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On the subject of sheep ... the farmer who featured at the beginning of the programme was called ... Mr Barr. In our house, he is remembered as the driver of the tractor that ran over our dog's grandmother.

Ah .. so that's what Pete, our local vicar has been up to.

"We want Falmer". What? Even perseus?

I've just checked ancestry.co.uk and discovered that there were TWENTY-FIVE boys called Glenn Murray who were born between 1948 and 1974. I can't believe that only one of them has survived.

... and have you ever seen the gentleman in the black kit knocking one out during a match? I haven't.

Keep things as they are. Take each post on its merits. If there's a need to moderate anything that is posted, it's pretty obvious. Hard and fast "rules" will only result in complaints that "we" are not moderating things properly.

I thought that the way trade unionism worked was that the rank and file were just a bunch of sheep who always followed the instructions laid down by the militant Marxist leadership. Apparently not. The members seem to have taken to acting in solidarity with each other, regardless of what the...

A take-over by the TSB would be worth considering, provided it allowed the retention of co-operative principles and ethical banking. I remember the establishment of the TSB, as a merger of a number of savings banks, such as the old Birmingham Municipal Bank, which was a model of how sensibly...

I've done my best. I trust it's OK to retain "16/17" in the title.

I was puzzled about why we lined up eleven players to defend our goal against a routine free kick. My reaction wasn't to clap Burton, but to think I was right to be critical of the defence.

Or park at Sussex University (next to the Sports Centre) and travel to and from the stadium coach park on the accessible minibus shuttle service. Just turn up and go ... No charge for the minibus journey. Best to arrange the car parking in advance, though.

I did once find a late fifteenth century edition of the Works of St Thomas Aquinas, printed in Bologna in the 1490s, when I was going through some archives in a library in Tuscany. The place was completely deserted and I had been lent the door key by the custodian, on the understanding that I...

Mothers, eh? My mum gave away (to a Scouts' jumble sale) a complete set of first edition 1950s Matchbox Toys, packed in the original "matchboxes" that they came in. If I remember rightly, they cost 1s 6d each when new and there were about seventy items in the complete set. The going rate for...

Make your mind up. Is it the parents who are causing the problem? Or the kids?

Ireland by 20 Wales by 3 Scotland by 7

Good work, Wozza. This is an essential read for all Albion supporters. Fans United was, for me, the day that it became possible to be optimistic about our future.

Kurt Angle

There was a well-known US publication that used to carry the slogan "ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS WE PRINT". I believe it was intended to be a joke.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38890090

What is this "tenure" of which you speak? Speakers stay in office for as long as they wish. The convention is that their re-election to parliament is not opposed by any of the major parties.