Eddie

Death's End (Cixin Liu) - the third book in the 3-Body trilogy.
Like the other two, spellbinding.

Fantastic day out on the Ramaway. Everybody wearing black and white though and we got in the wrong end. Only found out when Derby scored 😱

Newcastle 0 Derby County 1, 13 September 1969.
Roy McFarland scored the winner to shut up the Geordies around us yelling about Jimmy Smith.
The significance of the game was that, for the first time in my lifetime, Derby County went top of Division 1 that day.
The following week, we thrashed Tottenham 5-0 at Derby in front of the biggest crowd ever at the Baseball Ground. Everyone of a certain age remembers that game, but the Newcastle one sticks in my mind just as much.

I did a 52 book challenge last year. Essentially it was to read a book a week every week. It was an absolutely brilliant way to force yourself to make reading a habit and explore a variety of genres. Here’s the 52:
War Horse (Michael Morpurgo)
All the Horses of Iceland (Sarah Tolmie)
The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu)
Storm of Steel (Ernst Jünger)
Cosmos (Carl Sagan)
Behold the Man (Michael Moorcock)
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Yukio Mishima)
Coming Up for Air (George Orwell)
This Is How You Lose the Time War (Amal El-Mohtar)
Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Walter Tevis)
Leviathan Wakes (James. S. A. Corey)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson) 
The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester) 
Annihilation (Jeff Vandermeer) 
Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)
Mortal Engines (Stanislaw Lem)
Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? (Harold Schechter)
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
The Shadow of the Torturer (Gene Wolfe) 
The Buried Giant (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Hustler (Walter Tevis)
Why I Write (George Orwell)
The Poppy War (R. F. Kuang) 
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
A Psalm for the Wild Built (Becky Chambers) 
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Earthlings (Sayaka Murata)
Lapvona (Ottessa Moshfegh)
The Chrysalids (John Wyndham) 
The Only Good Indians (Stephen Graham Jones)
The Story of Kullervo (J. R. R. Tolkien)
All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy) 
The Word for World is Forest (Ursula K. Le Guin)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
South of the Border, West of the Sun (Haruki Murakami)
The City and the Stars (Arthur C. Clarke) 
The Talented Mr Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)
Island (Aldous Huxley)
Tokyo Express (Seicho Matsumoto)
Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
The Centauri Device (M. John Harrison)
Where the Wild Ladies Are (Matsuda Aoko)
Stardust (Neil Gaiman)
The Crossing (Cormac McCarthy)
Doomsday Clock (Geoff Johns) 
Blind Owl (Sadeq Hedayat)
The Setting Sun (Osamu Dazai)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin)

Newcastle 0 Derby County 1, 13 September 1969.
Roy McFarland scored the winner to shut up the Geordies around us yelling about Jimmy Smith.
The significance of the game was that, for the first time in my lifetime, Derby County went top of Division 1 that day.
The following week, we thrashed Tottenham 5-0 at Derby in front of the biggest crowd ever at the Baseball Ground. Everyone of a certain age remembers that game, but the Newcastle one sticks in my mind just as much.

Ipswich win 2-1 at Coventry so only need a point on Saturday to get automatic and leave Leeds in the playoffs 😁

Our old pal Gibson's had a Q&A and said that he hopes that Forest and Sheffield Utd  come down because they have financial challenges according to their supporters.  Oh dear FFP complaint incoming.
 

 

No names, but some of the comments in the "Warne Out Out" thread are just embarrassing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
That's just from the first couple of pages. No further comment from me required.

No names, but some of the comments in the "Warne Out Out" thread are just embarrassing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
That's just from the first couple of pages. No further comment from me required.

Knee-jerk reactions are just that. I was pointing out just how stupid they can be, and how much egg can be left on faces. You would think that people would learn not to jump in with both feet when a more measured response would be more apposite, but it seems to be a common trait amongst some. It's also worth pointing out that the thread in question rumbled on for several more months, with the egg getting more and more smelly with each passing week.

Knee-jerk reactions are just that. I was pointing out just how stupid they can be, and how much egg can be left on faces. You would think that people would learn not to jump in with both feet when a more measured response would be more apposite, but it seems to be a common trait amongst some. It's also worth pointing out that the thread in question rumbled on for several more months, with the egg getting more and more smelly with each passing week.

You're getting worked up over nothing. A standard shower tray is only 5.7 bananas in the UK. You can get the 17 apple EU ones but they're a lot more expensive

No names, but some of the comments in the "Warne Out Out" thread are just embarrassing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
That's just from the first couple of pages. No further comment from me required.

No names, but some of the comments in the "Warne Out Out" thread are just embarrassing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
That's just from the first couple of pages. No further comment from me required.

Finding three 75 cl bottles of Straffe Hendrik Quadrupel, behind a case of St Austell Black Square Imperial Stout I've been aging for the last 3 years.

No names, but some of the comments in the "Warne Out Out" thread are just embarrassing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
That's just from the first couple of pages. No further comment from me required.

Brake fluid. All the better stuff's been supped by Utch.

No names, but some of the comments in the "Warne Out Out" thread are just embarrassing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
That's just from the first couple of pages. No further comment from me required.

No names, but some of the comments in the "Warne Out Out" thread are just embarrassing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
That's just from the first couple of pages. No further comment from me required.

No names, but some of the comments in the "Warne Out Out" thread are just embarrassing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
That's just from the first couple of pages. No further comment from me required.

No names, but some of the comments in the "Warne Out Out" thread are just embarrassing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
That's just from the first couple of pages. No further comment from me required.

No names, but some of the comments in the "Warne Out Out" thread are just embarrassing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
That's just from the first couple of pages. No further comment from me required.

No names, but some of the comments in the "Warne Out Out" thread are just embarrassing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
That's just from the first couple of pages. No further comment from me required.

No names, but some of the comments in the "Warne Out Out" thread are just embarrassing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
That's just from the first couple of pages. No further comment from me required.

No names, but some of the comments in the "Warne Out Out" thread are just embarrassing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
That's just from the first couple of pages. No further comment from me required.