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Find the cat.

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Here’s why I hate female cricket commentators…

Worcestershire v Somerset today.

Female commentator: I’m really looking forward to the T20 World Cup next month. It’s being held in the US for the first time.

Male commentator: They’re holding it in the Caribbean.

Female commentator: I know. That’s in America, isn’t it?

What the hell can she possible know about cricket, much less simple geography? Fifteen years ago she was still in nappies.

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Needed some thinking about. There was also a simple puzzle in the same paper but I messed it up!

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Pass me a fork.

Sauteed mushrooms in garlic butter

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Pintxo for breakfast. Pancakes, sausage, cheese and fried onions. Tasted much better than it looks.

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Sudoku. Still got it!

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Green and red ink for my dip pens (both of them!)

Getting closer!

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The rug is nearing the end. She’s been at it for months!

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Another baking session!

TWO All Bran loaves, the big one for us, the smaller one for Barbara next door.

I’ve run out of ingredients!

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Breakfast in the sun.

Bacon, egg, hamburger patty & mushrooms.

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The house a few doors down has a planted arch over their front gate. I don’t remembering it flowering last year - maybe it did - but I’ve just noticed one single flower cluster right at the bottom.

Who knows - maybe the whole thing will burst into flower. More when /if it does.

I’ve no idea what it is. If I were to guess I’d say some sort of clematis but what do I know? I’m no botanist!

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***New Place***

Nan Kin for lunch. Wan tun soup and fried pork & noodles.

Very nice but not as good as Chef Zhan.

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I won’t do any more of these, they’re too easy.

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St George’s Day.

His father was from Turkey, his mother was Syrian.

He was a Roman and died in Palestine. He never visited England.

If he’s a hero to anyone it’s Palestine and the muslims, for whom he stood up against discrimination and oppression.

And since dragons have never existed he could hardly have killed one.

So as patron saints go he’s a bit of a waste of time.

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Good to see the Notre-Dame restoration nearing its conclusion after the fire 5 years ago.

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Archeologists in the ancient Italian city of Pompeii have uncovered some superbly preserved paintings in a fresco which dates back 2-3000 years.

One of them clearly shows an early version of a pizza.

Americans are furious. They have long maintained that the pizza was invented in 1930’s Chicago!!!

Delusional yanks, found out again!

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I was born and raised in Southport, Lancashire and left when I was 14.

One of the strong memories I still hold of my childhood is of 80,000 geese arriving every year in Autumn to over-winter and feed on the sands.

It was quite a sight to watch them fly over. At times the sky was black with them and the sound was deafening.

You’d hear them first before you ever saw them. It was an amazing spectacle.

This picture is just some of the geese arriving and was taken in Southport.