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I don't think the mintage has been released yet for the Coronation 50p, but the QEII Memorial 50p mintage was 9,600,000 so there should be plenty of those about. The Royal Mint don't make it easy to find info about circulating coins on their website, but I tracked it down eventually. https://www.royalmint.com/corporate/circulating-coin/uk-currency/mintages/50-pence/

Why the fuck were Sunak and his missus at the D Day commemoration? He isn't the Prime Minister now.

My old boss, always extremely un-PC, used to say "I don't know why you girls are wasting your time here; you're all sitting on a fortune."

I was until I realised it's some US actor I've never heard of, and not the British author and journalist.

Two words. Stephen Hawking.

Same goes for me, but I've never heard of the bloke!

Well, Cameron's a local boy like I said, but Coutinho was hand-holding in Hungerford the other day, so yes. He can promise absolutely anything , in the confident knowledge that he won't have to do any of it.

Thu 6 Jun 57 David Bowie - Sound and Vision 43 Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love 36 ABBA - Money, Money, Money 27 The Four Seasons — Silver Star +4 22 David Dundas - Jeans On  -6 11 Mike Oldfield - Portsmouth 10 Manuel and the Music of the Mountains - Rodrigo’s Guitar Concerto de Aranjuez

Thu 6 Jun 49 John Newman — Love Me Again 44 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 43 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know 38 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 38 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 37 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) 36 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 35 Coldplay — Paradise 35 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 33 Little Mix — Wings 33 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball 31 Lorde — Royals -6 29 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It +4 29 Avicii — Wake Me Up 28 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 28 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child 27 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone 27 Jessie J — Domino 24 Rihanna — Diamonds 23 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 22 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 22 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 21 OneRepublic — Counting Stars 21 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 21 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 21 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 20 Cover Drive — Twilight 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Macklemore ft. Ryan Lewis & Wankz — Thrift Shop 20 The Saturdays ft. Sean Paul — What About Us 20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Ellie Goulding — Burn 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 19 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 18 Ne-Yo — Let Me Love You 14 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful 14 Gabrielle Aplin — The Power Of Love

I've just seen again one of my favourite films on BBC4 - quite by chance, channel surfing after Inside No 9 finished. I mentioned the film not so long ago in a conversation about Jeanne Moreau. A Foreign Field is about a group of people visiting Normandy on the 50th anniversary of D Day. It is a character-driven comedy and very funny, but also very moving. It was first shown on BBC in the 1990s. I've never seen it since. Stellar cast including Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Lauren Bacall, Jeanne Moreau. Do try and catch it on iplayer if you can, it's only on for a month. It's mostly hilarious but Alec Guinness's character will break your heart. You will probably guess the ending as I did first time round, but it still had me in tears again. In a good way - it's not depressing. A really lovely film that's rarely shown. IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106948/?ref_=tt_urv

Meanwhile Cameron showed up with Laura Farris in Lambourn and they went on a tour of racing stables. Warning: corny content. She's spent a lot of time sucking up to the trainers. Cameron of course grew up in the locality and his family are still in residence. Cameron: "There are lots of candidates standing but we’ve got one person, Laura Farris, who has a track record of supporting Rishi Sunak." Yeah, that's right, voted with the government every time including letting the water companies pump sewage into the rivers. Now going around the villages that are awash with sewage, pretending to campaign for clean rivers.

Here you are. 1 Actors (generic term covering M & F) who have appeared in Doctor Who Current or retired members of the UK House of Lords Participants in the US presidential elections (Presidents, Vice Presidents First and Second Ladies, Challengers and their running mates) International Test Cricketers Artists who have had a UK No. 1 Hit single (either solo or as part of a group) 2 Presidents and Prime Ministers of the current 28 European Union countries (past and present). Boxers who have held any of the world title belts of any 4 organisational bodies WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO. Any actors who appeared in the TV series Dallas. Including cast members, co-stars, guest stars, special guest stars "and starring" actor (357 episodes over 14 years.). As per the wiki page "List of Dallas (1978 TV Series) cast members. Grammy award winners Anyone who has been in a film with Kevin Bacon. 3 Any actor who has appeared in an official EON James Bond film between Dr No & No Time To Die. Any player who was part of a FIFA Men's World Cup Finals squad. Anyone who has won a Nobel Prize in any category. Any human deemed to have achieved spaceflight. Any on-stage performer for a country in a Eurovision Grand Final. 4 Any actor to appear on screen in any Star Trek franchise (TV or Film) Any player who was part of an MLB World Series Champion team Distinguished Pulitzer Prize Winners Summer Olympics Gold Medal Winners UK Government cabinet ministers 5 Anyone who has appeared (credited) in an episode of Coronation Street (1960-present) Anyone who has win a competitive Brit Award (1977-present) (Popular music only classical Brit awards do not count in this game) Anyone nominated for an acting Oscar (Best actor/actress or Best Supporting actor/actress) Anyone who has started a Formula One World Championship Grand Prix (1950-present) Anybody who has appeared on Time's annual 100 Most Influential People in the World list (2004-present)

Woman charged after milkshake thrown over Farage I'm amazed that she's 25. I thought she looked about 15.

Looks like there's no rush, but the sooner you make them known, the longer we all have to get our teams together.

Then there's "a stick" of butter ......

The Tories are not even good at lying, are they?

Blimey, I thought you meant Martin for a minute there! But yeah, it is very simple to explain and understand unless you deliberately intend to mislead. Like Sunak and the rest of his lying crew.

Martin Lewis explains the truth about the state pension and tax, about which Sunak has been deliberately misleading. https://x.com/i/status/1798252750645727511

The white-haired gentleman in this clip is Frank Field, according to a poster who knew him. He was supposed to unveil the thing with Harry, but Meghan had other ideas. This was in 2019, the same day her moonbump came adrift. https://x.com/MeghansMole/status/1798166698266165267

William Russell completes a line for me.

Or perhaps people have already decided how they will vote, and are giving TV debates a swerve. That's me anyway.

I have a double experience of this song. I have seen it performed live at the same venue by the original artist and the cover band. Hyde Park 2012 - John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival, who wrote the song and had a US hit with it. Hyde Park 2019 - Status Quo, whose version is the best known.

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