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Finished H Is For Hawk by Helen MacDonald - very good, interesting read, even though I have no interest in birds of prey - it's all about the emotional attachment/impact of training the bird and dealing with grief. Now on Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household - a classic spy hunting novel. Gripping...

Bought my tickets a while back. Hoping the catering is good. If it pours with rain, I may not be in a good mood.

Pretty underwhelmed by the final line-up additions to Together The People (Suede, Peter Hook, Nathaniel Rateliff), although it's possible it's right up the street of others.

12. Didn't even break into a sweat.

Totally agree with this - there are inappropriate comments on that thread from a number of posters with different agendas. Censorship, if desirable, would require evenhandedness and objectivity rather than just cherry-picking those who are diametrically opposed to your views. Pointless and crass...

There's not much to do in Westmeston. I'll see your Westmeston and raise you Upmarden.

It's not easy going until you get into the rhythm of it. I've been a Thomas fan for a good long time - I think I'm drawn to tragic, doomed literary figures. I enjoy the tension in his writing between the idealization (to an extent) of the countryside and its working people and his sense of his...

I'm mellowing out to The South Country by Edward Thomas. I have I, Partridge lined up next. Mixing it up.

Rod Liddle gave me a mint last week when his team beat mine at the school quiz. He doesn't know his Wilfred Owen from his Siegfried Sassoon. His team only won because, for some bizarre reason, they'd bussed in the captain of the winning University Challenge team from Trinity College, Cambridge...

If we're talking about current BHA only, then Buzzer's list, plus JFC. Sidwell, if he comes back. If we're talking about ex-BHA players and loanees, well, that'd take some research. I'd chuck Dean Bowditch in there for starters though. Plus Joel Lynch and Alex Revell. Barnes, Bridcutt, Bennett...

6/10, but not terrifically disappointed. Got one or two wrong that seemed fairly obvious afterwards.

"Dan's a fantastic man! He really is. I was talking to him early and he asked me what kind of phone I had and I said a Motorola Timeport. And he said, 'that's saaad, you want to upgrade'. I said, so do you - to a new face. He nearly soiled himself! He said he was laughing so hard he had Kenco...

Re:Stacks - Bon Iver Teen Angst - M83 Something's Going To Come - Adem You Got The Love (Erens Bootleg Mix) - The Source Ft Candi Staton Atmosphere - Joy Division Actually, I could probably come up with another dozen - I quite easily cry at music/films/TV/football.

This is so sad. My eyes were moist and my voice was breaking up as I tried to read Calde's letter out to my children, then I read Bozza's post about Calde on the pitch and it was ten times worse. Calling somebody a "legend" is usually an overstatement in football; here, it doesn't do justice...

Pouilly Fumé - thanks for the memories. Three former players of the season going in a single day. They (plus GG, of course, and also AC) will not be forgotten. Cheers!

Right, I'm all on my own next week, so, if people are quick, I'm happy to arrange a new Summer Santa 2016 NSC CD. If you want in, please confirm by, oooh, 20:00 hours on Tuesday 24th May......

Dear BHA, thank you for a wonderful season. The football was great, the excitement and tension immense. However, what has set you apart this season is that, more than ever before, it feels like the club is regarded as a force for good in our community, supporting people and organisations in an...

All relevant quizzes updated for 2015/16 season, from players with shortest surnames, to goal ratios (what was the damage to Bobby's this season??), to most appearances in the 2010s. There are others. You can find them by searching on my username in Sporcle, or try this one to start you off. May...

I'm not actually using the same cut of the data, I'm sure you're right! Are you including play-offs, or not?

I'm updating all my quizzes later - I was wondering whether Bruno had overtaken Calde. Looks like he has. Back to the spreadsheets....