Someone gave TOTP a frontal lobotomy, in or around 1982. Michael Hurll, I think. I remember deciding more or less overnight that it was barely worth sitting through the balloons and Gary Davies' inanities just to catch the Smiths or Lloyd Cole from time to time.

Ok Paul you absolutely win the internet today.

Hard G in the classroom but you'll often hear soft g, especially in musical settings of Latin words. Which is no help at all, I realise.

Woodpigeon outside the bedroom window (as usual!) then morning walk hearing curlews in the fields near Slaley forest

An old Flame?