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On the balance of probability, no. We do have a decent chance though. We have the players to pull it off anything can happen in a one-off game. The utter tosh served up for 90% of the minutes before the semi means nothing now. My supercomputer says Spain have a 54.73% chance of lifting the...

I'm not long back from Crete and the screaming of swifts in Rethymno Old Town & castle was an unexpected treat

Nah, unsighted and past him like a bullet. I'm no fan of Pickford to say the least, but I reckon it would take a worldie save to keep that out

I was going to say exactly this. A woodpecker discovered a brood of bluetits in a nestbox in my garden, widened the hole to get in and took every chick in the nest. :( It took a few years for the tits to come back after I put a metal ring around the apperture to foil the woodpecker

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There's talk of Alisson heading to Saudi. With Slot at Anfield, the Dutch connection might make a bid for Verbruggen more likely? Pure speculation on my part, but it's logical enough.

We've got extra ventilation covered in the LBC application already made, so we are covering the bases there already. I am just hoping that (as per English Heritage advice) extra insulation does not require LBC so we can just push through the application as it is - every extra step seems to add...

That's probably the way we'll have to go. The amount of contradictory guidance and advice out there is crazy, but I'm going all in for English Heritage as their advice here suits me. As just mentioned above, there's very little of significance to the property except perhaps the windows, which...

Thank you. The listing mentions the windows as the feature of interest. To be honest, there's nothing particularly special about the property, so it would have been a borderline listing. Good point about planning/heritage and building control not communicating - the planning case officer and...

We definitely need LBC for the re-roofing. Heritage are currently mulling over whether to allow Canadian slates (c. £15k just for the slates) or insist on Welsh (like-for-like, but over £40k). Replacing some slates doesn't require consent, but an entire re-roof does according to multiple...

On 3 September 1991 a 49-year old man walked into the Wick and finding the man he sought sitting next to a 26-year old blonde, he fired a revolver at his head. The blonde had previously lived with the victim for four years but at that juncture was the assailant’s fiancée. The victim was taken to...

Greetings NSC hive mind! I am going around in circles on the government planning portal & internet in general, so I thought I would ask the great and good of NSC (who have never let me down before). Context: I live in a grade II listed house (yes, I know, there's my first mistake). It's a semi...

Cricket? Now you're talking! :lolol: I spent a day at the Oval in 2009 watching Stuart Broad dismantle the Aussies in the Ashes. What a day that was - proper Cricket rather than the t20 of course. It probably was that one, though I can't say I committed the race details to memory. I'm pretty...

It's funny how opinions differ... I was at Silverstone to watch what was apparently a very exciting race in about 2008 when Hamilton won in the wet. I was treated to free hospitality, so whilst an enjoyable day in some regards, I found the main reason to be there mind-numbingly dull. Cars...

Chris (quizmaster and landlord) can often be found at the Amex, even though he's an Oxford fan by accident of birth and a Liverpool fan by accident of age. Anna (landlady) is a Man U fan but other than that she's lovely. She used to work in the Biscuit Factory/The Wick in the early 2000s and...

Just the once: Feb '97, England vs Italy at Wembley. We lost 0-1. Zola scored. My mate wrote his car off driving us home. Pretty shit night all round really.

Definitely dodgy ground diagnosing from a sofa, but I don't mean any ill by it. Just an observation. It kind of comes with the territory that most of the greatest in whatever field you choose to pick are neurodivergent to some degree at least. The likes of Mozart and Beethoven were definitely...

Isn't that Verbruggen?

As inappropriate (and likely inaccurate) as it is, I'm going to say it anyway... I reckon he's got ADHD. I agree with comments above re his distribution and his England shelf life beyond Southgate. As good a shot stopper as he is, he's not the keeper you want in a team that builds from the back.

It's weird to have been really confident as we went to the pennos