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Don't worry, I will..:-)

Let's hope we can now relax having made the breakthrough. Sounds like some of our fans in different time zones are already relaxed! Back to lesson planning and hope my next visit is also a good one. Doubt if I'll last 5 minutes away though!

Yep, that Old Speckled has a lot to answer for. Mind you, close proximity to DP hasn't done Tiger any good either.

I shouldn't laugh, I really shouldn't....

I'd have thought The Guide Dog?

Years since I've been to Courchevel but I've even seen twins landing (DH Otters possibly). It's pretty impressive. Verbier is just over the border from me and is on my skipass and you even get a refund on the tunnel ticket one way. I'll have to check the snow there: here it's sprinkling up top but there's no off-piste at the moment and the pistes are hard. Nothing much in prospect but you can't always tell about late season.

Is it safe to read this thread yet - has everybody got it out of their system? I went out early yesterday evening for a pre-dinner apperitivo and didn't make it home till late, in no state to remember we had played. At least I didn't have to endure the match thread!

To answer the OP's original question: mildly but not enough to start a thread about it or comment at any length. SaintBobby - what odds would you give me on Alpine asking a positive question? I don't suppose there's really a market in a one-horse race?

Can't you just pick 4 and do a Yankee?:-)

Yep, it's sometimes frustrating to look out the window up at the slopes above me at the end of the season knowing the lifts and resort are closed but there is fresh powder up there. I'm going to have to buy some light-weight alpine skis and skins so I can get up there on my own. The last two years have been great but this year it hasn't snowed so much. The problem about living here is that you get a bit fussy and don't bother going. Forecast fresh snow on Sunday so I'll be up there next Tuesday/Wednesday.

Going purely by altitude Cervinia near me fits the bill. This season I skied there for the first time on November 11th and if you have the right pass (and the snow) you can ski over into Switzerland to Zermatt. Here's a link to the webcams to whet your appetite... http://www.cervinia.it/pages/WEBCAM_i_en/453?#ixMainSection Edit: now I feel like popping over there tomorrow!

Danish, you should have included a link!:-)

Is Turkish on medication or has he just come off it?

Having had the same experience I haven't ever been back. Constant rain, couldn't afford decent foul-weather gear and the food in the youth hostel was dire. Nice roche moutonee in the Llanberis pass though.

Yep! I also like the comment about noticing him when he wasn't there. Bit like Morgan but with a few more goals - although still reckon he should have had more even given his defensive role.

They outnumber chubby women: just look at pictures of the crowd at SMS let alone in the pub after the game!

Er, what has NC said in public? I prefer these things, if they really have to get that far, to be decided in court, when matters then become a matter of public record and not 'he said, she said' claims which none of us are in a possition to corroborate.

OK, as long as you don't nick my lippie and mascara...

Not sure I'd want to go to the pub with Dune: I'd be buying a round and then he'd only get me a half when he was buying.. [You have to visit the Lounge to understand that.:-)] To be honest if I were to go on like some on here I'd be getting comments like "time of the month, dear?" and other such rubbish. This is one of my links back to the UK but there is an awful lot of drama-queening on here which occasionally makes me smile and sometimes groan.

..and evacuate your bowels before you get home....

Judging by her cheekbones and how slim she is I suspect her hip bones would probably slash any prospective lover to bits: no thanks! As to the Ruskies trying to get into football: the question remains... why Portsmouth? Potential? I don't think so really. Near to Cowes for the sailing, I suppose, and not far to Lunnon. Can't think of any other advantages to outweigh the maany disadvantages.

Actually just found a figure of 450k mentioned, much of which is being paid by Fiorentina, apparently... Not sure Italian footie websites are any more accurate than ours.:-)

He wouldn't get anything like that at Fiorentina, let alone Grosetto, so very probably crap..