https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c62348nw4yqo
as someone who was a Liverpool fan in my early interest in the game in the mid 1960s, this bloke was a legend….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spanish_EAV-8B_Harrier_II%2B_%22Cobra%22_(27448607244)_(cropped).jpg
Hawker Siddeley ((Harrier) Jump Jet.
i used to work in the Aircraft industry 30plus years ago - only admin, nothing exciting - and went to the Farnborough Air Show one year. Three of these...
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the thought occurs as to whether, from our current competition, we have a select band of people going off to play against Johnny Foreigner somewhere?
Personally I don’t have a problem in this area! Maybe I’m too woke. I’m longing to be arrested for inciting people to burn down an asylum seekers’ hotel.
We have a Prime Minister who is a former very effective head of the Crown Prosecution Service. I was talking to my brother-in-law, who has been a fairly senior bod in the CPS, at a family party last week who confirmed how good he was.
And Starmer has the sort of values which I hope will mean...
Except there’s a lot goes on after he dies, so it’s not “in the end”.
note - this is a statement of fact, not a misguided attempt at evangelism to the heathen hordes which inhabit this place! ;) :angel:;)
On the “books you think you should read theme……
10 years ago we were in a cottage in West Wales for Mrs DiS’s 60th birthday. There was a copy of Under Milk Wood on the coffee table and I thought maybe I should give it a go. I don’t like poetry, and I thought it was a poem. It’s not a poem, and...
I did the Woodlanders for O-Level - pre GCSE - in 1968/9 and loved it. Another book I loved, reading it for my degree course in French, was Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, but I can imagine plenty of others wouldn’t get very far…. Even in English.
the book recently that I started and didn’t...