NoelM

A year since Scott Hutchison from Frightened Rabbit passed away, they were one of the best live bands I've seen.

Amazing song and video

Same as that, the whole thing was so worth all the staying up til 3 AM, for him to be part of something so big for the first time.

It's so cool, it was like being part of a football crowd cheering along.

My youngest son is 12 and has ASD, he goes to a small country primary school with 3 others in his class, he’s not very popular because of his obsessive nature and also because he doesn’t like football or the other things that they like. He’s fixated with certain games (a Mario fanatic) and has become the biggest Avengers fan - we’ve been to the cinema to see all the movies since Civil War and he’s watched all the others countless times on DVD. He has been totally obsessed with seeing End Game since Infinity War, we bought him Thanos Gauntlet for Halloween and he even made me a Captain America Shield out of Cardboard to “wear” when we saw it. I booked tickets for the premiere showing of End Game in Galway, it sold out 6 screens in advance. We arrived at the cinema and he immediately saw others with Thors hammer, gauntlets, shields, helmets, t-shirts, kids spoke to him, admired his stuff and he reciprocated. He clapped along when the whole cinema applauded (when Captain America was able to wield Mjolnir), cheered (along with the whole cinema) when everyone came back before the battle and waited and booed (with the whole cinema) when the final credits rolled and there was no post-credit scene. I remember his face when he realised that there were loads of others like him and thanked the stars for the Marvel movies.

Anybody here listen to the Dark Tower series on audible? I got the first one and started it twice, got an hour in and jibbed it. Is it worth persevering with?

Mythos took a while to get going but I enjoyed it, the Neil Gaiman one is great too.

I'd add An Officer And A Spy by Robert Harris too, read by David Rintoul. Any of the Stephen King audiobooks are worth a listen, he loves audiobooks and tends to pick good narrators, 112263 is way better as a listen than a read. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is great, read by Michael Jayston. The two Stephen Fry Greek Mythology books, Mythos and Heroes are good too.

I've been having what I thought was bursitis / sciatic pain for about 8 years, GP gave me cortisone injections into my hip a couple of times and it would go away for a while. In February this year it got really bad, couldn't sleep or drive the car without intense pain, went to a new GP and was sent for hip and back x rays. All perfectly normal, so I was sent for physio, which I was really skeptical of. However 5 sessions later and I feel great, it was my glut muscle, i had a few dry needling sessions (similar to acupuncture) and had to do loads of stretching/exercising at home but it has worked. I hope to go back playing some 5 a side next week.

Franciscan Well is nice especially the Chieftain one, I love the packaging too, simple but stands out.

I just finished "Nobody's fool" by Richard Russo, I saw the film with Paul Newman years ago and loved it, it's a great read too. Next up is "The Devils Detective" by Simon Kurt Unsworth.

Wow, that's cool. Mr Cash really interprets songs better than anyone.