Hamilton Saint

I'm partial to German-style rye bread. There are quite a variety of types. Pumpernickel Rye is particularly good. My wife bakes her own bread--using the no-knead method. Very tasty! I also like a good Parisian-styled baguette with stews like bouef bourguignon. And any type of bread toasted with butter and Marmite is the best!

Finally! Connected.

Blah, blah, blah. Yes, it is live!

I hear the commentary team in the background. Come on!

Where are Adam and Jo?

Yeah, for being such a downer.

R.I.P. Martin Chivers. A big part of Saints' rise to the First Division in 1965-1966. He scored 30 goals in 39 games.

What nonsense! You must be very unfamiliar with his work. Dylan's "older stuff" consisted of a remarkable run of seven brilliant albums in the 1960s-- from "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" (1963) up to, and including, "John Wesley Harding" (1967). He is the greatest songwriter, bar none, of the rock 'n' roll era.

Saints being promoted to the First Division in 1966. Martin Chivers scored thirty goals in the '65-'66 season (and Ron Davies scored forty-three goals in the Saints' debut campaign in the First Division).

The Prisoner ... of course!

Fantastic! I'm listening to the game on my laptop in Varadero, Cuba. COYS!!

Just a day in the life of a Saints' fan.

"Current"? This has been going on for some 45-50 years!

Not really a "small thing", but I get joy from watching England play cricket on the TV. Just watched some of the amazing stuff that happened today at Southampton in the 3rd O.D.I.

Where I live in Ontario, we usually only get red squirrels, but this summer there has been a grey squirrel (more black than grey, if you ask me) hanging about on our country road. It seems to me that if the grey squirrels ever got established they would slowly bully the red ones out of the area. Indigenous species getting squeezed out by the aliens.

"My hovercraft is full of eels."

North America is three countries.

Andre Previn: "You're playing all the wrong notes." Eric Morecambe (grabbing Previn by the suit lapels and glaring into his face): "I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7GeKLE0x3s&ab_channel=JonathanCrossfield

180 (degrees)?

My father was with the Royal Engineers in the Iraqi desert assembling lorries, which then got driven north to the Eastern Front. His brother, meanwhile, fought with the British infantry in Burma, fighting against the Japanese. He was traumatised by his experiences and never spoke about them after the war.

No, he feints to the left in pre-season campaigning, but then plays right-wing when the real matches begin.

Well, now, that's a new word for me. But research reveals this: " ... generally it is used to refer to something that isn't legit, but is being presented as legit." So, to use a cliche used here a lot (which I thought I would never stoop to using!), how very Saintsy!

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No need to get all worked up! Everything you say is correct. My point was simply to emphasise that some of these "fairly common shorthands" can be imprecise and imply things that may not be intended. In other words, if football IS primarily a team sport, let's not use language that suggests otherwise. Can we agree on that? And as an old fart (and occasional "curmudgeon"), I find some of these modern "common shorthands" somewhat problematic. I did not mean for you to take my comment as a personal affront. It's just my way--as a careful proofreader and text editor.

Yes, partly due to the way the novels were constructed--he was committed to a certain number of once-a-month (usually), or once-a-week installments. I read "Great Expectations" and "Oliver Twist" in grammar school--two of his shorter novels. About a dozen years ago, i decided to read all of his novels (fourteen and a half) within the span of one year. A wonderful project! Most of his books were deliberately discursive (written for monthly magazines), so the plots were often convoluted and contrived, but he always created fascinating and humorous characters. Highly recommended!