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Highly recommend this - well worth tracking down a copy:
July 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Highly recommend this - well worth tracking down a copy:
To mark the end of Le Tour on C4/ITV, here’s a photo of the not-yet-Sky-Blues in 1961. The guy sitting on the ground on the left is Stewart Imlach, father of Gary. #pusb
July 28, 2025 at 6:21 AM
To mark the end of Le Tour on C4/ITV, here’s a photo of the not-yet-Sky-Blues in 1961. The guy sitting on the ground on the left is Stewart Imlach, father of Gary. #pusb
Ahem…. Jimmy Hill tried to change the club’s name to Coventry Talbot 😂
July 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Ahem…. Jimmy Hill tried to change the club’s name to Coventry Talbot 😂
JH recording the Sky Blue Song in 1962. Somewhat improbably Sid James on lead vocal:
July 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
JH recording the Sky Blue Song in 1962. Somewhat improbably Sid James on lead vocal:
It was superseded by the Raleigh Burner:
July 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
It was superseded by the Raleigh Burner:
Auckland has a professional team that finished top of the A league. But that’s not Auckland City who are amateurs. Did they send the invite to the wrong club ?
June 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Auckland has a professional team that finished top of the A league. But that’s not Auckland City who are amateurs. Did they send the invite to the wrong club ?
I’d play this bad boy - it won’t randomly charge off its line.
April 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I’d play this bad boy - it won’t randomly charge off its line.
Of course not everyone has moved on from underarm bowling - as hopefully S.Broad pointed out. 🙂
April 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Of course not everyone has moved on from underarm bowling - as hopefully S.Broad pointed out. 🙂
The enduring symbol of British democracy is a Bishop’s Move removal lorry.
April 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The enduring symbol of British democracy is a Bishop’s Move removal lorry.
Sorry, been distracted by an earthquake 😱 But that at the time was a statement not a prediction 👍
March 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Sorry, been distracted by an earthquake 😱 But that at the time was a statement not a prediction 👍
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive….
February 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive….
First win in Swansea since January 1950.
February 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
First win in Swansea since January 1950.
These numbers don’t reconcile with treasury’s figures which show a larger crown net value:
January 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
These numbers don’t reconcile with treasury’s figures which show a larger crown net value:
Not that different and alien to Europeans.
January 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Not that different and alien to Europeans.
No, they are due to a lack of generating capacity. Generation has flat lined since 2010. Base load capacity - for those bitterly cold nights when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining - is actually falling.
January 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
No, they are due to a lack of generating capacity. Generation has flat lined since 2010. Base load capacity - for those bitterly cold nights when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining - is actually falling.
I think you need to check your numbers? According to the treasury as at 30 June 2024 total crown borrowings were 251Bn of which 129Bn was in govt bonds.
January 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I think you need to check your numbers? According to the treasury as at 30 June 2024 total crown borrowings were 251Bn of which 129Bn was in govt bonds.
Wouldn’t be the first England manager we’ve had in charge.
November 15, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Wouldn’t be the first England manager we’ve had in charge.