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Still no snow at my local hill but La Thuile on the border with France (La Rosiere) has had some and expecting a bit more, as has Courmayeur. Generally pants though, and largely too warm for cannon. Colder weather expected and maybe a bit more snow, but certainly haven't had value from my season pass yet!

Fortunately I have income in both £ and €, although not very much in either! When I came to Italy I was getting nearly €1.50 per pound, now I get only €1.16, so the Euro is doing pretty well for a weak currency!

Yep, I remember John Denham and alan Whitehead from my uni years. Watched AW play against my friend's team in intra-mural football, and he was a competent but dirty player IIRC. Not sure why I remember that, or the fact that the team was the International Socialist one called Red Star. The stupid things that stick in your mind...

Yep, remember the name. Defender, if I recall correctly, although I think all my Saints books are in mum's garage... somebody will be along to give chapter and verse.

A great and robust English game which will never find favour amongst those Southern Europeans or the denizens of tropical climes.

I'm glad we've got him, but from watching the highlights on saintsplayer I'd have to agree with Chez on the bodylanguage and less than normal performance. He didn't even seem particularly pleased when he scored!

Definitely a Saints fan! But I wonder what SirBevois said to be pulled: can anyone here enlighten??

Ta, just watched them. You can see what people mean when they talk about Guly's body language. Something's not quite right there.

You've missed the point again. Even though they were budgetting for certain size crowds the stadium was built bigger than they thought they would fill _all_ the time. They had a bit of ambition that proved the correct decision, and there is no reason to think that another commercial decision on the same lines would'nt be equally rewarded, particularly if were be playing decent football. Based on your thinking SMS wouldn't even have been 32k.

When we moved from The Dell the crowds they budgeted for (info from Brian Hunt) were a third around 18k, a third around 24k and the top clubs around 30k. I'm sure the club (and Turkish) were surprised by the actual turn-outs, particularly given our periodic struggles. I'm sure if the club do decide to expand it will be from a level headed and well-researched basis, not based on internet rants.

Well, bright and sunny here in the Alps. I've just put a pecan pie in the oven for a friend's Thanksgiving party but she's just about to be rushed into hospital so I might have to eat most of it myself instead of the turkey and pumpkin pie I was looking forward to. But it means I could get to listen to whispering Dave... We're short of players for tomorrow's match so could even get off the bench, so not too much booze and I definitely won't be going back to that bar where a guy got hysterical because I put my hand on his shoulder and told him to shut up! Then I might try again to pay my subs but Steve must be a bit busy, so I think I'll keep one post for the Pompey takeover thread and one for the final score - let's hope they're both celebratory!

Hehheeee, back from training, and I've reading the latest posts and actually thinking about hoe long things are cached for: not so much worried that somebody somewhere hasn't saved a page, but how accessible they might be. Thanks! giggle

He's hiding in the toilet.... Oh. With one last guffaw I dash off to footie training, eagerly awaiting my tired return for a further update and to cache a few pages. Perhaps we should task someone with doing that and putting them all togetherso we can refer easily top all the changes at some later stage..

Managers are all the same though: I'm thinking of producing some Tombola/Bingo cards with standard phrases for our changing room talks as we get the same ones every week. It would at least get everybody paying attention!

Can't be arsed to sign on to Youtube, but just in case the guy has done it for a college project I think someone should point out his spelling mistakes: "wile", "snaks" and "commentry" (I think it was)... Good effort though, and doing this sort of thing is the way to learn new programs.

Anyone watch the spurs-villa game tonight: wish Saints got internet streams that quality - but did I hear the Villa fans chant 'pay your tax [something] (Harry perhaps), pay your tax' and 'going down, going down' to the tune of Kumbya...

Ta hypo!

No penalty, but we'll have it.......

I actually read the article. The woman working in Poundland had a science degree, not only that, she had previous retail experience with a holiday/saturday job. So the argument that 1) it gives people useful experience doesn't apply 2) she might "get a permanent job at the end of her placement" is also a crock 'o ****. For starters the company themselves wouldn't employ her. Plus it takes literally hours to do application forms, tailor CVs and covering letters for any decent job. Plus it costs to go to work: I can't get over how expensive bus fares are in the UK now, for example. This is just getting people off somebody's list to no useful effect apart from subsiding major employers for simple jobs where no training is involved.

I went skiing at Cervinia a week ago but it's only open above 2400 and I was skiing mainly on the glacier. Although fun I probably shan't bother going again until a bit more snow arrives. Pila's (my local place) opening on the 26th now looks severely in doubt, as although they've got good snowmaking it's not a substitute for a natural base layer and it's been so warm. At least night time temperatures are dropping.

Thanks for pointing me in that direction - hilarious! "this can only be good news . csi are slowly making pompey a respectable club again after previous owners have dragged the good ship pompey through dirty waters .every thing we get to hear about csi seems to show their interest and their goal of making pfc a top club again .if anyone had doubts before surely they cant still hold them now well done csi onwards and up pup pfe"

The LIDL a few hundred yards from Fratton P....

Wimp! It's a digestive walk from The Platform. Helps get a thirst up for the post-match pints. I sometimes wonder how I keep my figure! [Training 3 nights a week, if you must know].

Or we organise bonuses dependent on promotion. Lots of ways round this particular problem.

As we're such an unobservant lot we probably all failed to notice that a particular name was absent from the press reports. I wouldn't want to be a Storyteller, but is this significant, I ask myself?..