Guess Who 19?  Even though you maybe can't name Guess Who 19 we guarantee that when he is named you'll know who he is.

ASTONISHER No.20:  When Abdulfattah Jandali managed a restaurant in Silicon Valley he was flattered to have Steve Jobs of Apple as a patron and on several occasions shook hands with him ... neither were aware they were father and son ... you'd think the genes would recognise each other wouldn't you?

12,634 of you visited last month and looked at a record 82,987 pages, thank you.

Guess Who 18?  Seemingly out of thin air Vlad the Imp gets it.

<blush>  Our pic of Truly Thumptious and son has been nominated by US website Derby Life for Most Derby photo 2011.

Why the web site font has changed and what you think of it.

ASTONISHER No.20:  It is illegal in Japan to ride a tandem on a public road ... except for the province of Nagano ... and since 2008 Hyougo ... and since 2009 Yamagata ... you get the picture?  Yes, we see.

That's nice, we've already gone over 11,000 visitors for the sixth month in a row ... might, just might, go over 12,000 again.

Have a good one ... see you on the other side ...

Fifth month in a row we've had 11,000+ visitors, ♥♥♥ you all.

Yes, it's Roy Plomley who in the 1940s devised and then presented Desert Island Discs for some 43 years, and it's still going on Radio 4 ... Radio 4? ... it's a radio station?  Just up from Radio 2 past Radio 3?  Radio 3?  Tell you what, let's forget it.

Guess Who 17?  Who's the bald bloke on the right?

October was the fourth month in a row we had over 11,000 visitors and we had almost 13,000 in August, thanks a lot you lovely ntcers.

ASTONISHER No.18:  BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders is the daughter of the late Michael Flanders who died when she was six ... yes, that's what we thought, what's Robert Peston's job then?  He's the business editor apparently.

  You lovely ntcers visited a record 80,541 pages last month.

ASTONISHER No.17:  Broadcast only in the Midlands area in 1977 news reader Angela Legs Rippon was the first presenter of Top Gear not Jezza and chums ... although it does feel like they've been doing it for ever ... we know but it's true.

Guess Who 15?  Haven't had one these for a bit, the girly in the middle?

We've gone over 12,000 visitors this month  , thank you every one of you.

Because of hyperactive spambots we are reluctantly blocking new registrations by hotmail and gmail email addresses on the bulletin board.

After just a handful of days Truly Thumptious and son has become our most viewed pic on Flickr.

A record 11,000+ visitors to this web site last month, perhaps it was our coverage of the Dunwich Dynamo?

12:10pm   near the coast and drastic plastic wobbling over.

10:20am  We're having problems accessing the admin for both the near the coast and drastic plastic bulletin boards, we suspect because a new software upgrade is swamping the phpBB server.  Expect things to be wobbly for a bit.

Yes I've paid my tax now ...

07:03pm  What's that Skip?  You don't know what oxymoron means?  Don't worry Skip, it's a self contradictory figure of speech ... like ethical banking, sports personality or technology centre.

Just slightly fewer visitors last month than the record 10,777 in April but a record 8.25Gigabytes of downloads.

ASTONISHER No.16:  Delicious Floella Benjamin who presented Play School and Play Away in the 1980s was made Baroness Benjamin of Beckenham last year and Chancellor of Exeter University in 2006 ... we know but it's true.

ASTONISHER No.15:  The great grandfather of actress the divine Helena Bonham Carter (we actually love her eyebrows more than Julianne Moore's nose) was prime minister Herbert Asquith, Britain's last Liberal pm ... we know but it's true.

Guess Who 14?  We think recognisable but then we know who it is and feel free to send us pix of bonny babies, sulky teenagers, whatever for Guess Who?

ASTONISHER No.14:  Lord Lucan's great-great-great-grandfather was the officer who told the Light Brigade to charge the wrong Russians ... we know but it's true.

In the end it was a record 10,261 visitors   this month, still feel a little like Sachin Tendulkar!  #ainttooproudtobeg

The truly green alternative to the iPod; no batteries, no USB, no mains adaptor, just wind it up and off it goes and on ebaY starting at just one penny!

Apologies if we seemed to have blitzed you with old(ish) sports cars, it's a prob on the server which we've fixed by giving it a wipe with a dirty J-cloth ... hopefully it'll hold.  (thanks Gosia)

8pm:  Probs with bulletin board fixed with a rusty Brillo pad.  (thanks SBB)

ASTONISHER No.13:  Just before Christmas 1960 legend Stanley Matthews played in a charity Tennis v Showbiz football match with his tennis player son.  Matthews was reprimanded by the FA for breaking reg 18a playing with or against unaffiliated clubs and signed an undertaking to never do it again ... we know but it's true.

Thankfully the Gentleman Plumber has finally put Guess Who 12 out of its agony, it's famous wart wearer and pretend bass guitarist Lemmy aged 3½ ... this is probably a bad idea but who are these two?

ASTONISHER No.12:  Israel qualified for the 1958 world cup without playing a game as the Arab countries in their group refused to meet them.  FIFA then ruled that to qualify Israel should play Wales (Belgium having declined) and consequently Welsh national manager (and assistant Man U manager) Jimmy Murphy was in Cardiff not Munich.  Scotland's first national (but still only part time) manager Matt Busby was in Munich and near death so the Scottish FA solved the problem by not sending a manager ... we know but it's true.

A warning to us all we think.

Guess Why No.1: Why are these men holding their hats like this in 1940 and New Mexico?

Guess Who 10?  Who's this policeman's son?