CaaC (John)

Erm...not just yet buddy

As said above, I managed to convince him to get me the book as an early Christmas present and his lovely Liverpudlian supporter's heart he came up trumps and just put this down beside me and said "Early Merry Christmas you old fart".

Hang in there buddy, all our thoughts are with you and your wife.

@nudge You should make this a separate thread as they seem to be popping up all over the world now. Monoliths: Why are strange monuments appearing around the world? Shiny pillars have been erected without explanation at sites across the world Monoliths have popped up in surprising places over the past few weeks, with the most recent appearing on a beach on the Isle of Wight. Several of these tall, shiny pillars have now been found at sites around the globe without warning or explanation since mid-November. The first was discovered in the US when a helicopter crew flying over a remote part of a Utah desert counting sheep spotted a strange statue. This metal monolith was found on 18 November and disappeared just as mysteriously as it appeared on 27 November. Around the same time as the Utah one vanished, a shiny metal monolith appeared on the other side of the globe in the Romanian hillside. The structure disappeared several days after it was first spotted near the Petrodava Dacian Fortress, a local archaeological landmark in the northern Neamt country. Shortly afterwards, a new monolith was spotted at the top of a mountain trail in southern California before it also vanished. Then, over the first weekend in December, people stumbled across a tall shiny monolith on a beach on the Isle of Wight. The pillar was spotted on Compton Beach on the west side of the island. FULL REPORT

That rung up a bell with me and Googled the name and aye, remember that one and me and the wife watched it some time back, good film.

This made me laugh from Garth Crooks concerning you know who Garth Crooks' team of the week https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55209280 Midfielders - Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City), Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg (Tottenham), Paul Pogba (Manchester United), Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) Paul Pogba: I felt somewhat compelled to put Paul Pogba in my TOTW on the basis that if I had left him out readers would have said that I have a problem with him. Well, that's because I do. The France international is irritating beyond belief. For an hour his performance was awful and then, out of nothing, he produces the most wonderful finish. I would have brought him and Greenwood off at half-time - which rather explains why I'm not the manager of Manchester United. After a dismal first half, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer showed calmness and courage when it seemed all around him were in a mild state of panic. Solskjaer certainly believes in this group of players.

Ditto? is that actually you @RandoEFC? I think Azeem might have been smoking the funny stuff.

I can just imagine @Spike or @Devil-Dick Willie doing something like this

I will tell my daughter then, she took the photos and she will say you need glasses.

Asteroid capsule 'found' in the Australian desert A recovery team in Australia has found a space capsule carrying the first large quantities of rock from an asteroid. The capsule, containing material from a space rock called Ryugu, parachuted down near Woomera in South Australia. The samples were originally collected by a Japanese spacecraft called Hayabusa-2, which spent more than a year investigating the object. The container detached from Hayabusa-2, later entering the Earth's atmosphere. The official Hayabusa-2 Twitter account reported that the capsule and its parachute had been found at 19:47 GMT. Earlier on Saturday, the capsule was picked up by cameras as a dazzling fireball streaking over Australia's Coober Pedy region. Screaming towards Earth at 11km/s, it deployed parachutes to slow its descent. The capsule then began transmitting a beacon with information about its position. The spacecraft touched down on the vast Woomera range, operated by the Royal Australian Air Force. At around 18:07 GMT, the recovering team identified where the capsule had landed. A helicopter, equipped with an antenna to pick up the beacon, took to the air shortly afterwards to hunt for the container. FULL REPORT

Spot the daughters pet rat 'Father Rat Charamander Christmas' enjoying the Christmas Tree hide and seek.

This fucking woke the wife up and she thought it was an almighty explosion, some bloody noise I can tell you and in the army I was a No 2 operator on a 105 pack howitzer and it sounded like one of them going off.

A beautiful shot that I love cats and they are my favourite animals, the cat below called Poppins our daughter had before she fell pregnant with Kaiden and I loved that cat and I even babysat her when the wife, daughter went away for a holiday, sadly, the daughter had to give her away to a good home as she started playing up, scratching and hissing when they moved with her now ex to a new flat. Our daughter even trained her to catch spiders, if she saw one on a wall she would shake and growl and then pounce on the spider, carry it over to our daughter and drop the dead mangled spider at her feet.

Portobello Beach early November morning sunrise.

Our daughter's pet rats, Haloween Peek-a-Boo.