This is a cross-post from the blog where I now seem to post most of my ramblings (Twitter doesn't count):

I was sort of amused by the furore yesterday morning over Andy Gray and Richard Key’s comments on women in football. Mostly because their comments just rehashed all the usual stuff men are supposed to think about women and football (really, is ( Read more... )

How is it August?  Just ... how?  Is there any chance someone could insert an extra month between now and September, to make up for the one I feel like I've missed ( Read more... )

I'm getting excited about reading - and writing - again ( Read more... )

... then watch this.

For some reason, John Cleese reminds me slightly of Wayne Rooney...

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... since I posted last ( Read more... )

... but I've done both Who Should You Vote For? and Vote Match, and they were pretty conclusive.

Both came out as strongly Conservative.

Followed at some distance by the Lib Dems and then, oddly*, UKIP ahead of Labour.

But, I mean, I'm a Northerner.  I'm from a former mining town, decimated by Thatcher in the 1980s, which is so strongly Labour that it ( Read more... )

( Or, in other words, how getting back on the bike went... )

Well, it'll be 12 weeks since my accident on Saturday ( Read more... )

After about 10 days of being pretty good, my knee is really protesting again :o(

Admittedly, it isn't swelling up (yet), but it's constantly hurting and beginning to stiffen up again.

And I've just found out that with my stomach, I shouldn't be using NSAIDs, even in gel form.  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGH!

[grumble]Stupid stomach.  Stupid knee.  ( Read more... )

Kraft are continuing with plans to close a Cadbury plant at Keynsham (although the thought arises that Cadbury kept those plans pretty quiet in the Midlands).  Although Kraft had initially promised to keep the plant open, it appears "plans to close it had progressed too far to stop ( Read more... )