Well at least the bridges look the same!

A few years back, the Newcastle marathon medal depicted the River Wear instead of the Tyne. 

It may well be the case that university graduate number are increasing, but it doesn't mean folk are getting any smarter! 

The BBC news site had that a couple of days ago.

And, a few days before, an article about the recent Edmonton Marathon being 674.7 metres too long - which could pose problems for entrants to the Boston one, because the additional time taken at Edmonton may mean they fail to qualify for Boston.

Yes, a classic case of incompetent laziness. Somebody obviously just got a picture off Google and threw it on there without even looking at it. Slack as hell.

The Sydney marathon is on soon and on the rear of the commemorative medal there are some landmarks from around the course...except maybe one. Oops. 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-23/nsw-sydney-marathon-medal-mix-up-munich-arena/107068624

Mrs M and I have just watched tonight's Marvin Gaye prom, wow absolutely superb, fabulous singers, conductor and the BBC Concert Orchestra/audience thoroughly enjoying themselves - a 10/10 from us!

I am afraid the other cross-over proms we have seen this season have been a bit hit and miss:

Prog Rock Prom 4/10 - had a few good moments but as Mick @Newportnobby said disappointing.
Graceland (Paul Simon) 6/10 - spoilt by some poor choices of singers, James Bay really...
Miles Davis, 7/10 - not heard of the soloist, played well but he lacked stage presence; however, I quite enjoyed it on the whole - not really for everyone.
Sci-Fi music 8/10 - a mash up from the archives but enjoyable.

Next Saturday is Bond themes...

Tim
 

So far I've watched the Prog Rock prom, the Spanish night prom and the Space/Star Wars prom. Apart from the first one (which in my opinion was pretty dire), I've really enjoyed them

BBC Proms 2026, not totally classical music but a marvellous collection of musical performances from a wide range of genres. So far I've really enjoyed the youth orchestra playing Berlioz, Evelyn Glennie percussion, Black Dyke band and evening of Miles Davies, another of choral music and orchestral pieces that were a first like Shostakovich 10th symphony written under the Stalin area and first heard in 1953.
The performances will stay live on BBC sounds app for a couple of months so I would urge you to scan the list and try a few. The app will allow you to 'hunt' forwards or backwards to pick a track.
 Tonight Sat 22/08 it's a few 'American Songbook' peaces with Angel Blue as soloist then a Dvorak symphony.

38 Special. I have their Greatest Hits album and none of them are iffy.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTK7fIgoVn8

@Skyline2uk

Yes that is a really good video - seen it before, the author has made a lot of top quality content

Thanks for sharing it though as I'm going to watch it again