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Unless Remco was still there and won. I am enjoying the noxious Lefevre trying to hang on to Remco and building a GC team around him, whilst ignoring his classics team. Hopefully the rats will desert the sinking shit.

T'wasn't you, twas he that shalt not be @'d, you doubted him for good reason (against my less than better nature I went back and checked).

That's nothing, I had an arsehole transplant and it rejected me.

I didn't give a damn who won, but am absolutely delighted for Roglic, particularly given his final TT history. He always seems to have had a bad press, but I've never seen anything to suggest he's anything other than a decent human.

Now, who was it writing him off a page or so back?

In reply to a question from @edmundro re supporting espaliered or cordoned fruit.

From what I understand, concrete is strictly verboten for anchoring posts on allotments, so:

Dig postholes at least 2'/60cm deep, using the post digger, post borer or trenching spade of your choice, aim for about 6"/15 cm diameter. Drop a 4"/100mm chestnut post centrally in the hole, hold the post upright and ram the dirt from the hole around the post HARD. A broom handle or sledgehammer handle is ideal for this purpose. Allow about 1.5m out of the ground for soft fruits, rather more for stone fruits or apples/pears. 2m between posts is fine, adjust any intermediates to fit. 3"/75mm diameter chestnut is plenty for intermediates. For taller posts, a section of a post cut at 45 degrees and attached to the inside of the post and into the ground will stop the posts from pulling inwards under tension from the wires. When fixing the wires, wrap the wire around the end post and staple it. Attach a tension adjuster (see below) to the other end post, loop the wire through the adjuster and twist it back on itself, then twist the adjuster until the tension is as you want it (start the adjuster at the extremity of the threads). A pair of pliers and Park Tool cable cutters helps.

Allow 1.5m between rows for soft fruits, 2m at least between stone fruits or apples/pears. Chestnut posts should last 15 years or so.

Hope this helps someone!

Seeing that car it's difficult to believe that BMW's latest offerings look like the love children of an obese beaver and an orthopaedic shoe.

Last night at Rye Harbour I was kept awake by nocturnal cuckoo and a booming Bittern. It made me wonder what the chances of the mournful lovelorn heron were of finding a mate, considering they're hardly common. I do hope the poor bugger got laid for his own sake as well as for the survival of the species in the UK. It is a quite amazing sound.

Haven't a clue, besides, there's an awful lot of the NE with a lot of good trout fishing. A good starting point would be to call Greys of Alnwick, one of our finest tackle emporiums, if anyone knows they will.

Still catching, a 21 this morning on the bream and tench gear plus a lot of yer actual bream and tench. If anyone does want to come down on a guest ticket, now's the time!

I don't think it's wise to write Roglic off quite yet. I presume you're mentally deleting Almeida's alleged moustache from your assessment. I honestly believe that Almeida should have been viewed as favourite from the start.

Ben Healey is every bit as Irish as much of the England rugby and cricket teams have been English for decades. If he is better supported by Ireland because he doesn't fit the BC automaton with the right numbers mould, fair fucks to him, our loss.

Satan might take a slightly different approach to release dates.

'Has anyone seen the white-hot pokers?'.

'Have you looked in Rolf Harris?'.

It still is, I'm outside drinking a Romney American Pale right now!

The beer and cider menu at my local in Rye, The Waterworks, which is a converted public convenience! Thoroughly recommended if you're ever down this way.

£5.80 in The Plough, Udimore (my local), notoriously the priciest pub in the area.

They'll multiply at a rate of knots and sting the buggery out of everyone come autumn, by which time there'll be many more to get rid of.

Your call!

Hydrangea Petiolaris is pretty much unkillable and will take over your wall like a climbing Triffid, yes, it will flower. I have seen a quince that had been cut off at the root and poisoned push through an inch of tarmac. Fuschias are quite tough.

You have seen the Cabinet?

Explains a lot.

I once worked a St Patrick's night session in a pub in County Kilburn. All I did for 6 hours solid was pour 3/4 pints and talk to the punters who were still capable of speech. Good fun!

I can't even begin to imagine the amount of time and willpower it took to achieve this. What a stunning outcome, thanks on behalf of all your neighbours for a superb result that I will never see other than in pictures.

See what I mean, it's an easy mistake to make. Of course I meant £118.50, but only if it's parted out.

You're all being silly, it was clearly a simple mistake with a decimal point in the original ad. Should've read £11.85.

Get lion. Lion eats cat. Lion shits on neighbour's lawn. Lion eats neighbours.

Problem solved.

It does, but it's tricky to hold the cat still while you shove chilli powder up their rectum.

Looking good, but grey!

@stevo_com, you're right, but it'll have to wait, I've run out of timber, the the table is pretty damned solid anyway. Ps: I haven't forgotten you!

Decided to dig over what was previously a rabbit run, with bonus free bunny manure, with the idea of planting sweetcorn. Bad move. The previous tenant had put in chicken wire 8" down to stop the little buggers
digging out. What fun I've had digging it out. And who names sweetcorn varieties? Couldn't resist 'Bodacious' or 'Incredible', so am planting both.

Fuck my old boots, HOW MUCH!? My boozer of choice in Rye has most ales at around the £4 mark, I'll take a picture on Saturday. When I started drinking (admittedly underage) it was 3 pints to the quid, ok, I am ancient.