heat up your horlicks with some budgie

Currently listening to my favourite band of the 1970's, the welsh rock trio Budgie, the band I headbanged to for years as a hairy guitar-mad teenager.

If you knew me then you would have heard Budgie!

Here's Zoom Club from their brilliant 1974 album In for the Kill.

Like many of the great hard rock tracks of the decade there's quiet thoughtful bits that build up to a bone-cracking power!

Put it on whilst you make the cocoa!

If you fancy some more, Budgie that is, not cocoa, try the more balladic, melancholic but equally guitar-drenched Young is a World from the earlier Squawk album released in 1972.

is it pre-owned or second hand?

I'm starting to see the expression Pre-Owned everywhere.

I first came across it years ago at Blockbusters describing second hand videos for sale.

Now I see it all over Ebay. 

In the past the word Used was sufficient, which again simply meant second hand.

I suppose actually saying second hand is too close to the truth and as such its just too cruddy a phrase.

So in the modern rush for euphemisms I suspect the pecking order for these phrases is:

1. Pre-owned

2. Used

3. Second Hand

What do you think readers?

Toys R US?

I've heard a rumour that Toys R Us are in trouble. Is this right. Anyone know?

Fifty years ago 

Project SWORD 

made its 

first appearance -

in SOLO comics.

A S T O N E T A P E

I had to laugh when I saw this. As a fan of the Seventies British TV ghost story The Stone Tape this image captured the whole idea in one!