I've just had iron tablets prescribed today, so I share your feelings for not-fun things.

Sorry you've had that response, and I hope it's outweighed by the many messages of congratulations - including this one!

Yes, but in gesturing widely to show how much God loves everyone, have you ever hit the Chief Rabbi in the face, as Archbishop Desmond Tutu once did?!

Front page of the Western Mail on Monday ...

My mother has always been a Doctor Who fan, so I was introduced to it not long after birth. Apparently, I was fine with the aliens, but screamed when the humans were on.

"I'd like to test that theory"

If we can't score with a two-man advantage, we've got no chance when we're one man down.

(And yes, I know that's stating the bleeding obvious.)

*grits teeth* yeah, thanks a bunch ...

Sorry to hear this - I hope that you're now able to get the treatment you need, and that you're on the mend soon.

Even allowing for the glacial pace of change in the CofE, I wouldn't hold your breath - he's been there 6 years already.

There's a slight irony, depending on when you took that photo, in that the current Dean of Westminster was previously Dean of Bristol ...

We try to do that for PCC meetings. Sometimes it works.

Yes, but how do they taste? Sometimes things look awful but taste OK - although when they look fine but taste terrible that's really disappointing (the Christmas cake my mother made with potato flour (?) and ground almonds, not long after she was diagnosed coeliac, was not a success ...).

My dad slightly knows the previous South Wales Police & Crime Commissioner; apparently every time they meet, Dad reminds Alun Michael that he's never got an answer to the question he asked when AM first got the job, about how he (Dad) could actually go about commissioning a crime ...

Things I didn't know I needed, #1258962: the possibility (not even the actuality) of there being a recording of 'The Waste Land' read by DeForest Kelley.

I live about a mile pretty much due south of the Barrier. If (when?) it fails, the good news is that I won't have to walk up the hill after I've got the boat home from work. The bad news is that my office on the Strand will probably be underwater, so I won't be going to work in the first place ...

The commander swallowed. 'We give in,' he said.
'What, just like that, sir?' said his sergeant. 'Without a fight?'
'Yes, sergeant. Without a fight. This man can make water run uphill and _he_ has a commander.'

So sorry to hear about this, Keith - all good wishes.