....we now go over to Lancaster Gate for the draw for the 3rd round of the FA Cup. Thank you. This is Brian Butler at FA headquarters where we are now allowed into the meeting room for the next item...
.....was how the Saudi victory against Argentina was described, but surely the biggest upset was in 1966 at Ayresome Park, Middlesboro when North Korea beat Italy 1-0? And go back further to a...
.........oh no it isn't! The usual gubbins in all the papers about how England are going to win The World Cup. They're in poor form, so I can't see why anyone would predict an England tournament win....
This came for me after the parade. We were dismissed on Horseguards, so I headed for the refreshments. The person in front of me was an 11/12 yr old girl, wearing a black and yellow scarf. I asked her...
.....inviting me to take part in something called Our Future Health. It says that Our Future Health will be the UKs' largest ever health research programme, with up to 5 million volunteers. It says...
.......is something you may have noticed every day. It's a big yellow thing in the sky called the Sun. That's what drives the climate on this planet, nothing else. However, you mustn't ignore the...
I posted my reasons for that statement over six months ago. The post was removed, I presume, because a mod didn't like to hear that. However, here is another reason....
I'll be marching past The Cenotaph again this year on Remembrance Sunday. However, I am expecting these climate protesters to try and disrupt the event in some way. Not the actual parade etc, but to...
..........non-event in this country until the advent of tinternet. Sure it was, still is, a big deal in other countries, but I don't remember ever doing anything at all for halloween. However, I do...
.....again! Lets see where the poverty and austerity is in this country when Children In Need gets going. Everyone's loaded aren't they? Money to burn! Poverty and austerity are just myths! Myths I...
Simple, some people will say. Look in the deeds. Not so simple though. When I finshed paying my mortgage, I sent my deeds to the Land Registry Office in Lytham St. Annes, on advice from the Building...
.............referred to as Lionesses, when the mens' team are never referred to as the Lions? I know the Lions are the touring rugby team, but Lionesses? For gawds sake! What a load of gubbins!...
A bizarre question I know. I don't mean sloshed out of your head or similar. Many years ago, my uncle passed away, but his wife had a similar christian name to Mrs Clarion and the word got round that...
I'm listening to the radio in my car; pull up outside our house, then the radio is interrupted by Mrs Clarions' Facetime call to her friend. I am able to take part in this conversation from inside my...
German TV critical of the Queen for not apologising for colonialism and the "attrocities" that went with it. That really does take the biscuit doesn't it? How do Germans think they have the right to...
......what music the pipes and drums were playing as the Queens' coffin was being moved from Westminster Hall to the Abbey? Probably a Scottish lament I guess but do any of you clever people know what...
.....what was the most memorable thing from yesterday for you? Although I didn't see all of the coverage, I thought the procession from Westminster Hall to the abbey was really poignant and moving....