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Saturday, 13 December 2025

The Saturday List #369 - My memories of False Dots Christmas gigs

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Next Sunday at 2pm sees The False Dots annual Christmas party gig. This is a long tradition dating back five decades! At the behest of Tom t...
Thursday, 11 December 2025

Rock and Roll Stories #52 - Dying on stage!

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I've been asked what is the most bizarre thing that ever happened during a False Dots gig on several occasions. Depending on my mood and...
Tuesday, 9 December 2025

Is the TV Series Riot Women any good?

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 We've just binge watched the first series of Riot Women, on the recommendation of a few friends (mostly ladies of a certain age), who s...
Sunday, 7 December 2025

The Sunday Reflection #70 - Is technology destroying the humanity in human beings?

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 Is there any such thing as morality anymore? Now I am an ageing punk rocker. I have always stood against the hypocricy that I saw in societ...
Saturday, 6 December 2025

The Saturday List #368 - My top ten favourite dishes in Indian restaurants

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 Yesterday was an unusual Friday night. I didn't go for a curry! There were two reasons. The first was Hadley FC had their Xmas lunch an...
Thursday, 4 December 2025

Rock and Roll Stories #51 - Sartorial Elegance and Rock and Roll

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 Back at the dawn of time, well actually the dawn of The False Dots, in 1979, Paul Marvin, son of the the legend that is Hank B. Marvin of T...
Wednesday, 3 December 2025

You can't trust AI! Lee Thompson of Madness is alive and kicking, contrary to what Google has to say!

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 On Saturday night, I was watching Madness at Butlins as part of the House of Fun weekender. I am mates with the sax player Lee Thompson as ...
Monday, 1 December 2025

Three days without listening to the news. You should try it!

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 I've been in Minehead for the weekend, at the House of Fun big weekender. I am absolutely shattered and need a good nights sleep. Whils...
Saturday, 29 November 2025

The Saturday list #367 - Five age related benefits since I became a pensioner!

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 On Wednesday. I went to see Ed Kuepper's new incarnation of Aussie Proto punk band The Saints. They were the first punk rock band I saw...
Thursday, 27 November 2025

Leadership and accountability

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The world is in a strange place right now. Not a day seems to go by without Trump, Starmer, Netenyahu, Zelenski, etc cropping up in signific...
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Roger Tichborne, author, musician, blogger, studio owner, film maker and campaigner. Has campaigned on environmental issues in the London Borough of Barnet, through the Barneteye blog. Recognised as one of The Guardians Top London Bloggers in 2011. Recently contributed a chapter on the Darlands Nature Reserve for "West London Wildlife" on Aurora Books.
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