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Ben White. Ex- Saints Acdemy, currently injured 🙂

There's a huge blaze at the moment on the N York Moors just north of here (Scarborough). It's been going for a few days now and has the added bonus for the firefighters of unexploded ordnance left over from WW2 training going off occasionally. What is impressive to me is that local businesses have, without being asked, rallied round to help. Takeaways and restaurants have been sending food and drinks to the emergency service personnel and laundries have been taking in their clothing to clean. A local woman started a fund raiser which has raised £8K so far, which she's put into a kitty at the local garage to pay for diesel for the tractors which the farmers have been using to construct firebreaks etc. It would have been easy for people to just assume that this sort of thing is organised by the govt. but it's heartening that the community spirit is so strong here.

'ampshire 290 -7, Gubbins 144 n.o. Reasonable score, or not enough?

https://bsky.app/profile/normative.bsky.social/post/3luktnpski22v Speaker Mike Johnson starts the summer recess early to avoid a House vote on releasing the Epstein files. Nothing to see here, no siree...

He was accidentally shot by Arrec Ballwin

If you read Catch 22 or see the film, in the military DT would have been Milo Minderbinder, doing a deal with the Germans to bomb his own airfield for cash.

Oh, just remembered. I was on a work course in Bournemouth , we were sat in the bar when the barman said that Tom Jones and his band were staying overnight for a gig at the BIC the following day. Tour bus rolls up at midnight, loads of people got out; it was his band and backing singers but no TJ, they told us he was staying elsewhere with, ahem, 'a friend'. Stayed up most of the night getting pissed with them, they were mainly Americans and were a fantastic and funny group.

Now we need a stone mason who did some work for Nick Mason

Held a door open for Gary Numan - he just walked through without a 'thank you', so I naturally did the British thing of passively aggressively saying 'You're welcome' when he was almost out of earshot. Met Bruce Dickinson in the flying club lounge at White Waltham when he was a student pilot. (On the flying theme, I was at Goodwood having a lesson, When I got back, my Dad told me he'd been talking to a visiting pilot who'd left not long before. It was David Gilmour... )

Heading off-topic for a moment, did you know that Charlie Drake recorded a single written and produced by Peter Gabriel? Not only that but the session musicians PG assembled for it included Robert Fripp, Sandy Denny, Phil Collins, Brian Eno, Percy Jones and Keith Tippet.. The 1975 Peter Gabriel novelty single no one talks about | Louder

And MLT...

Unfortunately for Huey, he mentioned this in an interview - the settlement had an NDA so he had to pay it back... Back on topic.. single - Joybringer by Manfred Mann's Earthband Album,(if you exclude the Woolies/K-Tel top ten compilations by session singers) How Dare You by 10CC

Probably suggested by Rasmus Anchorsen

Got the song sorted; Down, down, Damien Downs

🙂 Don't be cheeky, he might set Henry Cooper on you...

Kevin Keegan in a bathroom

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Shane Long and his family at Rock Up in Whiteley, he was in the kid's play zone. (not on his own :-)) Rory Delap and his wife, with baby Liam in a buggy, at Marwell, just before the 03 Cup Final, had his foot in a cast as I recall. MLT at Southampton Airport (not unusual I guess) David Icke on the Red Funnel car ferry

Musk says DT is named in the Epstein files, in return the mango Mussolini is threatening to withhold his govt. subsidies. Tesla shares have dropped 17%... pass the popcorn! 🍿🍿

I imagine a few Russian military and intelligence senior officers will be moving into ground floor apartments and making their own tea from now on.

He invented gravity when an Apple iPhone fell from a tree

Marina Hyde has written about/skewered him today, including his time at Saints The Nigel Farage v Rupert Lowe prize fight is getting ugly. Has Reform reached its breaking point? | Marina Hyde | The Guardian