Hamilton Saint

Working for me. But hope we don't get that weird sound they had on Saturday throughout the match - sounded like somebody tapping three or four times on a keyboard.

By whom, pray tell!

And your problem with the spelling of "attackers"?

We've stayed at the Premier Inn, located at 6 Dials, New Road. Fine and reasonably priced.

Leaf blowers - what a monstrous invention!

How about, "billions and billions!"? [Carl Sagan]

"How to make Rebecca Black half-way listenable" ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/mar/30/rebecca-black-paulstretch

Thanks for that; I'll definitely seek it out.

Money?

Have to disagree about his live performances. Whether solo acoustic, or full band performances, they're always great. I saw him do a solo acoustic show in Toronto a few years ago that was simply superb. His guitar-playing is just jaw-droppingly great! I'm a huge fan of June Tabor, too! She is equally superb doing versions of traditional folk material, as she is doing covers of contemporary stuff. One of my favorite albums of hers is A Quiet Eye - and it features two RT songs (Waltzing's For Dreamers and Pharoah). One of the UK's great song-interpreters.

He's talking about Chamberlain there.

Been listening to the most recent Richard Thompson album, Dream Attic. It's a live album - all-new material recorded with a band. I wasn't bowled over by it. Some good songs. But not a stand-out for him. But maybe I get so familiar with an artist, sometimes, that I get a bit jaded.

After Arcade Fire won the Grammy this year for Album of the Year - beating out Eminem, Lady Gaga, and Katy Perry - irate and uninformed fans of the latter were all over the internet in the States bemoaning the fact. "Who is Arcade Fire anyway. Who's ever heard of them?" A few weeks later the Canadian music awards (the Junos) gave the Artist of the Year award to Neil Young (he also got a humanitarian award for his long-standing charity work), beating out, amongst others, Justin Bieber. Shattered Bieber fans were crying all over the internet too. "Who is this Neil Young guy, anyway? Who's ever heard of him?"

Well, the bit you quoted was McCartney's contribution to that particular song. That would explain it!

There is a restaurant just around the corner from where I work called Shatin Chinese Food.

My thought, too!

Hard to believe, eh?!

I see. Well, you did have the incomparable Eddie "The Eagle".

I thought it was strange that Capello said that he had taken Andy Carroll aside and "spoke with him, in private" about his drinking. "He's young", said Capello. And then he discusses in the media for the entire world to hear about. Does that help?

facist? biased against faces?

Bless. But our skiers and skaters have you beat!

Full of bright ideas and helpful comments, aren't you.

The soccer club I'm involved with provides divisions for kids (boys and girls) aged 4-15. Up 'til the age of 14, the divisions do not keep stats of the games. It's a season of friendlies. There are strict rules about coach and parent behaviour. No criticism of referees and refereeing decisions is tolerated. The whole culture of the club is focused on sportsmanlike behaviour, which often seems like an alien concept these days!

I made the mistake, yet again, of reading through some "reviews" of books on Amazon. What a depressing, irritating exercise! Many people think that a review of a book is nothing more than an account of how the book made them "feel". Or they think that if they've decided the author is a jerk, then all his books must be crap, too. Or they think that all fiction is nothing more than disguised autobiography. Or they think their opinion is valid just because it's their opinion. Don't tell me the book's no good because it made you sad! Don't make a sweeping judgment about a book and then say that you only read two chapters, FFS. Talk about the style; talk about the setting; talk about the narrative voice; talk about the language; talk about the plot; talk about the characters. As D H Lawrence put it: "Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it".

Well, forget "mad" Hollywood; this is Disney we're talking about - the Great Satan.