Alan Medic

Boring is an offence in rugby. An erstwhile Irish hooker Ken Kennedy was once spoken to by the ref who said 'Kennedy you're boring'. Kennedy replied,'you're not too exciting yourself ref'.

Thanks rh. I'm not in the "going for the draw" mode just yet. It may well come.

I got really lucky with France. More of the same today though I won't be too worried if I get one of my predictions wrong! Always a dilemma when there are two sporting events on at the same time that you want to watch. At least you could watch the first half of the rugby unhindered as with the 2nd half of the footie. That leaves you with a half to decide on. There's no end of season get together planned. Not all the participants live here I'm pretty sure.

Which one is next to go ☺ ?

> BUT as I say, if the pavements were laid out > correctly, this would not be so much of a big > issue. > > Louisa. Couldn't agree more. Broken white line down the middle and DOUBLE yellows on each side.

Round 3 Fixtures starting tomorrow night: Friday France v Italy 20.00 Saturday Ireland v Wales 14.15 Scotland v England 16.45

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Fer feck sake. This thread is haunted.

Good and good. UK government agreed to the former in effect to get to phase 2 of the talks. Now they can deal with the fallout with the DUP.

It's the day after Mick, so no problem. PS Saturday is just a warm up for them.

Round 2 Fixtures Saturday 14.15 Ireland v Italy 16.45 England v Wales Sunday 15.00 Scotland v ahem France

Another ghost. The cynics in that other thread will be eating their words.

https://www.byline.com/column/67/article/2040 Intersting read of possible life here, post Brexit. It's scary.

Not a good week for those of us who picked Scotland.

Scotland seemed to panic after about 10 minutes yesterday. Didn't think it would be so one sided. Ireland nearly blew it but kept their best play till the end. French defence was good but Ireland just didn't look like scoring a try.

Me too. Looking forward to plenty of good games. Wales v Scotland is often a classic.

Still time to enter.

1st Round this week-end. Saturday 14.15 Wales v Scotland 16.45 France v Ireland Sunday 15.00 Italy v England Still time for more entries. See previous posts as to how to.

Ah. Thanks RH. That I didn't realise.

So the buses are diverted from quite a way before Forest Hill. Thanks.

I don't usually use it but may have to tomorrow. I saw on my bus app that buses were being diverted due to 'works'. Does anyone know if that's the case how close the bus goes to the station? In the event of dropping someone off by car, can that be done? Thanks.

Thanks stringvest. Sounds like you went through a nightmare.

Hi Tasha1, I'm hoping to get some knowledge from you. My Spanish father in law is about 88. He often can't remember things like who my wife is when she goes home, for example. So his memory is not good at times. Recently he has fallen over a few from what I hear but it seems he can't see in one of his eyes. I don't know if there is a connection. His memory loss has just been diagnosed as 'old age'. In your experience (or anyone elses) can that be correct? I have an 90 year old Aunt who is very bright. This 'old age' diagnosis seems harsh/incorrect given many older people still have their senses intact. What do you think?

A week to go so a rundown of the gist of it for any potential/actual newcomers and a reminder for the rest of us. Predictions mean the scores not just the result. Points are scored for: WP Win Point 1pt (not surprisingly) For getting the correct result MP Margin Point 0.5pts For predicting the result within 5 points of the margin between the teams. In theory you could get this even if you predicted the wrong result. BP Bonus Point 1pt For predicting the correct result and having the closest margin(as long as it's no more than 15 points). This 1pt may be divided if 2 or more have both GSP Grand Slam Point 1pt For predicting 3 correct results in a Round. There's a link a few posts ago for anyone wanting to play.

rendelharris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Rather well said Louisa, I'm completely atheist > and have absolutely no belief in ghosts > whatsoever, but it does seem odd that the belief > that a chap 2000 years ago was the son of God, or > that a chap in the desert 1400 years ago had a > direct line to the Almighty, is OK but other > non-approved manifestations of the supernatural > are unacceptable! Great thread. I'd love to know if anyone mocking the possible existence of ghosts goes to church or follows a religion. Anyway,question for Rendel. Why would you call yourself an atheist when you could say agnostic? Surely the former is putting all your eggs in one basket and the latter is a case of just don't know. On a ghostly note, I have a quite sane brother who says one visited him in his bedroom years ago in Sacramento. He was living with a US cousin who was a cop. He checked the premises and confirmed that no one had entered it from the outside. I don't believe or disbelieve him. He saw something no doubt. But was it real then begs the next question, is anything we see 'real'?