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Wilson out with illness, Wood starts…

1:04ish for desperately sexy yank cocktail demonstration (with added first ever Boxing Day appearance of CLIFF RICHARD on TT ) we did the mince pie whisky sour yesterday and the mother in law loved it Doing the punch today for the visitation of constantly poorly auntie Mag, it’ll either kill or cure her https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001fy97

“dance music for people who don’t like dance music” ”tearing off tights with my teeth”…. who the fuck does that? RIP Maxi ya daft old twat

I had to go out this morning to pick up a few last minute bits. Dropped the Current Mrs PL at the beach car park with the mutt about 10am, it’s an hours walk up through woodland back to ours. I then went to get the bits…however, thought I’d swing into the local record shop for chat the with lads & a quick rummage through the racks….2.5 hours later and I’ve not made Asda or Homebase and I’m £100 down (highlights: Blue Note Leonard Cohen compilation, Jackson’s Christmas album, Get Carter soundtrack ) Merry Christmas comrades! 🥳🧑‍🎄

https://www.mylondon.news/whats-on/whats-on-news/parents-slam-boss-christmas-party-25745308

Sorry to hear Sammy What a truly awful week

Is it on sky mate?

No . I know what I saw

You suggested we’re likely to win the champions league (or that’s how I read it) I’m suggesting it’s a bit trickier than being richer than god 🤷🏻‍♂️

So true. Ive got two siblings and there’s only 30 months between the three of us. Various friends still wandered in for a chat with my folks for decades after we’d all left home… @Howmanheyman sorry to hear mate, her being at peace now is the only consolation

“Cop out Dave” they called him…amongst other things… 🙄

What was the probability of Man City and PSG doing it a year after their respective take overs Dave?

This is the bottom line and I think the government have been planning it since 2010. It’s out of the Thatcher playbook. Striking is playing into their hands but it’s the same as the miners, it’s the last stand. They’re deliberately running nursing and emergency services into the ground to privatise them. I think the only thing that’s might save the NHS in anything approaching it’s current form is a Labour government.

This from the Facebook page of Horace Panter, Specials bassist… The Specials. Terry. This is what happened. We had it all planned out. Make the album we were going to do in 2020 – a reggae album. Record in Los Angeles in November. We had the studio booked, flights paid for, accommodation sorted. Roger Rivas from The Agrolites was going to co-produce. Shepard Fairey was going to do the cover. Lynval, still recovering from his spinal surgery earlier in the year, was over in the UK and raring to go. Terry had the framework for 8 tunes. Confidence was high. We were set to meet up with Nikolaj and make magic. This was in September. Terry e-mails everyone and says he’s in bed with a stomach bug and can’t do the first week of pre-production sessions. No big deal, we can knock everything back a week. We’re not due to fly out until November 4th. The next week, Terry is no better and is in hospital. There’s not much we can do except wait for him to get better. Sunday October 2nd and I get a phone call from Manager Steve. And everything turns to shit. Terry’s illness is a lot worse than we thought. He has been diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas which has spread to his liver. This is serious. Like life-threatening serious. He has developed diabetes due to his pancreas being attacked. This has to be treated first, then it’s a regime of chemotherapy. There is nothing anyone can do. Everything is put on hold. Terry is emphatic that no-one be told about this. If anyone asks, he’s managing his diabetes. The chemo treatment starts favourably but it seems that it would be March 2023 at the earliest before we’d be in any position to work. He is in and out of hospital to stabilise the diabetes issue and also to manage pain. It then goes quiet. Beginning of December and reports are not good. Terry has lost a lot of weight and is very frail. His friend Ian Broudie visits and phones Manager Steve. He fears that Terry is slipping away. 15th December and Manager Steve drives up to London to visit. He calls me on his return journey and says things are not looking promising. Terry is dying. The next day he is put on morphine and is more-or-less unconscious for most of the time. I thought it would be best for me to go and visit but Lindy, his wife, advises against it. She has held her phone to Terry’s ear so that his sisters and Lynval can say their goodbyes. She suggests I do the same. So, I did. It was tough. Terry died around half past 5 the next evening, Sunday 18th December. The world has lost a unique voice and I have lost a good friend. Horace.

It’s fuckin shite not to have a summariser to whinge about tbh

FULL STRENGTH Eddie had a rep for not taking cups seriously at Bournemouth

Actually I might take my original comment back, I think 2002 was great as well, Turkey & South Korea in the semis (hosts doing well is always good) and The Real Ronaldo getting his WC . Getting pissed on weekday mornings/lunchtimes watching England flatter to deceive again was good too, think it was the last time my peer group did that en masse as well, before the realities of parenthood hit us… well, some of us My all time favourite WC us 1990 but I think there have been better tournaments football wise if that makes sense? ie I was just about to turn 21 and had just left home

Disagree. I think it’s been the best World Cup this century

That’s spot on like. I don’t think he’s a cunt tbh, he talks a lot of sense about the game in general. He is being very sniffy about the last month though. He says it wasn’t as good as 2006 or 2016, tbh I strongly disagree with that but as you say he’ll have a far different perspective than we do on it all.

Hasn’t someone relatively reliable suggested that a deal for Maddison won’t be done next month?