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  1. Greater minds than ours have pondered the question: whisper the elixer then vanish in a blast it's a mystery, it's a mystery I'm still searching for a clue I'ts a mystery to me
  2. Apparently God works in mysterious ways?
  3. Is this Greb taking the piss? Doesn't matter. I'm comfortable in my own skin. Treat others as you would have them treat you, that's a good 1 from the Bible
  4. It's a mad thing this God thing. So much good is done in believing in it, yet so much bad is done in believing in it. To quote Sinead O'Conner "God existed before religion, it did not ask for religion, it will exist after religion is gone" I'm an atheist (before the it gets dark) but get her point.
  5. I was brought up a Roman Catholic, we used to call it Stations of the Cross
  6. Hey, at least you're still compos mentis? I'm writing this after spending most of the day in a place for old b*****ds who are truly gone with the pixies, or doolally tap as my dad used to say. He's now also in there now
  7. Despite its faults I love the EPL. It's never been an even playing field, but no professional sport is, money talks. Blackburn Rovers, won the league then plummeted. Newcastle game close and have been relegated twice since those days. Leicester City won the league and are now a boomerang club. Why? Money or rather lack of it? Yes. But this is the thing that I find fascinating: Man United. The great Man United. Fallen from grace in recent years but not through lack of funds. Man City. In trouble at present. Not because of lack of money. So many variables, money only being 1 of th
  8. I turned 59 a few weeks ago. Up until September I thought I was already 59 and would be 60 this year. I do tend to lose track a few years after the ones with a zero. Wasn't until a meeting with a financial adviser that he pointed out that I was only 58. So good news, a year younger than I thought, bad news, a year further away from the state pension than I thought. Bugger!
  9. All the ones who forget that this little island and it's people saved the world. And, in part, that we are an island, which has always been a good thing. Easy to defend.
  10. Shane McGowan, Christmas Lullaby, away with ya now...
  11. That's it! Ain't no Blithe Spirit but better quality fleeting glimpse of Sealyham than in The Birds
  12. The Ghost Goes West (1935) on TV yesterday. Daft, eccentric, pure escapism. And a cracking looking 1930's Sealyham terrier in one scene. I'll never fully understand why that stamp of terrier was allowed to die out.
  13. If memory serves correctly at the age of 50 (I could have the age wrong) he came to the conclusion that too much time had been spent not following hounds or working terriers and so made changes. I respect that. I'm not pretending that I knew him, just enjoyed his writing and exchanged a couple of emails.
  14. Narrated by Sir Lawrence Olivier. And just before Europe decided to forget that GB saved the world.
  15. I've probably came across it in the past without knowing what it was, and just kicked the shit out of it, same with asbestos. But found it about 2 years ago in terraced buildings undergoing full referb/new build in the shadow of Alnwick castle. The job got stood down, reason being possible anthrax spores. Apparently they live for centuries and could have been on the animals used in the production of the original build. Samples were taken, came back negative.
  16. Pre, mid and post work's Christmas lunch drinks... hic!
  17. Thank goodness this is back, I'd started watching the news Normal service is resumed.
  18. eastcoast

    Greb

    He was a raconteur of note.
  19. Great film, never been able to listen to Raglan Road since without that scene visualising
  20. Spare rib soup, that was another one. Basically ham and pea soup, the secret ingredient split peas and the ham not much more than rib bones but with lots of fresh veg from the garden/allotment. Delicious.
  21. Mam used to make it, mouth's watering at the memory. The word panackelty was sometimes used but more often she just called the dish tatey pot. Mam was from the Teams though. Going off on a tangent... she always maintained that when playing out along the Teams river baby otters where a common site in the murky black coaly water. Dad would always tried to correct her, they would have been rats not otters man! but she always stood her ground, no, they were baby otters. Was never really sure if she believed it or not
  22. Trevor's 1st day working in the fetish dungeon did not go well. The brief was: use a couple of rampant rabbits then whip it.
  23. No need for PLI or RAMS? Just need dogs?
  24. Intelligent, articulate, class, style. He proved that you can rise to the top in UK politics without having any of those qualities.
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