I was thinking how would the members of the women's team behave in the future if they win today. I hope they never take up some of the worse traits of their male counterparts.
A man on FB who conducts tours of Belfast cemeteries posted about the mass grave of people who were killed and their remains unidentified after the 1940 bombings. Things were probably very different...
That must have been at the behest of the government of the day. Now the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is to be a guest of the King. Both Ceausescu and the Saudi prince have blood on their hands. I...
I'm not sure that it's altogether seemly that these weaker vessels should be embarrassing the men's team with their success. Things have come to a pretty pass when the game invented by moustachioed,...
I bought a packet of two the other day. They're nowhere near as big as I remembered and they're no longer cod. If their size continues to shrink they'll soon be no bigger than fish fingers. Is fish,...
A friend told me there was a scene where someone remarked that Ireland had been reunited in 2024. That seems very unlikely. The scene was deleted before the episode was screened in the UK. In The...
When I was a school boy I'd sometimes be sent to buy tins of baby food. I sometimes wondered what they tasted like. The thought came back to me this morning. I guess they'd have been bland, no salt,...
Trying to buy groceries from Tesco. The site asks me to open my bank app and get approval for the purchase. When I do that and come back to the Tesco site there's a tab to click on which reads...
...their minimum balance level? If not, why complain,? they offered him an account in the more plebian wing of their organisation. It seems he's learnt, as most have, a hard lesson: you can't have the...
... payment for accommodation in one of HM prisons? I'm thinking of people who have been wrongly convicted and are having their compensation reduced to cover the cost of food and board while in...
And his paintings ended up in junk shops, and you came across one, would you have bought it?
There's a painting of a bar with welcoming yellow lights under a starry sky.
I would have bought that....
Listening to Woman's Hour this morning a woman who has spent 10 years in prison in Rwanda for crimes including genocide denial was given a platform to spout her anti-government views. Have things not...