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I bought 3 high-value items from different retailers over the internet on one afternoon and paid by Abbey debit card. The payments were blocked. When I phoned Abbey, the said that they blocked them because they were different from my normal spending pattern and it could have been someone using my card fraudulently. I confirmed that they were genuine and all was OK. At least they're looking out for dodgy payments.

23/10/2042 is actually a Thursday

No one elected John Major when Thatcher got the boot.

It was a different world back then. You had clubs like Derby and Ipswich winning the league, and Forest winning the European Cup. The gap between the big city clubs and the more modest ones like us was much narrower. I can't see those days ever returning unless football finances are given a major overhaul.

Depends where in Baddesley you live. If you go down Rownhams Lane, Southampton begins just before you get to Lordshill, whereas if you go via The Clump (or whatever it's called now), Southampton begins at the Clock roundabout. Romsey starts by the Luzborough pub. By the way, I'm a true Romsonian. On my mum's side back to the mid 1800's. When I was a nipper, we always thought that Baddesley was full of pikeys.

Water cannon as well as horses??

The more mature amongst us (ie sad old gits) will remember seeing the odd fracas on the Milton Road end in the 70's. The coppers would wade in and give a good hiding to anyone within reach. No camera phones in those days and no complaints either. If you didn't want to be involved, you just moved out of the way.

We stayed at the Comfort Inn on West 35th St right opposite The Hotel Metro. Great location, a few minutes walk from the Empire State, Macys, the Manhattan Mall and 5th avenue.

There's also one of the test aircraft at the Museum at Yeovilton.

Started taking my lad to reserve games (when they were at The Dell) when he was about 6. He enjoyed it, so took him to 1st team games when he was about 7 and he's been going ever since. Catch 'em while they're young..

He does have a point. The Echo had an article analysing our financial performance over the last few seasons. Bank borrowing when Lowe left = 0 Bank borrowing when Lowe returned = 5.0m It was this 5.0m that put us into administration. This is not a pro-Lowe posting, just pointing out some cold facts. No one person is to blame for this mess.

Ask him why, when he was complaining about being "frozen out" of the club during Rupey's time as chairman, he didn't just go and buy a ticket like the rest of us?

He's getting a bit of a reputation for his comments. I was given a cricketing DVD at Xmas which was sort of a review of last year. Pieterson was shown dropping a number of catches in one match, to which Derek Pringle commented "He should have tried catching them in his mouth, it's certainly big enough"

Excellent bowling figures from Dimi. 3 wickets (and a run-out) for 22 runs. Better than Friday when he conceded 24 off his one & only over.

A word in their defence. Constitutionally, the armed forces and, I think the police, swear allegience to the monarchy not the government. If some power-mad prime minister decided to abolish parliamentary democracy and establish a dictatorship, the monarch could order the armed forces to kick him out and restore normal government. Having said that, I do believe that they could scale things down a bit. Do they really need Buck House, Windsor Castle, Sandringham, Balmoral, Kensington Palace etc?

Quite agree. 27 is far too young for anyone to die. I'm the wrong side of 50 and lost my mum last year. She was in her 90's and it was not unexpected but it still hits you hard. She only made money because people buy the sort of magazines that publish stuff about so-called celebrities. Can't blame her for that.

I'd agree with Sept. All the trees are still in leaf, petrol is 1.09 a litre at Tescos and a couple of building developments in our road are at about the right stage.

Weren't they going to team up with Chris Rea to form a new band called Dire-Rea ??

I would have thought that a car crash is a pretty unreliable way of trying to kill someone. People walk away from quite severe crashes with a few cuts and bruises. If she'd been wearing a seat belt, she'd probably have been OK.

We back up all our servers to a backup server using Netvault. This is licenced per client so one advantage of using VM is that you may have, for example 4 VM systems on one VM host. So, if you back up the VM host, you're only using 1 client licence.

There's a lot of free open source stuff available on t'internet. Open Office is excellent. It'll do most, if not more than Word, Excel and Powerpoint and is compatible with MS Office doc types. If you're not after anything too sophisticated, Irfanview is a decent bit of image software.

Nothing new about SFC falling out with the Echo. Many years ago the Echo reports were so biased that they were ridiculous. After some team thrashed us 0-4 at the Dell, the Echo would start their report "Unlucky Saints...........". There were also occasions when reporters were removed from covering Saints if they wrote things that the club didn't like. SFC can make things very awkward for the Echo if they don't toe the line. You very rarely read anything in the Echo that doesn't originate from the clubs press people. Whether this is due to lazy journalism, I don't know.

What have virtually all of the possible replacement managers suggested got in common? They have failed and been sacked from their previous clubs.

If Lowe left tomorrow who'd take over? Don't forget that we are skint and, for now, Lowe appears to have the confidence of the bank. If he went, it's likely that the bank would call in it's debt and that would mean administration. As for managers, we couldn't afford any of those mentioned. They'd be working with the same very limited squad and shouting and bawling at young kids would destroy any confidence that they might have. JP must be doing something right (away wins at Reading and Barnsley) but the home form is disastrous. I don't know what the answer is but I can't see getting rid of JP (or Lowe) would bring about a miraculous transformation.