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Didn't Lizzie score the winner in 66 or is somebody pulling my leg?

The Queen's nae well.

Why indeed?

You are referring to the Aldous Huxley moment a.k.a. C. S. Lewis moment.

I doubt Barbados will. Should have postponed their referendum by a year.

Even prisoners in Soviet gulags cried when Stalin died. He has such an impact on their lives.

Imagine starting your career at the age of 73.

It is not really that. For most people alive today she was the only monarch they ever knew. Regardless of whether you were paying attention, she was a constant in life. I felt the same way about The Ramones who kept touring when all their contemporaries had given up. Then they packed it in and then all promptly died. This is a real Joey Ramone moment for a lot of people.

How old fashioned. Don't they have a Twitter account for this sort of thing?

Apparently the authorities are very concerned that Mar-a-Lago is a magnet for foreign spies where Trump has taken away lots of classified documents. I have images of the FBI turning up and being met by Park the butler, who claims to be from South Korea but wears the two Kim badges as some sort of joke, the cook is very good at making Borscht, the chauffeur is nicknamed Ayatollah, the maid is Cindy Assad - not sure where she is from - and various others.

Alternatively, if when you arrive you say, table for one please, then all parties are fully briefed That assumes the person who takes you to your table talks to the waiting staff. Not always true.

Restaurants can be a problem when travelling solo. Sometime the waiters ignore you because they assume you are early and the rest of your party has not arrived yet. When the waiter asks you if you want to order a drink, tell them you want to order food as well. It catches them out but it works. On the plus side, people on their own eat quicker so you might get a table where a couple or a group would not. Also they have no way of knowing if you might be a food critic in disguise!

I still recall an interview where I was told I might be required to sleep at my desk watching a computer that might go beep. Another one mentioned crawling through air ducts to help with cabling. This was at the interview stage when they were really trying to entice me to work for them. I suspect they are both still advertising for someone.

The flag of Tenerife looks vaguely familiar.

Mongolia was one of the countries doing military exercises with Russia recently. Not sure if this is a good look at the moment.

Just go. If anybody asks, you are a vulcanologist attending a symposium on advances in monitoring gaseous analogies from extinct or near extinct volcanos but your colleagues have been delayed because of all the trouble caused by Brexit, staff shortages at the airport, baggage handlers, the War in the Ukraine, the dreadful organisers who can't organise anything, and you have got dysentery from eating the local food. I am sure they will leave you alone.

I recall HIGNFY in 2010: "David Cameron is the 53rd Prime Minister but for how long?" "Forever you moron. The next one will be the 54th."

I know which one I prefer.

Why is the Tory Party full of people who would ban themselves from coming here?

The newly selected prime minister was not chosen by the UK electorate nor the preferred choice of her own MPs. She has total contempt for those leaders who were elected such as Sturgeon, Drakeford, O Neill and Macron. Great start.

Apparently delays at Calais are just as bad. Two can play at that game!

You forgot to mention Tory members who voted for her but would have preferred Johnson if they had been given the choice.

Think of all those Lib Dem activists who now realise they could one day become prime minister. She showed them the way.