Sad news, Deadly Derek is no more.

As a relatively young man & in the days when I had sporting heroes, "Deadly" Derek Underwood (along with Alan Knott who was usually behind the wickets at the other end) was one of them, & grumpy Trevor Bailey on TMS.

What memories, B Underwood, C Knott.

My uncle's horse Panda Boy is 3rd favourite for the Grand National so I'm not saying anything hugely interesting but he says "he's as right as he could be", if anyone fancied a bet.
It's a dream for him. He had a horse Doubleuagain that won at Cheltenham about 40 years ago. That ran in the Grand National, finished but didn't place. Winning the Grand National has always been a life long dream and to be so close is amazing.

That's gotta be well exciting.

VBOL, hope it runs well & gets home safely.

RIP Peter Higgs - he of the "Higgs bosun".

If you ever get the chance have a read of a few of the scores of books about Peter & the discovery of the Higgs bosun at LHC. I've read most of them, & barely understood a word, & still I don't comprehend much of it. The "World of Small" is incredible, but it's a fascinating subject. He was a very special man indeed & clever beyond our imagination.

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He's 65lb fully grown, like a small coffee table that snores.

Lost a few pounds since the above photo was taken

yikes, that's the best part of 5 stone. That's like a small person, or a 10 year old child.

That's fantastic.

The dog looks like he's quite a big old sort.

I have two cats. Not my initial decision I must admit. The older one we hand reared from three weeks old having been abandoned outside in the rain

Do the cats & the dogs get along OK?

One of the healthiest looking bulldogs I've ever seen Rich.

BTW- Is that a Weatherspoons carpet?

No not a Wetherspoons. Won't go inside one on principle 🙂

Not a fan, Rich...?

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Do you still have the cat, Rich?

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That's great to hear & see Rich. It's good to have a passion in life, be it a pet, or a hobby (golf or whatever). It's certainly livened up my latter years.

You may be surprised to know I've followed your "Dog Passion" since Day One on Twitter. Some great photos on there, here's a couple which others might enjoy...

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This is my favourite....

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Congrats Tikay.

**** off fatty.

Kate and Charles both found to have cancer during routine operations.
At the same time too. What are the chances?

It's all very sad imo, especially so in the case of Catherine. The fact she is a "Royal" is neither here nor there, it's still sad.

A few other tv series along the crime / gangster genre
Boardwalk Empire , Godfather of Harlem , Gangs of. London and Peaky Blinders

Hope you are well tikay 

I'm grand ta Craig.

Where are you these days - still in China? All good with you & yours?

I’m great thanks Tony .
I left China in 2022 and moved to Thailand ,which is where  I had always  wanted to finally be after initially discovering Asia all those years ago

I have lived in Asia for 15 years now  and do wonder where the time has gone . They say time flies when you are having fun!

I also play a fair bit of golf again now which like you I do really enjoy.
Next month we have a competition called the Thai China Ryder Cup which is between expats from China vs expats from Thailand (who once lived in China). Just an excuse for a group of mates to play 3 days of golf together and have a catch up and the craic

Take care mate it’s been emotional

Noooooooooooo - 15 years? It does not feel anything like that since those wonderful days at J10. There were some characters there.

[enjoyed your take on "top boy" , most amusing]

enjoyed your take on "top boy" , most amusing

you may have seen the film already, its the brasilian version called city of god . cant quite believe its over 20 years old now.

Might have whooshed me there fam.

Was golfing yesterday with Leicester Tigers

I got you and Bookiebasher an invite and he said you was playing snooker

Good job the food and beer was good

Noooooooooooo? Would love to have played. I'm either being whooshed or I've misunderstood something, I've not played snooker for around 30 years, & I was "free" yesterday.

That aside, great to hear from you Trev, you still making millions on the commodities?

Bookie must of meant HE was playing snooker, I took it as though you were both snookering

Commodities trading going nice and steady, the current climate seems fairly quiet or after 45 years of trading I may actually finally be learning not to be toooooo greedy

Ahh yes, that figures, he's a regular at the snooker club apparently.

Glad to hear of your new-found relaxed attitude to commodity trading. Quite interesting how many of us - well certainly me - take until our dotage to learn life's most basic & obvious lessons. All of a sudden it's all so obvious.

FFS, everyone's at it now.