I find all opening ceremonies annoying. It's a sports tournament, not a titting-about-fest. And forcing sports commentators to talk about something which is not sport is cruel to both commentato… (View Post)

Someone with ten teeth is decadent. (Terry Pratchett's joke, not mine. But bears repeating.) (View Post)

While we're on fruit, we have about 300 plums on our tree. At least one bough has grown so laden with fruit that the tree can no longer support its weight and it has snapped off ( though I have … (View Post)

"We as a nation"? Liverpool fans aren't representative of "we as a nation", thank God. (View Post)

Don't think I recall any barriers - though I confess navigation got a little confused at each end! It did seem remarkable that you could (in theory) get a horseup there, though I did see a handf… (View Post)