Trigger- are they like buses? Would have looked silly next Monday morning when it didn’t go dark.

DO - I'm jealous.

Trigger, Stewart Lee dates include 7th Nov @ Wimbledon (FA Cup 1st round)

Gold - Gold Coloured!

Pete - I had one of those - not sure where it is now. Gold coin in a plastic pouch - blue on back, clear on front.

Sandy - Would've been slap bang out of order of me to have tried acquiring it, seeing as she died post divorce. No longer family, you see.

Lovely stuff, Pete. Great that you got the pics, but sad you didn't get hold of the item itself.

I have breakfast in spoons a couple of time a week while charging. Full of yummy mummy's, Hong Kong folk and office shirkers with their laptops

Nice Pete, totally unaware of that, loved that southern league team

For Spit - a Viz Twop Twip I read recently… “Pretend you’re on the set of Michael Jackson’s Thriller by going into a Wetherspoons at 11am.”

Reading the Historical Don sticky reminded me of a chance discovery I made, oh, must be around the start of AFCW. I was round my bro-in-law's place (now ex bro-in-law) while his old mum was visiting. We got talking about WFC and their rise and fall. She told me she had a commemorative coin struck to honour the 3 successive Southern Lge titles. I asked to see it. I due course I did and was able to take snaps [Link] and [Link] I offered to buy the coin, but she declined. She died some years ago now and, due to circumstances, I was unable to trace what happened to it. The pics are all I have.

D'oh Various Artists..

Artist for War Child is an interesting nomination, a compilation album

Just seen who is going to replace Howe at Newcastle. Matthias Jaissle - currently (or now previously) managing a club in the Saudi league.

Mercury Prize nominees [Link]

Reading back, Octopus doesn’t make its money from being an energy supplier, it is their Tech branch where they make the majority of their substantial profits. I guess having customers with a positive balance allows Octopus to use that money to make more money.

The Newcastle job is something of a poisoned chalice. Their owners are rich beyond wildest dreams but aren't allowed to spend under PSR and are seemingly becoming disinterested in the whole idea. Meanwhile the expectations of the fanbase are high.

That’s next year PW

Trigger- thought it was on Monday 2nd August at around 10am.

JJ to the toon [Link]

Yeah i fancy a double signing Thursday and a double signing Friday which will make this a quadruple signing week.

If there is only 1 or 2 the water meter makes sense as reduced bill with SES, unfortunately it's the Thames water waste that went up a lot on bills.

At least with gas and electricity energy, customers can switch, fix, etc - water, on the other hand, is a total stitch up, no competition or alternatives (other than to be metered or not, which in itself is another con - “get a meter”, they said, “you’ll save money”, they said - and then the bill doubled…)… Just imagine if they’d used all those billions upon billions in profits for building new reservoirs and fixing all the leaks/replacing Victorian infrastructure over the past 40 years rather than lining the pockets of the shareholders, maybe there wouldn’t be shortages, and bills might be lower…

Don't you only (generally) get the better, fixed-rate/capped, deals if you sign up by DD?

Don’t forget there’s a solar eclipse coming up on the evening of 12th August. Between 90% to 96% of The Sun will be obscured. Starts around 6pm with the peak being just after 7pm.