Blue Square Thing

Everyone knew that they ad chips in before the tournament. It was to do with something or other - possibly goal line tech, possibly just tracking the ball movement around the field. I don't think this is any different to any other ball and it doesn't strike me as suspicious in any way fwiw.

If the EU's buying soybeans then it's not the GMO ones.

Worth a read: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/yashin

Trust me old chap, those aren't anywhere remotely close to far left policies.

This is an important factor for me. Having said that, Denmark, outside Copenhagen and a few other spots, can be dreadfully dull in terms of food. I know the missus fancies Austria and Salzburg would, for various reasons, be top of the list so maybe next year (if they'll let us over the border by then...)

Worth a trip? Never been to southern Germany/Austria at all. Switzerland and northern Germany/Denmark, yes.

There's another world cup next year. I'll remind you just before it starts. You'll love it - they wear helmets and pads and have big bits of wood and they actually aim to hit each other.(1) In the head. With the ball. It's fab. There are no hankies though. 😢 1 well, sometimes

I'll put it in my calendar to remind you in four and half years. I'm sure it'll be a 0-0 draw decided on penalties just to annoy you though.

I thought Trump was in favour increasing American defence spending regardless of what anyone else does? I'd have thought that would cost money.

I think my sons have - the oldest one anyway. In Denmark years ago. I think it's probably OK. Quite sociable probably if you do it in a group.

I think Trumpkin is suggesting that there is more stuff that was said that isn't on tape. But he also says that his people were also taping the interview - so I'm not really sure why this tape hasn't been released yet. Either that or he's a lying fudgeweasel.

We were never going to get a deal with the US this side of 2025 anyway - and even then it would be so one sided that it would be worse than not having a deal - really, we don't want the food you can't sell to anyone else because it sucks and is full of junk. It actually strengthens May I think. The Sun is off on one led by chief cockwomble Murdoch. Honestly, outside of a few loonspud Tory MPs on the far right, literally no one in this country thinks that Trump has a clue - if he's backing Johnson then that's bad for Johnson; if he's attacking Sadiq then it's good for Sadiq. If Trump wants to hurt someone's political status he simply needs to come out and back them.

Half-Scottish I'm afraid - very much the dominant half. And the missus is Welsh. So, no, not really. We've just come in from a school awards evening where, somehow, both of our children won music awards. No idea where they got the genes for that from...

Close enough I suppose.

So long as you're watching the cricket...