Stephen Old

young men there had never heard of him! Fame is fleeting.

I once went to a function at Anfield Stadium. Afterwards, I happened to meet one of their former players from the glory days of the 70s. He used to hold the record for the most trophies won by a single player. He kept talking about his record and wanted to sign autographs for people. Most of the...

My tutor at university said all the dons did their best work in their early 20s and after that it is all about finding your own niche.

After leaving school, I went back to see my old French teacher. He had been to Oxford. He told me that there are thousands of students in Oxford every year and they can't all be Prime Ministers or Nobel-Prize-winning scientists.

Oily fish is good for you!

I read this this morning. I wish he would just s*d off!

My wife is a lawyer too. She says the proposed changes will just fill up the magistrates' courts and there will be lots of appeals made against court rulings/judgements.

Morning Robin.

I did another one with a school in Bremen too. I was confident in German by then though.

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That is another world and another language. I hope to go there one day!

I really learnt to speak German on 3 school exchange trips with a school in Koblenz.

So it is. I got confused. I stayed in Freiburg i. Br. for about 5 months.

I struggled with the local dialects in the Black Forest and Hannover too.

B W and Bavaria are the only parts of Germany which I have never been too. I have not spent much time in the Saarland either.

Ah, I have just read a brief report of the match!

Like Marlon Brando in The Godfather but more violent?

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Yes, and instead of eating finest steak for his dinner every night and posting the menu on here he could save a fortune by getting a pensioner's special meal at his local garden centre and café!

Oh thanks, I did not know that.

No, I should think that the capacity of those grounds is nearer 80,000 now - like Wembley. I still think of it as being 100,000!

Thanks, he may have been talking about the size of the regular army though?

And, as that Reform politician said the other day, our army is so small now that it could fit into Hampden Park (or Ibrox?) stadium.

I did the book for Eng Lit O-level. One of the literary critics wrote that the Bronte sisters had lived in a house which overlooked a cemetery. He/she wrote that the whole book conjures up the bleakness of living on the moors, faced with death. Or something like that.

Completely unnecessary, a waste of the earth's finite resources and it will make restoring sanity after the war even more difficult.

I am imaging him making boom noises now as the British artillery opens up on the charging French cavalry!

Brilliant idea but do you think that Lady B will let him make "choo-choo" noises when he gets excited?

Something needs to change or they won't qualify for Europe next season!

I love living here. The people are so witty, friendly and they have taught me that there is some shit which you just don't put up with!

Oh thanks. I had not heard that!