[Growltiger]

Hello Mac, still around but finding less time to cruise the web as normal. Still overworked, overpaid and over here. Family is fine (another kitten due next May). Damn, I am a danger to women.

RD, well, we need some English class on this board. You don't count being from Carlisle. That is kind of like a dead dog on a termite mound, but without the charm. You probably count as foreign, or even worse, French or colonial!! only joking says he crossing fingers.

English cricket? dunno, not a big cricket fan but seen enough to know that the flash in the pan that was the Ashes is probably history. Still we are losing to a good side like Pakistan, it is if Zimbabwe or Bangladesh beat us is where we really have to worry.

At this time of year in any event, I lose interest in pretty much every sport except rugby. Bless Investec for sponsoring the Autumn internationals. It means middle class oiks like me can mix with all the other Piers, Harveys, Ruperts and Quentins at pubs in Richmond and sing "huzzah" when our brave boys thrash allcomers (well, actually what we sang last week was "We sh@gged Matilda we sh@gged Matilda we sh@gged Matilda and so did our mates").

French riots?, I suppose I could crack the old joke about the French being revolting but I actually think they have hit problems we may well face soon. If you allow immigration, you cannot the ignore the immigrants if you want everything to work. Corralling them in what amount to ghettos and denying their slice of the future is just asking for civil disturbance. Same may happen over in Blighty....

and yes, I have lost my old password hence the new monicker.