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Flash git. That's what most people have for Christmas Dinner round your side of the Pennines.

Strikeback was full of improbable shoot-outs, car smashes and explosions. In between, the producers managed to fit in a gratuitous sex scene. By the end, once again the Brits had given the foreigners a kicking. I just can't put my finger on why I like it so much.

Did you make a 30-second tape so they could play it on loop every day?

Forty years ago, I was working as a temporary lab technician in a biochemical research laboratory. I was given the job of crushing up and dissolving about two hundred lenses that had gone opaque and been removed from human eyeballs in cataract surgery. To tell the truth, at the time, I didn't find it at all macabre and quite enjoyed doing it.

I suggest that all the married men on the board should show this headline to their partners. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2197591/Woman-53-staggering-FOURTEEN-children-petite-size-8.html

I don't think that ITV presenters are attached to the Met Office. According to Wikipedia, the BBC presenters are actually employed by the Met Office. I don't think the weather forecast presentation has moved to Salford. Probably because it's usually raining in Lancashire. The best you can hope for is dull and overcast.

Apparently she's moved to the main ITV national weather service.

He was nowhere near as bad as everyone claims. Despite his BBC success, maybe he lacked self confidence in the ITV showpiece role. For me, his problem was that, when he just got a bit grumpy, it was not gleefully picked up on by his co-presenters. Neither did he react properly (as would have been enjoyed by viewers) by getting on his high horse and giving a bit of devilment back. He is a fairly witty bloke and, if he had kicked off, and reacted like he did on radio football shows, I think he would have been regarded as a great success. Eamon Holmes is grumpy and occasionally kicks off, but he isn't as fundamentally "nice" as Adrian Chiles and is a lot happier dishing it out that getting some back in return. He comes across to me as a bit of a bully.

I watched the new Daybreak this morning. Not much different from the old one, except: - - ITV has pinched Laura Tobin from the BBC to do the weather. They should never have got rid of Kirsty McCabe, she was brilliant. - Aled Jones could scare a rabbit at fifty paces with the glare from his newly-whitened teeth. - the presenters seemed to be genuinely friends with each other rather than presenting the company line. Bland seems to be the theme; no sign of any danger or liveliness, though, in fairness, personal chemistry will take time to develop. The BBC and ITV shows are largely interchangeable. Why can't we have one of the team who is, understandably, habitually crotchety at having to get up at four o'clock every morning. The others could have a great time annoying him/her ... just like what happens in most families at breakfast time.

Last night saw the start of what seems likely to be a brilliant documentary series about the Team Sky Cycling team ... .on Sky Atlantic

Actually, like Alistair Dowling, my hair's gone grey but my eyebrows remain dark brown. Must be a Celtic thing. I don't know about his nasal hair, but mine are going white.

I haven't watched any episode of a soap opera for over twenty years, and have never watched - Casualty - Holby City - Silent Witness - Holloaks - Spooks - Inspector George Gently - Wire In the Blood - Benidorm - Big Brother - Friends - Towie - X Factor or anything else by Simon Cowell - Anything by Ricky Gervaise - Anything by Russell Brand I wonder if I am disturbingly highbrow

That's a tall car. If I was you, I'd get the suspension checked.

Strike Back starts again on Sunday.

What's happened to James Vukrimovic and Haloman?

Pretty similar to what it's like on Wednesday.

Absolutely torrential rain in Bradford right now.

My dustbin. It's also green.

Today, I took my granddaughter to buy her a new secondary school uniform. Amazing how quickly those eleven years have passed.

I find that a bit of a turn-off.

Should be pretty good for lying-on.

Beautiful summer's day in West Yorkshire. For once, those lowlife red rose types have kept their rain to themselves instead of fly tipping it over our end.

Now see here. In my day we had proper rain. None of this drizzle garbage.

Now it is