Big Danny Spencer
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Wine importer and supplier to quality restaurants, bars and inns. Stoke City, Lancs CCC, Packers, New Order, Arzak regular, obv. Clearly woke as...
50 years ago today: The Potters turn on the style in the summer sunshine in ST4 vs West Ham. Garth Crooks gets his first Stoke goal, and Terry Conroy scores a belter just after halftime. WHU pull one back but it ends 2-1. Thankfully, Hugh Johns and his ATV chums manage to capture it for posterity
Stoke city vs West ham united 1976/77 season RRPNG4
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Your regular reminder that Nigel Farage IS the establishment. There’s no-one more establishment than him. Public school, the city, career in politics, mates in all the right places, terrible dress sense.
Nice work TUC truly nice work
"In the European Union, where all countries have abolished the death penalty, every country has a lower murder rate than the United States. More broadly, of the 11 countries that had abolished the death penalty between 2008 and 2018, 10 experienced a decline in murder rates."
I mean, what shirt would you be wearing in southeast London this afternoon?
As a teenager late 70's early 80's Bee Gees were the most unfashionable thing on earth. My word, Barry Gibb an incredible songwriter and singer. The compositions, spectacular.
Cricket today at a Merchant Taylor school. We've been on the tube forever. I didn't realise the Metropolitan Line went to just shy of the Arctic Circle.
Off to the cricket tomorrow. Middx at home at a posh school near Watford. But Jimmy playing. That second bowled today as good as any in his career. Go on #Lancs More than decent lunch and vino will be in hand.
Wham in China doc well worth a watch on the iplayer. Didn’t know they’d beaten off Queen to get the trip. Audience reaction in Beijing of dancing in their seats saw them ejected. British media who followed the tour were po-faced snides as ever - the golden age of publishing!
Saw today that West Wickham (my High St) WH Smith (or whatever it is called now) will close for good and take the Post Office* with it next month. How we approach High Streets and services needs urgent attention. *Original PO only closed ten years ago and was almost the size of the O2 Arena.
As regular readers will know I divested myself of all the out of date condiments in my fridge a month ago, some 4 years OOD. So tonight I've started on the 'unopened in the cupboard'. Oct 22 Port and Cranberry sauce with stinky brie (best before last Thursday) and a superb Faugeres Rouge. Fabulous.
There's a publicist who I have very occasional emails from who thinks I'm called Harrison Philip. I quite like: makes me sound like a West Indies fast bowler from the 80s who didn't quite make the Test team but took 70 wickets a season for Essex.
‘I wish this train would move a bit faster,’ I complain, having just pulled the emergency stop handle.
Yankees just crushed a first innings homer at the Angels, oh and then glided another to left field. And Aaron Judge is back next week. Heaven help the rest of us.
The snooker has turned into a bit of a shambles. Two referees who don't use English as their first language failing to understand each other and a referee so short that she can barely reach the middle of the table anyway.
Artists I've seen more than once.... New Order 100+ Kate Rusby about 50 Happy Mondays 10+ (mostly supporting NO) A Certain Ratio 10+ James about 10 Springsteen 9 I think.
GlennA@glennairey.bsky.social · 5d agoArtists I’ve seen more than once The Fall (40+) The Nightingales (20+) The Membranes (10+) Hawkwind (10+) Sonic Youth (8) Plus loads of 2s, 3s and 4s etc.
Don't tell anybody but I've just had to put on a jumper and a pair of slippers.....🥶
Hayes CC annual beer festival this afternoon. What could possibly go wrong?
Two superb pints of Landlord in Ramblers Rest Chislehurst with owner Nigel and manager Jamie, then Thai Red Curry at the fabulous Nam Thai in East Street Bromley. Owned by the loveliest people.
The Star at Sidcup Place. What a venue. Function room sold out with a 60th from 7pm. Restaurant fully booked, bar packed. Oh, and the car park? Oasis tribute, sold out at 350 and a double decker bus turned into a bar. As you do / were.
BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr... Nepal floods latest: Foreign minister calls for 'global effort' to address climate change after devastating flash floods - BBC News Or as Richard Tice would frame it "a great opportunity to go white water rafting".
Nepal floods latest: Foreign minister calls for 'global effort' to address climate change after devastating flash floods
A glacier collapse likely sparked Wednesday's floods in the Himalayan border region, killing at least 626 people, authorities say.
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Walked in the pub, I'm this far in and they're blasting out Love Will Tear Us Apart. Nice.
Just setting off on a Bank Holiday weekend bar / pub / restaurant crawl, all customers, so it's work really. Tough work but somebody has to do it.
A thought I can’t get out of my head since Dolly Parton died: Can you *imagine* what kind of world we’d be living in if everyone who had the same kind of money as Dolly had was spending their money on the same sorts of things Dolly spent hers on…?
