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I was discussing Comfortably Numb with my lovely dentist last week when I had to have a filling replaced and he asked me if I wanted to be numbed up (of course I did, I always think of Marathon Man when I’m sitting in the dentists chair). It led to us having a difference of opinion about whether...

The "swan wing burial" refers to a Mesolithic burial site in Vedbæk, Denmark, where a young woman and her newborn baby were interred around 4000 BC. The baby was placed on a swan's wing, which is believed to be a symbolic act of care and perhaps a representation of the child's passage to the...

Also, Johnny Flynn ( also very attractive and my current favourite singer) does the music. It is one of those programmes that I put on repeat when I’m pottering about the house so I can dip into it).

I just had a last minute bet on Samir! ( am pottering about in my computer room and thought of all the recent times when I didn’t back a complete outsider recently and they’ve won, given that I often throw a few pennies at them!)

Shifty. Documentary on BBC iplayer.

I’ve never forgotten the night ( 55 years ago in fact) that I got drunk on barley wine ( having been told it was a cheap way to get drunk). Remember feeling that someone was hitting me over the head with a hammer. The scrumpy was different. I was very very sick…and I was camping at the time in...

Can’t stomach cider ever since getting very drunk on scrumpy in Cornwall in my late teens. It just dawned on me that it might be what caused me to have problems with acidic drinks throughout my life eg fruity teas used to give me migraines. One new year when everyone else got very drunk I was...

There’s one for sale on pininterest but I can’t access it as I’m locked out of Facebook and they must be connected.

I’ve got one in the utility room cupboard. Was passed on to me from someone that was having a clear out of their racing mugs ( couldn’t understand why they would do that!). There’s also a Northumberland Plate one and a Grand National one. I haven’t used them because I always break my favourite...

When I slightly fell out of love with The Grand National the Ebor became my favourite race. We used to go to it when it was on the Wednesday and I had some big priced winners over the years. Alas that ended when it started attracting higher class runners. I used to love watching the horses walk...

5 pence ew. Can’t do my usual 3 pence ew on American racing…

25 pence better off. Woohoo…

Found it. Just in time!!!

What time is it?

The Narrow Road to the Deep North. BBC. A series about Japanese prisoners of war. I’m Game of Thrones hardened and was fine with American Primeval. But this is the most brutal, graphic thing I’ve ever seen and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. As usual it was very dark and everyone mumbles so I...

Sometimes even the smallest thing can turn a child’s life around.

Thank goodness someone did! I looked at Serengeti because I’d been talking about a documentary called The Serengeti Rules. Then I looked at Quirat when I read that he’d been supplemented for£70,000 ( albeit knowing he was meant to be a pacemaker).And I often put my threepenny bets on complete...

Michael Morpurgo and his wife did something similar didn’t they? I was an inner city child from the slums of Birmingham ( not like those poor children, though;we were poor but there was much love) I was greatly affected by going on a camping trip with the Brownies or Girl Guides; the best part...

I went to Newmarket as part of my retirement present from work and was shocked at how tired and run down the place was; nothing like what I’d expected. The town centre felt rather seedy. When we went to Middleham for a holiday that was how I was expecting Newmarket to be. Mind you this was over...