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I grudgingly accept your offer.

Same neck of the woods. I'd go into details but I know the whole SE part of your London map basically reads "Here Be Dragons". Got both the old and new places for the second half of June so no mad rush on the moving front, which is something.

Relieved. Not going to count any chickens until we've signed on the dotted line, but it looks like we've finally found a place to live... which is probably a good thing since the lease on our current place runs out at the end of the month. Drinks tonight, I think... In related news, why are 90% of estate agents so utterly shit?

Classy Club Cheesy Chips It can't be coincidence.

I would consider them to be ready bedfellows such as the domesticated equus ferus caballus and the wheeled vehicle transported by the latter.

There's some really good writing on Zonal Marking and the Football Ramble, among others, ahead of the Euros. Looking back and looking forward. Plenty to keep you distracted on a work-shy Friday.

Has been ever since his Bayern days at least. The subtitles on this interview are quite nicely done in that they give you a decent idea of how rickety his German is - and yet somehow his message remains intact...

Or a training session started: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jun/07/euro-2012-holland-racist-abuse?CMP=twt_gu

Nonsense - whether you earn £1k or £500k, you're 'fair share' is X%.

Why? Seems inconsistent with your approach to the matter generally.

...ah, but since when?

That's efficient troll-baiting there Fisty, 13 words for a 125% return on investment. I remember reading a lot of the articles and reminiscences when the 60th anniversary happened, and being surprised at how little I really knew about the events that that took place on and around that day, both at an operational level and in terms of the personal stories of sacrifice and achievement. I suppose it's such an inconceivable event for us nowadays, in terms of both scale and nature, plus no family members or acquaintances served in or near the event - and I haven't been exposed to any dramatic interpretations of it (Hollywood or otherwise) so I don't really have any technicolor moving images to match the words. Which might not be such a bad thing. "Never forget", they rightly say, but even with the sense of distance and anonymity that time brings, we never will.

Just good honest high-rate taxpayers fulfilling their public duties as persons of standing. I hope someone calls YOU wierd the next time YOU make a sardonic comment on an internet forum.

Watching France-Estonia on ESPN, half-time now. Canny goals from Ribery and Benzema. Cabaye keeps trying, but nowt doing yet.

Popped into the Gibraltar Rock at Tynemouth for a quick pint with me old man this afternoon. Shabby-looking pub, great views, average beers - but the barman upstairs had 6 Music on, so it's a 10/10 from me.

Parents have it on. One is about to ferry me to the station. If it's on the car radio too there'll be ructions.

The sound mix on this is fucking appalling.

http://www.guardian....rticle/10271939 :(

The baby carrots were very... short and bulbous, for a start. So yes, with a certain testicular quality to them, albeit also slightly pointy. Acutely tapered root-vegetable nads, if you will.

It didn't feel much like a wedding venue until a lass in a flamboyant bridesmaid's dress suddenly swooshed past while we were having drinks at the bar. Seems like they basically couldn't decide whether to be a restaurant, bar, event venue, nightclub etc. so just decided to do everything.

(I trust I've understood the thrust of the thread correctly.)