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  • Birthday 08/08/1964

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  1. Mark Fotheringham & Kenny Miller have just been sacked at Huddersfield...should they be casting their eye north for their next gig, my personal view is that I wouldn't trust them to manage my local school team. Fotheringham's press conferences often bordered on bizarre. Send them to Leeds would be my suggestion.
  2. I've always been much more club than country, but will usually at least cast an eye on how England are doing. But even though we are there, I can't remember ever being less interested. I even had to look up who was in our group the other day. And even then just felt an overwhelming 'meh' in my head. I'm way more hacked off that I can't get to see Town play for the next 6 weeks & in truth am far more interested in a couple of trips I've planned to watch the not very mighty Golcar United play. The media will always be the media, but they aren't representative of anyone I know. A WMC near me have booked a kids Xmas party on the same day as the final. They said they will put it on the telly in case anyone wants to watch it...& most people I know are saying the same thing, 'well maybe if England are in it, but we all know that won't happen'. I wish I felt strongly enough to have the energy to actively boycott watching it, but in truth 'can't be arsed' has overtaken 'it shouldn't be being played there' as my go to response.
  3. Just to be a bit pedantic, you said: Did you actually mean 'no later than' or the strict meaning of the phrase 'that will be the earliest possible date? In which case, we won't hear a thing for a minimum of 9 years, but it could be decades after that?
  4. I can see this page has been dormant for a while so thought I'd ask the question. Me & Mrs H were supposed to have our traditional week of doing sod all in the sunshine at the back of September but due to having had a big op, Mrs H can't fly for a while so we've cancelled it & booked a week in the Fens (close to Ely). We opted for it because neither of us can really walk much now, I use a mobility scooter & it's flat, accessible, etc. Now I've passed through there for all the traditional reasons many times (Colchester away, Norwich away, etc.) but never really stopped to have a look around. We're looking at boat trips & one or two things but has anyone ever explored around there & got any tips for off the beaten track places or things that are worth a visit? Or even the odd pub...the odder the better in fact. Cheers.
  5. We used to watch the Apollo missions at school, at least the early ones. I started in September 1969 so have no recollection of XI, definitely remember XII & very vivid memories of XIII. I had a toy Saturn V as a kid as I was utterly obsessed with it. I took it into school, & remember the teacher trying to explain using the toy what they thought had happened. More than one teacher also said that by the time we were adults we'd probably been going on holiday to the Moon. Lying barstewards. Still waiting.
  6. Hey listen, my brain pretty much runs out of steam when I imagine the elastic band breaking & the poor little ant getting flung into the nettles. However, no, the object is travelling lower than the speed of light & ditto the expansion. So, much as if you have 2 cars driving away from each other at 50mph; both are still doing 50mph but they are separating from each other at more than 50mph. I'm getting out of my depth from this point on though, so will await someone who knows what the chuff they are talking about to clarify things using science rather than twanging ants.
  7. I'm not claiming expertise but I think the analogy used is that of an ant crawling along a stretching elastic band. The ant itself is walking at a particular speed, but the stretching of the elastic band also adds distance at the same time. In much the same way, the expansion of the universe adds distance on top of the actual distance travelled by the object. I think! Better qualified people than me can probably make that loads more complicated 😁
  8. My in-laws were both born & brought/dragged up in Ireland & landed over here in the mid-50s. When the Windrush thing kicked off, my F-i-L convinced himself (he'd be mid-80s by then) that the Police were going to turn up & send him back to Ireland. He point blank refused to get a UK passport but got it in his head that he'd get an Irish one. I did a lot of the forms for the two of them & found out along the way that children of people born anywhere in Ireland (incl. NI) are automatically Irish citizens, & if you send off your parents' passport, you can claim one for yourself. Grandchildren can apply for citizenship & likewise get a passport by sending off proof. He never went anywhere with it until he died, but I reckon, with all the kids & grandkids jumping on it after Brexit, it ended up a very well-travelled passport.
  9. We don't do bog standard kit photos anymore...this years looks more like some sort of fashion shoot for Vogue. Anyway, the home kit is pretty much the same as this season's: The away kit seems to be causing a bit of a stir though with some sort of 'ref look' going on. We had an all black away kit once years back which looked great, but I can't make my mind up on this one at all.
  10. That's good to hear. I think he's shown signs now & again here of having a lot of potential.
  11. Not able to watch the game but how is Scott High getting on?
  12. 😁 I think you're probably right (the Blunts are notorious play-off bottlers so I'd expect it to be Forest) but then I wouldn't generally back Town to win anything. Very pleased for Rhodes; that goal was him all over. Just that habit of being in the right place at the right time. He's not getting any younger & has had some very anonymous games for us but I'd be made up if he did get another call-up at some point.
  13. Indeed...a very sore head this morning. I don't drink that much these days but there's a brilliant loophole in the drink-drive laws in that they don't apply to mobility scooters so I went for it big time yesterday, before & after. I can't totally account for how I got home in all honesty, but being under strict instructions from Mrs H not to overdo it, I'm banking on her swallowing the story that I just had a swift half on the way home 🍺
  14. Bollox 😄😄😄 We're on our way...to the premier league we're on our way. PS 2 hours to KO & absolutely pissed as a fart already. PPS Forest are cocky wankers. PP whatever S Thanks to Leeds Scum for keeping our seat warm. And if we lose I'm deleting my account 😄😄😄😄😄
  15. For the last 30 years I've lived in a village called Linthwaite, 4 or 5 miles SW of Huddersfield. It's probably becoming more of a suburb these days as house-building has consumed loads of old farm land & a lot of the new houses are going to people who want to move into somewhere more rural from places like Manchester, Leeds & Merseyside as well as Huddersfield itself. My house is to the bottom left, although hidden by trees. It's underneath the old mill (Titanic Mill) & close to the chapel you can see. Declining health though means I need to be somewhere flatter with better access to public transport, shops, pubs and the local football stadium (not necessarily in that order) so any day now I will be moving to a spot about a mile from the town centre.
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