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Aye, that's why he was booked. "Not retreating".

A Belgian troll on a Eurovision forum once had the cheek to lecture me about the evils of British colonialism. Aye, nice try.

That was the Italian Eurovision entry in 1959. I have to approve whether I want to or not. ...hang on, so you use free Spotify? Doesn't that mean adverts playing every 4-5 songs while you're small-talking with the relatives?

http://www.beyondpositive.org/2014/01/30/mps-push-home-secretary-control-movement-people-hiv/ Blyme.

Duly sorted - Gran Canaria for 8 days (Maspalomas). I'm a bit worried by how gay the area where the villa is seems to be, mind. I'm expecting bears and beards and bikers at every turn.

Eyy Congrats!

"The only [other] thing I could bring was a Black and Decker [tool] to destroy the wall." He's a hypocrite, but he's a funny hypocrite.

http://forgotify.com/

http://www.forvo.com/word/grenier/

Duly sorted out the slightly roundabout method for removing DRM from Kindle files and converting them to epub. Cheap holiday reads ahoy!

Depends on the veg. Broad beans tend to need a good 5 minutes with a stir in the middle. I can't believe I'm actually having this conversation.

The "terrific liar" evidence mounts...

I could go into linguanerd raptures about the shades of meaning in what he said, but basically either there's been no formalised approach for him or he's a terrific liar.

Only on holiday and the like. I had a long, hot and sweaty session with Attila the Animator in Gran Canaria just before Christmas.

£9 to play is a bit of a joke though. Might as well spend a couple of hundred on a last-minute sun holiday and hog the table at the resort all week. Not that I'd advocate that kind of behaviour of course...

Table tennis is the only "sport" at which I'm not excruciatingly useless. Gosforth Central Middle School 'C' Team 1991-92, baby!

I was on Chase Me The Chase, for my sins. Quite tempted by Pointless though... A friend is desperate to take me on the Million Pound Drop () but she's only gone and got herself pregnant, the selfish cow, so that's that for a while.

Some sensational stupidity in the questions on Pointless today. The category was country name origins. Only 10 people out of 100 knew "Rich Coast". Even "Equator" scored 20 or so.

One Tyne. Two Tyne.

It's January. You won't be the only one. Come March or April, though...