Eddie

Blair Tickner signed for Derbyshire today.

I think that people should create new crypto-currencies as a fun form of gambling. Step 1: Convert to pound coins Step 2: Find a drain Step 3: Throw coins at drain Step 4: Pick up coins that didn't go down drain - those are 'winnings'.

It's why there's no word in Russian for 'Pension'.

2016 wants its vote back.

Or return the ownership of the railways to their rightful owners and start anew. I feel that we have missed the boat though. The time for massive investment in infrastructure projects (e.g. public transport) is when interest rates are low.

Never said it was. Perhaps, the rich countries ought to have a moral obligation to ensure that the less well off within them are able to reduce their expenditure by taking advantage of such things as free (or reduced cost) transport. I believe that the free public transport system was only introduced in Luxembourg 3 or 4 years ago.

What is being seen in Europe (more than 50 cities and the entire country of Luxembourg now offer totally free public transport) is that poorer people are benefiting enormously because it leaves more money in their pockets. Saying that, many European mass transit systems are nationalised/state-owned, and the 'normal' fares were a fraction of the cost compared to the UK, so benefits overall are difficult to ascertain. In some cities, there has actually been a slight reduction in the number of people using public transport and a corresponding increase in the use of private cars. Perhaps there is an element of those who can afford the alternative to rubbing shoulders with the great unwashed doing precisely that.

Life is politics.

The biggest problem for Bolton might be the fact that they have to play all of the top sides. Equally, it could also work to their advantage - no time to relax.

What sort of lunatic markets a perfume called 'Trump'?

No, that tends to happen in away games. Perhaps it's a 'pressure' thing.

Still the best song I've heard in the last 71 years. "I can't go on - I can't go on"

which invariably works, and has the Warne outers ripping their own teeth out in frustration. Again.

If you don't do the flounce, if you don't do the flounce you're not valakari...

The UN will be toothless so long as there is a veto.

I was saying "Ebou-urns"

Really? G-A-Y-L-E Will even fit on a kiddie's shirt.

Not until the end of this season. Every single transaction has to operate within the agreed 'business plan', apparently.

Have Docs, will bovver.

Dragged myself off my seemingly permanent death bed today to go - first time I've been able to manage it since Christmas. The walk from London Road to the ground left me utterly shattered, but even in the North East corner, I managed a couple of 'Come On Derby's. Utterly saturated on the walk back afterwards, but I didn't give a toss. We'd won, and I 'bounced' back to my car. Anyone know whether it kicked off in the car park afterwards? I had removed my hearing aids because of the weather, and my specs haven't got wiper blades so I was as blind as I am deaf. I saw a few people looking and a few running back, then there were a bunch of meat wagons and cop cars with their woo-woos on whizzing past the velodrome a couple of minutes later.

Nope. Well, not the Republic anyway. All modern road signs are Km or KPH.

Of all the cricketing nations, only England (the UK really) and the West Indies measure speeds in MPH.

I see the dipstick meltdown is still in progress. Just another excuse to stick the knife in Warne.

Waiter, can I see the whine list please?