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Did you have two seasons at Portsmouth FC?

Met my nephew for the first time today, and went to sunny Hunstanton for the first time in years. So it's been a good day!

Thanks man! He's my favourite photographer. I've noticed that literally all my photos are wonky, they go down hill from right to left. I have no idea why but it does my head in too.

I do hope those who watched University Challenge tonight got the Leicester City question right.....

Autumn in Italy can't be beaten, you'll have a great time.

A slight deviation from the theme - what are you 'listening to' right now. A friend from Sofia just had one of his plays performed on Radio 4, 'Red Star Newport'. It's about a football club run as a co-operative. I even managed to persuade him to sneak in a little reference to Citeh (unfortunately it wasn't a very flattering one). Only 45 minutes, if you're into that sort of thing... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037v9cr

Watching PSG on teleh. 1-1 @ Montpellier at the moment. Plenty of chest puffing from their expensive strike force.

A few shots of the Deaflympics. I've never been to such a silent stadium!

Yeah I watched this for the first time two nights ago and all the way through I was expecting him not to get the job at the end and realise that true happiness comes from within bla bla bla. The ending basically puts forward the idea that money = happiness. I suppose it's quite refreshingly honest if a little obvious.

Liquid football! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt9Pkd8M_Oo

Yes, but rather hot. Down near the border with Greece.

A couple of scanned negatives from a recent 53km, 18 hour hike in Southern Bulgaria.

The recent story of the Queen preparing a speech in the event of a nuclear war reminded me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T72TopWbXJg

I'm a bit of a second hand lens maniac. Found myself a beautiful 50mm f/1.8 Pentax lens recently. Here are a couple I took with it:

Get some of the Bulgarian yogurt. A bit of lactobacillus bulgaricus usually does the trick for me when I have a funny tummy.

Sticking my beer glass in the freezer for ten minutes before I crack open the can. Picked it up from a pizzeria I used to frequent in Sicily.

So I'll admit to being terrified of flying. How could you not be? You're in a metal tube at 30,000 feet going at 600mph. You have no idea what's going on. You have no control over the thing. I used to be fine but one day at the age of about 22 I was in the bog on a plane and thought about the wafer thin wall separating me and a load of sky.

The Beatles went from Love Me Do to Tomorrow Never Knows in less time than it took the Stone Roses to record a follow up album. In terms of such a diverse and brilliant output in such a short space of time, definitely the best band of all time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi5ODY-vIzI

Sounds like a place I went once in Sheffield that did a 'student cut' for a fiver and the hairdresser ended up bleeding on me. The place I go to in Sofia tends to make me look like a war criminal from the former Yugoslavia.

3.50?! Do they cut your hair with meat cleavers?

Love this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz7IjXu0DfQ

It's completely different, tennis is an individual sport. Only in the Davis Cup are they grouped by nation and Wimbledon is far more important.

The guy just won Wimbledon in straight sets against the world number 1, who cares within which arbitrary set of borders he was born.

Djokovic was born in Yugoslavia before it broke up. Into 7 separate republics.

I think he's Avign-us-on.