Cole Burden

Landscape Gardener and occasional writer for ; largely silent ...

[Cole Burden @colebox]

@cjsnowdon Didn’t Graham Taylor take England to the USA for a friendly in 1993? I remember staying up well into the small hours to watch England lose to the USA.

[Cole Burden @colebox]

In the UK an early boomer grew up while rationing was still going on.

[Raven @raven_brah]

Boomers seem to forget that fast food used to be a normal, everyday expense for them because it was affordable. You could get a burger easily on minimum wage, it wasn’t some fancy treat you had once a year as a reward for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

[Cole Burden @colebox]

@BestPaulSays @YouTube Seeing that Jools Holland was in Squeeze, shouldn’t that video title just say “Squeeze”? 😉

[Cole Burden @colebox]

@BestPaulSays Agree; he may not be popular, but if JNT hadn’t stuck around Doctor Who would have ended much earlier as nobody else wanted to produce it.
BTW “Producer of Doctor Who” is on JNT’s gravestone.

[Cole Burden @colebox]

@BestPaulSays @YouTube Saw The Wizard of Oz there in February. Just incredible!

[Cole Burden @colebox]

@BestPaulSays What do you call a fly with no wings?

A walk.

[Cole Burden @colebox]

@BestPaulSays This is only an opinion, but it could be that it took time to get the aircraft carriers in place.

[Cole Burden @colebox]

@OldRoberts953 I never realised that was Billy Connolly at the end 😳

[Cole Burden @colebox]

@daveainsworth63 @TalkingPicsTV Saw this last year; superb and made me nostalgic for the New Romantic era.
Cameos from Gary Numan, Simon Le Bon, the Human League and Tony Hadley.
The song at the end is terrific too and could have been a hit if released in the early 80s.
VCR at the ready.

[Cole Burden @colebox]

@TheCyberdevil The trouble is, the BBC never has faith in their own genre shows. Look at the list over the last twenty-five years and then notice how many were axed unfinished.
Also, reboots reveal a lack of bravery or a lack of ideas for something new.

[Cole Burden @colebox]

@BestPaulSays I know nothing about military strategy, but something appears to be afoot …

[Cole Burden @colebox]

@MagesGuildOrg Been listening to McGann’s Big Finish stuff since I found Storm Warning in HMV in Oxford Street in 2001.
Such a shame one of the best Doctors has so little screen time.
Eighth Doctor Big Finish is practically all I buy now.

[Cole Burden @colebox]

@BestPaulSays IIRC BBC Four showed this a few years ago. I knew it wasn’t very good, but I wasn’t prepared for how bad it actually was.

[Cole Burden @colebox]

@MagesGuildOrg @ShempMeister @BestPaulSays @MickeyMao169061 @tardisdrwho1962 @Doctor_Mew1963 @TwiggyMcStmpwzl I’ve always wondered why The Ash Tree didn’t make it onto the Ghost Stories for Christmas box set from this series. Any ideas?
Thankfully it was shown on BBC Four recently.

[Cole Burden @colebox]

@BestPaulSays @YouTube I recommend his podcast What Most People think, which has been going on for around six years. The ones where he had Simon Evans guesting are particularly good.

[Cole Burden @colebox]

@BestPaulSays My memory of this was getting up for my paper round and hearing the news on Radio One (very early morning). I forget who the DJ was, but they kept playing excerpts from a (then) recent interview with Lennon that Andy Peebles had done.

[Cole Burden @colebox]

@BestPaulSays One Doctor Who link: when he joined the studio they had just finished Dalek Invasion Earth: 2150AD. He saw the Daleks in a skip.

[Cole Burden @colebox]

@BestPaulSays IIRC in 1969/70 the American money pulled out of Shepperton and so my dad was laid off.
Years later, doing a summer job with my dad, I met a couple of carpenters who worked on James Bond films around the same time my dad was at Shepperton.

[Cole Burden @colebox]

@BestPaulSays He worked at Shepperton studios in the late 1960’s. Biggest film he worked on was the musical Oliver.