Eddie

What do you reckon - another 21 points?

Rubikon Quite realistic really - the rich shall inherit the Earth. Utter dross

Plus, a seat in the House of Lords and a nice little earner as Foreign Secretary could be yours, so win-win.

Not watched any telly since the 23rd December - not even The Rams. Will probably get the ball rolling with Doctor Who later.

I don't even begrudge them their fleeting moment in the sun. High 6, Florist fans.

Just keep doing what we're doing.

The result is everything today - and it's just what the doctor ordered. More of the same please. B4 said that we are coming for Pompy - I reckon he's right.

Booooo. This is rubbish. Warne out. Sorry, just having a pre-match warm-up.

Arrived in Sheffield on Christmas Eve. Ate like a pig and drank like a fish through the next 36 hours. Opened a vast number of excellent gifts. Looking forward to turkey curry in a couple of hours, and 3 points of course. The highlight? All of it.

Straffe Hendrik Quadrupel with 'In Bruges'.

Two of the writers were named Norman, so both Franny and Archie chinned the tw*t?

I thought that was more of a Canada thing...

Morrisons was a hardship on Friday too. The missus took ages impulse-buying turkey, pork etc whereas I looked after the essentials - karmeliet, la chouffe, westmalle tripel, ostrich fillets and a big bag of Scotch Bonnets.

KH doesn't change scapegoats mid-race.

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I popped up to Mount St Bernard Abbey earlier today to pick up a case of their new Tynt Meadow brew - a blond beer, 5.0% abv. It's very pleasant (I drank one this afternoon) but I won't go further than that at the moment. The taste is quite sharp - almost lemony - which instantly reminded me of Chimay Green in taste (but not in strength - CG is 10%). Quite expensive for a 5% beer (£3.30 a bottle for 33cl), but part of the attraction is that the beer goes a long way towards paying for the upkeep of the Abbey, and it is a wonderfully tranquil place. I didn't really enjoy the original Tynt Meadow (the brown ale) when it was first released - but five years on, it is a truly wonderful beer, very highly rated (and not just by me). Perhaps the blond will also rank highly in years to come.

Another? Give Santa another couple of weeks, surely?

It's a work in progress - and given the utter sterility in attack, crab-like midfield and frailty at the back during the first few games of the season, there has been a huge amount of progress. We're just a couple of wins short of the magic 'two pints - er, sorry, points per game'. Long may it continue.

It's the nature of the beast, unfortunately. Reykjanes volcanism seems to run in cycles of around a millennium - a 500-800 years snooze followed by 200-500 years of periodic unrest. Throw in the mantle plume - the engine which drives Iceland's volcanism - and any period of stability or certainty cannot ever be permanent. The first Reykjanes eruption in 2021 caught everyone by surprise at first - learned opinion was that the quakes were tectonic (as you know, Reykjanes peninsula is part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the North American and Eurasian plates separate at a rate of a couple of centimetres a year), so quake swarms happen with regularity, and nobody really knew when the next eruption cycle would start. Well, 4 short periods of volcanic activity in less than 3 years seems to indicate that the area has now kicked off its 'active' phase - the long snooze is over. The good news, of course, is that eruptions in the area are seldom large - however, the previous cycle culminated in massive eruptions in 1226 (Reykjanes Fires, which had devastating consequences for local farming), so it has history.

I assure you I don't know him.

I took one for the team.

Ah, Wokism. It must really piss you off, hearing that schools are going to teach BSL to GCSE level.

Bound to win tonight. I'm down in Keynsham picking No 1 Son up for Christmas, so can't make it.

I got a lot of grief on here for saying that, once again, she got all the big calls right. Perhaps we all go through a phase of being affronted by any decision which goes against us - I know that I did. 55 years ago, it was always Kevin Howley's fault when we lost - even if he wasn't the ref.