Loved Mondo’s posts – fascinating stuff for someone in my line of work!

I was thinking that an ‘egg-hon’ sounded interesting Piley. Although a bit too sweet potentially? I’ve never actually had an egg-nog. It does sound… eggy. But again, I’m sure it has no taste and is just there for texture.

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If you were once the man doing amusing things with his tie F-C, then I am also glad that you’re 43.

BLTP. you can leave out the egg white. It’s just there for viscosity and ponceyness. Works perfectly fine without. And, if I remember correctly, aren’t you a fan of advocaat?!

I’m glad to be 43.

And it works on all levels looking at my brothers bookshelf and record collection for the first time, was like looking at a mirror of my own – when we go out to eat out we’ll both order the same thing without consulting each other – purely based on taste. Even silly stuff like the Geordie accent – which grates on both of us..or my other brother and I will turn up wearing the same thing

So there’s a ton of shared commonality yet we grew up at opposite ends of the country with completley different upbringings and parenting – so would guess it could only be preprogrammed preferences somewhere in the DNA

PS – I also found out I had cousin who’s a bass player, and complete comics and music nutter too…

It must have been fabulous, not to mention strange, when you all unravelled these connections. Do you have anything else in common? Any strangely similar tastes in food or anything?

The basic’s of the genetics/music story touched on in the last post is:
I grew up without knowing about my two half brothers (I was adopted age 2 weeks) and never had any contact with any birth family until five years ago. I discovered them via Friends Reunited and a site I think called 1847.com – it turns out we are all complete music nutters. Nothing in unusual in that perhaps. But the difference is in the detail. After making contact I would regulary regularly hear from one brother DJ and Electro fan that he’d both recently bought some obscurity/oddity of an elctro, new wave, punk soundtrack CD or single at the same time as me, or we’d both be on a buzz for some piece of randomness (film, book, artist) independently of each other.

While my other brother is more guitar based, and found before meeting, we had dressed the same – and when buying a new acoustic had whittled it down the same choice of two specific make/models – he bought one I bought the other..

Further to this my two mini-mondos were both given names, that I’ve that found out since from that side of the family, have been handed down through generations going back about four centuries..

Bizarrely one brother (the DJ one) lived half a mile away from where I was working at the time I found him, and both used to go to Spitalfields record mkt a long before we ever made contact. It’s not unlikely would have been there at the same time..