Unaware of the Walsall connection, I heard part of a Slade gig from the loo of a pub next door to where they were playing in Walsall when I was up there for a few ill fated months in 1970 at teachers training college
The joys of living in Mexico is very much the food - ant larva, caterpillers, grasshoppers and various other insects - if it moves you can eat it!! Not forgetting the more normal stuff, snake, armadillo, testicles and maize funghi!!
Evening home games good for me when tied to a Saturday home game as well, flying in, allows me when I come over to, catch 2 home games - though choice this year of Forest & Villa games wasn't the best..... and actually rail down from London over the weekend to & from Victoria via Littlehampton...
Just got a bit more difficult (back to long queues in imigration) as I now can't renew my Global Entry, as British Citizens who are permanent residents of Mexico have seemingly become undesirables, likely AI at play.......which I have fallen foul of recently with several banks who also have put...
I was in the 44th as well, but when we used to be in Patcham school, was involved as was my dad in renovating the scout hut you mention (small old factory or warehouse as I recall), which became the 44ths home in 69 or 70. Gordon Stoner of the 2nd was a good friend of our leader Keith Fakes and...
No photo but I remember when we got a black phone for the first time back in the sixties and had it's table in the hall and one answered "Brighton......" and spoke very politely and just for a few minutes.....
They created absolutely nothing against Arsenal (who were also poor), they work hard & are well organised but really not a top team, despite a certain result....
Time's Echo by Jeremy Eichler, a look at how music (e.g Britten's War Requiem) may be the longstanding way we remember 2nd World War and the Holocaust as we get further away from it. A challenging read but very moving.