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Chislehurst councillor (it matters!) in London Borough of Bromley. Knows that the year consists of 2 seasons - rugby and cricket, with blues, jazz and cask beer all year round!

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The sleepy southern town of Oxford Mississippi staged an insurrection when troops were put in there in the early 60s….

13.10.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We’re still at least three years from a general election, so why is anyone worrying about manifestos at this stage?

13.10.2025 08:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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12.10.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 151    πŸ” 360    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 13

Deadly would hit a perfect length over after over. Only the very best batters of the time could get after him. In T20 they’d tee off on him very quickly so he would have had to adapt and produce far more variation.

11.10.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Most by an English spinner. By all accounts, not as intensely irritating to his teammates as Graeme Swann either!

11.10.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I once got him mixed up with the Richard Cole who was Peter Grant’s enforcer in Led Zeppelin’s entourage.
That was confusing!

11.10.2025 07:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Same with local councillors.

10.10.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

09.10.2025 06:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1472    πŸ” 388    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 2

Demanding a Nobel Prize should automatically mean exclusion from ever receiving one.
If the Nobel committee award one to Trump, its credibility will be zero.

09.10.2025 05:41 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s around Β£4 million, plus travel expenses.

09.10.2025 06:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Only for cross-breeds….

08.10.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy Yankee Elimination Day should be tomorrow (here in the UK!)

07.10.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Activist judges = judges who make decisions I don’t like

07.10.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Funnily enough, the complaints from the right in the US about β€œactivist judges” ended when six activist judges on the Supreme Court abolished Roe v Wade.

07.10.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And the ones who said England only beat Brazil 1-0 rather than 2-0 in 1984, because John Barnes scored one of the goals.

07.10.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait until the four cases of wine turn up from Majestic (again!)

07.10.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

By night, punk rock singer. By night, molecular biologist!

06.10.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Never seen a picture of the large stand before. It’s not the one that was knocked down to make way for the current Bedser Stand.

05.10.2025 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are 25,000 other head teachers in the UK who I’m sure would happily share their opinions with the BBC

04.10.2025 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Transitory

03.10.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mushy peas though! 😍

30.09.2025 08:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Eels and liquor? That’s Pie & Mash shops, not chippies!πŸ˜‚
How do you know Whitby and Barrow are better than the great ones I’ve been to in Brighton, Plymouth, Ashford and Dymchurch?

30.09.2025 06:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Jet Boy - NY Dolls

29.09.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Or the enigmatic weirdness of Belle and Sebastian.

29.09.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Before he went to New York to create some artwork out of Campbell’s soup tins and design an iconic album cover with a picture of a banana!

29.09.2025 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I suspect Trump would have been typically graceless when he was at the course on Friday - maybe tried some lame trash talk.
So this is probably karmic payback!

29.09.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just for 1986 alone….πŸ˜‰

29.09.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pretty safe to say this is the first time that Trump and Neil Warnock have appeared in the same paragraph….

29.09.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But this isn’t new behaviour. Remember Brookline?

29.09.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Derek Jeter holding his right arm up while at bat, making the pitcher wait until he was ready.
God bless the pitch clock.

28.09.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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