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My daughter aged 38, after many years of trying and 4 rounds of IVF, finally gave birth to a boy in the early hours. There were complications and she lost a lot of blood but all is well, just recovery needed. Now they just need a name. We will be off to Brum to see the little blighter when she...

City are reputed to be signing French born Timeo Whisker from Cardiff for £250,000. Timeo is just 15 years old. Plenty of scope for jokes and songs.

Fatima Whitbread won the Helen Rollason award on SPOTY this week. Her astonishing story is on the Beeb sports page at the moment. Read it, it is humbling.

Britain is world champion at mucking up infrastructure projects. We have seen the cancellation of HR 2. Personally, I always felt that would happen yet for the last ten years or so just about every improvement to railways in and around Manchester have been cancelled on the grounds that HR2 would...

My first Granddaughter was born yesterday. Hale and hearty. The mother fared less well. Emergency c-section but the bleeding did not stop. Whisked off to intensive care, where they had a battle on their hands. Things looking better now but, in the words of the surgeon, we very nearly lost her...

The BBC football page today has a story entitled ‘The Lone Fan’. An astonishing story of how a fan found himself alone on the terrace watching his home town club play in the lower tiers of the national league. And then…… Read it.

City’s ex-academy players masqueraded as England U21 yesterday. Starting were Trafford, Lewis, Harwood Bellis, Doyle, Palmer and Delap. McAtee came on as sub and Edozie was an unused sub. Pity we will probably sell (or have sold) all but Lewis.

Last night my hearing aid gave a loud squeak followed by a strange voice chattering away. From a passing aircraft? Mrs KS heard it and told me that, when she was a kid, the family’s electric fire would occasionally burst into life with odd broadcasts. Our grandson has a toy walkie talkie which...

Tony Bennett legendary US crooner has died at 96. Police are scouring San Francisco looking for his heart. RIP Tony.

There has been much talk in recent years of personalised medicine. In the last couple of weeks I have undergone six procedures at four different venues: two NHS hospitals, one private hospital, and an NHS outreach facility. Some of these procedures were quite complex requiring several doctors...

Well, well, well, this FOC is seventy five today, defying all the predictions of my pair of medical consultants. Crikey, the world has changed in my lifetime. We have seen the launch of the NHS, NATO, the EU and so much more. TV didn’t really get going till after the war, one channel of course...

An old friend passed this week. My tumble dryer gave up the ghost. It was 50 years old and had never had a repair. There is a serious point here. The machine had just two heat settings: low and high. The timer was turn a knob to the number of minutes required. That’s it: no buttons to press, no...

Is a new world financial crash on the cards? Two US banks have recently gone into liquidation, namely Silicon Valley bank and Silvergate. The reasons are clear: 1. The pandemic caused major slow down in economic activity. 2. Governments and Companies borrowed huge amounts to cover the...

Today is the first day of lent. In Ireland in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the first Sunday in lent was called chalk Sunday. Single women were targetted and had chalk crosses drawn on their backs, signifying their failure to do their civic duty of getting married and having children...

Jerry Allison, the drummer for the Crickets has died. As Buddy Holly’s co-writer and drummer he was hugely influential in the early days of Rock. His drumming style was simple, making it easy for later performers to emulate, such as Ringo, yet boasted a driving rhythm. As a song writer he wrote...

Judith Durham, the lead singer of the New Seekers has died aged 79. She had a beautiful voice. RIP.

The season is upon us and this site will be going full blast. I would just like to wish @Ric best of luck and many thanks for this cracking site.

I have been reading about CFG,s activities. For example they have a 5 day nonresidential management course on offer for just under £9000. Very high powered people running it. Have a look at the personnel, many from outside organisations. CFG well worth following as they become a powerful global...

Really good article on BBC football page on the development of the game in Spain, featuring Fred Pentland an English coach who is a legend there. I confess I had never heard of him but he is still revered in Bilbao.

Honours for Gail Platt‘s tits, not to mention Wio and the master golfer Bale, but nothing for Sir Pep.