Lad I used to work with's dad got his mam pregnant when he was thirteen, but I dunno if any of them were Happy Mondays fans.

But can you pour it properly?

It's the oldest existent lifeboat in the world too, the cheeky little nowt.

I can only assume that they were larking about spinning a dwarf round before eating him.

To be fair, I first read it in the 80s, and it probably wasn't that fresh then, what with trolls being involved and everything.

And trolls in Mail Order.

Or possibly just exclusion from the 'national community' when it comes to access to social security and the like.

Ethnicity isn't just about 'blood' and DNA, it's language, culture, shared traditions etc. Many people in my town in England have plenty of, probably majority, Irish ancestry a couple of generations back, but speak English and have Irish surnames and sometimes given names, but no English ancestry.

It came at a wonderful time too, as me, my girlfriend and our mate were being buttonholed by a very drunk man telling us about his job cleaning out grease traps.

Not just English clubs - the inflation caused crosses all FA jurisdiction borders.

Someone made the point that people under about 30 or so don't know who Laurel and Hardy are yet they had been amongst the most famous people in the world and I think about that too much.

Real name Gordon Wasp.

I am still optimistic that it won't (fully) come to that this time round, but ever less so.

Barker of the UFO sounds interesting.

The difference between weasels, otters and stoats? One is weaselly recognised, one is otterly different and one stoatally different.

Got!

Stars fell on Stockton by the Shadows probably doesn't count for a few reasons.

Nice to see one I have.