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Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle is one hell of an opera - goes into a lot of gory detail about the very specific character.

I was in Worthing yesterday and was impressed with a shop that sold pies - and very little else. A nice bit of scran while we waited for our dog to be allowed to leave the vets

Simon's a great character - never seen one of his presentations that wasn't enlightening and humorous. He's not the first person that comes to mind when it comes to fertility rates though but he's a whizz on business strategy.

This is a timely thread. Have just got back from the vets having found that they're not able to operate on Flora's tumour. She's had a biopsy and we're waiting to see what our options are but it doesn't look good. She's only 11 years old, not ancient for a dog but we may have to make the dreaded...

I learned a lot of Irish history from Christy Moore songs And all about Maximus (Macsen) from Dafydd Iwan's Ymo o Hyd

This is the crucial point. Pensions are paid by current workers (not by pensioners' own NI contributions, as so many seem to think). There are three paths forward: a massive increase in immigration - and good luck to the party that suggests that; the abolition of the old age pension - so fund...

There's the option of Veltman at CB though, he's played there before. He looked very exposed at FB yesterday. I think that JP and Igor will still play there but Fab does have other choices.

Are we sure that this is 1902? Goalies didn't wear different tops from the rest of the team until 1909. It could be the colourisation but surely they wouldn't put all white on a halved top?

Some more tickets have gone back on sale if anyone's still looking

I'm not sure why they didn't allocate some to clubs in the first place. Our girls would have loved to have sat together but they're going to be scattered now.

Or clubs buying them. Three people from our club have been buying blocks of them so all our age group is covered.

Got my tickets. Eng v Aus seems to have limited availability already

The two games are England v Australia and Ireland v New Zealand. You couldn't wish for better group games. England will be a sell-out and the Ireland/Black Ferns will be pretty full as well. Tickets on sale today - I'm pretty excited about this

Or the ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal had invaded the board

I must say that, despite being a keen cook, I hardly ever watch cookery programmes on TV. I am, however, a big fan of You Tube and Instagram cooking channels and can watch them all night. Some middle-aged blokes spend their screen time watching porn, I get my rocks off on vegetarian videos...

I don't normally remember what day celebrities (using the term loosely) die but that one was a vivid memory. There's all sorts of confusion as to where he got the drugs from - as often with addicts, he's hard to know what's reality and what's not. His mum was certainly known to have supplied...

Nah, he's been 45 years already. He died in February 1979, I remember the date well as it was my dad's birthday (Nancy died in October though, but in 1978)

Is that a euphemism? :lolol:

Damn, I had the Leicester and Villa matches pencilled in and I'm not sure I can make either now. And I won't get to the Palace match if it's on Sunday either. What a crap month

There are actually five British managers in the PL (Smug Eddie, Dyche, Martin, Cooper and McKenna - although only three English ones). Plenty of choice