SimonM

Yesterday it reached 71mph at Whitby...

Charlie Bigham shepherd's pies.

Tut. "One loves Peckham" would be Princess Anne. For Her Madge it'd be "We love Peckham". Off to the Tower you go...

I liked "The Butcher of Valette " so much I bought a boxed DVD set of the first 2 series of " Spiral ": fabulous stuff !

Shaky may well have been the dog's, but there's no way he'd have been as fabulous or memorable as Cameron (Diaz that is!) in "There's Something About Mary". Shaky was deffo a Brylcreem man.

My father often used "dozy a'peth " as a term of scorn. It is apparently an abbreviation of "dozy halfpenny-worth of wet cabbage". Poetry. After 30+ years of living in the Great Wen I am now back in the southern golden acres of God's County, although as the ED schloss remains unsold I still condescend to retain a presence in here... Yorkshire Day is also Switzerland's national day: they have better transport and chocolate, we have better cheese and cakes. *airily waves brand new Bramall Lane season ticket!*

Unless a real hazard or obstruction was being caused then said wardens behaved like "tin hitlers". It is perfectly legal to park on double yellows with a blue badge unless asked not do so by the police or a traffic warden. If they are "no loading/unloading" yellows it's a different story obviously

....and The Last Time and The Who's Substitute and Percy Sledge's "When A Man Loves a Woman"

Looks like Sky are bolting the cameras to the stands at Elland Road this season - 3 live Leeds games before the end of September?! Lots of Wet Spam Utd too...

If it's the far side of Wood Vale then he's in Lewisham ain't he? :))

And in 6 months, or possibly 3, there will be a pious editorial in the Sunday Ordure to the effect that, as it was no fault of the Grand Old Dame of Bouverie Street that the name of the NOTW was dragged through the mud by a few rotten apples, the Sunday Shyte is proud to announce that, following overwhelming demand from advertising agencies and loyal readers alike, on the following Sunday the paper will be re-titled "News of The World"....

Austin's even got referenced in one of Graham Greene's novels (think it was him and not Le Carre!) - as the place to to furnish a house. It was truly an Aladdin's Cave. I still have a mahogany corner cabinet I got from there years ago. They had had this amazing brass bed for sale but alas it was already sold: best I have ever seen!

Truly the dream team: the man who destroyed the credibility of the Nobel Peace Prize coupled with the one who made FIFA a bye-word for rottenness and corruption in football.

Yes, the 2nd leg of the FA Youth Cup Final is on Monday - and I know of Blades supporters who took out a 1 month subscription to the MUFC TV channel just to watch both legs live and consider the money spent a bargain. Just under 30,000 at Bramall Lane on Wednesday and 7000 tickets sold to Blades supporters for Monday.... And now Motherwell are out of the Scottish Cup the odds against Stuart McCall returning as manager will probably drop even lower...

A Yorkshire version of this (seriously!) involved mixing left-over mash and mushy peas and then shallow frying to crisp and brown the sides: nice with bacon: bliss!

Incredible as it may sound, the rumour of Warnock to WHU refuses to die the death. It appears his position at QPR is not rock-solid, never mind that they led the Championship from first to last. Given how venal and stupid the people who own/run football clubs can often be, I don't find this story totally unbelievable. I cannot though see Colin wanting to give up managing QPR in the Premiership willingly all the same - he has something to prove at that level I reckon. And at his time of life you'd not think even a blank cheque - despite his being a Yorkshireman and therefore never taking brass less than seriously - would attract him back to the Championship with WHU. The current owners of the latter oversaw Birmingham getting back to the Premier at the first attempt after being relegated and maybe that's their plan here too - but I reckon the Charlton scenario may be just as likely.

The Premier League relegation battle is quite extraordinary this year. When did it last go into the final day with two relegation places still not settled and, in theory at least, the possibility of a team reaching 42 points and still going down? Yes, the SPL is very much a two horse year after year. How very unlike our own dear Premier League eh? :))

I demur. These days "photo" and "photograph" are effectively two different words: so there is no need for an apostrophe for "photo" in the singular. "Photo's" on the other hand is quite defensible as an abbreviation of "photographs"....:))

"passport photo's" is actually correct, apostrophe-wise, as it is an abbreviation of "passport photographs"

Looks like Fireman's Alley?

They may be better dressed and less obese, but is there essentially any difference between those that appear on this programme and that Jeremy Kyle bear-baiting extravaganza? :))

"Of course the dogshit on the pavements does teach the kids to look where they're going..."

Then you are far too delicate a flower. My previous comment critised the FA, not QPR or WHU. The scheduling of the enquiries against both teams went on for far too long - almost a whole season in both instances, which lead to uncertainty for more than just the 2 clubs directly affected. What sort of idiocy and incompetence leads to the situation QPR had to suffer in the final week of the season? What sort of gross stupidity thinks up points deductions anyway as a form of punishment? It's the fans who suffer, not the owners and suits at the clubs. If you do have it though, at least apply it fairly. Compare and contrast Leeds, Rotherham, Middlesbrough, Luton and I forget who else with QPR and WHU and then try argue the whole thing is not a total shambles. And you're quite wrong about the specific case of WHU & Sheffield United. But we will never agree on that anyway. ?25 milllion was inadequate compensation for losing Premier status. Colin of course gets a lot of people's backs up for all sorts of reasons, many of them justified I am sure, but I see no hypocrisy in any of his comments on the latest affair. The QPR & WHU cases were so completely different. I wish we had kept him after that relegation as there is no doubt he is a manager of high quality at certain levels. And yes Sheffield United were complete and utter crap last season!

I am happy for the QPR fans but, once again, the F.A. demonstrates its incompetence and gutlessness, and reaffirms the unwritten rule that London clubs don't get points deductions when they break the rules..

Greta Gerbil..