Colonel Irrelevant

Asia Spice in Long Lawford deserves some respect. Great tarka dal, and they deliver and they aren’t expensive. Top food, better people and excellent prices. Enjoy!

New Wembley gets built with a capacity of 90,000. Then they take 23,000 and sell them as debentures or something, which leaves everyone short of tickets for the big games. Derby have 33,500 for the Play Off finals, which is probably 10,000 short of what could be sold. Then despite the Club’s best efforts to [...]

Isn’t it funny how perceptions change? Being an old bloke, I remember the uproar caused when The Warriors was released. Watching this back-to-back with The Football Factory shows you how violence now looks more real, language is more street and the whole film making thing is more lifelike than back in the 1970′s. Mind you, [...]

I caught this late as ever but have managed to catch most episodes thanks to $ky+. What has surprised me is that there is a continual debate over wht is and isn’t British food. Then there is the argument over styles and ingredients and methods. Daft as a brush in my opinion. What does seem [...]

Finally managed to get through to get my play-off final tickets for Wembley. Stupid web site didn’t allow access until 9.45 so there was too much tension for me. But that’s the first bit done and now I’ve just got to do the deal on Sunday and get the rest of the family in!

After 210 minutes of action and a final win on penalties, Derby are going through to the Championship Play Off Final. And we have 33,500 tickets for the final out of 90,000. The other team will also get 33,500 which leaves 23,000 for the Neutral fan. I’m sure it will be very nice for them, [...]

I went to Southampton today to see Derby beat The Saints. But that’s a different tale for a different site. What this is about is our dear Park and Ride driver. Not content with telling us to be quiet and not incite the locals to throw bricks he then struggled with the concept of fire. [...]

How much fun are these things? All the excitement of chopping wood with axes, then building outdoor fires without any of the excuse making nonsense that is the Barbecue. They sit there looking kind of menacing but are aesthetic enough to be allowed garden room unlike one of those old galvanised chimmney incinerators that looked [...]

If you are in the vicinity of Long Ichington, between 7.30 and 3 drop in to the Long Itch Diner. They can cook eggs in this place (my new test of restaurant suitability) along with the rest of the stuff for breakfast. Or lunch. They make tea, fried bread, puddings, the works. Just like it [...]

If the waiter tells you the chef ‘struggles with cooking eggs’ don’t expect wonders from the bacon. If one egg out of 5 turns up they are truly horrible at cooking eggs. If you see 3 meals out of 6 waiting for the other 3 meals because they have eggs as components then never, ever [...]