By a majority verdict!! https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-63677581 But his playing career is over! Do you feel sorry for him? No smoke without fire brigade will be along shortly, I'm...
It’s quiz time again, folks, but with [i]five[i] quizzes, instead of the usual three, to tax everyone’s brains this evening! I started off win a decent enough (for me) score of SIX out of seven in the...
As I’ve been in bed most of the day with flu like symptoms, I wanted to gauge my own opinion instead of sound bites about it, to date I see a very privileged boy/man and much jealousy against his...
Surely it has to be the net migration of hundreds of thousands of people to our tiny island each, no? I heard the this topic on the Jeremy Vine show a couple of weeks ago, where he was asking the same...
I have referred to Harry as being "Mard" to raised eyebrows. Being brought up in south Manchester this seems quite normal, but having checked the online dictionary it does not appear. To me it means,...
Rowan's reply to my Booksellers thread has inspired me to put out this challenge. If you ran a bookseller's, which book(s) would you display alongside Harry's ? Please respond here, not on the...
wonder if you can point me in the right direction, please, folks .... a riverside village which gives its name to a gap through which the river flows. And a second teaser: the name of a 17th century...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64223974 Whoops! NB this was, I am sure, a faux pas: I don't for a second believe that this was a deliberate attempt by Shapps to erase history a la USSR. But...
Is it getting any better, or are deliveries still slow & a bit erratic erratic ? Are there more strikes ahead ? I ask because I've a pile of large stamped & addressed envelopes destined for the UK & I...
10-30 last night until 09-30 this morning ! I guess it must be the dark days that do it , my daughter ,always an early riser for work, said she’s finding it difficult to get up on these dreich...