Whitey Grandad

My son recommended this to me and I signed up to the free trial of Apple TV but I haven’t yet worked out a way to see it on my TV or Virgin TiVo.

Colour TV in the Uk didn’t start until November 1969. Colour TV test transmissions started in 1967 when the early transmissions of BBC2 began. Those were good films. All about building the Kariba dam and that sort of thing. My first colour TV was a Philips G21. It lasted well. I had to fit a new tube in it and a new transistor for the line output scanning but apart from that it did a good job. I spent a few years as a Principal Engineer in the Video and Colour section of the IBA research centre at Crawley Court and was a representative on a committee of the European Broadcasting Union so I know a lot about 625 line TV. All that knowledge is now obsolete. No, I watched the landings on a 14” B&W thing. Same sort of thing that I watched the 1966 World Cup Final on. All one big blur.. I think it wasn’t until Apollo 12 that the coverage was in colour and even then it was only in frame-sequential colour with successive frames in red, blue and green.

Of course there is.

“More key passes per game” You can’t get more subjective than that. And that’s a fact.

But it’s not good enough, is it. Slightly better than Norwich. Ask yourself, could we have scored more with a more traditional style of play?

I had one of those when I was young. I had broken my arm a couple of years before and fell onto it again. The doctor said that it was stronger because of the earlier break and that was why it was only ‘cracked’.

I was talking in general about our style of play.

Yeah, that’ll really worry them 🙄

Factual it ain’t. It’s meaningless numbers. Such nonsense belongs on the other side of the Atlantic. Football is not played on spreadsheets.

We don’t’ play it out the back’. We play it around at the back. It never gets beyond there. All the opposition has to do is play it tight and wait for the inevitable mistake. Then pounce and when they do they are well up the field in an advanced position and we are a defensive mess.

Pass completion? You have to be joking. If you’re not I worry for your sanity.

We loved Aurora in its early format but they ruined it when they changed the wooden steamer chairs on the promenade deck to metal sit up ones. ”Gobby Mancs” are a serious problem on the Caribbean fly cruises with direct charter flights from the northern airports. Mind you, the golf club types on the Southampton departures can have their heads stuck up their arses too. That’s why we changed to Princess.

Please don’t remind me ☹️ Killed any business I had left.

We all know that’s not true.

I got the impression that once they had flunked their goal nobody was interested in trying to get back into the game. I wonder if knowing the next round opponents before kickoff played any part in this?

As long as he doesn’t have to go in goal what’s the problem?

More importantly, what are we all going to do with the three weeks?

Arvia generates strong views. Peter Boyd-Smith runs “Cobwebs” in Northam Road not far from St. Mary’s and is a frequent guest speaker on many cruises. He said it was the only cruise ship which he wanted to get off as soon as he got on. His shop is well worth a visit but check the opening hours.

You’re not wrong. The original colour photographs were taken on a Hasselblad. https://www.hasselblad.com/about/history/hasselblad-in-space/ I remember staying up late to watch the first landing. I couldn’t work out what was happening and I couldn’t understand a word but I was there.

The Spurs song always used to be “Glory, Glory Hallelujah”

Smallbone on the bench. The threat of him coming on will terrify the opposition. As they say in chess, the threat is greater than the execution.

Thanks for the advice. We had done hundreds of nights on cruises and a few hundred on P&O but they annoyed me a few years ago so we jumped ship to Princess. In general you have to pay for the whole cabin which means that any companion goes for free. I did manage to find a ten night one back in November from Southampton to Civitavecchia which wasn’t too expensive for single occupancy. I did a couple of 7 night cruises back to back on Star Flyer in January in the Caribbean and their single supplement is not too bad. I’m off on the Hurtigruten Coastal Voyage in a week or so and again, they have a reasonable price for singles. I have just booked a 16 night cruise to Iceland and Greenland at the end of July and my 21 year old grandson is coming along to keep me company. This will be especially poignant as it was one that my wife and I were booked on last year before her illness overcame her and I had to cancel. She really wanted to go to Greenland and I shall probably take some of her ashes to leave there. I recommend cruising to anyone and as you say, Ventura is one of the best of the P&O offerings. Once started it can be addictive. I have now done over 600 nights at sea.

Yet he didn’t. Puss the ball past and run after it doesn’t work against and experienced defender.

But that doesn’t guarantee that there will be ‘progress’.

It’s style over substance..