Ted Max

Punches air. Shouts "Come on Rog". Ignores death stares from catatonically bored looking wife (EDIT: this is a Gavin Rossdale-related post)

I do support them, though. So please slag away, I'm enjoying it (so must be a bit English, then).

Can you rip off an existing poem - changing the words for relevant dwarf/ family related ones as need be? Burns' "To A Dwarf", or Kipling's "If", say - but all about your family in-jokes.

It's very educational being here. I didn't know that South Africans called people English people poms. (not that I am English).

Neither. I was pointing out, with no little pictorial elegance and relevance, that Graeme Smith has a very large chin.

Graeme Smith likes a nice hard wicket, that's why he bought himself this new roller.

Thanks, Muttley. SBU is indeed on Burbage Road - more towards the Gallery Road end, rather than Herne Hill end.

I think that is the only short term measure available. Sir Ian Blair has said that his force now has a policy to charge people found in possession of a knife, rather than issue cautions. Recently, the percentage of people being charged has gone up from 40% of those arrested and found to be in possession, to 95% (in the past week). You could ask, "Why only take action recently?", but I guess one of the upsides of the media reporting/hype is politicians and police authorities are pushed to take action against an existing, serious problem. Addressing the youth end of the problem, Campaigns, and Facebook groups, and all the rest of it may have an impact if they can generate an allied feeling that, not only will you be charged and facing prison if caught, but your peers think it uncool and unacceptable to carry a knife. Seems a long road to travel, however.

Reports say she was stabbed. Presume that means a knife.

Personally, I would not be wandering around the Bellenden Rd area at 11PM on my own (was she on her own?). Natasha, if you read my post you can see what have been told so far of the context of this sad event.

Correct, LadyGooner. BBC Radio has just reported the Bellenden Road stabbing was the result of an argument between a man and a woman who had been drinking together for much of the day. Ian Blair has just given a press conference in which he said knife murders in the first six months of this year are at the same level as last year. The impression of knife crime spiralling out of control is, I fear, only fuelled by "campaigns" such as JumpinJourno's - which may be good if they do lead to a more awareness of the dangers of carrying knives. But less good if it leads to the sort of "I'm quitting this area for good" fear of crime that only serves to, do what? Not much, as far as I can see.

Thanks, Mockney. Google tells me she was Letizia Ortiz Rocasolan, before becoming Princess of Asturias. Gotta widen the gene pool every so often I suppose. Interesting what you find, conducting research into monarchical systems of the early 21st century.

Talking of good looking Spaniards... Who was the happy lady (in the white shirt in the posh seats) the TV director was keen on last night. Is that Mrs Zapatero? I ask purely for purposes of political research, of course.

You want cricket literature? Have some of this: "The American adaptation is devoid of the beauty of cricket played on a lawn of appropriate dimensions, where the white-clad ring of infielders, swanning figures on the vast oval, again and again converge in unison toward the batsman and again and again scatter back to their starting points, a repetition of pulmonary rhythm, as if the field breathed through its luminous visitors."

You need to chill already about this Home Sec thing. We had her in the Village (er, Bellenden Village) - armed police and all - for months. Did we go all giddy and start threads about it? Nah, man, we just dissed her for not buying her kebabs from Sam's.

Aw, leave him alone. He needs to do all, like, thinking and stuff now he's captain (of his country). And maybe he'll get another tattoo to celebrate. - perhaps of a Lion pissing on a Protea, or something as classy.

How embarrassing for Motty and Lawro that, due to the power outages, the whole TV audience got to hear their lame, tired ramblings contrasted so audibly with the passionate, involved, R5 Live lot.

Ahem....

Cremant de Loire rose. Right - adds to list. In "if you liked that, try this," return I offer you an old favourite rose of ours - Rimauresq - from Cotes de Provence. Always a hit. Searching for something similar, I had a Bandol rose from Nicolas a while back. Roughly 13 quid from memory, and roughly 13% abv as well. Good, but (although we're in roughly the same territory) it didn't have the same lightness as the Rimauresq. David, you've done well remembering that wine from a couple of weeks ago. I often try to make note of a decent wine I've had when out and about, but always forget what I was drinking by the time I've got home. Hence the reason for the thread, really.

Cheers David, thanks for the tip. PGC - I said I drink less wine these days!

Thread in which I hope EDF-ers will share the love of a good drink - of any description, in order to increase the happiness, knowledge and well-being of all. I will start - I recently have enjoyed, this - available from Green n Blue for a hefty (for me) ?12.25. I find I'm drinking less wine and spending more per bottle, these days - a trade-off I am happy to make. But I find I tend to stick to a few old favourites as I'm loathe to experiment at those prices. Hence, would love some recommendations for things to try. What bottle, pint, etc have you loved recently, and where can I get my hands on some? What are your tried and trusted old favourites? What, in short, are you drinking?

Sure. Do you want to know how your book ends, as well?

I didn't used to, either. But I picked up a fantastic coat in there the other night for a song - so now I love it!

I agree, he doesn't seem to be behaving very well. And I too have agreed with Annasfield that his motivation is, likely, suspect. Fulfiling your contractual obligations? It's a nice idea! (and yes, I know that some do, and they are the good guys) I'm not arguing in favour of mercenary selfishness, merely saying the ire it provokes in modern football still surprises me. That's good I suppose, as it means not everyone's as beaten down and cynical about the thing as I am.

Not quite sure what the problem is. I'm not trying to score any points or anything. I was trying to formulate what this guy's pre-existing attitude may have been, and asking if that tallied with your experience on the night in question?