ecuk268

As old Rene Descartes said: "I think therefore I am not a Daily Mail reader"

I've got this on CD along with the classic "Woolston Ferry" and a collection of pretty awful Saints songs.

So Cameron writes an article in the Church Times saying what a good Christain he is but, when the Bishop of Oxford arranges to present a petition signed by 40 Anglican bishops and 600 other clerics to his constituency office, they call the police and refuse him entry. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-camerons-constituency-office-calls-police-on-food-bank-campaigners-bishop-of-oxford-and-reverend-keith-hebden-9274303.html

Reminds me of a sketch in "Bottom" where Richie is praising Britain for it's Christian values and Eddie points out that Richie never goes to church. Richie replies "I don't need to go to church, I'm Church of England".

Mrs ecuk268 keeps saying that I should have my head examined.

The Allegro was one of the worst cars of the 80's. Came out at about the same time as the Golf and had loads of faults, not least being distortion of the bodyshell if it was suspended towed.

Don't know if it's already been posted but kick-off is at 3.07 (Hillsborough Anniversary) so time for an extra orange squash.

Mrs ecuk268 is never ready on time whereas I always leave loads of time to get anywhere. I've resorted to saying that "we need to leave at 11.45" when I really mean 12.00 but I think that she rumbled that one years ago. She did admit this morning when she was rushing off to work that, even if she didn't go to bed at all, she still wouldn't be ready in the morning.

Had to get the Dictionary out for that. If you'd said schadenfreude, I'd have understood.

Amazing that he was in showbusiness in 10 different decades.

Was it The Gateway?

Did you hate yourself when you were one?

I was at the launch at the Uni (got my picture in the next Saints programme) and also wrote a few match reports for the 1st website. I seem to remember that it went a bit sour when Dave got involved with Uncle Rupert and later regretted it. I stopped contributing when the club wanted to edit the reports (ie remove any criticism).

Presumably, the £30m expenditure for Staplewood includes the acquisition of the 2 fields to extend the training pitches up as far as Twiggs Lane and construction of the Training Dome, new entrance etc.

Plested's Pies

I wonder if these points will be raised? http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mehdi-hasan/nick-clegg-nigel-farage-debate_b_5028849.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

Borrowed from Newsbiscuit, sums it up nicely: "Through a combination of George Osborne’s generous pension provision in his budget and the surprise tour of the UK’s ‘last spark of originality’, many of the world’s leading musicians plan to now ‘pack up their crotch-less panties’. News that Kate Bush is returning to the stage has resulted in an ‘exodus’ from Simon Cowell’s harem, Madonna ‘cashing in’ on her bus pass and the disbandment of the ‘twelfth version’ of the Sugarbabes. While Bush (55) is the first to acknowledge that her high-octane dance routines may be a thing of the past, she is still fairly confident that even if she were ‘to fart Wuthering Heights through a sousaphone, while dressed in a conch shell’ it would still be better than Lady Gaga. Bush’s 79 tour is now widely acknowledged as the most influential rock performance of the twentieth century; whereas Miley Cyrus lip syncing astride a flying hotdog, is not even regarded as the most embarrassing five minutes of a Miley Cyrus tour."

This.

Could go either way. As the insurance companies make a lot of profit from annuities, if people are taking cash instead, it'll either drive annuity rates down further or the industry will have to make them more attractive and flexible to maintain their business.

Adam Johnson has been moaning about not being in the England squad. He reckons it's because he plays for Sunderland and says that only players at the big clubs get to play for England and that a lot of the current squad wouldn't be there if they didn't play for the "big" clubs. As we had 4 players in the last squad we must be a pretty big club.

The current problem with annuities is that, due mainly to quantitative easing, the annuity rates have plummeted and are nearly half what they were 20 years ago. As someone who's going to have to make a decision regarding my pension pot in a year or so, I think a good independent financial adviser will be needed.

The biggest obstacle to waterfront access is ABP. When they say "jump" the Council asks "how high?". From Redbridge round to Northam Bridge there's not a lot of unused land and any of it within the docks is off limits as ABP don't want Joe Public wandering around on their land. If Red Funnel can be moved into the docks, the Mayflower Park / Royal Pier / Town Quay area has considerable potential to be re-developed into an attractive place to go.

Didn't Paul Weller base "A Town Called Malice" on Woking?

I'd throw Boardwalk Empire in there as well.

I'm still angry after Tranmere. 3-0 up at half-time. Bloody Paul Rideout....