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Yes. Usually when I'm teaching...

Thank you for pointing it out. So have I now.

I did not know that!

There was a discussion of that jingle on French radio recently. It was being spoken about as a work of art, and I had to agree. It's brilliant.

You're not talking about Assad, then?

That spelling mistake in there is going to haunt me forever.

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Nobody wants to see Wales play in white.
Not sure I can support them now, it's against my rules to support a team playing in white

Since the world cup I no longer have a "lucky" Wales rugby shirt.

I do have a Springboks shirt though and imagine that if I wore that then Wales might have a chance of winning!

Not even that sliver of hope then...

I hope the roof is open for the game, then! No chance of heavy snow?? That could be a sliver of hope for us.

You'll share a very decent red whine with us all, then?

The Flashing Blade, end of.

Rhubarb & Custard, brilliant theme tune

That most certainly does happen in Christian countries too.

Done

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oops, repeating myself.

Did i mention the Xeelee Series by Stephen Baxter? It spans a mind-bogglingly long period

Also, the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons is very imaginative.

Also the Xeelee series by Stephen Baxter, which spans a mind-bogglingly long period

any of the Ian M Banks books about the Culture, so brilliant I have just started reading them all again

somewhere in Gloucestershire/Herefordshire is my guess, like Ledbury, Stroud or similar sized town

Wilder than Theresa May in a field of wheat!

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