not - conversation appears to be organic, ebbing and flowing with the interests and opinions of the participants (2) here we seem to have exhausted interest in your original question, although I would respectfully...

All the Metal clan can descend any time you like. We have curry and kebabs to investigate too, remember - can't rush these things! Our heatwave sees to have come and gone again, so we should ease off on Pimms in the park with crustless cucumber sandwiches for the time being and go the the pub...

@Doctor Omega You are purely a genius and a benefactor - with the clock ticking down - little more than 24 hours to go - to the end of the academic year, I SO NEEDED THAT. Then the laptop will be unplugged for the summer, and I shall head unencumbered to the hills, powered down, shaking the...

Although I share your sentiments on this matter, we are eternally divided by our different uses of English - do Americans use the term "going commando" for being denuded of underwear? aka without your knickers? smalls in your handbag? etc, etc. We wear our pants on the inside, m'dear. And unless...

Even his tiny cameo in Grand Budapest Hotel is memorable. Sadly, although I'm aware that on TV he was America's Gene Hunt, I can't bear the idea, I just can't, of finding out if the copy was truly as bad as everything I've read about it.

Can't help thinking that, but for an accident of geography the film could have been called Fez and could have turned out to be a very different offering: Wilson, Kepple and Betty instead of Sam, for one thing...