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My longest bus trip, South Wales to Porto to watch a footy game. drunk by the time we got to Dover, hallucinating by the time we reached Spain barking mad and minging by the time we rolled into Boavista's social club to challenge the local's to a port and super bock marathon One day in Porto, evening game, swift few in the bar after the game, swap some badges and scarves then back on the bus and home. Happy days.

don't panic, it's all on expenses this evening!

generic lager earlier, but moved on to cognac

Grapes Pub behind Lord Street is good for a laugh! Never been as drunk as I've been in there a couple of times. Tate is a good idea as Bicks says, that whole area is worth a look with the architecture around the Liver building being worth a little bit of time to look at if that's your thing. Seriously, I know you shouldn't stereotype whole towns, but fwk me, stuff nicked from our party on a few consecutive visits including stuff taken from hotel rooms including stays at the Thistle and Malmaison. The only town in a nationwide building programme (that included Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester etc) where we had to employ security guards at the gates in the middle of the working day. There are occassional exhibitions in the crypt of the Rock Cake Cathedral, Le Corbusier last time I was there. You could always do some stadium tours too!

stand in the garden, spin round as fast as you can atleast 12 times, then lay on the grass and look at the clouds woooooooo! 'kin awseome

home game against the worst team left in it please

heard a rumour that Heskey has tried to shoot himself tonight he's fine, but is on the look out for a new fishtank

one point off the drop zone with a goal difference worse than the team directly below us and worse than every team above us it isn't must win, but it is close my first game in a couple of months, let's not make it a crap drive home

Totally missed the Boxing Day round of games in an inter office fantasy league and slipped from 5th out of 32 to 10th in a single round of games. 3 months of graft ditched by a single missed e-mail

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Having a little clear out, tidy up and reorganise of the back room. Moving some old vinyl and came across some 'classics' including: a signed copy of a Merton Parkas EP an original copy of Ogden's Nut Gone Flake and what I think is a fairly rare flexi single, in glowing transparent yellow, of Pop Art Poem c/w Boy About Town by The Jam. ah, memories.

yes just watched toast funny little cameo of Savoy chef right at the end we've crumbled white chocolate into ours, plus half a swiss roll, it's in the freezer in an expensive John Lewis flexible container - might be wonderful, might be inedible

ha! doing the same tomorrow, we'll have to compare notes turns out we've got cream with a date looming, strawberries going soft and a broken packet of meringues so tomorrow is turkey curry followed by home made ice cream

packaging on toys is becoming ridiculous. my nipper had some tiddly little animal toys in a box (my littlest pet shop?), anyway, they were in a cardboard box with a plastic view panel. Within the box they were on a moulded plastic tray. Within the tray they were on a second sheet of plastic. They had been tied to the second piece of plastic with iddy biddy little strings. These strings were knotted, folded over and secured with the world's tiniest clear elastic bands. The whole lot was then covered in sellotape.

Yes, I agree. Grouse is good. Bells is shite. All malts are better, but many of them aren't that much better that you'd pay the difference, if money is a factor in your life. West coast malts are the tops. Islay especially. Though I can be tempted by a nice Speyside... I think the world of whisky / whiskey is too broad to say malt is better or blend is better. For me, Bushmills is a classic example of this, give me their simple cheap blend any time over their over priced malts. Jameson is another, their entry blend is way better than quite a few malts. Somebody mentioned Lagavulin earlier. My mate thinks it's the best and is always preaching it's virtues. I personally think it tastes like bitumen and is horrid. But then I like Penderyn so what do I know.

yes, Kenyan lager. Distinctly average to be honest, saw it on a shelf and thought I'd relive the old days. So I chilled it right down, put on flip flops and shorts, got a dose of the sh!ts and scattered insects all over the dining room. Happy days.

Tusker ! not the best lager in the world, but reminiscing about my best ever holiday only a couple tonight, just staying on tick over to be fully on form for the big day

No new snow here today. Just as well, it's been truly exciting driving a rear wheel drive, automatic estate. Office car park was just packed snow and ice this morning with almost nobody in before me. Yahoo! Time for a little tail out fun, haven't had so many skids since I wore the same pants all week.

It is scripted, it is formulaic. But it can still be fun. I did think the episode was quite slowly paced, I had the advantage of watching it on play back so was able to skip through the star in a car section and the christmas present twaddle etc.. I thought the Stig stuff was quite funny, especially the turn the target around and shoot him in the back variation. As far as telegraphing goes, I claim my prize for guessing Clarkson would have a bigger gun than the others. But then I also predicted someone would get out of their car and properly execute a target.

There in lies the issue, if it could be predicted then the maths suggests loss of income versus investment in stuff would be fairly simple. Chances are, this could be the last snow for 5 years and every council in the land will be criticised for buying Thunderbird 7 and not using it.

Just discovered something called Radio Free Wales. Apparently it was pirate radio set up by plaid cymru in the 1950's to combat the fact they were banned from having party political broadcasts like the other parties. Used to operate on the BBC TV frequency and would be switched on just as the BBC announcer said good night. Transmitters had to be hidden in different locations and moved from place to place to avoid detection. Pre dates radio Caroline and all that. I know this is a slightly niche market post, but hey, it caught my interest so I'm off to do some further reading.

they wouldn't be?! :? They'd either make it into work, work the time up, or take it as holiday (ie paid leave). Using the example from the previous page. I've not heard talk of unpaid leave on here, and I would not be in favour of that at all. EDIT: ooops - just read Si's post on previous page. That's not good. Apart from Si's position, what if you had no holiday left (surely not an unlikely position in the middle of december if the holiday year was a calendar one)? 'Work the time up'? Would one be allowed to nett it off against any unpaid overtime already done? my mate's wife has walked into work for the wonderful Tesco this morning. Car undriveable, no buses, so she walked in. On arriving at 8:10am for a shift that starts at 8:00am she was met at the door by someone with a clipboard that told her she will be docked 15 minutes pay. Happy Christmas Tesco.

Brains Black only just discovered it, early days, but might be even better than Brains Dark......

under English law he is innocent until proven guilty , so he may not have been "found" innocent as to all extents and purposes he always was that's a little bit cheeky there to complain about people having an agenda and then slipping in the Coulsen found innocent thing if you have good news, post it up, I know 4 people who've been laid off this week, we could do with some good news

In fairness to the tories, they didn't have their photo's taken signing individual personal pledges not to do something .....then go and do it. That's why the heat is off cameron & hague et al. Strangely, one bi election is having to be re run due to a charge of telling fibs in canvassing literature that may have influenced people to vote Labour. I know there is a 'coalition' defence here, but frankly, they lied got into power and pissed on people. Perversley, I actually think this whole thing is at least making people look into the whole uni thing, the need for it, the desired outcomes, it's value to the individual and society.