Well, I dont applaud Elton john (I'd think of giving Tom waits a hug if I were lucky enough to bump into him before hes bumped off, but that's as far it goes). All of that sounds, with respect, a bit extrinsic, mainstream. What's it about it intrinsically? At least gardening goes with feeling alive, part of a shared organic world.
Brexit, for once some facts.
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Yep, sort of agree. But there is a certain drama involved with football. There is something in our psyche that makes football attractive.
I, d rather be sailing or biking but watching a good game with mates and a beer is a good way to pass an evening. And I hate gardening.
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What it's about intrinsically is being able to escape this shared organic and often not very nice world for a couple of hours of fantasy and possibility, a chance to dream.
Nowhere is that more true than in FA cup matches where Davids can sometimes slay Goliaths.
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Three of my neighbours are in their mid 90s and still very mobile & active. All three are keen gardeners and are out most days, bending, reaching, and stretching as they work. That must be doing them some good. The age is probably genetic, but the quality of life they enjoy must be due in part to the gentle exercise and working the muscles & joints gently every day.
Like Zlatan, I hate gardening.
But I walk in the countryside a lot and my largely entymological natural history photography then involves lots of bending, reaching and stretching. Gardening without the mucky bits!
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Each to his own. If they enjoy it, great. I keep my garden"acceptable "... cut grass, cut hedges... Then go out somewhere..
The new environmentaly friendly gardening is leave it be... Sounds win win to me.
More opinions of Brexit and Bike manufacture in the UK
Brexit begins to weigh heavy on Brit bike exporters
Brexit begins to weigh heavy on Brit bike exporters
The world gets dafter by the day.
It's been announced that the annual Town Cryer competition will go ahead but in a Covid secure way. Each competitor will write down their message and send it in, where they will be judged on the clarity of the messages.
What on earth is the point?
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It's been announced that the annual Town Cryer competition will go ahead but in a Covid secure way. Each competitor will write down their message and send it in, where they will be judged on the clarity of the messages.
What on earth is the point?
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brexit stopped me selling anything to EU customers. No kits, no bikes.
Covid causes severe shortage of components: tyres, forks, brakes, cranksets. Bike frames are impossible to get unless you can order 250 sets for each model. I had no choice than slimming down the range for this year.
To shame the government and the lack of clarity of their messages.
Mind, difficult when they have no shame.
Me and my wife say that to each other most days.. There seems to be things happening that just make you think... Madness...
Whatever caution I might have felt about the Covid vaccines, it is as nothing to the scepticism I have over home pill to cure Covid that seems to be being rushed out:
UK in drive to develop drugs to take at home to ‘stop Covid in its tracks’
Ministers announce taskforce to ‘supercharge’ search for antiviral treatments to roll out as soon as autumn
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/20/uk-in-drive-to-develop-drugs-to-take-at-home-to-stop-covid-in-its-tracks
I understand that budesonide is not new - and is extremely widely used already. But new substances are another ballpark.
Were I female, I'd be even more wary. After all, by far the majority of drug testing is done on males. So female-specific issues often do not get observed until it is out in the field.
UK in drive to develop drugs to take at home to ‘stop Covid in its tracks’
Ministers announce taskforce to ‘supercharge’ search for antiviral treatments to roll out as soon as autumn
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/20/uk-in-drive-to-develop-drugs-to-take-at-home-to-stop-covid-in-its-tracks
I understand that budesonide is not new - and is extremely widely used already. But new substances are another ballpark.
Were I female, I'd be even more wary. After all, by far the majority of drug testing is done on males. So female-specific issues often do not get observed until it is out in the field.
BBC Radio are reporting that Chelsea are about to withdraw from the new super league. I imagine that the owners did not expect the size of the back lash.
I think it's all over two of the European clubs are also said to be pulling out so that will be the end of it all.
Johnson has lost a minister - Mercer.
Defence minister Johnny Mercer resigns from government
Mercer’s decision is understood to relate to concerns about prosecutions of Northern Ireland veterans
Defence minister Johnny Mercer resigns from government
Mercer’s decision is understood to relate to concerns about prosecutions of Northern Ireland veterans
Ed Woodward Chief Executive of Man Utd is said to have resigned with immediate effect.
I wonder if this idea will come to fruition?
'Anti-Covid pill' could replace jabs as green light is given for clinical trials to begin