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Noooooo ..... TyPhoo is my favourite. The main supermarkets rarely stock it now so I get it from the likes of Home Bargains.

That's a ridiculous thing to say. Nobody hates the NHS. We hate what successive governments have done to it. I made a point of saying that the ward staff are overworked. And the word 'on' is superfluous in the quoted sentence. Note how I haven't used it.

Fri 15 Nov 86 The Source ft. Candi Staton - You Got The Love (Now Voyager Mix) 58 No Doubt - Just a Girl 46 Radiohead - Paranoid Android 44 Suede - Trash 42 Texas - Say What You Want 37 Faithless - Insomnia +4 30 Katrina and the Waves - Love Shine a Light 30 Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity 23 Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me 21 The Seahorses - Love Is The Law 21 Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) 20 U2 - Staring at the Sun 20 The Charlatans - One to Another 20 Eternal - Don’t You Love Me  20 Shola Ama - You’re the One I Love 15 Celine Dion - It’s All Coming Back to Me Now 14 B.B.E. - Seven Days and One Week 00 Robert Miles ft. Maria Nayler - One & One -6

Post your favourite tipples here. I have recently got into the habit of mixing a nightly cocktail. Currently enjoying a Bakewell Tart Sour Brandy, amaretto, cherry syrup, fresh lemon juice, angostura bitters Awesome.

Or the meal is just left in front of the patient who isn''t physically able to feed him/herself. The staff are too busy to sit down and help them. I've known people with a relative in hospital who have gone in at mealtimes expressly to feed their relative becasue they can't manage without help..

That would be an excellent prank.

1984, you haven't included Garry Roberts of the Boomtown Rats. He died in 2022.

Thu 14 Nov 86 The Source ft. Candi Staton - You Got The Love (Now Voyager Mix) 54 No Doubt - Just a Girl 43 Suede - Trash 42 Radiohead - Paranoid Android 40 Texas - Say What You Want 37 Faithless - Insomnia +4 31 Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity 30 Katrina and the Waves - Love Shine a Light 28 Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) 23 Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me 21 The Seahorses - Love Is The Law 20 U2 - Staring at the Sun 20 The Charlatans - One to Another 20 Eternal - Don’t You Love Me  20 Shola Ama - You’re the One I Love 16 Celine Dion - It’s All Coming Back to Me Now 14 B.B.E. - Seven Days and One Week 14 Mark Owen - Clementine 12 Robert Miles ft. Maria Nayler - One & One -6

Not been doing cocktails so much lately, but finally got hold of a bottle of Calvados which allowed me to try this. Honeymoon Calvados, Benedictine, lemon juice, Orange Curacao Gorgeous sweet-sour citrussy treat. I didn't have a lemon so subbed in lime juice, and Triple Sec for the curacao. Added a couple of drops of orange bitters.

Yes, it is. One near me closed down, and was demolished along with the adjoining shops. The whole block was rebuilt - now includes a nice shiny Lidl - and lo and behold, a Homebase appeared in the precise spot where it died before. I never went in there much. It used to be quite good when Sainsburys owned it, albeit on the expensive side, but at least it was well stocked with proper DIY stuff. But with the changes of ownership it lost its way.

I may be wrong, but isn't 25 the maximum number of names that the committee can carry over to the following year? They can ditch more than 25 if they wish?

Perhaps it's the "bizarre and tasteless decoration theme". We need to see photos!

Even with palliative care there can be other stuff going on. My mum was sedated with morphine as usual on the last day of her life, and she was very distressed, thrashing about violently in her sleep. The nurse came and gave her another dose and she settled. It was a fatal dose - that happens all the time but nobody talks about it.

I've argued this before. This was the most effective line in the song. It hit home because deep down people were thankful it wasn't them. And it forced us to admit it. Bono delivered it perfectly. It's not patronising, it's almost accusatory. This was the line that had us emptying our wallets. It was brilliant.

Isn't there someone missing?

Wed 13 Nov 86 The Source ft. Candi Staton - You Got The Love (Now Voyager Mix) +4 50 No Doubt - Just a Girl 46 Radiohead - Paranoid Android 44 Texas - Say What You Want 42 Suede - Trash 32 Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity 29 Faithless - Insomnia 28 Katrina and the Waves - Love Shine a Light 25 Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) 23 Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me 21 The Seahorses - Love Is The Law 20 U2 - Staring at the Sun 20 The Charlatans - One to Another 20 Eternal - Don’t You Love Me  20 Shola Ama - You’re the One I Love 18 Robert Miles ft. Maria Nayler - One & One 17 Mark Owen - Clementine 17 Celine Dion - It’s All Coming Back to Me Now 14 B.B.E. - Seven Days and One Week 11 George Michael - Older/I Can’t Make You Love Me  08 Backstreet Boys - We’ve Got It Goin’ On -6

I finally got around to watching Edge Of Darkness. I'd bought the DVD on Ebay for a couple of quid and it's been resting in a drawer for months. Excellent stuff, and despite being nearly 40 years old, surprisingly topical.

Cottrell came and spoke at our parish church once, when he was Bishop of Reading. I forget what the occasion was (I am not a believer and only go to special services like Harvest Festival - nostalgia really) but he was rather good fun as I recall.

Tue 12 Nov 31 Noam Chomsky 31 Joanne Woodward 30 Roberta Flack 30 Ted Turner 29 Linda Nolan 29 Norman Tebbit 29 Nigel Starmer-Smith 29 Esther Rantzen 29 Gene Hackman +2 28 Denis Law  +2 28 Cleo Laine 28 Dick Van Dyke 27 Sonny Rollins 26 Patricia Routledge -3 26 Dennis Skinner -3 26 Jean-Marie Le Pen 26 Stanley Baxter 26 Jimmy Carter 26 Sandy Gall 25 Alan Greenspan 24 Tom Brokaw 21 Pete Murray 20 Josef Fritzl 19 Mel Brooks 18 Vanessa Redgrave 18 Raul Castro 16 Pope Francis 15 Hans Blix 12 Imelda Marcos 07 James Whale Eliminator Score: 15/20

Agree with Biblio. Look at the quick downturn suffered by Janey Godley. A fall could finish off any of them.

Tue 12 Nov 82 The Source ft. Candi Staton - You Got The Love (Now Voyager Mix) +4 46 Radiohead - Paranoid Android 46 No Doubt - Just a Girl 42 Suede - Trash 40 Texas - Say What You Want 39 Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity 29 Faithless - Insomnia 28 Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) 26 Katrina and the Waves - Love Shine a Light 23 Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me 21 The Seahorses - Love Is The Law 20 Robert Miles ft. Maria Nayler - One & One 20 U2 - Staring at the Sun 20 The Charlatans - One to Another 20 Eternal - Don’t You Love Me  20 Shola Ama - You’re the One I Love  17 Mark Owen - Clementine 17 Celine Dion - It’s All Coming Back to Me Now 16 B.B.E. - Seven Days and One Week 14 Backstreet Boys - We’ve Got It Goin’ On -6 12 Coolio ft. 40 Thevz - C U When U Get There 11 George Michael - Older/I Can’t Make You Love Me

Mon 11 Nov 31 Noam Chomsky 29 Ted Turner 29 Sonny Rollins 29 Jimmy Carter 28 Linda Nolan  28 Dennis Skinner  28 Cleo Laine 28 Roberta Flack 27 Norman Tebbit 26 Patricia Routledge 26 Esther Rantzen 25 Gene Hackman +2 25 Denis Law  +2 25 Joanne Woodward 25 Stanley Baxter 24 Jean-Marie Le Pen 24 Pete Murray 24 Alan Greenspan 23 Imelda Marcos 23 Sandy Gall  22 Dick Van Dyke 22 Raul Castro 22 Vanessa Redgrave 22 Nigel Starmer-Smith  21 James Whale 21 Tom Brokaw 21 Mel Brooks 20 Josef Fritzl  19 Pope Francis 18 Hans Blix 14 Buzz Aldrin -1 11 Desmond Morris 9 Clint Eastwood 9 Willie Nelson 07 Brigitte Bardot 00 Sly Stone -5 Eliminated Score 10/20

Mon 11 Nov 74 The Source ft. Candi Staton - You Got The Love (Now Voyager Mix) +4 46 Radiohead - Paranoid Android 46 No Doubt - Just a Girl 44 Texas - Say What You Want 40 Suede - Trash 40 Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity 31 Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) 29 Faithless - Insomnia 24 Katrina and the Waves - Love Shine a Light 23 Backstreet Boys - As Long As You Love Me 21 The Seahorses - Love Is The Law 20 Robert Miles ft. Maria Nayler - One & One 20 U2 - Staring at the Sun 20 The Charlatans - One to Another 20 Eternal - Don’t You Love Me 20 Shola Ama - You’re the One I Love 20 Backstreet Boys - We’ve Got It Goin’ On 18 Coolio ft. 40 Thevz - C U When U Get There 17 Mark Owen - Clementine 17 Celine Dion - It’s All Coming Back to Me Now 16 B.B.E. - Seven Days and One Week 12 George Michael - Older/I Can’t Make You Love Me 11 Orbital - The Saint 00 Wet Wet Wet - We'll Never See This Again -6