Parr is nothing like Yick. We speak with a true Lancashire accent unlike the plastic scousers in Dentons Green.

Who do Yickers identify with? A true Yicker must surely be from St Helens even though they talk as broad as Wiganers.

This is Michael Rosen at his best:

I'm faced with a nice contradiction today. As a republican, I've spend decades being uninterested in what the monarchs and surrounding family do. I don't watch coronations, royal funerals and weddings. I leave the room when people start talking about the family ...

I cannot watch it at the moment because it is so disappointing to watch. Jofra A is holding the team up. I did read some criticism of Stokes because for all his championing of bazball, he spent a whole day at the wicket doing precisely the reverse (2nd innings). They are all over the place.

Yes - too many players used to playing these one day matches with bazball tactics. They cannot do that in Australia where they have these fine margins in day and night matches, so Aussies just cannot slog it. Perhaps England need to practise the dark - ha! Australia have a great bowler in Starc too ...

Does anyone else watch the cricket? Where are we going wrong? Are we just a two man team with Root and Stokes? All the Aussies can get a good set of runs in for the game whilst our side were out for nowt! What would Geoff Boycott do? What did Geoff Boycott say?
"England are irresponsible, rubbish ...

You have answered it. Big mortgages and living in the now. If they have jobs that have pension schemes they will be relying on that and the state pension. The bigger picture here just shows how much the UK economy is based on own ownership and that is why homes are overpriced and rents are ...

I love a matinee. Today went to see a film called The Choral. It is set in Yorkshire and written by Alan Bennett. The storyline is basically how a choral society keeps going throughout the war. It is set in Saltaire and it is exactly how it is today and I doubt many would believe that it is a real ...

.. one more thing about veneration of Mary. There is a CofE pilgrimage to Walsingham from all over the country.
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Alan that is not really true about Mary. Load of CofE churches have chapels and statues dedicated to Mary. It is transubstantiation.

Oh ah it was andyroo!

Alan you asked the differences - mainly the one on transubstantiation. There are some very high churches near me that are Anglican that do a version of Holy Mass and have more statues of Our Lady than any Catholic church.

I think it is marvellous

I think you are all changing your bedding too much for a start!

I think there is security in routines. It is natural and if we have lived an interesting life and tried lots of different things then we come back to what made us feel comforted in early life. There are others who are watching the clock and think they need to pack as much in as they can. My friend ...

I'm semi retired but my husband is fully retired. He is 72 but he will religiously go on his bike for an hour and a half every morning, then on his other days, he walks for two hours and I think he does Tai Chi exercises for half an hour. He always did exercise but this routine has been an obsession ...

Thanks! Thought it was just me. I will copy it before I submit in future. I think it times me out if I am messing about.

I have written three thoughtful posts this morning. Took me ages and every single time I submit, I look and they have disappeared. I happened yesterday too. Anyone else gettng this? So I have stopped writing anything that needs me to consider things. Is it a timer?

You would both be watched by social services today and rightly so. Pair of delinquents!

I have loads of sparrows in my garden. I have about twenty nests and they keep returning. It is so noisy that if feels like I have a colony. Driving me insane.

Bridget Jones - waste of two hours. Don't know why I bothered.

Husband watched the one about Bob Dylan cos he wouldn't contemplate coming in to see Bridget Jones. I wish I hadn't bothered either. Bob Dylan one called A Complete Unknown. He enjoyed it, especially the music in the surround sound.

Saw Conclave at the cinema. Very interesting mystery and gives insight into how the Pope is elected for the uninitiated. Nice twist at the end. Can see why it won a Bafta. You can watch it on Amazon Prime but they want 16 quid to rent it but no doubt most folk have some sort of way around that ...