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your reply prompted me to have a read about the lagavulin distillery tour alex, gets absolutely cracking reviews but sadly would be wasted on me. I'm not a spirits drinker at all and whisky in particular, instant heartburn. on a more positive note, for company yesterday evening we had oystercatchers, ringed plovers and choughs. swimming just offshore we had a group of about 5 seals and could clearly see the fins of 3 dolphin. and then just before it started getting dark a golden eagle being mobbed by gulls. the Eagle started flying back towards where we're parked up and was suddenly joined by its mate! fucking tremendous!

* walks in to hostel after a 20 mile hike, spots CT firing up the portable microwave, turns around and walks 20 miles more to sleep in a bush.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/john-terry-steve-bruce-newcastle-21172405 I actually hope this happens so I can finally walk away

Stayed at the cottage there over Christmas when our house was a building site and I payed way over the odds just to not spend Christmas in a Dusseldorf hut tribute act. It was lush to fair however the time of the year didn't help as it was pitch black around four o'clock. It would be excellent in the summer though.

https://www.exploremiddletonhall.co.uk/boathouse This place is nice. There's other properties on their website too but with the boathouse it's dead private, view out to the water, and you get your own rowing boat so you can get your Olympics on. Whether it works as a base for you, i dunno!

I nearly got a hiding outside the peacock in '94. Try there.

She's fucking done it again and guess who was there to see it. I'm a double Olympic champion!

It’s fun to stay there

Brewn coo.

Very slew you noo

Chill out Beastmaster!

The more mad shit the better, I say. Breakdancing is taking place in Paris 2024. Chess was under consideration at one point, imagine that in the ending montage. People showing off fantastic feats of athleticism and then some specky nerd moving a queen over the bards head or whatever it is they do.

This goes back to what Howay was saying. If he’s genuinely happy having one PL-quality centre forward then the manager's a fucking moron. If he’s not then why’s he defending the owner by making out we have adequate cover? And if Luke Edwards can’t see the problem then he’s cut from the same cloth

no takeover on the horizon. an owner who doesn't give a shit. looking increasingly likely we'll start the season with a weaker squad. a clueless manager who takes every opportunity to belittle us. a football governance seemingly hellbent on pampering to the whims of the big, big, huge clubs. struggled to sell 10,000 v sheffield utd. apparently still to shift 13,000 season tickets. counteracted perhaps by the lure of being able to attend games again following 17 months of pandemic restrictions? I reckon 42,000 v west ham and I won't be among them.

Aye this would be Dennis Wise MKII…

https://coquetcottages.co.uk/northumberland-holiday-cottages/pottergate-tower/ Forgot about this place. I've stayed here a couple of times. You're right in the middle of Alnwick - you're actually staying in the tower you can see at the end of this street: Check the website link for pics of the interior - it's all been done out really nicely.

That looks amazing.... funnily enough we worked at the “big hoose” when I was an apprentice. This is the first time I’ve thought about that place since about 1988 We’re Airbnb-ing here in about 5 weeks, just after the kids go back to school https://abnb.me/AsG0lnrciib

Not a recommendation but when lever I go past it on the A19 the advert for the holiday cottages at Burradon makes me laugh. Fucking Burradon, man

This is well placed for south Northumberland, and within easy reach of the northern parts and inland. https://www.cottages.com/cottages/whittle-dene-reservoir-house-uk32435

So, 越变越一样 then?

Anyone got any good recommendations where to drink in Leeds? They’ll be wasted by my fucking backward mates but it’ll be nice to have places that I can walk past and go “aye, that looks canny in there”

And on the centenary of this, no less https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_competitions_at_the_1924_Summer_Olympics

Aye, like having Heads and Volleys at the Olympics.

Always had a bit of a soft spot for ZZ Top, possibly due to the ladies with questionable morals in their 80's videos

Have a Caol Ila or Lagavulin or 6 for me

Lucky ewe. Well done.

on the north of islay by ardnave which is basically 2 houses and a farm. took the dogs for a walk and spotted what looked like a dead sheep on its back all four legs pointed skywards with 2 lambs stood nearby. went to investigate and the sheep was alive but very distressed, shitting and pissing itself. abandoned the dog walk and went to the farm and told the farmer what we'd found and explained where roughly it was and off he went zooming off on his quad bike. he came back an hour or so late really pleased as he reckoned it would've died within an hour it was that bloated with gas. anyway, he told us we could drive through his farmyard, go through several gates, follow the little map he drew us and park up on the headland where nobody else his access to. we now have our private beach, not a person, building or vehicle to be seen for miles. view from a sidedoor.....

Could this be the week that the club gets the hang of this footballing lark?

When you were looking for a joke to pinch for here, that one should have been a NO SELECTOR.

Edwards, and his ilk, pin their entire argument on Bruce achieving a similar points total to Benitez, but disregard the context. As if the fans should shut up and be happy that we're not relegated. With the amount that's been spent, and more importantly the caliber of players available to us, we should be able to do better than we did shortly after promotion. We're all idiots, and yet we could all see that the best way to get points with this team was to play a pressing, counter attack style. To use the movement of the attacking players (Wilson/Almiron/ASM) and the solid defence left by RB to ensure we're hard to beat, at the very least. The football under Bruce has, on the whole, been bad. Even with the additions of quality players like Wilson, Saint Maximin, etc. We've been told he's a great fan of running stats, but we don't press. We were told he'd make us play more attractive football, but by and large, we're more passive and defensive than we were under famously pragmatic Benitez, let alone McClaren, Pardew, et al. He's a great motivator, right? Yet we've had numerous stories of discord on the training ground, listless performances and so on.

“Where’s the bloody manager?! I demand blood clots!”