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20th Century

A History of Pop Music – Albums 1963

30th October 2020 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured Album: Please Please Me – The Beatles This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select a featured album for each year [more…]

20th Century

A History of Pop Music – Albums 1962

23rd October 2020 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured Album: The Beach Boys – Surfin Safari Before I start with the article, I would like to raise a concern.  Over the last few weeks there have been several comments about how bad some [more…]

20th Century

The History of Pop Music – 1999

2nd October 2020 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured song:   Robbie Williams – She’s The One This is the last of a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 [more…]

20th Century

The History of Pop Music – 1998

25th September 2020 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured song: All Saints – Never Ever (UK Version) 

20th Century

The History of Pop Music – 1997

18th September 2020 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

A History of Pop Music – 1997 This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it. [more…]

20th Century

The History of Pop Music – 1996

11th September 2020 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

  A History of Pop Music – 1996 Firstly, apologies for the rather long delay between these music articles.  Normal service will now be resumed. This is a series of articles looking at pop music [more…]

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Car review: Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid Auto 2018

31st July 2020 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Following on from the excellent article by AWS the other Friday on a VW thing, I thought I would do one on the car I have just purchased.  Maybe some of you could write something, [more…]

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Manly Maintenance During Lockdown – Radiators

24th June 2020 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

A series of handy tips for doing stuff around your house. Tools required: Some bottles of finest Old Hooky beer A big hammer An excessively big hammer Bleed key (the one with 4 different size/types) [more…]

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Life goes on – Phil the test manager

19th April 2020 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

This is my story of the passing away of my good lady wife.  i just wanted to write it down.  It has been written pretty much on a day by day basis, it is hard [more…]

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