Free Falling Foxes

Or, a woman pregnant with twins giving birth to the first.

I seem to recall in our Premier league winning season and for two or three seasons thereafter, we had very few Saturday 3pm ko. Might be my memory but that's how I remember it.

I've been receiving notifications on YouTube recently for some short videos called Now and Then. They are usually a series of photographs from the second world war, compared with the same scene today. Unsurprisingly, the war pictures often show bomb damaged buildings and, sometimes, bodies. One scene couldn't have been more worlds apart. The original showed a cobbled street with a dead soldier lying across a pavement. The 'Now' picture showed the exact same buildings and cobbled road, which is now a busy shopping street with dozens of folk going about their daily and peaceful everyday lives, walking over the exact same spot where that particular warrior had died. That soldier was somebodies son, brother, perhaps a father himself. No memorial of course marking the place he died, there were far too many for that to be possible. I found it quite powerful.

I like to think I would be aware if I became unsafe on the roads and 'self-regulate'. In fact, I have already done so. I will not now drive in the dark for example, as I find too many oncoming vehicle lights dazzling. I would also welcome views of any family/friends who may notice any less than competent driving on my part. That said, I agree that a formal and regular assessment as to your driving and awareness should happen after the age of 70 or 75 and these should be at least yearly for even older drivers.

Every generation can point to hardships they endured compared to previous or following ones. It seems many on here think that an exception to that however, are those born late 40s to early 70s. Nonsense. {Engage 4 Yorkshiremen mode} Many folk still lived in slums. Rationing still in place for a few years at the start of that period. Very few went to university . Nuclear War was very possible. Unmarried mums had their children taken at birth - many never seeing them again. Corporal punshment in schools (I still protest it wasn't me sir. Still got a whack though) Started work at 15/16. Seems barbaric now. Schools built with asbestos present and decorated with lead paint. And so on. Stop it. 'Boomers' had their (un)fair share too.

Interesting that an entire demographic - so called 'boomers' - can be vilified. I accept that much is just a wind up or just a cheap criticism of a group of folk that belong to to another generation. However, if posters wrote similar diatribe but instead of 'boomer' wrote such generalisation of Gypsies, Asians, blacks, muslims, jews, women, and so, it would an 'ism' and rightly called out. As far as FT is concerned, posts would be deleated, posters banned - and rightly so. I'm baffed as to why one age group/generation is fair game.

Does this include the ones who grew up in poverty, lived in a slum area, did national service, barely survived TB, received no handouts, no central heating in two of the worst winters on record..... I could go on but suspect you are on a wind up or massively ill informed.

The figure standing on the right doesn't look 1890s me thinks? Time traveller perhaps?

Equally, that asylum hotel rioter who was jailed has died in prison. Very little media coverage in comparison. Suspect there would have been far more if the fella was black.

So............

Pinch their stadium design and keep pinching points.

Perhaps the Premier League and the refs aren't out to get us after all, when Ayew got away with that shirt pull

I'll steer well clear of 606 tonight, cannot do with Sutton saying we only want him out because he's ex Forest.

Something positive at last - my stream has died.

I wish they were clever enough to know I scroll straight past them - always and in the case of YouTube, skip as soon as poss.

Ahh, the good ole days before football was played on grass.

School dentist and the 'Nit' nurse.

And these; Jumping Jacks.

WTF. I meant the STATION!

I'm reminded of something an old colleague of mine used to say: If two wrongs don't make a right, try 3 wrongs, or 4....... That seems to be Israel's approach.

I know the footballing authorities care not one jot on fans feelings, but it would be interesting to find out what fans think about not just the nations league games, but international matches per se. I think there is a growing ambivalence towards Englands matches amongst the average fan these days. There is no where near the excitment and interest of yesteryear towards a lot of international matches I feel.

I had my one and only hot pork pie at Elland Road back in the 70s. Bit into it and - not surprising when you think about it - the jelly had turned to a hot liquid which squirted out and ran down my scarf and coat. I stank of it all the way home on the coach.

In our previous house we bought a wardrobe 'system', for want of a better word, which was basically two siding rails and two doors. It was relatively simple to screw the rails to the ceiling and floor and then hang the doors. All the fixtures and fittings were supplied. I did need to make a rail for the clothes to hang on, but that was simply a length of 1in wooden dowel running the entire length. I did need to also support it halfway however, to stop it sagging. It was then simply a case of buying a couple of racks for shoes to go on and I also fitted a shelf for other items. It was something similar to this @Unabomber