Ben Coulson

Either "The Nightfly" or "The Night Belongs to Mona", both by Donald Fagen.

A black and white sticker with a stylised image of mountains and forest, with text around the edge reading "Oldbrush Valley Energy and Resources". Below is 3 lines of text on blue DYMO tape with embossed white letters, which reads in all caps "security.exe not be to be used by tier 1 patrol officers". All stuck to the side of a PC tower case.

Here's one of the O.V.E.R. stickers in the wild, with a little addition by myself using a classic DYMO label maker. All stuck to the side of an old Windows PC tower.

A photograph of a 1985 Ford Capri 1.6 Laser parked on a grey tarmac surface. In the background is a concrete wall with a blue sky behind. The car is painted in Rosso Red with the lower parts of the doors and the front below the bumper painted black.

My 1985 Ford Capri had moss growing inside the rear light clusters. Not even an old toothbrush or cotton bud could reach into the smallest spaces to get it out. A quick cycle in the top basket of the dishwasher and it was as good as new.

I bought a catering-grade cling film dispenser with an integrated cutter about 7 years ago - no regrets. The refills last about 12-18 months. I also got a second one for aluminium foil.

Being a kid in the 1980s and a teen in the 1990s was weird — like learning history backwards.

Richard from The Crystal Maze was in some kind of weird stage musical that was also a film?

Apparently Ringo from Thomas the Tank Engine used to be in a band?

Adults don't "grow out of" childhood ADHD, they just get better at masking to fit in with society's expectations, and often keep their struggles private, along with the stress and anxiety caused by doing so.

In the Land of Oz, are the Witches allocated to the compass directions at random, or is it according to their moral alignment?

If a new Witch turns up do they sub-divide the directions to make space for her?

"Why'aye Pet, ah'm the Morally Ambiguous Witch o' the North-East."

I'm a singer-songwriter and I did make a decent living from music back in the day before I took up a steady job as a bus driver.

Some of my best songs were composed behind the wheel of a 746.

Not being able to write stuff down means that only the most memorable bits survive to the final version.

I was towing a caravan with my Ford Capri on a dual carriageway when a HGV overtook, and the air current caused it to start snaking. Almost ended up going down an embankment. Luckily I managed to get it under control, and from that point on I only used single carriageway back roads when towing it.

Photograph of a sign in a multi-storey car park showing "2B" in white lettering on a green background. Underneath in hand written text are the words "OR NOT 2B".

The city of Gloucester is full of hidden historic gems. For instance I found one of Shakespeare's early drafts in the King's Walk car park.

Take the bus on the way home and you can do the same with front gardens. Follow me for more travel tips.

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"The Two Ronnies" was a collaboration between Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. A kind of comedy sketch show formatted for television. Barker also wrote and starred in sitcoms such as "Porridge" about prison life and "Open All Hours" about a shopkeeper.

In many cases, people travelling 5 days (or more) per week, or making more than two bus journeys per day, can save money by purchasing a day ticket, or a weekly / 4-weekly / monthly unlimited ticket using a smart card or the bus operator's smartphone app.

I have always liked the idea of having an orchestral Leitmotif, like a character in a stage musical. The tempo and instrumentation could change in real time to reflect current events.

Only in Gloucester have I seen circus flyers pasted onto an abandoned refrigerator down an alley.

Or a bloke throwing a traffic cone on top of a bus shelter after his Staffie had chewed holes in it.

Or a man neck a 2 litre bottle of cider in one because I wouldn't let him bring it on the bus.

I don't remember who said it first (it wasn't me), but never forget:

On January 1, old works do not fall into the public domain.

They ASCEND into the public domain.

A white plastic nappy bin which stores its contents (not shown) inside a plastic liner to prevent odours. It is adorned with a vinyl decal coloured brown on a cream background. The design is a stylised representation of Vladimir Putin with the top of his head resembling fecal matter including two cartoon flies circling it. The text at the bottom of the image reads "Vladimir's poo-tin"

A recent purchase of an Angelcare bin, designed to hold used nappies inside a plastic film liner to prevent odours. Also used to clean up bagged waste from a pet dog.

I made some vinyl decals a while ago so I decided to stick one on the new bin, which is now named Vladimir's poo-tin.

Photograph of an unoccupied toilet stall. The lid is up and the seat is down. There is a printed design on the underside of the toilet lid featuring a cartoon of a pink unicorn vomiting a rainbow. The design continues onto the toilet seat which has rainbow coloured stripes. The whole thing is a contrast to the monochrome nature of the rest of the image. Back and right walls are white painted cinderblock, with a grey partition on the left. The toilet is white porcelain above a grey floor with a grey plastic soil pipe running horizontally behind.

Visited a children's book warehouse today. Third visit to their current location but first time I had to use the toilets. I was not prepared for this.

A colour-enhanced photograph of a small hill with green grass growing on it. Above is a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. The location is a back lane between Tram Inn and Callow in Herefordshire, England.

Fans of the Windows XP desktop background image "Bliss" might enjoy this photograph of a field that I took during the lockdown in 2020.

It's on the back lane between Tram Inn and Callow in Herefordshire, England, and was taken from the top deck of an empty No. 36 bus.

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