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I hear you loud and clear.

The two happiest days of a boat-owners life: the day you buy it, and the day you sell it.

Looked through the catalogue before the game and thought the prices were ridiculously high.

Oh? It’s my memory you see. Or - I was being a bad fan on those occasions...

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing - Lewis standing over a direct free kick at a good distance for a shot on goal. Alone. Potter didn’t want Everton to be in any doubt about who was going to take it. They really must have thought WTAF? Decent effort too - would have loved it, just loved it...

Core by Clare Smyth 2* - Notting Hill (again) “I’m a little worried”, said the GLDHI. “Oh?”, I responded in my most wary manner. “Would you like to know why?” “Umm. It’s hard to say in advance. Would I?” “I’m just hoping that you’re not disappointed” “Why would I be disappointed? I thought it...

I’ve got Nest. Works perfectly - can change settings over wifi or a mobile signal. No monthly charge.

Ticket site up to its usual malarkey - straight on, selected 4 specific seats for the Arse and two for the Scousers, paid for them, and have the confirmation emails - all in 5 minutes. Shambles. #BarberOut

I reckon Duffy’s got the loudest voice, so he’s probably the best.

The #1 restaurant in Colchester according to TA is the student-cheffed “Balkerne” at the Colchester Institute. I fear that might tell you all you need to know...

Any idea where the men got the other 20% from? What?

I had practically no prior knowledge of Lake District restaurants prior to this trip, but the limited experience I’ve gained over the last few days would absolutely support your view.

Had my younger daughter over for dinner, and we had a very good SA Chenin (On Reflection), and a bottle of 2000 Cos (still significantly too early imo - will try another bottle in 3 years).

I was rather hoping I’d get away without talking about the food, but since you ask... we got there about 30 mins before our table and had the smoked duck chipolatas and pork scratchings with a pint of Mad Pig (geddit?) and a G&T in the bar area. The chipolatas were fine, but not very smokey...

The Wild Boar - Crook, Cumbria Dreadful. Avoid. Two mitigations though - both involving fellow diners. The first was a conversation between me and a couple. On my way back to the bar area prior to our “meal”, I was stopped by the woman: “Would you mind stopping?” “Sure” Pause. Silence. She...

Concorde?

Did William black up too then?

Gilpin Spice - Gilpin, Cumbria One of two restaurants at a hotel - the other being HRiSHi, a 1* star place run by the same chef. Spice is a pan Asian place - satay, laksa, tikka, thai; you know the sort of place. The space is modern and tries too hard to impress, though we did like the...

The Punch Bowl - Crosthwaite, Cumbria The restaurant area has a series of 12 pictures hanging on the walls, each representing a month of the year, arranged in a chronological fashion going clockwise. Chronological except that February and March were reversed. The GLDHI and I passed a little...

V glad you liked it. We’ve only eaten there once, a situation we’ll have to remedy. I can’t think of anywhere I’d rather select a bottle of Champagne - an extraordinary selection and all very fairly priced, as you say.