SimonM

>>I went to Birmingham once and I didn't have the stomach for that either.<< Yeah the Bullring there made me queasy too. But, returning on-topic, even Hemingway as a self-confessed fan said he could not find what happened to the horses sometimes during a bullfight remotely defensible. And apparently for many years now the bulls have had their horns filed down a bit which totally wrecks their sense of perspective and tips the balance even further in favour of the sequinned be-socked ones... It's not for me, and neither was fox hunting: and I'd not have banned that either.

It certainly seems interminable but it has yet to be seen who the winners or losers turn out to be...

If it's a buxom wench you want I hear there's loads of them exiting the new LL bakery all the time....B)

It has double doors :)

Do you remember Colchester United? >:D

You should get him to read Hemingway's "Death In The Afternoon" for how bullfighting used to be, before football became the more popular spectator sport in Spain. I still loathe the pastime/activity but at least consider myself a little bit better informed...

Fine thanks....yourself??

>>Fancy an away trip to Elland Rd, Simon? << Well tempting as this is.......I think I am down for eating my own pancreas with a spoon that day! :))

I would just like to announce that I will be sending no Christnmas email messages this year as I shall be posting Christmas cards instead... (yeah right)

Bounties are wonderful! You can still be enjoying the coconut for hours afterwards!!! Wish you could buy bags of snack-size plain ones though...mmmm...

Oooh so when is the 3rd round draw then?! I think Leeds might just shade it against Histon....:))

Our Panasonic breadmaker....

Well I liked his Friday show for the quality of the guests he sometimes got on, and also watching how the various women handled the appalling "lad" persona he always employed. Jane Fonda was a highlight - "Jonathan you need to get laid" actually shut him up for a moment. :)

Top 5 not top 4 isn't it??

Chelsea 3 v 1 Newcastle Liverpool 3 v 0 Fulham Man City 1 v 1 Arsenal Middlesbrough 2 v 1 Bolton Portsmouth 2 v 0 Hull City Stoke City 2 v 1 West Brom Aston Villa 1 v 2 Man Utd Tottenham 2 v 1 Blackburn Sunderland 2 v 1 West Ham Wigan 1 v 0 Everton

>>Either way it?s a cheap laugh at my expense and every time I read it a little part of me dies.<< Ha! Teach you not to mess with the big boys! B)

A single bell is no good - a cat soon learns to move noiselessly with one bell. Three bells should do the trick!

And you know this how exactly? :)

Yeah....time for a remake of Hitchcock's "The Birds"!

It is to be a "Postmark" - which I have never heard of but there are bragging posters in the windows already...:)

Well it opened today, and has tables and chairs outside under a canopy too. It was not fully stocked when I went in but looks like it might be very busy at weekends! And I could not resist buying something from the larege bowl of brownies....>:D

Whisper it lightly, but I believe the new card shop on NCR will be part of a *gasp* chain!

It was open today when I passed about an hour ago....

We have seen a massive increase in sparrow numbers in our bit of ED over the past few years - but then we spend a small fortune in feeders and food, and have triple-belled our mighty hunter of a cat! It is wonderful entertainment though watching the sparrows, tits, finches, robins, blackbirds etc etc through the window whilst smugly breakfasting: even get the occasional woodpecker on the apple tree....

The song was written by the great Pete Seeger... And "Weeds" is glorious!