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Root beer. I fucking love the stuff but there are only a couple of decent ones readily available in the UK (Soda Folk's is the best UK one, Virgils and Boylan good imports).

Took a punt on Pukki as my FF captain this week.

Inari in Northern Finland.

Some from our trip to the Arctic, Christmas and New Year 2017/18:

I sprained my Lateral Collateral Ligament (between knee and shin) whilst walking the Yorkshire 3 Peaks and the only way I could complete the walk was by lathering my leg in Biofreeze. Amazing stuff. I'll throw playing board games in to this - not a specific one but the hobby as a whole. Seen by most as a niche, nerdy thing (no denying), it's a great way to get out of the house, socialise, relax and unwind from work. My ideal hobby.

The vinyl analogy is a good one, that would seem completely fair to me to have an electronic copy of something you bought physically, agreed. You also, don't seem to be the problem here mate, what about the people that haven't paid for so many books but have illegally obtained electronic versions, what are they giving back to the author? It's the same as people that don't want to pay for music and it boils my piss. I guess I am surprised people are stealing books, somehow I thought it might be the last bastion of people paying for entertainment that they want. I guess because I don't download or stream anything I don't pay for (I have in the past but morally, I'm no longer comfortable with it and haven't for a long time), I struggle with the concept. The internet and ubiquity of free electronic information/entertainment has completely devalued the effort that goes in to writing a book, movie, TV show or music. If you enjoy something that someone has created then surely they deserve paying for it?

Supporting libraries, great. Steeling content from torrent/other sources, not great.

So, yes, then?

Hang on, are people now avoiding paying for books?

Nice one, Paul. I'll give it a watch whilst on puppy duty tomorrow.

I hope we have a recall clause on Karius' loan...

I thought it was terrible and struggled through the first series before ditching it. In a blatant piece of cultural snobbery, it's well liked by a load of people I know that have a very different taste in TV to me (ie my parents, people that watch Love Island) which makes me think it must be shite. Snobby dick.

I've been reading it over the last few days, fantastic work Dave and the gang. Some great articles, full of passion and insight. Plus there was Monty's article, fucking Monty. I loved Chris' article, it had me welling up.

It probably took 4 weeks as it had to get back to Holland after being posted to Denmark.