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Toulouse are playing some lovely stuff against Exeter 50-26
26°C and blazing sun is to our advantage

dasnutnock3 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 12:50 pm My experiences couldn't be more different to that rule. Bordeaux, Lyon, Caen, La Rochelle, Nice, Tours are all splendid cities.

*ahem

Having ditched the last living thing, other than me, from my flat last year, I relented and bought a dwarf peach tree in a pot for my balcony. I repotted it and it is starting to sprout some green shoots, so it is still alive!

Wow, didn't know anything about her, not having lived in the UK for decades, but she's blimmin' fantastic in this interview.
Hats off to you Bianca.

A very pleasant 18° and sunny here but it is clouding over a bit.

Metal Hammer wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:26 am Steve Harley of Cockney Rebel

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/national ... 43e5b&ei=7

Don't know how I missed this. What a dude, what a song. R.I.P., Sir.

On the 3 Body intro, that anti-education stuff actually happened and it did get murderous. About a year into the Cultural Revolution Mao was reportedly thinking 'wtf have I started?'. Last time I worked in China, a colleague told me her university lecturer father had been publicly shamed and spat o...

It does get better. Ta!

Dune part 2 last weekend. Can't really remember much about it other than it was a bit long and there was sand and worms. It was visually superb and there was a story, as far as I can remember but, and this is not specific to the film, I don't really care about squabbling space-aristos, which is one ...

'3 body' is one of the most intriguing things I've seen in yonks. I like sci-fi but so much out there is hackneyed and predictable whereas this definitely isn't The fact that they started bringing god into it early doors* made me switch off but if you lot say it is ok, then I'll give it a chance.. ...

5. Monsters: Lisa Kekaula's voice could melt concrete...

Puff Daddy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:58 am Funeral. That set me thinking. Haven't been to one in a while, but having visited someone ill in hospital yesterday, dont think it will be long before I go to another

Last 10 years, funerals have outnumbered weddings 5 to 1. Yep I'm in my 50s. Same suit, different tie....

Did a quick afternoon trip to Andorra yesterday just to get out of the city and up into the snow capped mountains and did a bit of shopping for mates mainly. Petrol was 40 cents /litre cheaper, so that almost paid for the trip, then I ha ve 3 friends who smoke so I bought 3 boxes of 200 fags at a th...

I am Pro Israel's right to exist and defend itself despite being left-leaning politically (aka a heretic who should be first against the wall come the revolution) but the the West's failure to act on the illegal theft and colonisation of Palestinian land puts a big dent in any legitimacy we might ha...

DaveWHU1964 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:10 pm

Agreed Dave . Biden pitch perfect there but the brain dead MAGA lot won't get it.

the pink palermo wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:39 am Today is show me the money day is it not ?

Is there not a Go fund me page for the MAGA cultists to reverse-Robin Hood his arse out of this situation?

The Old Man of Storr wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:40 pm Mao had millions of sparrows killed too .


Should have gone after the locusts but hey , hindsight , eh ?

He was just misunderstood, and anyway it was the West's fault.

For the young woman, I have nothing but sympathy and I hope she has the courage and luck to get through this, as I do for anyone suffering from this b*stard of a disease (took my Dad and has tried, unsuccessfully, twice, to take my Mum). For the "Princess", I couldn't give a flying one.

24 and sunny yesterday. Today, 16 and sunny. Might have to put on a jumper its so chilly