Gareth James

As a non-American who watches plenty of American Football-related content on YouTube, I’d say it’s about 80/20 stitch/sheesh. I absolutely, definitely have not got into the habit of commenting under any of those videos about my annoyance at use of the stitch pronunciation. Definitely not me….

A movie you have seen more than seven times with gif #films #movie

Not sure this is that new. Moved into a private house share in Leeds in April 1990. Only space we shared was a fungus infested bathroom and a kitchen. No lounge in my first house share in Manchester in 1997 either. More shocking to me is the rent now charged for a room in a house share.

Just pleased the commentators didn’t refer to it as being like a rugby scrum. Appreciate the battle is lost on this, but it’s the equivalent of a move called a maul in rugby, not a scrum.

Struggling today. How does tomorrow look. Will mention I don’t have DM functionality in operation yet, but should be able to access later.

Not at the Pensions UK event, but now back working literally around the corner in central Manchester if you fancied a pre, post or during conference catch-up.

Requires a bit of flexibility in how rules are applied, but one option might have been to elect to receive the death benefits as a pension, not a lump sum, and then transfer to a different scheme from which death benefits drawdown could be paid. Taxed, but as income, so more manageable.

Likewise last weekend. Not sure I even had to stop walking at any time, let alone sit down. Pointed in the direction of a room, the needle was in as soon as I got through the door and I was directed to the exit.

Let’s Dance - David Bowie 10/10
Let’s Dance - Chris Montez 9/10

The former is on the first album I bought.
Owned the latter on a 45rpm single when I took my mum’s collection of singles off to uni with me.

Even if the only cost was my time, no.

It isn’t taxpayers’ money. It’s scammers pretending to be the DWP. I got one of the texts as well and immediately deleted it.

California Golden Bears 3-0 🐻🤙🏼

Interesting reading some of the responses to this. Not a particular Oasis fan but was at the LA Rams vs Houston Texans a few hours before one of the gigs and was surprised to see hundreds of fans at the NFL game in Oasis t-shirts.

My favourite overheard train journey involved an older couple discussing whether they’d packed sufficient food for their holiday. In particular, whether they’d remembered to pack their “emergency tin of tuna”.

Edward Woodward would.

Symbiosis between the financial press and pundits. Papers have column inches to fill and speculation generates clicks. So they ask pundits for speculation-based quotes. A pundit saying “nothing will happen” won’t get a press mention for their organisation (which is their aim), so gives a quote.

Remembering that mid 90s period when so many of us were debating which band was better, Sharpen or Desert.

Grew up in Wantage. Went to King Alfred’s School. Drank in the King Alfred’s Head. Ate in the Burnt Cake cafe. Gathered by the statue of King Alfred in the town square on many a New Year’s Eve. It’s Alfred for me, and I won’t accept the suggestion I’m biased in any way…

Found out a couple of weeks ago that the folks in my maternal line of ancestry were based around 10 miles north of Hereford from the late 17th century to the late 19th century. Sadly I haven’t inherited a genetic memory of the area, so no recommendations!

If they do limit cash ISA subscriptions to £4k it will be interesting to see how many subscribe £20k to a S&S ISA and just leave the funds in cash. I assume they’ll still earn interest on all the cash tax-free in the S&S ISA, just at a lower rate than in a cash ISA. Great outcome!

Seeing the Charlatans for the first time ever - was a fan back in the 1990 Some Friendly days, but have somehow managed to miss seeing them until now. 24 Jan is a possible as things stand!

Shall be in that neck of the woods a little later for a gig.

Might be worth doing a piece on the need to check with your insurer before building work is being carried out on a house? We checked in advance and found our policy wouldn't cover us whilst work was underway so switched to a different insurer who would cover us.

Sorry!

Photographs of one of my implants were taken for use in a specialist magazine…

From a Government perspective the gov dot Uk website is very good at the ‘doing’ on this sort of subject. The main issues come when you deal with companies in the financial private sector as they all have different requirements - and I say that as someone who worked in that sector for 25+ years.

Just made it as was in the last year before GCSEs. My conspiracy theory of choice (based on absolutely no evidence of course!) is that the last year of O Levels was marked down to make sure GCSEs looked like an improvement!

You’ve just given me a flashback to my triple O Level day. Had an exam clash in the morning plus an afternoon exam. Meant I had to take a History exam in the early evening having been isolated all day from those who’d taken it in the morning!

Best episode of the second series. Show is at its best when a majority of the episode is spent on Charlie exposing the lie/liar. Several episodes this series seem to have focussed most of the time setting up the story with Charlie only coming in to do her thing right at the end.

Also known as Satchmoooo