Morning all. Hope you have had a better start to the morning than I have had. Woke up this morning to find I'd had a visitor during the night. For some reason, someone or something, had decided to get in the back garden and they nicked all the pegs off the washing line Is nothing safe anymore? So instead of getting the washing on the line, I had to go into town and get a load of bloody clothes pegs. Result = One bloody pissed off Maestro
Morning all, hot and sunny here already, although there is a light breeze to take the edge off it. Visit to re-stock the wine store this morning. You just find some bottles that you really like and they disappear off the shelves. Last week a good one reappeared only to vanish again within a couple of days. Just means trying more to find out what is to your taste.
Good afternoon from Thailand. Rather warm here. Went to wife's sister's which was air conditioned and lovely and cool. Then i looked at the setting and it was set to 28 degrees! Big party all day next door. The son is having his right of passage ceremony to go and join the monks for a while. Music started at 7.20 am and non-stop till midnight. There were 15 women making food earlier then we all went to the temple and he had all his hair shaved off. Big family thing and his parents are very proud. Fantastic open air party with live band. 12 speakers suspended from scaffold tower so sound travels everywhere. Tonight all the village will come as well as people from other villages.
So you won't be pleased when they knock on the door trying to sell them back to you? Lovely morning again here. Finished yesterday evening in the garden with a bottle of Grand Cru Provencal Rose...delicious stuff but made us want to be in the south of France
Of course, the tragedy at Bretigny is terrible, but to make a small point, yes trains do travel at much higher speeds than, say, 50 years ago. But on the more positive side is that railway carriages are built so much more robustly and designed to cope with accidents far better than they were. Accidents involving older designs of wooden or even metal carriages killed a far higher proportion of passengers at a much slower speed than now. For those who are interested (or remember) pictures of the crash in 1952 at Harrow - killing many from Watford amongst the over 100 fatalities - show carriages wrecked and splintered beyond recognition in some cases with a correspondingly high fatality rate. I admit that 3 trains were involved in that accident but modern carriages would not disintegrate now in that way. The recent Virgin derailment at Grayrigg where carriages were derailed and tumbled down an embankment show them still remarkably intact - unfortunately one elderly lady still lost her life - but if this had happened even in the 60s there would have been far more casualties. I hear that faulty points are suspected at Bretigny (as in the Potters Bar derailment in 2000) and that many of the casualties were on the platform of the station rather than in the carriages.
I love this sort of ilinformed rubbish from so called experts. Please don't correct them. http://news.ladbrokes.com/en-gb/foo...nship-relegation-at-a-porky-price_163547.html We have clearly been written off again, and no-one seems to believe a word of what the Pozzos say.
Morning all from an already warm Bastille Day in rural France. Tonight the nearest town of any size will be celebrating with a large fireworks display, designed to last for nearly 20 minutes, at a cost to the town of €15,000. With all the economic problems in the country you might expect people to question spending so much, but no, let's forget the woes and go out and enjoy ourselves seems to be the attitude.
Morning all...no fireworks here. My imagination is a little in France though...I'm reading 'Pure', a very good novel by Andrew Miller. It's set in 18th century Paris and is about a country engineer sent to clear the overcrowded cemetery of Les Innocents. It's very evocative.
Morning all - no sunshine/heat up here today again. As yesterday, an indoors day listening to the cricket.... I know that pre-season friendly results shouldn't be taken seriously, but don't these two brighten up a dull Sunday? Peterborough 1-QPR 0 Singha All-Stars 1 Manchester United 0
