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He's called Dustin. Stu Wilkys alter ego, Can't remember his screen name either!

Liverpool Echo

I found a couple more cuttings in my scrapbook yesterday here are the photos. Garner after scoring the winner in the Lancs Cup final V Burnley.

Be warned-The new Yogi Bear film contains mild slapstick.

On the contrary I think it should be de facto reading for some-there's more to life than petty bickering.

A very timely post Whittle, well done.

I've just had a phone call from a distribution company we work with, and they say that DPD couriers are not committing to guarantee shipments to Scotland and NE England before Christmas. Is it really that bad up there?

I was in the Darwen End for that game and the away fans in the littl enclosure to our left. This is what football at Ewood was all about in those days, fantastic stuff. Cameras on the Riverside too.

Good tip, with next month arriving, erm, shortly. Great book, very funny indeed.

The last two books I have completed cover sport and music, my two main interests. Drinking good beer is the third, but the first two cover this one as an incidental. First the sport. I like David Llloyd, AKA Bumble. He's from Accy, played for Lancs and England and coached them both too, with varying success. His radio and latterrly his TV work are a refreshing change from the plum-in-mouth home counties crew that once pervaded the airwaves. His inside knowledge of what goes on in the dressing room, coupled with his laconic wit make his input enjoyable. Which is a bit more than can be said for his book, Start the Car: The World According to Bumble. With little order, not even chornological, the conent veers from interesting but limited revelations from the Zimbabwe problems and his infamous press conference to boring stories about his mates and neighbours and their alcohol problems. Going off his work in his day job, I would guess the book was all his own work, without much interence from an editor or ghost writer. Secondly the music. There are a few of us on here who like The Fall. An astonishing band made up of Mark E Smith and about fifty odd others over the last thirty years. Those fifty odd have all been hired and fired by the peculiar Smith, and the story of those sacked by the Prestwich based performer has been documented by Dave Simpson, Guardian journalist and Fall fan. Simpson book, The Fallen is an excellent read, ostensibly about The Fall but you do not need to like or even have heard the bands music to enjoy it. It focuses on the relationship between Smith and all those who he comes into contact with, and the effect he has on them and their lives. My favourite book this year, although it has been out for a while now.

That story was the Afternoon play on Radio Four earlier this summer.

It was Craven Cottage Bob. "£4 to get in, and the beer is mediocre".

I have the 10" vinyl version of Preposterous Tales, bloody great band. The B side has two tracks-Three English Football Grounds, which broodily describes Millwall, Bolton and someone else in a really eerie way, backed by a sinister groove track. The other track is called Spocks Brain. A song about aliens stealing Spocks [Lead character in Star Trek TV series and films]brain.

Absolutely superb videos. Look at the away followings for Rovers at West Ham 1993-94 and Chelsea (1st game of season) they were phenomenal . There are brief glimpses of them.

Still tickets left for Motorhead in November. Who's going? If I can justify it to the Ball And Breadknife I may investigate...

Not as odd as there still being a hosepipe ban after it has peed down for a month. But there you go.

After a promising start, it looks like another crud summer again here in Lancs. What's it been like down south anyone?

Booths had samples of The Smelly A'peth (Saddleworth Cheeses) on the weekend, and got myself a slab. A truly delicious medium blue cheese. Small sample on some poached chicken breast, with new potatoes, leeks and mushrooms. Then on a poppy seeded biscuit later. Washed down with a 2005 Rioja. Who needs dining out.

I'd need to have been friendly with Mr Natural to want to eat at the Golden Arches.

You been round at Colin's again?

Watch the video of this robbery in Oldham this week-Absolutely hilarious. GMP you Tube

Aye Mark-Love Gorillaz but had to find something else to watch after three songs, not exactly bristling with energy and power. Sleepyjack-cheeky but true.

Mumford and Sons at Glastonbury John Peel stage=legendary.