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Something I wouldn't normally do, but the daughter took out a 30 day trial for Amazon Prime and therefore we've been able to watch all the episodes of Amazon's new detective series Bosch. Over-seen by the characters creator, successful crime-author Michael Connelly, the Series is based on 3 books but fused together to make the one single story/series. It was gripping and pretty true to the central character that I had in my head (having read all of Connelly's books), plus it paints what Connelly deems to be Los Angeles in a gruesome light, BUT would it be worth joining Amazon Prime for their £72 annual fee, probably not. If you like crime-thrillers, then Bosch hits the spot.

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Check this video from a recent Letterman Show, this girl is gonna go far.... http://youtu.be/bHnh8_8Cx7E

pilgrim, long may the "tree frog" keep a wide berth from you and all of us.

DRIVING - another true story. Waiting in a lay by ready to catch speeding drivers, a Police Officer sees a car puttering along the A22 at well under the 30 mile per hour limit.Says he to himself: "This driver is just as dangerous as a speeder!" So he turns on his twos and blues and pulls the driver over.Approaching the car, he notices that there are five old ladies, two in the front seats and three in the back...wide eyed and white as ghosts.The driver, obviously confused, says to him "Officer, I don't understand, I was doing exactly the speed limit! What seems to be the problem?""Ma'am," the officer replies, "you weren't speeding, but you should know that driving slower than the speed limit can also be a danger to other drivers.""Slower than the speed limit? No sir, I was doing the speed limit exactly, twenty-two miles an hour!" ......the old woman says a bit proudly.The Police officer, trying to contain a chuckle explains to her that A22 is the road number, not the speed limit.A bit embarrassed, the woman grins and thanks the officer for pointing out her error."But before I let you go, Ma'am, I have to ask, is everyone in this car OK? These women seem awfully shaken, and they haven't made a sound this whole time," the officer asks."Oh, they'll be all right in a minute officer. We've just come off the A120."

By the way, I'm the same as Maggie/915 in not ever smoking. I too would listen to my Dad & Mam coughing & choking very night, with their smokers hacks and think to myself "what's the point". Not to mention the smell and the stained clothes, furniture, wallpaper, everything bloody stained & stinking. I think I was once tempted (by the lads in our gang) to a quick drag when I was 12 or 13, almost instantly threw up and vowed to never again go anywhere near the horrible things. Now beer & alcohol was a completely different matter.

Symptoms, loved your very Northumbrian (or is it Pitmatic) description of "houk'n-up & hocklin' oot", and as I've been suffering from a very heavy bout of flu/cold this week, that's exactly what I've had to resort to, in an effort to get rid of the snot & grunge. Apologies to the faint hearted.

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welcome Pedro

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If we still had a proper Miners Picnic (in Bedlington), then you might want to invite the Reverend Payton and his Big Damn Band, check this video out.....

There was quite a Cajun/Zydeco trend in the UK during the 1990's and I saw R. Cajun when I lived near Aylesbury, but I thought a couple of the London based bands were better. The Electric Bluebirds (with Alan Dunn on accordion) were good but the best of all were The Balham Alligators (featuring Welsh Keyboardist to the stars - Geraint Watkins). They have a recently released compilation album that covers 4 individual albums and it's very good. There's not much on YouTube by way of videos, but there are loads of recording tracks that you can listen to.

welcome Chas, hope you enjoy participating....

Have a listen/look at this live version of a song from a recently released album by The Bros. Landreth

Malcolm, I too like Cajun/Bluesy type of music, as well as lots of others genres. Back in 1987 I went to the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Heritage Festival and had a brilliant 12 days of wall to wall music, mostly from Louisiana, but lots of other states & countries also represented. The festival is held over 2 weekends at the end of April, each year, on the New Orleans Racecourse. When we were there, they had 10 Stages set up, where the music played simultaneously, non-stop from 11:00am to 7:00pm each Friday, Saturday & Sunday. The hardest thing was deciding who to go and see/listen and who to miss out on. We saw loads of cajun/zydeco bands.

Malcolm, thanks for posting this clip on here. I like "Southern Rock" or Bar-room Boogie" type bands and I hadn't heard of Blackberry Smoke before. I've just downloaded the album and on first listen I like it (which is always a good sign), so I'll have a few more listens and then decide on whether or not their back catalogue gets downloaded.

don't remember the Torchie mans name, but can recall stamping of the feet

welcome Geoff

welcome Seamus

Maggie, I like your classification "Like or dislike". Music is great, it's just some music is better than others. Alternatively, there is the old saying "Life's too short to listen to bad music". I much prefer music that cannot be classified, the sort that crosses over 2 or 3 genres. I guess Emile Sande could fall into that bracket! I hate that word "genre".

I remember playing in the "Novices" during my teenage years and each team was only allowed 1 proper cricketer. I'm fairly sure we entered a team from "The Terrier" in 1967 & 1968. Not sure about the years that followed, as I did my Dick Whittington thing in early 1969. I may have played in 1972, when I did my first Prodigal Son thing. The Salvation Army always had a strong team, but the team that was feared by most were the lads from Millfield, who's team name was "Thorntons Thumpers".

Welcome Norman..

Maybe we commence a new topic, with "Your Top Ten favourite Albums of all time"?

You're very welcome. Hope you've had a good day and best wishes for 2015.