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The reason Porto Santo worked well is that the Portuguese school holidays work on different dates to ours, so it was abnormally quiet/cheap. And there's no such word as "can't", unless it's what she'll call me when I don't get her a good spring holiday...

Getting her to go on the new cable car in Calhau was an achievement, as was getting her on a quad bike on Porto Santo... the wicker sled would have been a step too far!

No. Less than a week and a couple of grand max... in half term too so needs to be unpopular!

Any suggestions for good viewing points? i.e. easy parking sitting by the road nearby good food/boozers not as busy as their suggested viewing spots etc Thanks!

Just got back from a five day break in Madeira/Porto Santo, a surprise holiday for Mrs ExKT17. Really good, feels like we've been away for a fortnight. Problem is, she now expects another surprise holiday in spring half term and, having set the bar quite high, I'm scraping for ideas for a left...

Not from where I'm reading their news, overseas, I don't know how their ?filters work

I'm overseas at the moment and BBC World News is reporting his death high up its news agenda. On checking the London BBC news feeds they hardly seem to acknowledge the story, how disgraceful. Kid from Dorset goes to fight ISIS/daesh because he believes it is the right thing to do, fights for...

A hero, say I. Had he come home alive he would have been taken in, questioned and possibly prosecuted and imprisoned. To me he's a hero, as are the Kurds he fought alongside. RIP Jac Holmes, I salute you. M

I don't know who ryeats is but he/she posted this as a comment on the Guardian, apologies if this has already been quoted, but hey, deserves a repeat! This was not Sky’s finest moment. The pre-match ‘story,’known in the business as ’the line’ (or ‘angle) was: Wesh Ham, great club, great...

I'm getting the feeling that being beaten by Brighton is seen, by other PL teams/fans, as unacceptable. Or even drawing with us. How disrespectful! How brilliant for us to pin on the dressing room wall! F... them!

One Chris Hughton - There's only one Chris Hughton etc ?

Deep, deep joy! Wish I could have been there, what a night! What support, what performances! What a testimony to CH's genius! I feel sorry for Bilic, I think he's a good manager and a good man - but he's just run out of momentum, perhaps. Deep joy!!!

I had three of my wisdom teeth out 30-ish years ago, under a newly qualified dentist, on the NHS. At the time I was advised to avoid a general anaesthetic, on the basis that with a local anaesthetic the dentist was more likely to take care, be less brutal. It hurt but he did a good job...

In the first half Rooney was well tackled and dispossessed of the ball three times and he was not at all happy about it. From then on he resolved that as soon as one of our players came close he would go down like a sack of spuds, and the referee seemed complicit in rewarding him for doing so...

FWIW I thought Solly put in a hell of a shift today, but when IZQ and Izzy came on we were like a different team. I think CH likes to stick with a starting 11 but I'd be really tempted to start IZQ and Izzy and have Solly and Murray on the bench vs West Ham.

Putting today's heartbreak behind oneself, is anyone else enjoying this drama series, showing on BBC2 (Sundays at 10.00pm)? There's been little if any prior publicity about it, and it's only in episode 2/10 but IMO it's a belter... US made story about the birth of crack cocaine and gritty...

Aware this might not get a massive response... ...but I just caught the end of the PL exhibition at Hull University; it revealed an unremarkable life whose protagonist produced a very small canon of [marvellous] poetry. What he did write spoke to the hearts of Brits like him, didn't it? 'On...

Article on BBC Entertainment. They nominate as "Epic song intros" The Temptations: Papa Was A Rolling Stone - two minutes of pure groove, even in the three-and-a-half minute single edit U2: Where the Streets Have No Name - 1:18 of atmospheric guitar before Bono butts in Dire Straits: Money For...

Dean Hammond was 'brackets' - whenever he got the ball we made a negative gain of ground

Club says only 50% of cards have been mailed as of this afternoon.