One month to go before my old friend François Gorin publishes his book on Prefab Sprout.

Many happy returns!

So colourful, so gay.

Oh, really? What a beautiful spot...

Oh yes we did...

You are!

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That glorious collection of kneeler cushions can be found at St Andrew's Church in Chelmondiston.

The Orwell estuary, cont'd. The rock eel (dogfish) at the Butt & Oyster comes highly recommended.

That's where he grew up and took his nom de plume from!

The Orwell estuary, Suffolk.

Astonishing, yes, and, at times, transcendently eerie and beautiful.

Right bastards

No fash on my TL please

You're quite right. More.

I'd say it was one of their best performances of the season, and with key players injured (Saka) or still convalescing (Havertz, Odegaard). If the title was lost - and we shall see whether it was or not -, it was not today, it was against Bournemouth last week.

...yes? Meaning?

The crazy thing is that City should have been deducted 60 points or more a while ago but never mind.

A proper game of football, this one, berween a team that should have wrapped up the title already and another which should have been demoted to League One a long time ago.

I tend to agree woth you, but it's particularly obvious in Arsenal's case, given how cautious the team is when attacking.

Sound always switched off in this home on "Super Sunday" (though Dave is a true pro).

Honestly no explanation and no idea why.

Or Nigeria. or Algeria! But he always wanted to play for his mother's country.

I can imagine how you feel about it though.

Not to that extent.

...what

One of the oddest things about this Arsenal team is that they take more risks passing the ball under pressure in their own thirty yards than they do in the opposition's half.

Well, he's played for France since he was 17, so...

No card, I suppose?

I always watch footie with the sound turned off when a certain pundit is officiating.

Olise might be the best on the planet right now, but Cherki has a kind of genius that cannot be engineered or replicated.

Only a Didier Deschamps would think that playing Olise and Cherki in the same team is impossible.