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Awful company (all due to Sir Humph), and not a pleasant pub with plastic glasses on match days, but fell back in love with Sinclairs on a quiet weekday after they brought back the cask OBB. https://retiredmartin.com/2023/07/05/sinclairs-gets-its-cask-back/

Brentford were very good, comfortable on the ball, ambitious going forward. Gave us a tough, enjoyable, game. Can't believe we didn't score a third in that 10 minute assault though.

Honest comment. I don't understand how US politics works, and I spend a lot of time talking to American friends (all Democrats) about it on their annual trips to drink in Manc pubs. I've never understood what the President can or can't do himself, outside starting or ending wars. For example...

I was very moved by your lovely words and feel deeply for your loss. Stay strong for Lesley Anne X

Oh yes. Same price as at the Northern Soul on Tib Street, too. Pic below. Bundobust is good too but not sure how that'll go down at the etihad. https://retiredmartin.com/2024/02/14/chinatown/

I see that Bundobust has a van outside East Stand this season, sadly not serving their beers with the veggie Indian stuff so I stuck with my occasional Northern Soul cheese toastie at £7.

Astonishing performance by Rico . What a player.

Seriously, is he ill ? Sounds terrible, irrespective of any influence he might have from the family name or alignment of policies with Trump.

The lack of cricket, first class or one day, in counties like Northants, Worcs and Kent through the best weeks of the summer is a disgrace and no amount of financial drip-down from tests and the Hundred or whatever will keep the county first class game viable (if it ever was) I stayed at a B &...

I guess that shift is based on Kennedy Jnr dropping out and pledging support to Trump who's said he'd give him a place in his administration ?

I know that stretch of road too well as my parents live in the same Fen village. Hard to believe anyone jogs on the A1123, though you might be crossing the road on a walk along the Cam to Ely, and cars do fly along that stretch. Cambridgeshire news report a 48 year old woman from a nearby...

Turkish eggs in Idle Hands on Dale Street is a favourite. https://retiredmartin.com/2023/01/24/back-on-track-in-manchester/

Incredible finish to women's basketball, so close to that last shot taking it to overtime. Would like to say "hard luck France" but I'm not that generous.

Seen that clip a few times, always leaves a tear in the eye. Takes courage to go against the crowd you're trying to win.

I was driving up Rochdale Road when it came on LBV and I nearly had to pull over (ironically, at the Bernard Manning club) to cry. The best 5 minutes you will ever hear, and my thoughts on the benefits of immigration summed up brilliantly. Well done Shelagh for letting Darren talk uninterrupted..

Some of my best mates are from Chicago and Minneapolis, brightest people I know, big fans of Manchester and its pubs and Holts, detest Trump. America ain't bad.

What a great album that is. And astonishingly she's from same city as me. (Cambridge, UK)

LBC and Blue Moon over BBC any day. I particularly like the late night shows from Clive Bull and Oli Dugmore, and Matthew Wright on weekend mornings. Suella Braverman is just a holiday spot I think, Emily Thornberry was on as well.

Correct, but of course Donal Trump had no interest in the second half of Christ's message of forgiveness, he's just after revenge.

Never mind his own questionable morals. When asked his favourite Bible verse he initially couldn't answer, then finally came out with.. "An eye for an eye" the most un-Christian verse of all. And yet the evangelical far-right can't see through him.