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WHERE THE PUN NEVER SETS Parishioner Tommy Koolberg: Back briefly, to pop-related shop nomenclature...Having been a regular visitor to Soho's Daddy Kool in the early 1980s, I was delighted to see,when driving through decidedly less cutting-edge Dagenham earlier today, the local bread and cake outlet glorying in the name Ma Bakers. Yes, without apostrophe. Any more Boney M-influenced emporia out there?

The Vicar adds: On those long winter evening at the Vicarage the talk often turns to whether in fact Boney M were the weirdest group ever to make the music of pop. Who else could claim to have taken songs about 30s gangsters, madmonks from the 19th century and the exile of the children of Israel into the top ten. And to have achieved this while wearing togas must only increase our respect. Parishioner Phil: Whilst passing through Herne Bay at the weekend I couldn't help but be drawn to 'Veggie Perrins'.

IT MUST HAVE SHRUNK Parishioner Carl Parker: A Peter Gabriel t-shirt from 1993? I still possess, but very rarely wear, a The Who Put The Boot In t-shirt purchased on June 12th 1977 at Swansea City football ground. Also on the bill were Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Little Feat, The Outlaws and Widowmaker. Not a bad day out. Lots of people sadly no longer with us - Moon, Entwhistle, Harvey, George and maybe a few others. As a fashion note, this t-shirt had the then fashionable "cap sleeves" which means in fact there was very little sleeve at all - nought but a very truncated bit of cloth that extended over the shoulder.

A fashion that thankfully died. Parishioner Skirky: Mrs Skirky regularly proudly sports my 1986 Neil Young Trans Tour T-shirt which has now achieved the unlikely status of 'retro chic’. Apparently. Parishioner Paul Vallis: Following on from Robin Coates' post about seeing a Peter Gabriel t-shirt at a cricket match, I feel I ought to inform your parishoners of an excellent place to go to see, or indeed to purchase, an amazing variety of old tour t-shirts: Africa. I backpacked my way through Eastern and Southern Africa for a year or so in the mid 1990's. Everywhere I went there were African kids wearing t-shirts of the likes of REM, AC/DC, Guns & Roses, pretty much every band that's ever been big enough to licence a merch deal in fact. Huge amounts of clothes donated to charity in the west are packaged up in immense bundles and shipped out to parts of Africa (and I assume other parts of the developing world) where they are sold cheaply in markets.

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