I'm usually more a metal fan so most of these names are totally unfamiliar to me; I've been to the festival before and love the vibe so will just be wandering around, and will definitely be seeing Elvana, New York Brass Band and Slipknowt, but any other tips on who to make sure I see?

was having a conversation with some friends and i bought up the word 'cheese log' when referring to a wood louse and they were all super confused on what the hell i was talking about. ended up googling it and apparently calling it a cheese log is something very specific to berkshire (where i've lived all my life) and lots of places in england have various different names for it. i had no idea. in my mind they've always been cheese logs. so, i'm wondering, what do you call them where you live? cheese log, wood louse, something else?

I hate my EEE feet! I want nice shoes and can rarely get them. Anyone have any recommendations that are not ridiculously expensive or for someone in their 90s?

We've seen 15 police motorbikes clearing the way for international cyclists.

Odd for a Wednesday morning.

Where are your friends from?

I just read a post about meeting up with old friends and it made me think about where we get our friends from.

We moved around a lot when I was younger so I only have one friend from childhood who I rarely meet up with but we make an effort to text on birthdays and show up for each other if we have events.

Then friends I had in 6th form who I thought I would be friends with forever, I never see.

Most of my friends I have now I met in uni and I have a couple from jobs I’ve worked in but we probably meet up every few months or so.

My much younger sister, in her 30’s (I’m mid 40’s), is still friends with her high school friends and they meet up almost weekly but we had stopped moving around by the time she went to high school so I feel like she had time to make better bonds. She doesn’t really keep in touch with her uni friends.

I’m interested to hear where everyone else’s friends have come from.

I'm properly deaf and even with my hearing aids I have very little high frequency in one ear and both ears are much reduced through the whole range so having a conversation with me without aids is tedious at best.

You don't wear hearing aids when sleeping.

So what do you hard of hearing folk do about alarm clocks?

I said; So what do you hard of hearing folk do about alarm clocks?

It has a lot to answer for. The birth of overly forced wackiness for a whole generation.

Did DJ Spoony on BBC Radio 2 just read out texts from Ben Dover and Phil McAvity and not realise that they were joke names?

Sure I heard it...

(I will be there when it launches)

It's like a cross between a docker's flat cap and a sleeping cap. Could never make heads or tails of it. Do they have long hair under there? Is it that they just got out of bed and are having their first cuppa? Why do they wear them in the desert?

My husband is turning 40 in December and he's not happy about it. And i have been struggling to think of what to get him. We were in the park with some friends yesterday and there was a little kid playing with a remote control car. It was super fast and doing some cool tricks and drifting in the dirt. My husbad, kind of jokingly was eying the toy up and saying he wanted one. Just looked them up and they're upwards of £65 so its a real present...Is that the perfect 40th birthday present? Or is it just a whimsicle idea in theory and he'll never use it...

Does anybody else have memories of completely inappropriate books being available in their school library?

I loved chess as a kid (I still play competitively now at county level) and so I withdrew every chess book from my Primary School library; after titles such as Chess for Children and the imaginatively titled sequel, More Chess for Children, I eventually borrowed How to Cheat at Chess.

It has since been described as the world's only pornographic chess book, it covers topics like assaulting your opponent, how to resist homosexual advances from your opponent and how to deal with invasive sexual fantasises when playing female opponents. The book was written in 1976 (It hasn't aged well...) but a copy was still to be found in my Primary School library in the early 1990s. Friends I have spoken to since recalled finding copies of Viz, Stephen King horrors and Mein Kampf in their school libraries.

At least, this was our experience last week.

Wahey, it's late, it's Tuesday night what's going on? Why are you still up? Being the family taxi driver? Too much cheese before bed?

Come on in for a chat.

Please share your garden visitors. Happy autumn.