New Tricks (2006)

 

Play For Today: The Fishing Party (1972)

 

Play For Today: Just Another Saturday (1975)

 

The Hangover (2009)

 

The Good Life (1975/6)

 

The Good Life (1975)

Just a gentle reminder . . .

The original and the best. 

Five trophies played for . . . five trophies won. 

Man Who? Liverwhat?

New Tricks (2005)

 

May God Forgive by Alan Parks (Canongate Books 2022)

 

Miss Drummond took a sip. ‘Did you know my brother?’ she asked. ‘Before yesterday I mean?’

‘Not well,’ said McCoy ‘But we ran into each other every now and again.’ Wondered if she knew what Ally did for a living.

‘At Paddy’s Market?’ she asked. Then smiled. ‘No need to be discreet, Mr McCoy. I was well aware of what Ally got up to.’ She stirred her tea. ‘I wish you had known him when he was younger. He was different then, vibrant, full of life.'

'What happened?’ asked McCoy before he could stop himself. ‘Sorry to be blunt.’

‘Don’t worry,’ she said. ‘Disappointment happened. My brother studied at Glasgow University, English Literature. Was very good at it, even got a first-class honours.’

The shock must have been written on McCoy’s face.

‘Not what you were expecting to hear, I imagine. He was a brilliant young man, Mr McCoy. Everyone had high expectations, thought he would become a lecturer at the university, but he didn’t want to do that. He spent the next two years writing a novel. Put all he had into it. Every publisher told him how brilliant it was but none of them would publish it.’ She smiled again. ‘These were the days before the Lady Chatterley trial. My brother’s book dealt in sexual obsession, pulled no punches. They asked him to amend it, tone it down a bit, but, ever the artist, he refused. Eventually he got it published by Olympia Press in Paris. Do you know them?’

McCoy shook his head.

‘They published the more controversial novels: Alexander Trocchi, Henry Miller, that sort of thing. They also published books with the sexual content but none of the art. Those ones financed the books they thought were of literary value. My brother’s was one of the artistic ones. The Love Chamber it was called.'

Lucky numbers . . .

 

27/50

New Tricks (2004)

 

The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)

 

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013)

 

"Why don't you donate £50 to Sinn Fein?"

26/50

Withnail and I (1987)

 

Tremors (1990)

Rest in Peace Fred Ward.

"I say I don't like cricket (Oh no!) I love it"

 When you're just throwing darts for the hell of it . . . 

Curb Your Enthusiasm (2021)

 

City Slickers (1991)

 

Der Schöne Tag (2001)

Play For Today: The Elephants' Graveyard (1976)

 

Paddington 2 (2017)

 

My Cousin Vinny (1992)

 

I should be laughing . . .

 Don't ask. This - and a missed 180 - turned up during a risible 100Challenge.

25/50

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013)

 

The Sure Thing (1985)

Doctor, Doctor!

1 Thompson Twins album, 2 180s.  I'm not sure I like the implications of this . . .

. . . before you ask, I did rotate the board in between 180s. Even dartboards at death's door deserve the dignity of the occasional rotation. 

24/50

You Take Me Up

 Thank you Tom, Alannah and Joe.

23/50

Silver Streak (1976)

 

Philosophical about Darts . . .

3rd 180 in May? Why not.

I'm in a zone right now . . .  and it won't fucking last. Just another reason why I love and hate darts in equal measure.

22/50

Yuri Geller's done a number on me . . . and that number is 9.

 I think my dartboard is suffering from a draught. 

Shit, bugger . . . and fuck

Ouch.

Only my second miss since I started doing it.

Wordle 317 X/6

"I feel unusual . . ."

2 in 1 day? That has not happened in a long while.

And my previous throw had been a missed 180.

21/50

Pinch punch . . . flight punch . . . first 180 of the month.

 

20/50