Tim Turner
timturner.bsky.social
Tim Turner
@timturner.bsky.social
Writer, editor and proofreader for hire (even if we’re just dancing in the dark). Novelist, Watford fan, music lover.
That used to be my local when I lived in Finsbury Park. I believe it really was a dairy once upon a time. Nice pub.
October 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Given that two consecutive head coaches have been reluctant to give Baah significant time on the pitch, I think it's fair to assume the problem is with him, not them.
October 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I'm sure you didn't mean to do this, but the way the pics are cropped in the preview image (on my browser, at least) means that Ms Kendal's face is only visible in one. Two focus on her breasts and one on her legs - which, ironically, may reflect the way a lot of men in the 70s thought of her.
September 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I spent a day at a Headingley Test on the Western Terrace once. It was fun for a couple of hours, but by mid-afternoon, most of my neighbours were more interested in the beer snakes than the magnificent century Joe Root was compiling.
July 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Yay! Unlike TOTP episodes, I clearly remember sitting down to watch this in the TV room at college.
April 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
For what it's worth, I was there, and I laughed.
April 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
You guys were absolutely on it that night at 229 and you played all my favourite Long Ryders songs (well, apart from 10-5-60, but that was always going to be a very long shot). Good venue, too, even if they did pretty much run out of beer!
January 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
No need to apologise. Well, apart from making me read Julie Burchill... 😀
January 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Wrong link, I assume - this is a Julie Burchill article from 2016 where she manages to completely overlook HMHB's joy in the minutiae of life and portrays Nigel purely as a class warrior.
January 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
You can see why he and Elton made such a good team. They've both got a sense of humour - much influenced by the Goons, I would say, especially in Elton's case - but GT is a little more serious when he needs to be.
December 24, 2024 at 10:18 AM
To be fair, he does look about 16. I'm surprised he was old enough to drive that Rover 2000.

Being a speedway fan is very 70s, though I don't know where he'd have gone to watch it live. White City, maybe?
December 22, 2024 at 9:55 AM
An odd one, this, quite apart from the mufti (nice chunky-knit sweater, btw). Why did they ask him his occupation? What did they think he was going to say?

Also, someone needed to explain to him that he could play at Wembley, or in Division 1, but not both at the same time.
December 20, 2024 at 11:08 AM
I always liked Bobby, and the fact that his answer to the 'Hobbies' question is exactly what I'd have said at that time makes me warm to him even more.
December 19, 2024 at 9:12 AM
His profile picture suggests an entertainer too, rather than a footballer. Why wasn't he photographed in his Watford kit?

Another vote for duckling as favourite food, I note. Different times.
December 17, 2024 at 11:54 AM
Of course - I did know that. Any others?
December 16, 2024 at 11:14 AM
I didn't know he'd played in a European club competition while at Spurs. That must have made him unusual, if not unique, among Watford players in the 70s.
December 16, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Presumably, many reading his professional ambition would have thought, "Fat chance" – but he only went and did it.
December 13, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Oddly, I have no memory of seeing him play, even though he made more than 70 appearances at a time when I was going to the Vic fairly regularly, if not every game.
December 12, 2024 at 3:41 PM