I manage to loose specs, let alone contact lense's🙄

Not strictly related, I recently had a pack of 'Cuppa Soup' with a picture on the pack "Serving Suggestion" 🤔🙄
Since then I've put the contents in a cup and poured water over them👍
Far better than getting the dehydrated contents in yer gob😁

Big Ben👀

Probably, before I got from under the duvet☺️

*as 🙄

Always listen to your mum, and occasionally your dad.

That's the route we took back that day, up to Langsett and back home from there, loads of Liverpool fans took that route, rather than the 'dog's leg' route of M62 and M1.
It's always amazed me no direct motorway links M/cr and Sheffield That bottleneck at Mottram!
Pity the Woodhead line was closed

Purely fortuitous 🙏

...final thoughts.
If I'd only been offered standing tickets, I would have taken them...
The fans who got into the standing area early would be the ones crushed, as the latecomers who'd been in the pubs pushed onto the terrace, completely oblivious of the crush they were causing.

...the following week we observed, Matt, our son to make sure he was ok, after what he'd witnessed, kept him away from the news for days. He was ok.
As for myself, I'm not ashamed to say, I broke down in tears several times that week, a state of shock as the full extent of the tragedy was clear...

...the journey back home, pre mobile phone days, big queues at every phone box as folk were trying to ring home to say they were ok.
On the car radio reports coming in of mounting fatalities, it wasn't until we got home and started watching the TV news that the scale of the tragedy became clear...

...loads of folk outside who'd managed to escape the crush by the normal exits, many in a state of shock, some with minor injuries, they were the lucky ones.
Sirens everywhere, ambulances and police arriving.
Folk heading back to their cars, buses etc confusion..

....then 1000's on pitch, supporters ripping advert placards down to make stretchers, it looked likely there may be one or two fatalities, lone ambulance eventually arrived, complete chaos and bedlam on the pitch. Obvious game not going to continue, tannoy requested we leave stadium....

Was offered tickets for standing or seats, went with seats at rear of that stand, if only standing I would have gone with them
A few minutes into game I noticed folk below trying to climb over the fence
Game eventually stopped, hundreds climbing over fence, looked like several needed reviving...

He was a farmer. Managing for decades,until one day he was pushed against a wall by a cart horse, dislodging a piece of shrapnel piercing his lung.
From that day, he was on a steady decline
My early memories of him was having a lidded spittoon to spit blood into
Nowadays surgery would have sorted it

👍
My grandfather was wounded twice on The Somme, in "The War to end all Wars".....the rest is history.

...and further down the road, there's Isabelle marching impeccably with the 'Union Jack'🇬🇧
#RAFCadet
In total, there were 4 lads killed by the same IED, all from the 'Yorkshire Regiment'...