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No, your energy supplier should have that information via the smart meter itself. But you should tell them exactly when you're moving out. Note that you can't use the smart meter elsewhere, because it's designed to operate in that property only.

Our 4-0 loss yesterday is now looking almost respectable!

Today's date of 6/12/24 is the last day this century that such a geometric sequence can occur. The next one will be in 80 years time!

RvN's got a decent set of gnashers. Does he go to the same dentist as Klopp?

It was 1 win after 3 defeats by a margin of 3-1, taking us to 13 points, in front of 31k fans in week 1, day 3 of RvN's reign!

Mevrouw Leontien van Nistelrooy.

RVN has now witnessed us three times this season, losing every one by a three-goal margin (5-2, 3-0, 4-1). What next? 6-3?!

Let's hope that the Dutchman makes a flying start, that it won't be a Ruud awakening to the PL, that the Van delivery will be on time and bountiful, and that he won't come a Nistelrooy cropper in managing the club!

Your unnoted rivals! (Anagram) (4,3,10).

The possibility of getting RVN in feels a bit like when Jock Wallace almost signed Cruyff in 1981.

If City's league position were decided by how good-looking the manager is, then going from Cooper to RVN would immediately result in us moving up from the bottom 6 to the top 6.

The worst craps aren't the ones when everything is voided, it's the ones where nothing exits due to fecal impaction. This is when the stool is large and solid, and becomes stuck inside the lower bowel. It's often regarded as a medical emergency, but the anguish it causes is greatly compounded by the embarrassment of having to present oneself to A&E with this particular problem, which itself is probably only slightly less embarrassing than presenting with a sex toy stuck inside!

They turned defeat into victory recently at Everton, going in to injury time. And we are hopeless at holding on to anything, going in to injury time. So the runes don't look good.

Mini-roundabouts. According to the Highway Code, all vehicles MUST pass round the central markings, except large vehicles which are physically incapable of doing so. But turning right at most mini-roundabouts in a car is almost impossible to do, without partly driving over the central markings. If you do try to go round, drivers waiting in other vehicles assume you're attempting a U-turn, which is also not allowed. And if vehicles arrive at these stupid junctions simultaneously from different directions, whose right of way it is?

When Selby's in the zone, his standard of play is pure class. We should all be proud of him here in Leicester, whether or not he wins today.

Yesterday's defeat by a relatively respectable margin often seems to happen when City are outclassed. I've come to the conclusion that when we're really crap, we're so crap that we're even crap at being crap!

If the league had 5 divisions instead of 4, we'd be fine - permanently stuck in the 2nd tier.

I agree with Van Gogh's own definition of art: 'Art is to console those who are broken by life'. How right he was, although I'd widen the definition of art to include the arts generally.

Maybe the JSO protesters should focus their theoretically laudible campaign against fossil fuel usage more towards the impact that it has on the planet as a whole. For example, the thought of vast icebergs breaking away from Antarctica, as a result of global warming due to burning of fossil fuels, and the devastating consequences that has for emporer penguins, is far more likely to make me think twice about my eco-credentials than the mindless vandalism of a famous oil(!) painting.

Mark Allen's comment earlier this week that the table he was playing on should be 'burnt' didn't make sense. The beds of snooker tables are made of slate, a non-combustible material.

Has anyone else on here ever taken a field-of-vision test at the opticians? It's not just a test of your eyes, but also of your hand-eye co-ordination, your boredom threshold (it seemingly goes on forever, then you have to repeat it), and frankly your will to live. Add to that the jeopardy of knowing that failing it will result in being banned from driving ever again, and you feel like you've really been through the wringer. That's what happened to me this morning. To add to the pain, the optician doesn't then tell you the result, so it's a case of waiting for the DVLA to make a decision on whether or not to renew your driving licence.

Dunno why, but Steve Cooper reminds me of Albert Steptoe (Wilfrid Brambell), on the right.

Yesterday's game reminded me of the LC R2 fixture at Stockport County two years ago, which ended 0-0 and we won on pens. It was, of course, the prelude to relegation from the PL.

This morning, there was a large flood on Station Road in Thurnby, a fairly narrow road in a 30 limit. So I slowed right down before driving through it. The car behind me decided to overtake through this flood, causing a massive amount of spray and driving like a complete idiot. Was he/she over 70 years old? Somehow I doubt it - it was the sort of brainless driving that's typical of someone aged between 18 and 25. Most drivers along that stretch of road veer towards the centre, where the water is much less deep. Had I done so, god knows what would have happened. Presumably, I'd have got the blame... 70 year old driver, didn't use his mirror etc. etc.

I strongly agree with your sentiments in the second paragraph. I recently turned 70, and had to declare my eye condition to the DVLA, because eyedrops are needed every night to maintain normal ocular pressure. They now insist that I have a field-of-vision test at Specsavers, even though my own optician gave me one only 3 months ago, which I passed easily. The sheer stress of taking that vision test again, knowing the consequences of failing it (through nervousness, not through visual impairment) are already giving me nightmares. If my licence were to be revoked for that reason, I'd be totally devastated. They expect you to be honest about declaring any eye condition, then assume you're lying when you tell them that your vision is absolutely fine! They also tell you take your driving licence to Specsavers, despite it having to be sent back to the DVLA when the application is first made!