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Maybe a Dominatrix?

Well, when you close the A&E department and downgrade local hospitals to centralise the service it's only a matter of time before this happens! Coupled with the fact that people are rocking up at A&E because they can't get a GP appointment, you've got the perfect storm!

I won't be queueing for petrol this weekend. I will mainly be doing bugger all........again! I may squeeze in a bit more beach action, but that depends on the forecast. Tomorrow is forecast rain and thunderstorms, but Sunday doesn't look too bad at the moment.

The vine leaves are just starting to change colour here now.

Nice job, Bob. Looks much better.

Interesting that nearly everyone, including kids, wore a hat! My grandad wouldn't leave the house without his hat on. He had his working hat and his Sunday best hat!

For me, Fragile by Yes is my standout album of this list for a number of reasons. Mainly because it was the first album that I bought with my own money from my Saturday job. I loved it, my mates hated it! At school there was a big lad in my class that made mine and my mates lives a misery. He was the typical class bully. I hated going to school at that time, because every day he'd confront us and push us around. Anyway, there was a toy shop in the town that also sold records. I was in there one day and Fragile caught my eye. I'd never heard any of Yes' music, but the cover art just called to me, so I bought it. On the way home with my new purchase I bumped into my nemesis. "Wot ya got there, Barker?" Standing right in my face! I thought, that's it, he's gonna smash the LP or use it like a Frisbee. But there was no way of avoiding it, so I showed him my new album. "Fragile? Awesome! YES are my favourite band. Have you heard any of their other stuff?" So I said that I hadn't. "Check out the YES album. Starship Trooper is out of this world! I'll bring it into school on Monday and you can borrow it if you like?" So, my arch enemy suddenly became friends and, although we didn't hang out together, the bullying stopped on that day! So, Fragile has a special place in my memories and I still listen to it to this day.

At least their lyrics are not the twee claptrap that other bands churn out! But musical taste is totally subjective, so there's never really a right and a wrong, just appreciation of different things.

The sales director in a company that I worked for spent a week in Holland with the Dutch distributors. When he got back he didn't stop moaning about his neck aching due to having to constantly look up to the guys. So when they had to go to the UK for a week training he booked them into an old coaching Inn with low wooden beamed ceilings, near the factory. "That'll teach those lanky gits a lesson"

I was thinking that it may not be that easy. Some people on the Brits in France type Facebook groups have been asking similar questions about moving to another EU country and been told that it's not that straightforward anymore. But it's not impossible.

Well, yes, the original line-up was also good. The track "In the Court of the Crimson King" is a masterpiece. King Crimson songs used to get taken down almost instantly on YouTube until recently. Seems that Robert Fripp has mellowed in his old age! Mind you, have you seen some of the videos that he and Toyah have put on Facebook over the past months? Toyah and Robert's Sunday Lunch!

The thing with King Crimson is that the line-up has changed so many times over the years and the music changes with it. I think my favourite line-up was Robert Fripp, Bill Bruford, John Wetton and Eddie Jobson. I've got a live album from the 70's called USA with that line-up and it ranks as one of my favourite records. The line-up on Frame By Frame was with Adrian Belew and Tony Levin, which was another great line-up. Matte Kudasai is a fantastic song. Adrian Belew's vocals are perfect.

How many of them will never be ridden, just stored away as an investment? Nah, bikes are to be ridden!

The bugger probably died after biting me!

Unfortunately, due to my tinnitus, I can't hear the bastards either, so I'm an easy target for them!

It's got some stripes on it, hence the name, but it lives up to the name by being a right bitey bastard!

I just went into the bedroom and one of the buggers followed me in there. So I've switched the mozzie killer on and shut the door! That'll teach it!

We've got the normal buggers here and Tiger Mosquitoes. The Tiger bites are nasty. Funnily enough, I was just in the kitchen near the open door and got bitten on my left ankle! Didn't even see the bugger!

They close the road outside schools around here in the morning, at lunchtime and at kicking out time. They have a steel barrier that goes across the road, which the local municipal police operate.

In the court of the Crimson King Gentle Giant Land of grey and Pink Tarkus Aqualung Fragile Argus Selling England by the Pound (very apt at the moment!) Tubular Bells Dark side of the moon Warrior on the Edge of Time Tales of King Arthur Fly By Night Rubicon MoonMadness Point of Know Return Script for a Jesters Tear That's all I've got off the top of my head.

I think that's a Moody Blues album too, but don't know the name of it.

But that would give the game away, Pete.

I think I've got 16 too....it'd be 18 if I could remember the names of the Todd Rundgren and Greenslade albums. Ooh....ooh.....Rick Wakeman - Tales of King Arthur? Does that give me 17 confirmed? I think that I've got 13 of them on vinyl or CD too.

Errr, yeah.........maybe not!