At Home with John and Debbie

The new Chenard Walcker album, Monster,
is a collaboration with someone called Roy “Chicky” Arad.

They could have made a Grant Naylor style joint pseudonym, Roy Walcker. It’s
good but it’s not right.

On New Year’s Day, our morning was sullied not only by the mess left by our disorderly party guests, but by the discovery of a broken window pane on street level (upstairs from the party). It had been smashed from the outside, and it must have happened some time
between the arrival of the last [...]

A mysterious stranger has put a load of comments on the Leamington Pubs photo page. It’s nice to be noticed.

Careful though, it get’s a little blue!

Our mystery commenter apparently lives upstairs from the Lock Dock.
More convenient for Bollywood Spice than we are! Swine!

I always like to spend the first morning of the year tidying up a godawful mess of party popper streamers, spilt drinks, broken glasses, cigarette ash and general detrius, and to this end we invited a number of people we knew to be of dubious character to see in the New Year at our house.

Just [...]

When I opened the paper on Monday to read about the tsunami (”More than 11,000 killed”), it was compelling news, and I read article after article.
As the coverage continues (”True horror emerges”) adding only greater death tolls, and grimmer details, I’m ashamed to say I can only bring myself to skim read: we know [...]

Pug Fugly Games has released
another game: Revenge of the Robot Cats from Mars. It’s not as good as
Ambush, but then what is? I was briefly 2nd in the online hiscore table,
but that didn’t last long. I can’t get past the first boss.

From now on, if I see a change in Leamington, I’ll consider adding it
to the Leamington
Changelog.

Everything’s sort of back to normal after Christmas, except that Debbie’s
up with her folks for a day (missing her already).

Mum and Dad turned up on cue on Friday afternoon (Christmas Eve), we fed
them pie, served them various drinks, and watched Spiderman 2 (far better
than the overly talky first one — seemed very violent for its [...]

We wolfed down a pizza at Viallis, then saw Wish supported by Broadband
at the Jug and Jester. Alright actually, although their encore was
genuinely a repeated song: “the one that sounds like The Ace of Spaces”.

Broadband were ambient dub merchants, ten years late. A laptop, a violin,
a digeridoo and a sitar… It probably had merit, but [...]

Has anyone seen anything like this before?

$ telnet pop3.demon.co.uk 110
Trying 194.217.242.253…
Connected to pop3.mail.demon.net.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
+OK demon POP3 server ready (demon.co.uk)
user ladle
+OK
pass [snip]
+OK
stat
+OK 36 335223
uidl 8
+OK 8 1Cgrq1-0000t2-Kt-0000t5
retr 8
Connection closed by foreign host.

It seems to me as if [...]