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- Scotland
Having two grandsons, aged 3 and 9, its impossible to argue with that
NWR Silly little things that delight you
- Thread starter G. W o l f f
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- Northampton
Pleased to say it would seem to me that the team previously responsible for the Brit awards fiascos must have found a new home organising Olympic games ceremonies.
Such embarrassment on a massive scale.
Such embarrassment on a massive scale.
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- London
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- Lanark
Its all shockingly true Mark, never buy a haggis from a butcher that does not have a piper playing outside the shop.
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- London
Succulent Chinese meal arrest
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- Bordeaux
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- London
A nice review of Titanic:
In James Cameron’s “Titanic”—spoiler alert—a freewheeling scruff named Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) rescues a despairing Rose (Kate Winslet) as she stands at the stern, red silk shoes on the railing, and prepares to jump. “He hauls her back, they fall in love, he draws her nude, they make out in the cargo hold, and then the ship, in a touching display of erotic sympathy, rears up on end and goes down,” Anthony Lane wrote, in 1997.
In James Cameron’s “Titanic”—spoiler alert—a freewheeling scruff named Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) rescues a despairing Rose (Kate Winslet) as she stands at the stern, red silk shoes on the railing, and prepares to jump. “He hauls her back, they fall in love, he draws her nude, they make out in the cargo hold, and then the ship, in a touching display of erotic sympathy, rears up on end and goes down,” Anthony Lane wrote, in 1997.
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- Staining
The Rôstigraben. That fact that it exists and that we walked over it at the weekend. Literally Rösti ditch, it’s the cultural divide between French-speaking and Swiss-German speaking Switzerland.
We were staying in Rougemont and walked over to Saanen and on to Gstaad, moving from the Route de La Saussa to Grischbachstrasse along the way.
Beautiful walking and I came across the book below which might be of interest to some.
We were staying in Rougemont and walked over to Saanen and on to Gstaad, moving from the Route de La Saussa to Grischbachstrasse along the way.
Beautiful walking and I came across the book below which might be of interest to some.
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- London
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- Colchester
where's that Mark?
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- UK
Realising you're not on call at the weekend when you though you were!
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- London
Amsterdam - VRA is the club.
You might know it as the ground where England played The Netherlands in a one-dayer a couple of years ago. It looks quite different when they put up the grandstands. It’s also famous for being one of the few 1st Class grounds that have a tree on the playing area.
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- London
Many of us have reason to be delighted by this:
“Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they’ll marry anybody.” Anthony Powell |
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- Scotland
Not sure whether this delighted or annoyed me but, obviously to balance the Oasis reunion story, BBC Radio Scotland managed to spend 5 minutes telling us the non-story, including an interview with some music industry expert, that Morrissey and Marr will not be reuniting.
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- London, Europe
Borough market at 9am before a lot of tourists are there - and eating oysters......
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- London
Oysters make the best of breakfasts. 36 no 6s used to reestablish my opening skills on arrival in France.
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- East Cambs
Disco Proms. Well played Mr Muttar!
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- London
The Oasis reunion has come up in the silly little things that annoy you thread, but I found this hatchet job on the Gallagher Brothers to be an entertaining read. The article is a few days old now.
Stop the celebrations – Oasis are the most damaging pop-cultural force in recent British history | Simon Price
Edit: the best bit is the (late) Neil Kukarni rant linked toward the end of the article
Stop the celebrations – Oasis are the most damaging pop-cultural force in recent British history | Simon Price
Edit: the best bit is the (late) Neil Kukarni rant linked toward the end of the article
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- London, England
I always had you down as a number 5, Thom coming in after the shine is off the new ball and the bowlers are tiring.
- Location
- London
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- Marlborough
I was just about to say I had no idea Thom was an opener.
- Location
- Salisbury, Wiltshire
I need a nap too after drinking at lunchtime.
- Location
- London
Paul Johnson's thunderous view in 1964, "At 16, I and my friends heard our first performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. We would not have wasted 30 seconds of our precious time on The Beatles".
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- East Cambs
I also had a Beatles epiphany in 1964. At the age of six the buggers kept me awake night after night with She loves you yeah, yeah, yeah played loudly and repeatedly at the fair in the market square next to the house. I took agin them then and haven't changed my mind. And if as I suspect when the time comes the care home has moved to them from Vera Lynn, I'll be DM-ing Keef and asking for his nembutal supplier.
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- Nottingham
'Delight' would be an overstatement, but I like the fact that at two hotels I have stayed at recently, one in the North of England and one in Brussels, the default arrangement is that they do not come into your room every day and change your used-once towels and make your bed and tidy all your stuff.
I think it would be good if this became the norm.
I think it would be good if this became the norm.