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Awful news. Not only a great sportsman but a very engaging and knowledgable presenter (a sort of anti-Danny Murphy)

Give 'em Enough Rope by The Clash LA Woman by The Doors Setting Sons by The Jam Help by The Beatles Depending on where I am or how I'm feeling

This ! "Check all CCTV for a young woman in a blue jacket" 10 minutes later, "got her, boss"

My Mrs got called up when our son was a month old. She rang to ask what to do and they just said "Oh we'll cancel it then". Never heard from them again. As a magistrate I sat on dozens of trials but I still wouldn't mind doing a more serious one at Crown Court.

15p ! I get 71.85p (and that's whether I use the electric or not)

Pirate bay innit ?

3 hours in the machine. I can put one together while the kettle's boiling for a nice cup of tea

Made a loaf in the breadmaker last night. It used 0.7kW/h of electric so cost about 15p. 500g of flour is about 45p , yeast 18p. a few p for the salt, sugar, milk powder, olive oil. So a large (800g) loaf costs me about 80p, about half what it costs in the shop.

I hired a Nissan Micra on holiday and quite liked it so I looked at the cost of one compared to a cheap EV. Set a budget of 10K. I can get a 2017 Micra for that, or a 2020 Renault Zoe for £8.5 ! Given that, I might bring forward my EV purchase to next year.

Next time I make a loaf in the breadmaker (probly thursday) I'll use a power monitor and report back how much it costs.

I've been forced to sit through all the Harry Potter films and, IMO, they're all bollocks.

We've overwintered chilli plants with varying degrees of success. You need to cut it right back so there's just a stalk. Keep in indoors on a south-facing windowsill if you can. Water every couple of weeks, soil should be moist but not damp. I've grown six paper lantern plants this year and...

Or going a bit Paisley underground...

I get it from time to time, its made worse by hearing aids. I usually have a few days of Otex ear drops to soften it up then blast it with a syringe full of warm water. Might not be the recomended method these days but I wasn't shot and killed in three world wars in order to pander to some...

Started at Amex in '79 and Friday lunchtimes were in the Thurlow, no exceptions. The fact that most of us were under age was irrelevant in those days. Went to work at BT in '84 and Friday lunchtimes were in the Green Dragon. Sometimes we went back to work. After the '87 hurricane I was working...

A mate and I were planning a trip to Chernobyl/Pripyat (as well as a decent military aircraft museum and ICBM silo) when we both retired in 2019. We were going to go in 2020. Then Covid and Putin f**ked that plan completely. I seriously doubt it'll happen now. Me too. I did see a shark on a...

I'm in Cyprus too ATM (Paphos). saw a couple of USMC Ospreys fly over this afternoon. Follwed them a bit on flightradar and then noticed a refuelling tanker loitering around to the south. It's track showed it had flown from Akrotiri, out over Syria/Iraq as far as the Iran border then back again...

I used to play a couple of online role-playing,multi-user adventure games; Shades which was on BT's Prestel system and The Void which was a 4 line system hosted in someone's bedroom. Anyways, I had to come up with a name for my persona and I became Chumly the Happy Pig. I dropped the Chumly bit...