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If the fanciable young man wearing Brut was about 6feet 4, super fit and in looks was a cross between Terence Stamp in Far from the Madding Crowd and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy then you may recognise me. I regularly stood next to him.

My chickens definitely love me. Last evening, when sitting outside, by the coop, with my pre dinner beer, they all settle in next to me It's quite peaceful sitting and watching them They are quite entertaining and far better pets than cats. They bring me eggs, not birds. Only 3 are laying so far. Small eggs every other day but they are only 18 weeks old. The other 3 are only 15 weeks old so no eggs yet. Measured up the coop today. Putting a covered extension on for an old armchair, so that we can roost together .

@radfordred would love you to join us but it might be embarrassing as our granddaughter might run rings round you! She is only 10 but was training with Cambridge United Juniors until lockdown. She is football crazy... Another couple of years and you'll probably be playing footie with your own little granddaughter (unless she would rather you play dollies with her )

Been out in the garden debudding all the flowers and generally tidying up. I'd just finished and was going in to eat cos I'm famished when my neighbour the other side asked me to wait a minute. She then proceeded to put tomatoes and courgettes into a bag for me. Thankyou very much. Her uncle is a pensioner and loves growing veg but they have so much stuff they don't know what to do with it so he gives most of it away. The same thing with my other neighbour, they are practically self sufficient, have vineyards everywhere and sometimes the excess comes to me and friends and families of theirs.

Yeah, I remember you Centaur

We are wandering off topic with Ireland (what thread drift on NS! who would have thought), but I was making the point that gaining independence was not the universal panacea they thought. It's taken nearly 100 years to reach this point and they still needed support from their neighbour along the way. Of course Al... of course. You said you teach others to ask questions, perhaps you'd like to answer a few? Simply saying "Yah boo so there" doesn't really count ... These pages are about politics and political thinking. We argue on these pages, we expl

The evidence: where do I start? Scotland's history, its natural resources, its educational system (remember, since you keep accusing me of assertions without evidence, I cited its 4 universities to England's 2, with a 10th of the population, for 400 years)., etc, etc. The onus is on you to produce evidence, since it is you who are denying the fundamental human right of national self-determination. 'Possibly'. No, probably. Look at the history of self-determination movements. Can you name any that failed? 'It's for me to judge'. Sure, I was only trying to hel

Oh yes @MargieH little Ez will be well coached in the noble art of footie her Dad played @ quite a high level.

Which you appear very unwilling to share with us. Possibly. But you have still provided no evidence to support that assertion.. nor have you provided any evidence that Scotland will be economically better off under independence. Whether I'm wasting my breath is for me to judge. Whether your time on here is wasted is entirely your choice.

I’ll bring me ball @MargieH love a kick about, kids a great or I’m just a big kid?

That's it then Trogg. We could form the M.O.G. club, (Meldrew Old Gits). We could sit around somewhere and complain about everybody who passes by or the state of the weather etc. Or little kids playing football near us. (TONGUE IN CHEEK FOLKS!)

I don’t like watching professional football. Enjoy watching the grandchildren playing footie though

Oh.. Stop it!! You are completely misquoting me. I said that the implementation of independence is not simple.. which you turn into me calling people simpletons? If that is the level at which you intend to debate.. count me out.

And the danger is over simplifying what is extremely complex. You can't wave a magic wand and undo 300 years of union. I said earlier we should take Brexit as an example and that's less than 50 years of entanglement. I have not, so far, heard or read of of any convincing argument that Scotland would benefit from independence. There are plenty of people waving the cross of St Andrew and banging on about the subject but, like Corbyns half baked spending plans, it's long on rhetoric, short on detail. Economically it will be difficult, Scotland as it is does not have the tax revenue to maint

Hmm. I used to spash on Brut 33 and I hung out in the mid-70s Playhouse Bar!!

You say you studied Politics and it taught you to ask better questions. Good. I teach Politics and also seek to make people ask questions. You say self-determinism is not simple. Why complicate it? Is everyone who believes in self-determination a simpleton? You say Scotland would still need defences and allies. Yes, it would join England and the rest of the British Isles. Scottish independence is not anti-English; there is none of that nonsense in the Party; most Scots are related to English either now or going back a generation or two, or sideways out through in-laws.

To post pictures on here you need to use outside hosting like Postimg.org I have seen your car on the rally circuit years ago. I always keep my eyes open for Nottingham registered cars.