Be fair Fred, YNWA is not a true footy song, it came from a musical first. You'll be saying Abide With Me is a footy song next 😉

TBH all footy songs are crap songs, aren't they? 🙂

MOT – Marching On Together. Leeds Utd club anthem.

"Marching on together
We're gonna see you win, na na na na na
We are so proud
We shout it out loud
We love you Leeds, Leeds, Leeds"

We're nearer to a plate boundary than you think. How do you think the Alps and the Pyrenees were formed?

You're probably right. For one season anyway 😉

don't really GAS about the world cup either to be honest 😉

MOT

I couldn't get a ticket and didn't dare listen on t'radio. We were off up the A19 to visit the in-laws in Toon-land and the first I knew was when Mrs_drummer said "you're winning 2-1 and it's injury time…"

🙂

MOT

MOT 🙂

Well my day has been made and I really don't give a rat's arse about the prima donna league

MOT

aye, that's the one. It's been a while. Is it on The Clash or on Give Em Enough Rope. Can't remember without digging through my old vinyl…

old vinyl, eh?
oodles of Sisters 12in singles…

having been a landlord, I can advise that some tenants can be tw%ts as well. But as a landlord, no matter how tw%ttish the tenant is behaving, I couldn't just go in & "remove" things to teach them a lesson. No, 'tis theft, and quite a few other laws broken as well.

As said above the only way a landlord can remove your property from within the house/flat is with the assistance of the courts, eviction orders and bailiffs. But as you haven't got to that stage (have you?) he's bang out of order. Report it to the police as a burglary dwelling – now – and then find somewhere to crash for a couple of weeks, move out & report the landlord to the police. Tell them how you know it was him – "he told me so officer".

Probably then a case of your word against his, unless any other neighbours actually saw him doing it, but if he has previous…

there's a track called Garage Band by The Clash:

"we're a garage band
we come from garage land"

I think I was in a garage band once. We used to practice in the garage

people who think that all IT people are geeks

green-eyed monster methinks. ignore

http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=wayfarer+sunglasses&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=wCzkS6z-DImknQO91KWCBg

the magnificent "Loop" traffic system in the centre of Leeds;

ignorant arrogant Sound Engineers that pay no attention to the band they are supposed to be, well, engineering, and spend the time reading books instead;

bars that have only one proper beer (apart from innumerable lagers) on and that is 'off'; bars that stop serving food at 7pm

and finally, last but not least, Bradford. All of it.

it's the clock

doh! darcy beat me to it

how about sailing to Santander or Bilbao (from Plymouth I think)? very short drive from there… and you get a nice mini cruise thrown in too.

Unless the weather's bad, I'm told the Bay of Biscay is not very nice in bad weather 😈

You can do it in a day once you get to France, yes.

Leeds to Dover is a good 5-6 hours on top of that – I wouldn't want to be driving for 16 hours in one go with just a short break for the channel crossing. That's why I chose to break at Dreux rather than keep going

Longest I've spent behind the wheel was 9 hours, Vancouver to Lake Louise. That's plenty long enough

I did Bradford – Perigeux in '95, went via Le Shuttle, so we drove from Calais. The route went something like this, if I remember correctly:

Calais – Boulogne – Abbeville – Rouen – Evreux – Dreux – Chartres – Orleans – Limoges – Brive-la-Gaillard – Perigeux, with an overnight stop in Dreux on the way out & Chartres on the way back. Fantastic cathedral in Chartres if that kind of thing floats your boat. Dreux was not much to look at but it was literally just an overnight stop.
Mostly fast N-routes rather than Autoroutes, so not much in the way of tolls, but the roads may have been upgraded since then

From Brive you'd carry on to Toulouse and then on to Quillan

just looked at the map, there are a lot of Autoroutes there now that weren't there then, especially the Orleans – Brive section

mend soon CHB

goog – try having a abscess removed from a tooth root

having had one removed from exactly such a place, I can tell you that it is much nicer than having the abcess there in the first place. Tastes a bit manky though 👿

Beconase does the trick for me too

they can break your arm with a wing you know

oh, hang on, that's swans, isn't it

erm

see ya

have to admit, Kevin Blackwell did a reasonable job in his first season at ER, but I think "tactics" passed him by.

I went to the playoff s/f against Preston a few years back at ER and they were lumping the ball upfield. To David Healy, all 5ft9 of him…

OK if Deano was still playing, but to a 5ft9 striker? Preston kept him in their pockets. thankfully a Beckam-esque free kick from Eddie Lewis kept us in the tie, followed by a win at Deepdale

and then we got to the final, and did what we have done in every meaningful final since 1972, and failed to turn up…

anyway

all done & dusted in the Championship & lower leagues; all still to play for in the PrimaDonna league & Leagues 1 & 2.

Going to be an exciting, if not nerve-wracking, weekend coming up

May the best teams (except ManU) win 😉

to "TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR " – thought as much 😈

did any goalkeeper ever make a good manager? Except maybe Dino Zoff?

hope to see you next season and let the best team win

MOT

agree about the lifetime ban for alex BTW. Inciting religious hatred is a criminal offence, don't you know

we were on Tiscali for ages. we're about 2 miles from the exchange. We were on 0.5GB broadband, asked if we could upgrade. Tiscali told us the best we'd get would be 1GB

We're on Virgin Cable broadband now.

Dingles = Barnsley; Pigs = Wendies? need I ask who "the Scum" are?

Three_Fish – good call if you happen to have a spare, bust, drumhead lying around.
But as a new pinstripe head will set you back about £20, it's cheaper to buy a whole new syphon…

if we beat Bristol Rovers next weekend we'll be playing the other team in Sheffield next season. Would be nice to get one over KB too

As I briefly worked in Hillsborough, I have a soft spot for Wendies, so provided we don't commit hari-kiri at ER, and have to play them next season, good luck to the Owls

MOT

as above – the part you need is most likely the "Syphon" – it looks something like this:

Ideally, you would take the old one out & take it with you, but that would leave the whole house without water until you get back & finish the job

You did turn the water off and drain the cistern, didn't you?

Last time I replaced a syphon it took me about half an hour.

fbs – ssssshhhh! there's still time for us to shoot ourselves in the foot 😯

bad luck Wednesday, good luck for next season

MOT

bit like calling you a roadie

not really, unless the roadie works for a different band 😉

if you can't get a plumber in today & can't fix it yourself, fill a bucket with water & use that from a great height to flush

could be the syphon, if there's nothing loose.

cheap enough & easy to fix

I feel it adds a certain piquancy to my missives

so that's what the smell is then

honestly, I hate going to the khazi when someone's been sat on a steaming pot for half an hour, it **** stinks

does it really matter whose army? it's a funny video, just enjoy it for its own sake you miserable git 😉

stunning photos. no apologies needed as far as I'm concerned

ours has a number at the top of the front door. As this is 20+ feet above street level, anyone trying to spot it from the roadside may be struggling.

However, as we're no 2, it's a pretty good guess that we're the first house on our side of the street – or the last, if you come from the wrong end…