All his other wives came back, to share the Co-Op ham tea

I've just put a butternut squash into the oven to roast, so I can make... well, actually, I haven't decided yet what I'm going to make out of it. However, as I peeled its sticky label off I noticed that it was "the co-operative butternut squash".

Has anyone ever bought an uncooperative butternut squash ? Was it tricky getting it into the oven ?

Let there be flutes

I've been to lots of gigs of late, and not got round to reviewing any of them. They're well past their blog-by date, and possibly past their remember-enough-to-write-about them date, but we'll give the first couple a whirl.

One kudo to anyone who can correctly identify the band in the first review purely from the text in the cut-tag; it's a description from someone else standing near me watching them.

( Top Hat, Serious Beard *and* Waily Woman )

And for something completely different...

( Jethro Tull @ Oxford Apollo )