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I don't care if I get no more hits all year!

I'm currently 3/4 the way through book 2 of 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. Ordinarily, I probably wouldn't have gone anywhere near it but someone told me I'd enjoy Life of Pi, so I thought I'd check it out. In Waterstone's it was part of a 'Buy 1 get 1 half price' offer, so I looked for something suitable to take advantage. Just along the shelf was 1Q84, books 1 and 2 in one volume, so, not being able to resist a bargain, that's what I went for. I'm glad I did. Having read Book 1 I went straight into Book 2, and having got half way through book 2 I went out and bought book 3, just to make sure I had it ready when I'd finished Book 2; its that good! Its one long story spread over the three books, clocking in at a hefty 1250-plus pages all told, but its a great read. I still haven't started Life of Pi. I will be checking out some more of Murakami's stuff though. Oh, btw @the_engineer, it's set in Japan.

Here's one for Maryport.

South Norwood tries to hijack the name 'Lake District'. I had to check the date at the top of this report.

Roger and Out gets its first hit in 2 years!

ABSOLUTEMENT. (to borrow a phrase from Arnold Rimmer). That's in fact the first thing I was expecting to see. To correct you though, Man Utd only lost 3-1 that day. They did lose 6-3 to Southampton in a later game (dunno if it was the same season). The Chelsea kit featured on that article greatly reminded me of it. What a corker that is. I honestly can't decide if I hate it or like it. That Chelsea kit is by no means their worst away kit; there's some real horrors here. Its a shame these Brighton & Hove kits never got a mention : You needed sunglassses whatever the weather.

Alluding nothing.

Double Oscar-winning screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has died aged 85. She won for A Room With a View and Howard's End. She also won the Booker prize for her novel Heat and Dust.

Black Cap Jesse Ryder "in critical condition" after being beaten up outside a fast-food outlet last night."

He takes me back to those long gone times of a Labour Government in the 70s and Franklin, the Sun newspapers cartoonist. Was it really that long ago? Who is the one in the middle meant to be? Possibly Merlyn Rees, Home Secretary under Wilson & Callaghan.

was it strawberry flavoured? Coffee flavoured, surely.

Was he ever mentioned in the end? No was he hell Mentioned in every Australian news outlet known to man including the Australian version of 'The Guardian' and SKY News Australia but nothing in the UK. I guess me and the others need to kiss those potential points goodbye. I wouldn't give up yet. The Indy is notoriously slow in publishing obituaries for all but the most well-known; another , possibly the best, hope is the BBC 'Been & Gone' round-up at the end of the month. Hey, look what's finally surfaced!

If only!

Paul Rose, Quebec separatist involved in the kidnap and (probable) assassination of Pierre LaPorte, dies aged 69.

Brian Murray, the first ambulance-man on the scene of the Brighton bombing, has died aged 76. He's credited with saving several lives, including Norman Tebbit, for which he received the British Empire Medal. However

Trumpeter Derek Watkins has died aged 68. He played trumpet on every Bond film to date.

Who??? Charlie Chaplin. It was a while ago.

That will be a hit for 6 DDP teams when the UK obit comes. Which it does now, via the BBC

Dame Vera was 96 yesterday.

Floyd 'Buddy McRea, last surviving original member of The Chords, of fame, died Tuesday aged 'about 80'.

Former Olympic 200m champion and world record holder Pietro Mennea dies aged 60.

There's a surprise, as he was doing a personal appearance at Waterstone's only a week ago.

More on the fringes of infamy than fame, and possibly only of interest to our US viewers, Ruth Ann Steinhagen died at the end of 2012. She became obsessed with Cubs baseball player Eddie Waitkus and subsequently shot him after he got traded to the Phillies. This was the inspiration for the book, and later the film starring Robert Redford, The Natural.