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It&aposs just a creative thing I enjoy messing about with.

Messing about in other people's elections is -- however awful -- not unheard of.

I just started messing about with motorbiking in the field or quad biking.

We're always messing about and playing, it's what we do most in there.

There was a lot of messing about with samples, cutting them up or whatever.

In this part of India, there&aposs no messing about when it comes to soccer.

"It was a fundamental sort of messing about with your own internal system," Dahl said.

"Now is not the time for messing about or egotism," the paper wrote in an editorial.

"This crowdfunding project was just the marketing team messing about," the executive said in the statement noted by Engadget.

Many in her party, including Alex Salmond, her predecessor, are demanding a new referendum now, and no messing about.

Dave, thankfully, is back at it again with a new track, "100M's," and he is absolutely not messing about.

The day before, I'd been randomly given some drug testing kits so we were messing about at mine with them.

It seems like you are dancing into some pretty tricky legal territory by messing about with the markets this way.

"Why are we messing about with this?" says professor Allan Pacey, a male fertility expert at the University of Sheffield.

He was a kid, messing about with computers for fun at a time when such activities were also in their infancy.

When you prove yourself more, and you're not messing about and getting involved in drugs or anything like that, you get privileges.

If Niantic's banhammer does come down on anyone messing about with Pokémon Go, it is likely to again be swift and merciless.

Farmers have benefited from NAFTA more than other industries, which is why they are now fighting hard against messing about with the treaty.

Though the Beatles were not the only group writing while high, messing about with tape decks and hiring orchestras, they were the most conspicuous.

" He dismisses the notion that his job is a sinecure, that he "sits around doing nothing, turning up for training, having a jolly, messing about.

English lessons spent doodling your crush's name on The Tempest or chemistry classes pretending to distill water but really just messing about with a Bunsen burger?

Florencia Kirchner, who also went by the online name "Florkey," posted images messing about with her friends, interviewed herself, and included backstage photographs of her mom's presidential inauguration.

Swane worked at Granada TV in Manchester, UK, and was filming in the makeup room when members of the band started messing about with her camera as they drank champagne.

People like Robert Zubrin, a prominent American evangelist for manned space flight, think that this time around there should be no namby-pamby messing about with tip-and-run missions like Apollo.

For example, you might have seen a video of builders with "superhuman tape measure skills" messing about on a construction site, opening doors and turning on light switches with their tape measures.

We're premiering her new video for "Evelyn" below, which is filmed by Sammy Rawal and sees many, many identical versions of Georgas messing about atop the TIFF Bell Lightbox building in Toronto.

The new picture-in-picture shortcut is a handy way of snapping a video from Vimeo into the corner of the screen and on top of everything else without messing about with window frames.

At the opening ceremony of a memorial dedicated to the roughly 250 people who died in last year's failed coup, Erdogan accused Brussels of "messing about" with Turkey's decades-long bid to join the bloc.

But the one thing it did above all was move its chess pieces to more interesting positions, significantly faster (all that messing about in Dorne notwithstanding), and with far less of a thunk as they landed.

Image: ZTEWith ZTE currently operating on a lifeline in the form of a temporary reprieve from the company's seven-year ban on purchasing components made by U.S. companies, there's absolutely no room for any sort of messing about.

"We need the government to stop messing about and get on with sorting out our long-term future on the basis that will allow us to strike up a harmonious relationship with our EU partners going forward," she said.

Read more ReadBut for me, after a few minutes of messing about, I felt quite comfortable with the S1's handling, and soon after was tearing down the halls of my office and generally annoying the crap out of my coworkers.

As author of "The Wind in the Willows," Grahame was the creator of the fictional Mole, a mild-mannered character beloved by children everywhere for messing about in boats, bumbling dimly into the Wild Wood and otherwise misadventuring with Ratty, Badger and Mr. Toad of Toad Hall.

These aren't just regular breakfast links, though: After spending several months messing about with the right recipe and talking to suppliers, Morand has developed a chipolata-style sausage that contains CBD (cannabidiol, the non-psychotropic active ingredient from the hemp plant), and he believes he's the only butcher in France who has weed-infused meats in his display cases.

In Perth, I have a lot of space and time and I can get in the mood to stretch out and luxuriate in some leisurely studio waffling....in New York City, where I am at right now, one has much less space, possibly less time, so I'm pretty gung-ho on being more minimal and no messing about when it is time to kick out the jams.

The video is a compilation of on-tour footage, including many live performances, Williams with his nephew, Williams on stage with his dad, and Williams messing about.

Ruttman's career as a published writer began at age 67, when he accompanied a friend from a Plymouth, Massachusetts rowing club to the World Pilot Gig Championships on the Isles of Scilly in the United Kingdom. His article about the event, "Row Hard No Excuses," was published as the cover story of the boating magazine Messing About in Boats.Ruttman, Larry (1999) "Row Hard No Excuses." Messing About in Boats, volume 16, issue 19, page 8.

The term is derived from the children's book "The Wind in the Willows", by Kenneth Grahame. In the story, Mole and Rat are rowing up the river in Rat's boat. They are discussing nautical things and life in general when Rat is heard to utter, > Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so > much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing... about > in boats — or with boats. In or out of ’em, it doesn't matter.

"Messing About With Masterpieces: New Work by Giambattista Piranesi (1720-1778)," Art in Print, Vol. 1 No. 1 (May-June 2011), p. 23 fn. 3. Its double ramp of stairs was designed by Michelangelo.

" In an interview for ClashMusic.com, Wyatt revealed their unexpected popularity, saying, "I don't think our project was that thought out when we started. We just wanted to make music together. Three people just messing about.

He is married to the columnist and interviewer Valerie Grove. He is also a magistrate. In Who's Who he gives his recreations as "playing tennis, messing about in a boat, learning the tango, walking the dog".

The next year, his article about the team's trip to the Dutch Open Gig Championships again made the magazine's cover.Ruttman, Larry (2000). "Row Hard, No Excuses II." Messing About in Boats, volume 17, issue 20, page 8.

Earlier in his career Cooke was a writer for the last series of the 1960s radio series Round the Horne and its short-lived successor Stop Messing About. He had much success in 2003-5 when he revived the format for a theatre tribute show, Round the Horne ... Revisited, which ran in the West End for 15 months and spawned three national tours. In 2004 it was made into a television film, with the original London cast, by BBC Four. Stop Messing About was also turned into a stage play in 2009.

"Of living belfry and rampart: On American literary magazines since 1950." TriQuarterly, Fall 1978. 43:6-27. In Plain Sight: Obsessions, Morals and Domestic Laughter. 1991. Moyer Bell. “Messing about in Boats: A Plan B Essay.” Ploughshares. 2011.

Retrieved 2018-07-02. His free relationship to the past may be summarized in a phrase of his that become a mantra: "col sporcar si trova"; "by messing about, one discovers".Lowe, Art in Print Vol. 1 No. 1, p. 14-15.

Prince Charming? Terrific, as always. And hey, that Marc Bolan tribute at the end more than sealed the deal ... there was no time for chit chat. Which, incidentally, pretty much sums up Adam's live performance these days: no chit chat and no messing about.

Lowe, Adam. "Messing About With Masterpieces: New Work by Giambattista Piranesi (1720-1778)," Art in Print Vol. 1 No. 1 (May-June 2011), p.17 The so-called "Hell Staircase" and its neighbour "The Heaven Room" has substantial ceiling paintings by Antonio Verrio, between 1697 and 1699.

Broadsword was featured on the Look at Life (film series) shown on BBC Four titled 'Britain on Film' Episode 2:6 Messing About on Boats. During the short clip, D31 is filmed from a trawler patrolling the fishing limits with Iceland at some time during the 1960s.

Since most people will never see the band play, unless the records themselves work there is no point to all the theatricality. But this lot are messing about with the concept of what makes a pop band. Their act isn't just a gimmick. We need more bands like them.

The design was eventually used on seagoing yachts from the 1960s. The waterways are lock-free. There are five bridges under which only small cruisers and smaller boats can pass. The area attracts all kinds of visitors, including ramblers, Artists, anglers, and birdwatchers as well as people "messing about in boats".

This idea was described in the September 2004 issue of the magazine National Fisherman, and again in 2007 as a series of essays published in the magazine Messing About in Boats. The project to build a prototype was authorised but was never developed on any significant commercial scale within Phil Bolger's lifetime.

Stop Messing About was a BBC radio series broadcast in 1969 and 1970. Forced by circumstance into being a follow-up to Round the Horne, it retained a number of key talents from the previous show, with Kenneth Williams as the new show's main star. It was rewritten for the stage in 2009.

The sudden death of Round the Horne star Kenneth Horne at the end of series four prompted a rewrite of the material intended for series five which then found its way into Stop Messing About alongside new sketches; Round the Horne writers Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke are therefore credited with series one of Stop Messing About, while series two, which was entirely original, was written by Myles Rudge. Stop Messing About was recast as a vehicle for Kenneth Williams, who on the day of the first transmission wrote in his diary that "It was mediocre and played to a half empty house ... Joan said 'Let's face it dear, our careers are in the ash can...'" Of a later edition, however, he wrote that "It went like a bomb. I was very pleased with the marvellous reception ... and it's a triumph in the face of the terrible adversity of KH's death."The Kenneth Williams Diaries (HarperCollins 1993), entries dated 17 March 1969 and 14 April 1969 The title was a catchphrase coined for Williams by Galton and Simpson back in the days of Hancock's Half Hour.

I think they'd make a really good couple. That would be cool. Fatboy may be young, but he's got an old soul and he's not just some young boy messing about. There is potential there if Denise could see it, but because of the age thing, I think she might worry that people were saying things about her.

Sims appeared in 24 Carry On films in all; she did not return for the one-off revival film, Carry On Columbus (1992). However, she did appear alongside Kenneth Williams in the radio show Stop Messing About in 1969–70. Prior to this she had worked on the BBC Radio comedy Play it Cool with Hugh Paddick and Ian Carmichael.

Content with messing about in the military, Winters soon becomes disenchanted with the army, takes part in a brutal beating of another soldier and goes AWOL. Before running off, the viewer witnesses his indecision to take the gun his older brother gave him. The gun which sent him to prison. His own internal battle with right and wrong is what drives the film.

Cleveland believes his arriving has upset the family and caused tension. He can understand Charlotte's unease due to her psychic connection, but not that of the others. Johnnie comes into the house, fingers stained, and sits down to breakfast. Cleveland glances at the stained hands. Johnnie explains that he is always messing about with chemicals, much to his father’s dismay.

Two of these albums went Gold in Canada. Millar has published two books, Children of the Unicorn (published by McClelland and Stewart) and Messing About in Boats (published by Whitecap Publishers). The latter made it to the top ten in The Globe and Mail's non-fiction list. Today Millar's Art hangs in many Galleries across Canada and also back in Ireland.

As a child, Keoghan appeared in school plays, but was banned for "messing about". He started his acting career in 2011. He answered an advertisement for Between the Canals after seeing a casting notice in a local shop window, and portrayed Aido in a small role in the film, which was released in 2011. He then studied acting at The Factory, a local Dublin school.

Cooper gained a great deal of writing inspiration from the coast and scenery, and her other interests included music, folklore, cooking, gardening and "messing about on the beach". She was treasurer of her local Lifeboat station; she and her husband both sang with the shanty group Falmouth Shout. Cooper died aged 57 of a brain haemorrhage on 21 October 2009. Her husband survives her.

Despite his effervescent manner, Singh was more substantial than he appeared. He was great in a crisis, when he stopped messing about and focused. He was heavily into IT and gifted at the technological side of intelligence- based policing. Coming from Barton Street, he had built up an eclectic and sizeable portfolio of contacts with the local youth and ethnic community, on which Meadows often depended.

There was no concept or theme running through the album; we were just messing about in the studio. Part of the charm of that album is a naivety. There really wasn't a profound concept that was running through the recording. I didn't really know what I was doing in the studio and Alison hadn't much experience of being in a recording studio, so everything was new.

By 24 February 1969 it had been decided that Round the Horne could not continue without its star. As a result, the scripts for series five – which Horne had jokingly suggested should be subtitled "The First All-Nude Radio Show" – were hastily adapted into a new series for Williams called Stop Messing About, which ran for two series before it was dropped from the schedule in 1970.

His nasal, whiny, camp-cockney inflections (epitomised in his "Stop messing about ... !" catchphrase) became popular with listeners. Despite the success and recognition the show brought him, Williams considered theatre, film and television to be superior forms of entertainment. In 1955 he appeared in Orson Welles's London stage production Moby Dick—Rehearsed. The pair fell out after Williams became annoyed with Welles's habit of continually changing the script.

The Caffe degli Inglesi opened several years later, at the foot of the Spanish Steps in Piazza di Spagna, with wall paintings by Piranesi. With his own print workshop and museo of antiquities nearby, Piranesi was able to cultivate relationships in both places with wealthy buyers on the tour, particularly English.Lowe, Adam. "Messing About With Masterpieces: New Work by Giambattista Piranesi (1720-1778)," Art in Print Vol. 1 No. 1 (May–June 2011), p.

In March, Radio-One breakfast presenter, Mark Radcliffe, chose the single, "Ginger", written by Georgeson and Foster, as his record of the week. Radcliffe said, 'Initially I was intrigued by the look of them, by the name, by the image. Then I heard some really good songs...Unless the records themselves work there is no point to all the theatricality. But this lot are messing about with the concept of what makes a pop band.

With the arrival of spring and fine weather outside, Mole loses patience with spring cleaning ("Spring"). He flees his underground home, emerging to take in the air and ends up at the river, which he has never seen before. Here he meets Rat (a water vole), who at this time of year spends all his days in, on and close by the river. Rat takes Mole for a ride in his rowing boat ("Messing About in a Boat").

Austin warns Lee that he needs to be careful with messing about with this line of work and that he has a lot at stake on his own project. The scene ends with Austin threatening to leave and go to the desert as Lee tries to calm him down. Austin confronts Saul about his decision to buy Lee's screenplay. He argues that Saul only offered to buy the screenplay because he lost a bet on the golf course.

The film focuses on the soldiers in their cantonments away from the battlefield, where they spend the bulk of their time playing cards, smoking, drinking beer, nursing their tinea, making jokes and messing about with American forces. The film also contains some small scale battle scenes. When the men return to Australia, they reflect on how both they and the general Australian society have changed. The film was sold to several countries including the US, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway and Greece.

McRae in 1966 Josh MacRae (17 July 1933 – 1977) was a Scottish folk singer. His actual name was Iain Macrae, but he called himself Josh after the blues musician Josh White. He was signed to Pye Records in 1960, and three of his singles reached a peak of no. 15 on the Record Mirror chart; "Talking Army Blues" in July 1960, "Wild Side of Life" in December 1960 and "Messing About on the River" (written by Tony Hatch under the pseudonym Mark Anthony) in February 1961.

Hodgkinson was born in Somerset but grew up in a village on the estuary of the River Blackwater in Essex. Hodgkinson associates her memories of childhood with "shingle beaches and mudflats, grey-green heather, salt marshes, messing about in boats, gangs of rowdy kids playing all day along the sea-walls, and the ever-present cries of seagulls".Amanda Hodgkinson: About Amandahodgkinson.com. Retrieved 12 November 2015 Later, Hodgkinson moved to Suffolk, where she took an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

He recorded the album on a Saturday morning utilising the inventive set-up he discovered with his oscillator; he later explained of the production: "I just wired it all up and started messing about, changing the speed and the pitch, and built up this thing." He subsequently added echo and other effects until he reached the desired effect. The album was directly influenced by Tangerine Dream and Cluster. Shelley commented: "I used to listen to John Peel, he was always playing a whole side of Phaedra and stuff like that".

According to Annie Zaleski of The A.V. Club, each piece would be "whisked away" to Dravs "straightaway" for studio "tinkering" after the initial jamming process. Bassist Jim Glennie recalled that "it was a bit of a production line: We’d jam, those would go over to Markus to start properly messing about with. I think Brian was happy for us to be actively involved in that process, to try and keep it away from the main studio." Booth was then left to come up with lyrics, but many of the tracks ultimately remained instrumentals or had soundbites rather than coherent structured lyrics.

From the 1990s, Phil Bolger teamed with his wife Susanne Altenburger, designing boats under the name Phil Bolger & Friends Inc. During this time, they emphasized the design of sustainable and fuel-efficient boats for the fishing industry. Also, they participated in a large military commission with the Naval Sea Systems Command on new designs for military landing craft utility boats. Bolger was a prolific writer and wrote many books, the last being Boats with an Open Mind, as well as hundreds of magazine articles on small craft designs, chiefly in Woodenboat, Small Boat Journal and Messing About in Boats.

Forty years after the original broadcasts, Stop Messing About was rewritten for the stage, making an initial appearance at the Rose Theatre, Kingston in January 2009. The production was restaged in the West End at the Leicester Square Theatre in April, running for six weeks. The stage show, penned by Brian Cooke and directed by Michael Kingsbury, was based on selected material from the original radio show alongside a majority of material written by Mortimer and Cooke for other shows. It starred Robin Sebastian as Kenneth Williams, Nigel Harrison as Hugh Paddick, Charles Armstrong as Douglas Smith and Emma Atkins as Joan Sims.

By 24 February 1969 it had been decided that Round the Horne could not continue without its star. As a result, the scripts for Series Five (which Horne had jokingly suggested should be subtitled 'The First All-Nude Radio Show') were hastily adapted into a new series for Kenneth Williams called Stop Messing About, which ran for two series but was widely judged a failure and discontinued in 1970. On the first day of recording the new show, Williams wrote in his diary that "I miss [Horne] dreadfully. I could weep for all that goodness gone from our atmosphere at the show".

Other songs written by Rudge were recorded by Topol, Val Doonican, Matt Monro, Joan Sims, Jim Dale and Petula Clark. Rudge wrote several scripts for BBC television in the 1960s, including scripts for the soap opera Compact. He also wrote two series of Stop Messing About (1969), a follow-on radio comedy to Round the Horne with Kenneth Williams, and (with Ronnie Wolfe) three series of Something to Shout About (1960–62), a BBC radio sitcom set in an advertising agency. With Vince Powell, he co-wrote a religious sitcom Father Charlie (1982), starring Lionel Jeffries and Anna Quayle.

The > figures in this boat were those of a strong man with ragged grizzled hair > and a sun-browned face, and a girl of nineteen or twenty. The girl rowed, > pulling a pair of sculls very easily; the man with the rudder-lines slack in > his hands, and his hands loose in his waisteband, kept an eager look-out. Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, written in 1908, is set in the middle to upper reaches of the river. It starts as a tale of anthropomorphic characters "simply messing about in boats" but develops into a more complex story combining elements of mysticism with adventure and reflection on Edwardian society.

One of his major investments has not been doing well recently but the other has been making up for it. John has been to university but has no specials skills, other than messing about with motor cars, and expects to become an MP. His courtship with Sidney had been only for three months and during that time he had not discovered that her political opinions were very different from his; he is a Conservative; she is a left-wing suffragette. They argue, and she is determined to have a life of her own, despite John’s strong objections. A year later, Edgar’s other investment has failed and he is a ruined man.

In August, Tesco's financial management had announced that the firm's half-year dividend would be cut by 75% and full-year profits would be in the region of £2.4bn to £2.5bn, less than its previous revenue estimate of £2.8bn, and already £0.5bn down on last year's £3.3bn reported corporate profits. The Serious Fraud Office launched a formal criminal probe into the auditing and accounting practices in mid 2014 and the Financial Reporting Council in December 2014. The US brokers JP Morgan claimed that the fiscal 'hole' in Tesco's accounts could be even worse than expected. The FRC decided to investigate auditor PwC for allegedly maliciously messing about with Tesco's accounts.

Nevertheless, he warned his son to be more careful in future when "messing about with those bloody chemicals". On Easter Saturday, 21 April 1962, Young's stepmother, Molly, died from poisoning and shortly afterwards his father became seriously ill and was taken to hospital where he was told that he was suffering from antimony poisoning and one more dose would have killed him. Young's aunt, who knew of his fascination with chemistry and poisons, became suspicious, as did his science teacher (Mr Hughes) who discovered several bottles of poison in Young's desk and spoke to the school's headmaster about his concerns. Young was sent to a psychiatrist, who recommended contacting the police.

The Chorus then resumes its appearance as clouds, promising divine favours if the audience punishes Cleon for corruption and rebuking Athenians for messing about with the calendar, since this has put Athens out of step with the moon. Socrates returns to the stage in a huff, protesting against the ineptitude of his new elderly student. He summons Strepsiades outside and attempts further lessons, including a form of meditative incubation in which the old man lies under a blanket while thoughts are supposed to arise in his mind naturally. The incubation results in Strepsiades masturbating under the blanket and finally Socrates refuses to have anything more to do with him.

This includes what hacker slang calls "script kiddies", people breaking into computers using programs written by others, with very little knowledge about the way they work. This usage has become so predominant that the general public is largely unaware that different meanings exist. While the self- designation of hobbyists as hackers is generally acknowledged and accepted by computer security hackers, people from the programming subculture consider the computer intrusion related usage incorrect, and emphasize the difference between the two by calling security breakers "crackers" (analogous to a safecracker). The controversy is usually based on the assertion that the term originally meant someone messing about with something in a positive sense, that is, using playful cleverness to achieve a goal.

Charlton also highlights that the teenage Gascoigne showed early signs of being a prankster, explaining on one occasion how Gascoigne tied Glenn Roeder's bootlaces together and how Roeder then stormed into Charlton's office and told Charlton that if he "did not stop one fat sixteen-year-old apprentice messing about" that he was "going to chin the lad." Charlton even warned him to stop messing with the senior pros, even suggesting to Gascoigne he may release him. Charlton noted this did not stop him, and Gascoigne was never caught again as his future pranks got a little cuter following being confronted by Charlton and his staff. Charlton also noted that Gascoigne's personality was never vindictive.

The episode begins with gay lawyer Will Truman (Eric McCormack) talking on the phone with his best friend, heterosexual Jewish interior designer Grace Adler (Debra Messing), about their lives. The following day, Will hosts a poker game at his apartment with his friends, when Grace arrives and informs Will she just had an argument with her long-term boyfriend, Danny. After the game is over, Will insists that Grace spend the night--much to the displeasure of Will's flamboyantly gay friend, Jack McFarland (Sean Hayes), who was planning to move in with Will temporarily. Later at her office, Grace Adler Designs, Grace tells her socialite assistant Karen Walker (Megan Mullally) about her argument with Danny.

He moved back to Berkshire, where he had lived as a child, and spent his time by the River Thames, doing much as the animal characters in his book do – to quote, "simply messing about in boats" – and expanding the bedtime stories he had earlier told his son Alastair into a manuscript for the book. The novel was in its 31st printing when playwright A. A. Milne adapted part of it for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall in 1929. In 1949, the first film adaptation was produced by Walt Disney as one of two segments in the package film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. In 2003 The Wind in the Willows was listed at #16 in the BBC's survey The Big Read.

As Mark Anthony, Hatch continued to write songs for Pye artists, including "Messing About on the River" for Josh MacRae. In 1963, Philadelphia teen idol Bobby Rydell hit the charts with "Forget Him" written and produced by Hatch (still writing as Mark Anthony); Hatch produced, arranged and wrote for other American stars such as Chubby Checker, Connie Francis, Pat Boone, Big Dee Irwin and Keely Smith. In 1964 he wrote (under the pseudonym of Fred Nightingale) the Searchers' hit "Sugar and Spice". By mid-1964, Hatch finally began using his own name as a composer regularly, with Tony Hatch being the credited composer of many of Petula Clark's biggest mid-1960s hits, including "Downtown", "I Know a Place", and "Sign of the Times", among others.

In a Q&A; session with the BBC's Last Choir Standing website, Ansell gave his views on the benefits of being part of a choir: "People see choirs on stage and predominantly it looks quite square... but off stage that's where all the fun happens – in rehearsals, messing about, lunch breaks, interacting with new people. That, for me, is what choirs are all about – having that fun both on and off stage." Jonathan made a guest appearance on Last Choir Standing (Results Show) on 3 August 2008 performing "Barcelona". On Sunday, 17 August 2008, Ansell participated in the tribute concert Lyrics by Don Black which was held at the London Palladium featuring performances of Black's songs by a selection of guest artists.

The former contains a sample of a sound that Rutherford achieved as he was "messing about bending two notes" that Banks had recorded from a microphone on his E-mu Emulator which he then sampled and slowed down, creating a noise he compared to an elephant's trumpeting. The ten-minute "Driving The Last Spike" is about 19th-century Irish navvies who helped built the railways in the UK, and the poor and unsafe working conditions they had to endure. Collins wrote it after being given a book on the subject by a correspondent who sought to produce a television show about it. Banks used a Hammond organ patch on the track, which referenced his prominent use of the instrument early in Genesis' career.

The band toured intensely throughout 1974 - touring the UK 3 times over the course of the year. 1974 also saw the band embark on a 22 date US Tour through June and July in support of Steely Dan, The Beach Boys, The James Gang and The Guess Who, followed by a 43 date US tour in support of Elton John for his Greatest Hits Tour. This tour included 4 nights at the Los Angeles Forum and 2 nights at Madison Square Gardens in New York as well as other stadium venues around the USA. The Kiki Dee Band travelled alongside Elton John's entourage in The Starship, the renovated Boeing 720-022 private jet used by Led Zeppelin for their 1975 US Tour: > “No more messing about at airports this was first class all the way.

Douglas Arthur SmithEngland & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (11 February 1924 – 15 October 1972) was a British radio announcer and comedian who spent 25 years with the BBC. He began his broadcasting career with the BBC European Service (now the World Service) in 1946 and later worked as an announcer and newsreader on the Home Service and the Third Programme. He is perhaps best known as the formal announcer on Beyond Our Ken (1958–1964), its more famous successor Round the Horne (1965–1968) and the short-lived Stop Messing About (1969–1970), where his "BBC accent" was used to comic effect. Listeners remember him for advertising Dobbiroids (a fictional product for horses) and the huge number of naïve sound effects he made to assist in the development of humorous and often bizarre plots.

Arriving at the dental surgery of Mr. A. M. Peggit in the nick of time, Bean parks out front, forcing the blue Reliant out of the only parking space. A traffic warden then appears, prepares to ticket the Reliant and makes Bean notice that a part of his pyjamas is sticking out of his trousers, forcing him to remove it and toss it in his car window. Once inside the waiting room, he can't find anything good to read other than a Batman comic book in the hands of a young boy who refuses to share the book, and tricks the boy's mother into thinking he has wet himself by pouring water from a vase onto his lap in order to get the comic – only to find he has no time to read it as the dentist is now ready to see him. Inside with Mr. Peggit, Bean causes mayhem behind the dentist's back, adjusting the dental chair to unusual positions and messing about with some of the equipment.