Observation of A&E....I'm sure some family's use it as a night out ? They turn up with a young child and take over a smaller area of the waiting room.....and are continually pushing pass everyone to go outside to smoke or vape.....later on more of the family turn up with take-aways and they have a little picnic.....when they eventually leave with their child they leave a pile of finished take-away boxes on the floor plus other discarded bits and pieces......the security never take notice of them.
£80 plus £40 = £120.....he was here about twenty minutes.....I bet their isn't enough hours in the day to get all of his calls done this time of the year.
I’m sure there are other specialist boards for this but I want to pose the question “What Happened To Rugby Union”? I went to a grammar school but we played football in winter and cricket and athletics in summer. I was persuaded to play rugby once at university but was kicked in the head deep into the first half and some would say have never been quite the same since. I have however followed the Five Nations and Rugby World Cups over the years as a patriot. Recently though, the dispersion of games all over the clock and calendar to suit TV schedules has meant that my three main passions, Argyle, football generally and F1 have taken priority. Now where I left my rugby union bookmark, it could be a scrappy, technical battlefield but there were moments when great diagonal lines of players formed to pass the ball from hand to hand in sweeping attacks that made you leap from the sofa, hopefully not spilling your beer. I just watched the England v Japan game. Where have all the exciting bits gone?
I watched a fair bit of the match tonight and some of the game earlier today South Africa v Romania. Note I didn't watch all of either. The afternoon one was so one sided to be a walk over and I expected to see the final score over 100 points to nothing. Pointless game (excuse the pun) and more of a training exercise against the W team. England made cock up after cock up and to be fair so did the Japanese. It was not very exciting so I switched off. I know the final score. The only pleasing result so far has been that the Aussies got their pant pulled down. Apart from that it is far too predictable. I played it at school even though it wasn't my game as such. Prefered cricket, football and basketball. I don;t remember it being so stop start as the professional game is now. If I didn't see anymore games I would not miss it.
Changing the subject from sports.. I drove up to see my cabin and was pleased to see the cabin was fine just the shed burnt. funny to see all the handles on the tools burnt but the metal parts were ok.
I'd be quite pleased if my tools got burnt. Would save me making excuses not to use any of them. Anyway, good to hear your cabin is ok.
Stopped watching F1 years back....it's all about the best car....the majority of drivers could be world champion if they were sitting in Verstappen's car. Most of the overtaking is done in the pit-lane........boring...boring....boring.....sorry notDistant.
Well we'll have to agree to disagree on that one. Firstly, it was always about the car, more so in some ways because they were much less reliable in days of yore and if you don't finish regularly, you won't win anything. Stirling Moss was never world champion because Enzo Ferrari wouldn't let him drive one of his cars. In any event, a degree of knowledge is required for the full flavour. Were Red Bull poor yesterday because the FIA have moved to clamp down on illegal "moveable aerodynamic devices"? Is their success with these new ground-effect cars because they have had a particularly bendy floor? Or rear wing that gives them such a strong DRS benefit? How much of that is because their chief designer is Adrian Newey, an absolute top designer at all times but also the only man still in F1 who designed ground effect cars back in the 1970's. Red Bull's current domination started in the first race of the 2022 season, exactly when ground effect aerodynamics were re-admitted to F1. Secondly, it isn't all about the car. Valtteri Bottas regularly got his set-up right first in practice and often out-qualified Lewis Hamilton. They say the ultimate test of whether a driver is "quick" is that one-lap flat out qualifying pace, but when it came to the race, Bottas rarely beat Hamilton. When it came to wheel to wheel racing, he couldn't touch him.
An Irish news channel reported that a meteor had struck a beach near Dublin. please log in to view this image They interviewed Dave Kennedy, a local space enthusiast, who had discovered the impact site while out walking his dog. "I knew immediately that it was an impact site, " he said, while holding a rock that he believed could be the meteorite itself. Later, another photograph appeared on Instagram. please log in to view this image After the 'crater' was revealed to be nothing more than a big hole, Mr Kennedy said he was "disappointed" but still plans to get the rock analysed, just in case.
I have to say that watching a meteor hole in the sand is definately more interesting than watching 20+ cars racing for a couple hundred yards around a track and then completing the rest of the 69 laps in procession. Not often myself and Mr Plymborn agree on anything but on this occasion it's an exception.
It’s quite possible for you to both be wrong simultaneously. A court in Denmark has ordered an artist to repay €67.000 he received from the Kunsten Museum for an artwork. The piece consisted of two blank white canvases entitled “Take The Money And Run”. Now I thought the modern definition of art was “art is what artists do” in which case he should clearly have kept the money. Tracy Emin after all made her huge reputation by exhibiting an unmade bed littered with detritus from what had obviously been a night on the tiles.
I've had a few art efforts along the same lines. And no it isn't possible for us both to be wrong at the same time.
Two drips of water running down a window pane can be just as exciting.....and if you get three or more at the same time you can be in heaven. .........and financially your quids in... compared with the fleecing you get if you actually go to one of these F 1 meets.....where you see the leader for a second or so every three minutes or so. Then they all return to their millionaire pads in Monaco......we're the actual drips for following it. It will be satisfying for sensible to actually be right now and again......F 1 is highway robbery and they should be fined for it.
Oh I agree on ticket prices. But then, you get up to 0.25m over the weekend at the bigger circuits and even then it’s hard to get tickets. They sell out within days 6 to 9 months in advance.
My son did go to the F1 race a few years back in Portugal whilst on holiday.....just turned up on the day....he said it wasn't too dear.
I’ve been to 4 circuits to see Grand Prix: Silverstone and Brands Hatch in the UK. Barcelona and Spa-Francorchamps. Brands doesn’t run GPs any more due to insoluble safety issues. General Access facilities have been improved at Silverstone but it’s still a lot of money to sit on a railway sleeper with a very limited view. I didn’t get around the circuit at Barcelona as we went on a specialist tour so we weren’t in control of our own movements. I can’t comment on that circuit. Spa is what you might call scenic but basic. I think we had about 6 PortaLoos among about 5.000 fans! The stand was uncovered so if the sun shines, you’ll be out in it for 7 hours+ a day for 3 days. If it rains, you’ll be very, very wet, which we did. The stand wasn’t as drawn on the track plan either so we didn’t get the view we expected. I enjoyed it though: a great experience. I’ve been to the Algarve several times but not to the race circuit. So, I wouldn’t go without a grandstand seat. For the 2024 British GP, 3 day tickets start at £640. For 4 of us, you’re looking at £2,500 plus. Then there’s accommodation. Unlike Argyle for example, there are no concessions for the young or old. By comparison, 4 season tickets at Argyle cost me about £1,250 in a covered stand with a good view and catering on hand.
If you didn't know better, you'd think the people who write April Fools pieces for the papers have expanded their work throughout the year. Here's another one. Daniel Khalife, the ex soldier who escaped from Wandsworth prison has pleaded not guilty to escaping from lawful custody. In prison, out of prison, in prison, out of prison. That's escaping isn't it? Or did he accidentally get strapped to the bottom of a departing delivery van and then accidentally get lost trying to get back to the extent he was found 14 miles away four days later, having accidentally changed his clothes and got hold of a bicycle? If it looks like a duck and it waddles like a duck........
