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I don´t know much about art but I like the work of the pre-Raphaelites (some of which is on permanent exhibition in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery). This is The Day Dream by Rossetti:

I didn´t know this topic existed, hence the delay. Strangely enough I first saw this reproduced on a Black Sabbath album cover

The UK economy has been boosted by higher than expected retail sales, especially for balaclavas and black clothing.

It´s ironic that one reason why the US can´t "defeat" Iran is that the Russians have been supplying the Iranians with sateliite and other data showing the locations of American boats, military installations etc. in that region.

I´m a generous bloke! Martin O´Neill won 2 out of his first 14 games (although he started mid-season) and was subjected to some chants inviting him "to go away" in that time

Usually after a vote of confidence from the owner

If things don´t improve a lot over the next 5 games, then I think he´s gone. So, he could be gone on Halloween. Then we would have 3 weeks until the next league game to appoint a new manager (I hope we have a replacement lined up by then).

Last season, here, Bristol City missed a pen with 30 mins to go, when we were 2-0 up. After that our players got energised, closed their players down and got stuck in, with the crowd right behind them. Not uplifting perhaps, but I suppose it has stuck in my memory because they were so poor in most games before and after that. Another 4 or 5 performances like that and we would have stayed up.

I think he´ll find it difficult to have Ofra Haza support him......

Where is/was that building? Those kinds of places were often elegant buildings set in landscaped grounds, like the one in St. Albans that I visited a couple of times (to play cricket)

Winston Churchill was born in England: his mother was American but his father was British

See above!

If you've not been there already, Segovia is only 25-30 mins away by train

Agreed. I much prefer Rising Damp.

Jon Lord (RIP), keyboard and Hammond organ player, in Deep Purple and other groups. Born in Leicester, in 1941.