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Watched 'My Old Ass' with multigenerational audience of fam and friends over Xmas and everyone liked it. Thought it was going to be some Gen Z nonsense, turns out it was a funny, warm, feelgood movie... and all it starts with a mushroom trip. Plus it features the delectable Aubrey Plaza.
Well Brian, I think Gary Players' famous line (attributed to him, anyway) stands as a counterpoint to that view: The more I practice, the luckier I get.
I would also say Vauxhall Motors at home was my worst moment. Very hard to pick a single best moment, but I'll go for something that happened before a match. And that was standing outside the Weld with Kensalriser and seeing the wave of jubilant fans along Uxbridge Road that told us the news we'd all been waiting for: no points deduction! What followed was an afternoon and long evening of unbounded joy.
That or our promotion at Hillsborough and the aftermath....
You're the same age as me, and likewise, I have absolutely no recollection of this at all.... did it actually happen?? Although I have to admit my memory of what I was up to at that age is a bit fuzzy, well, certainly regarding weather, although I do remember my having a bloody fantastic summer!
Just finished American Rust on Prime. It's a slow-burner of a crime drama set in the decaying post-industrial landscape of Western Pennsylvania - the rust belt. Starring the excellent Jeff Daniels as the small town chief of police, it's dark, atmospheric and twisty as feck. Recommended.
PS - for some reason you have to pay (not a lot, 6.99 I think) for season 1 - I took the punt because a friend recommended it - but season 2 is free. However, after enjoying the entire first season without adverts, I just couldn't take their gaudy intrusion any more and coughed up the extra couple of quid for the pleasure of watching without ads. Perhaps that was part of their fiendish plan, but I have to say it really improves the watching experience.
"IN 1859, after a series of disastrous gales in which many ships and lives were lost, Vice Admiral Robert FitzRoy of the British navy was given the difficult task of using available scientific knowledge to provide warnings of severe weather for the use of ships at sea.
To this end, FitzRoy organised a network of 40 weather stations around the Irish and British coastlines. They provided him with daily weather reports by telegraph, and although his forecasting methods were primitive by today's standards, by 1861 a system was in place. When gales were expected, warnings were telegraphed to ports and harbours around the country, and within 30 minutes appropriate signals were prominently displayed on shore to relay the word to passing ships. It was the beginning of shipping forecasts as we understand the term today.
The signals displayed were of a semaphore type, and were hoisted on a tall mast ashore to allow mariners to take note and exercise the necessary vigilance. If gales were expected from a generally northerly direction, for example, a black cone 3 feet high and 3 feet wide at the base, was raised upon the mast this was a "North Cone". If on the other hand the gales were expected from a southerly quarter, a "South Cone" was hoisted - a cone with its apex pointing downwards.
Other patterns had meanings which quickly became standard and widely understood; "a "drum" or cylinder, for example, was sometimes used to indicate successive gales from varying directions. At night red lights were used to indicate the relevant shape - a triangle of lights to form a cone, and four lights arranged in a square to indicate a drum. In all cases the signal was lowered when the wind dropped below gale force, provided no further gales were expected within six hours. A signal still in evidence after the wind had dropped, however, was to be interpreted as a sign that any abatement was only temporary. READ MORE
"Storm cones" continued in regular use at ports and coastguard stations around Britain until the early 1980s. They are responsible for the quaint phraseology heard until comparatively recently on British shipping forecasts which advised, for example, that "South cones are being hoisted". In general, however, the use of both the cones and the phraseology they engendered have died out with modern improvements in communications, although cones are still displayed occasionally by yacht clubs on a voluntary basis for the information of the casual passer by."
In a sad sign of the times we live in, apparently Ruth Jones of 'Gavin and Stacey' and Damon Allbran will be reading the Shipping Forecast tomorrow. I know, I'm a curmudgeonly old so and so...
I'm a bit confused GroveR, why would Glenn be playing bass on a Clash song? Are you confusing him with Paul Simenon, perchance? Legend has it that it was actually Topper Headon who played the bass on Rock the Casbah, but apparently he now says it was Norman Watt Roy...
Sidebar: I saw the Blockheads play at the Water Rats Kings Cross, what a band. Norman was incredible. I think he also played with Wilko Johnson.
Got to say, as soon as I saw Madsen preparing to come on I feared the worst. What does this bloke offer? As many others have said, Field going off, followed by Morgan (who were both very good), and then Smyth (who was decent), changed the game. But at least Madsen could have put himself about a bit, tried to tackle someone or something. With both Frey and Saito ineffective, we were clinging on and it really didn't help that Varane played like an idiot. I suppose you could say he's young and inexperienced, but Madsen doesn't even have that excuse.
Nevertheless, that first half performance was encouraging and we'd have all taken a point before the game etc. etc. etc. Bring on the Twotford.
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