Hopefully Southgate will discover some Sub Saharan Africa link in his DNA.
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Iâll have you know many of my ancestors metered out summary justice when catching peasants poaching our deer. We didnât bother with legal process, just lopped the odd hand off doncha know. 
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35.6? That was mid winter back in the sandpit
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It was fucking hotter than that up in town ( not Southampton 
) today.
What a summer to play cricket that was.
Outfields like straw.
I took a running catch on the boundary that year (that would have gone for 6 to win it for the opposition) in the local âT20â league to win the Division Two title for Coombe Bissett CC.
Had access to a small "cabin cruiser with a 40 HP Mercury Outboard down in Christchurch.
Maison Royale, The Village Bowl.
Damn, WHAT a Summer
Ah bless
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It was hot, I got sunburnt, went fishing a lot on the Waterside, played in the Forest a lot, helped out (hindered) with the harvest at my uncle farm place in Up Somborne. Stand pipes. 20 a side football. Catapults. Being feral. Other than that, good times
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I was working in the operating theatres at Southampton General in 1976, the year I moved to Mushland from Jersey. My first trip to The Dell with some work colleague season ticket holders in March, love at first sight, the run up to the cup final in May and the all night celebrations in the city, no sleep that night. Happy days. Forty six years ago, fuck me, itâs scary where the years have gone. I remember it was fucking hot by the end of July, even in the theatres which were supposed to be temperature controlled. In those days we had an hour for lunch, everyone went up the road to the pub, I forget the name of it now, us theatre techs, nurses, even the odd house surgeon and Junior Registrar. A couple of pints of ale and a sandwich, then back to the theatres for the afternoon list, nobody batted an eyelid, just imagine doing that now? Unbelievable in hindsight, but no harm was done, they were different times, and none the worse for it. They were great days, when we had proper public services with none of the management speak bullshit we have now, the profit motive didnât come into it. Fast forward forty odd years and just look at the shitshow we have to put up with now, from the lying, corrupt fuckers at the top calling the shots and making the rules, down to the rest of us who have to put up with it, which is fast becoming accepted as the norm. Sadly.
This country needs to collectively get up off itâs knees and start fighting back, wrest back control from these insane corrupt bastards who are dragging our country into the gutter with their greed and lies. I wonât be holding my breath though.
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Can you imagine going back to stand pipes
The country would lose its mind
The Woodman pub?
Thatâs the one. Thanks.
Summer of 76 and I was working at Southampton General.
Team of lads from school doing the initial clean of the new wing.
Mops & buckets, scrapers & acids to get the crap the builders left behind while listening to Diddy David Hamilton on the beaten up old tranny.
Times change, get arrested for calling a portable DAB that now
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Iâm sure thereâs a market for that sort of filmâŚ.
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Just donât google it. 
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I assume you did (on auto-reflex)?
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Leads a full and active life, doesnât he 
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