According to one national newspaper, high streets have seen a collapse in business and are starting their sales now with 60% discounts on some items.
https://www.footballinsider247.com/...oss-new-second-fave-everton-job-odds-slashed/ Hmm - bookies install Silva as second favourite for the Everton job.
OK you lovely people, I'm off to bed! Night all Night H OFH, I was a bit early posting last night because I was watching England v Germany and was impressed enough to watch the whole match so I'm very tired now!
This morning I watched the goings on in Paris for the 11/11 commemoration. This year we had Macron leading the nation, and it was so different to recent years with Hollande. Macron spent time talking with veterans and the public for so long that the program ran out of time. Hollande did the necessary handshake and no more. Without wishing to be political, you can see how a leader will spend time with ordinary members of the public, while some are just not comfortable meeting them. Contact between the public and the leader can be so good, yet without it I wonder how much suspicion it breeds.
As his popularity has tanked and is well behind Donald Trump and Theresa May he needs to try much harder.
Morning all from a windy St Helier - as jerzeypie is a Beaver Cub leader, he has to take part in a Rememberance Day service in a wind which could get up to Force 6. Luckily it's sunny at the moment, so I hope that holds. An old friend from Hemel has posted on Facebook "I know it's November, but it's time to Step into Christmas" with a picture of SEJ holding up his supporters club membership card in the video for that song. My Mum thinks that the ending of that song is "Ha, ha, ha, hee, hee, hee, Watford is the team for me" but I've never heard that. It means there are 2 possibilities: my Mum is mistaken or the radio stations and music TV channels don't play that bit, and end the song or video beforehand. Please could someone clarify which?
I know that the weather in the UK is dodgy, but until I noticed this didn't realize it was quite that bad. Graham Hodgkin: Played Sunday league game in Eastbourne; match abandoned after 20 mins as every goal kick got blown for a corner! With hailstones!
please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image After seeing the pictures that BB posted the other day about the northern lights, I thought I might show you a little of where I live. Not the wide open seascapes of Scotland, but tranquil rural France. The spire of the church, although not seen in the photograph is twisted. I suspect that it was the first one built in the area as there similar ones in neighbouring villages that are straight, and the builders learnt from their mistakes. There is a huge amount of history in the area, but it is very difficult to find. The people who live here had a shut down of memory from the time of WWII. My neighbour who is a few years older than me has told me that he didn't see his father until 1949 when he was 10 years old. I had the communal rabbit food store in one of my barns, and have been shown the communal wine store. There are 34 names from our tiny commune on the village war memorial from the WWI, and looking at the census figures there has never been a recovery of population numbers from that conflict. As an agricultural area the numbers dropped as farming became more mechanized, but although farm workers homes have disappeared, many other buildings have been saved by the "incomers".
To the left of the spire is what looks like a Muppet Character with spikey hair, two eyes and a bright yellow nose. I'm sure I'm wide of the mark though!
Morning all. Bright sunshine keeps popping out from behind the clouds that are being driven by a not very warm northerly wind. Still it is dry and I can get on with some things outside if I put a coat on.
One of the football voices that we probably all knew is no more. Tim Gudgin, formerly the voice of BBC television's Saturday tea-time football results, has died aged 87. Gudgin retired in 2011, a week before his 82nd birthday, to end a career spanning more than six decades.
http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/sp...Bolton_defied_critics_during_the_glory_years/ Oliver Phillips on Ian Bolton - what does he mean 'perhaps underrated'?? Bloody cheek...
