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Poor thing. She was only 20 when she passed away.

My wife isn't into politics at all, but she caught a bit of Grant Schapps on the TV this morning spouting his bollocks. "Crock of shite" was her verdict. And she was right. "The red box can be seen behind the table of booze, so he was working". Then lots of "He probably was there for a few minutes, probably raised a glass to a departing colleague, and probably left right afterwards". All bollocks.

Formula One's illustrious race in Monaco 'is at risk of being AXED from the calendar' with concerns mounting that the sport has 'outgrown the harbour - and the circuit paying NOTHING to host the glitzy event' We can but hope

To be honest, all I want is a league fight between us and Dunfermline, with us beating them to it by a single point as a result of a blatantly dodgy penalty in the last minute of the last game. And then them failing in the play-offs.

Surprised that all these folk saying it's underwhelming. Who were you expecting? Del Bosque? You have a young manager with some success to his name. He might turn out to be just the guy to take you to the runner up spot behind McGlynn's Marvels.

8 for Wednesday

Washed my car at the weekend. Some very ill seagull has utterly bombed it. The sheer volume is staggering - covered the bonnet, windscreen, roof, passenger windows and a fair old chunk of ground around the car as well. Need to wash it again now.

"Up to" 80k a year is not 80k a year

Well enough to avoid the TV show, the films, the spin of shows, the "rebooted" films, and most of all the kind of people who think dressing up as aliens to meet up in some provincial conference centre is normal behaviour. Now you are retired, you have the chance to catch up with all this.

I used to work in a furniture shop, and the guy that ran it was obsessed with her. This was about 3 or 4 years after she died. Always bought the Express as it had shite like this about her almost daily.

7 for Monday. Thought I knew more!

I put petrol in my car today and saw a scuddy mag on the top shelf of the petrol station. Not seen one in ages and assumed they had stopped making them. One single jazz mag, and it was called something like "Over 50 Gilfs". @BFTD single handedly keeping the industry going.

Rebecca Romijn (Number one) was Mystique in the original X men trilogy.

Egg mayonnaise with a dash of mustard apparently.

Exactly what a lifelong criminal would say on an Internet forum... Money resting in your account? Selling bricks of Dove bars?

Much like @SweeperDee and @Mr. Alli my go-to in stressful times has been the drink. I had cut down massively but the last few weeks I have been well back up to previous levels. I start at 8 pm but the quantity I put away between then and, say, 10.30 is staggering. Last Saturday I had about 3 and a half litres of San Miguel. Well beyond normal for me. When you can sink a can in 15 minutes and head right for the next then you know something is off. Got to the stage I stopped buying it. Trying to stop myself in advance and that sort of worked. If there are no cans in the fridge I can just avoid it. Not the best strategy, but it gave me the odd night off. Daytime me trying to protect nighttime me.

Govan became part of Glasgow in 1912. Just a matter of time until Paisley goes the same way.

I'll admit it. Good recovery. As Spanish races go that wasn't bad. In general the track is still boring and without DRS would be useless. Fucking Monaco next. I will watch the qualifying, might skip the race.

Turns out Verstappen's issue was with DRS. Hopefully we'll get a good race, but I doubt it (Barcelona sucks as a track).

BBC breakfast news has done a great job all week of plugging this.

Episode 3 was great. Very much liking Number One...

They don't like me... They love me.