I am arbitrarily choosing "Books that will make us laugh" as the genre for this month - after a few comments about the 'grim' nature of June's shortlist I thought we should lighten the tone...
The galley slaves were taking a rest after a full day rowing under merciless sun with the sound of the slave driver's gong still ringing in their ears. "It's not the captain's waterskiing that...
http://www.guardian.c...pendence-tax-backlash
... and while you're at it please could you settle the bill for all the services you've ponced off us over the years....
Enough with all this football nonsense ... the real summer event starts next week : http://www.letour.fr/...E/us/le_parcours.html Addictive TV (even if the mesmeric David Duffield has hung up his...
You may recall that gness despatched the AB hitman (sunny-dave aka 'moped boy') with instructions to 'sort out' the errant author, before any more lurid tales of cleavages, bums and massage parlours...
In a show of decisiveness that would make Greece proud the AB BOTM poll ended in a tie :+) Peter James – ‘Dead Simple’ Tess Gerritsen - ‘The Surgeon’ So I'm making an...
... huge piece of metal in rear bike tyre, fortunately not at too high a speed - about 40 miles from home on way for few days oop north. Tyre was f*cked (technical term) - called recovery to get home...
Just woke up to find a very old (pretty much inactive) gmail account has been hacked - I don't think anyone here has received any spam - but apologies if you did. Now busy changing *all* passwords for...
... a rather bedraggled carrier pigeon has arrived at Sunny Dave Towers. The message attached says : "Technological incompetence prevents me logging into AB whilst on my holiday - please say...
I've just had my third or fourth bag of Jersey Royals for this season - and am deeply disappointed. Not special, not worth the premium and (to be frank) not tasting like proper Jerseys at all. This...
The Queen and David Cameron are on the same stage at the Jubilee Concert, in front of a huge crowd. The Queen leans towards Mr Cameron and says, "Do you know that with one little wave of my hand...
In case you need the details again : Greater Horeshoe Bats in Buckfastleigh : http://oi44.tinypic.com/5ciq0k.jpg Here's a map of the Buckfastleigh area - you need to park by the "chapel rems...
We've had this before, but a recent bad experience with a tankful of Tesco petrol in the bike (poor performance, misfiring, generally not happy - all solved with the next tankful of Shell) made me...
An in depth survey (ok - a few quiet lunches) has revealed that 5 out of 5 female ABers drink pints. Personally I like that - a lot :+) But I have another female friend (yes I do, honestly) who would...
I am arbitrarily choosing "Crime Fiction" as the genre for this month (it was at least mentioned a couple of times in the previous thread) - interpret this as loosely as you wish :+) Please...
I'm not sure exactly what Neil is on ... but play it LOUD ...
... and the old footage is amazing (crank the quality up to 480 and watch full screen)
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