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I do all the ironing, I find it theraputic. Standing in front of the TV, with my favourite tunes on youtube or do it in the garden during the summer.

Only thing the wife does that really annoys me is that she never turns any electical appliance off. She'd have every light in the house on, leaves her computer and screens on 24/7 and rarely even turns her hair straightners off. I turn every switch in the house off before I go to bed.

I got an extended test drive in a Model S earlier in the year, other than the blistering pace, they really are fast in a straight line and the extended range, they don't have a lot going for them. The build quality is awful, doesn't come close to European standards. The paintwork is dire, orange peel effect all over the car, it should never have passed any quality control inspection. I've noticed the same problem on a lot of their cars, but you'd expect more on a demonstrator. The infotainment system is good, but the interior is decidedly low rent. Added to a non existent dealer network, I can't see a reason to buy one, especially at those prices.

Holy Sh*t, I haven't checked Tesla share prices for a while  Might be time to get out.

Is it Friday yet?

Near enough. 

[Perhaps dentistry could be on a similar basis]

Activities involving close contact, such as hairdressing, are done by a household member, but with guidance provided by a professional via video link.

This was an interesting suggestion, if you do not live alone. Perhaps dentistry could be on a similar basis.

I'd say that would end well!

Piece of string and a door handle. Job jobbed.

Do you have a link to the podcat with Tony Scullion?

https://ourgame.ie/tony-scullion-on-derry-1993-bringing-sam-home-to-his-dad-brolly-tohill-downey-co/

Would recommend it, one of the best I have listened to.

Thanks SB

Former Liverpool and Republic of Ireland striker Michael Robinson has died at the age of 61.

YNWA

Do you have a link to the podcat with Tony Scullion?

She wouldn't lead a horse to water.

But I would feed that pony.

I've been following Down since the early to mid 70s, my first memory of a Down game was circa 1974. That particular game in Celtic Park in 1994 was the greatest game of football I ever attended. If Down had lost that game by a point or two we really couldn't have had any complaints, it was that close. Derry had some amazing footballers. Brolly ran the show until Paul Higgins put manners on him.Tohill and McGilligan at midfield were without equal, Tohill was and is the complete footballer. McKeever and Scullion were two of the greatest corner backs in the game. Henry Downey was magnificent, not just on the day, but over a two or three tear period and he deservedly got to lift Sam in 1993. For me Brian McCormack was one of the most under rated footballers of his generation. And they had the mecurial Eamon Coleman as manager.
BUT, they hurt us in Newry on a wet day in the Marshes the year before and we owed them one AND their All Ireland title was on the line.
Where do you start with the Down team on that day. Collins was magnificent, that save from Tohill alone should have earned him an All Star. Paul Higgins changed the game when he was introduced, he didn't allow Brolly a second. DJ commanded the half back line, he played like a man possessed. Our midfield shaded the battle with Tohill and McGilligan. Greg McCartan in particular had an excellent game, possibly his best game in a Down shirt and definetly his best celabration at the final whistle.
The star of the show, the star of that team ran the game from centre half forward. Blaney was just ahead of the game, he made decisons before anyone else knew what he was even thinking about, no solo, no bounce just a straight, quick ball into the corners. Linden in particular made hay in the Celtic Park sunshine. Wee James, probably scored the point of the year when he seemed to carry the ball for an age, bit for me his best score was in the first half, when he won his own ball and banged it over the bar. Similar to Heaneys snap shot in the second half.

Fergal P McCusker scored a fortuitous goal, which swung the game in Derrys favour and wee Pete introduced Ciaran McCabe for Gerard Deegan and the rest, as they say is history. Greg McCartan added another point from a free, but for me, I knew Derry were beat when McGilligan went down in the 70th minute. Wee James and Blaney were concocting an injury to run down the clock, but McGilligan was down, he had given his all and Derry were vanquished.

Tommy Sugrue blew the final whistle, but we had to wait until September for Sam. Neil Collins saved a penalty in an otherwise, unremarkable season. Whatever about our victory that day and our subsequent victories on the road to Sam, Derry lost the best the manager they ever had through sheer short sightedness and despite managing Cavan, his heart was always in Derry.

For anyone to suggest that anyone from the current panel would do a job on any of the players in that game in '94 is lunacy.

RIP to the two Eamons from 94 and anyone else who has may no longer be with us.

Kim Jong Un-well?

This 'businesswoman' also had a brief fling with 'Mr Big' as well as having a 'liason' in the cells in Dundalk courthouse at the recent Circuit Court sitting. She certainly wasn't practising social distancing according to government guidlines 

I don't think she'll get legal aid, if she's charge with any offences 

Retailers have recorded a 58%increase in the volume of alcohol sales week on week this week, compared to this time last year.
Increases of between 22% and 30%t have been reported in earlier weeks of the Covid-19 restrictions.
It comes as a study in the UK found 20% of people say they are drinking more since the Covid-19 lockdown began.
Eunan McKinney, of Alcohol Action Ireland, says since the pubs closed it was inevitable there would be some increased buying but 58% is higher than expected.
"We don't know whether people are necessarily [drinking more]," he said.
"Obviously all pubs are closed and licensed premises are closed, therefore I suppose there may be some degree of displacement of activity. At 58% it certainly would be up and away and beyond [what was expected]."

Anyone else drinking more than usual during this lockdown?

I've never been a man for the pub and would only have had the occasional Brandy on a Saturday night after dinner, two or three home measures at most, but I find myself drinking four or five nights a week over the last month or so. I can't say that I'm overly worried about the current crisis. I was in Madrid for the Atletico game and had to self isolate for a while, but I had no symptoms other than a cough which I get every year, but I am slightly concerned at the amount I'm drinking, probably two bottles of brandy a week.

I don't doubt I could stop if I wanted to or really needed to, but I am enjoying it. My late brother always warned me that if I was to start drinking later in life that it could be a problem, maybe that's what's nagging me.

Thoughts?

Like this one a lot.