Tattoodave

and I complain when I have to put socks on

Sad news indeed, several years ago he spilt a pint down my trousers and every time I saw him after that he apologised, a real gentleman. RIP Toby

Used to hear them a lot on the fens, easier than spotting them, camouflage is amazing in the natural world

It's taken me over a year to name this, eventually tracked it down to Narcissus cuatrecasasii, supposedly endangered, only endanged by being eaten by goats as I've seen plenty in various locations. This one is the hoop petticoat narcissus, Narcissus bulbocodium, far easier to name, but a beast to find.

Recently renamed in honour of a hero of a Mexican battle, Roldana petasitis, flowering it's head off now.

Iris planifolia flowering near Gracelema

I think the butterfly is a small copper, I know what the shrub is though, Lygos monosperma.

It takes a few plays to get used to, and is one that should be heard more. Good luck with finding the Witches.

With eBay you search for it, then it offers to follow the search (used to be saved searches) and providing you've click in the get email notification box you should then get an email. With Discogs you search for it and add it to your wants list by clicking on the option by the right hand side, they email you when one is for sale

I knew a lad who use to sing "Suck me in and blow me out in bubbles" instead of "Pick me up and put me in your pocket" and "I get my tits out on the floor", bless him, it was obviously his hormones.

I've just listened to it several times and there's a "th" sound on the end of the word, at least that's what I hear, so maybe you are wrong, but it still doesn't tell us what the lyric is he sings.

One version says "Hang", the other "Damn", I don't think at the time "damn" was allowed to be broadcast over the airwaves, oh how times have changed.

I messaged him and told him he was committing fraud by not saying it was a boot, no reply of course

Let me know what you think and if you can put it up on youtube, I love it, hopefully you do too.

I didn't realise you were so up in technology Russ, has anyone made the holodeck "Wigan Casino" yet? If not, please someone make it happen.

Or even an hologram of the original label projected down onto a 7" label-less disc, so it appears you're playing the original.

without hesitation, repetition or deviation, your time starts now!

Maybe not an all-nighter Len, that would be stretching it a little too far, but local nights or in pubs where a young crowd could ask for what they wanted to hear, within limits, might encourage them to reach further into the genre and once tired of the songs that they are comfortable dancing to now they might then get a better understanding of "the scene" and why some records might be an anathema to certain DJ's resulting in a flat refusal for a request. Either that, or in a future world where virtual reality allows you to dance to your own private track in your own private Wigan Casino/ Torch/ Wheel/ surface of the moon environment, along with interactive sim soulies? Take your pick

Wasn't there one in Boston a few years ago, had the anglers all up in arms? Nice to see wildlife in odd places, we occasionally get wild boar and ponies come down from the mountains, but the winter has been so mild they've obviously got enough to eat.

Are you thinking of moving from the fens to sunny Spain?

Something weird is happening with people listing on foreign eBay, curiouser and curiouser!!

Gibraltar from Morrisons car park, Saturday morning.

Asarum vulgare, better known as Friar's Cowl

Spot on Smudge!

I knew I'd heard it somewhere, must have been etched in my fogged brain.