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Those were Cold War H-bomb tests and some of the later ones were in proximity to the island (they moved the servicemen from one end of the island to the other whilst detonating). I wonder if the V-disks have a phosphorescent glow in the dark? Some of the film footage of those tests has recently been de-classified and it is fascinating. Mainly air detonations from Valiant V-bombers.

Turns out he's English. I've just read that he was born in Weymouth, Dorset at the Sea Life Centre.

Hope it was good !

Hope it's a good one !

It will be a good final. Nice to see two teams competing for the cup who have never previously won it, for once. I got the impression that Spain gradually wore the Germans down, which came good in the second half. Crafty !

Spain 1:0 with about 20 minutes to go. The Octopus pot beckons..

I predict 'Paul' will be accompanied by a nice crisp Spätlese from the Pfalz...

Piltdown Man Nessie Lucy Desie Desiree Sez Dez

I see that the Octopus is predicting a Spain win tonight. So far he's been 100% correct.

Dylan Thomas Max Boyce Dafydd

Ermintrude Florence Zebedee

Sounds cool and good luck with the Tour - any chance of heading West of Reading?

Happy Birthday Stereojack !

Ann Summers Cynthia Payne Norman Lamont

Art Farmer Quintet 'At Boomers' (Japanese East Wind)

My Bologna Al Capone Fabio Cappello

Commander Bond Pussy Galore Odd-Job

Continuing the West Coast theme: Jack Sheldon 'The Quartet and the Quintet' (Japanese Jazz West, mono) To be followed by some Japanese Nocturnes.

Makes Cappello and his team of overpaid OAPs look half way decent..

Papa John Creach albums are bad for that..

Hope it's good !

Carmell Jones 'Business Meeting' (Pacific Jazz, mono)

Lemmy Alice Angus

Good stuff ! I had a broadband problem about a week ago. Speed had dropped to no better than dial up. Thought it was the router (I did the reset button thingy) but it turned out to be an issue with the local exchange (dropping the speed at night because I wasn't permanently powered up - they occasionally check lines remotely to see if you are still 'connected' and if not they drop the speed big time ) and also an issue with the wiring routing through the extensions to my place which meant that the office was getting a corrupted signal. A call out of the BT engineer to fix the wiring and some tweeks at the local exchange sorted me out good.