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Reasons to be cheerful 2021

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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Hostafan1 said:

    I know you shouldn't laugh at the misfortune of others, but I will make an exception in this instance. :)
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    KT53 said:
    Hostafan1 said:

    I know you shouldn't laugh at the misfortune of others, but I will make an exception in this instance. :)
    When I saw the news about his offer I thought " really? was the best person for the job????"
    One has to wonder how he proposed to carry out the role, given that he is , allegedly, paid to work full time as an MP.
    To be fair , our local MP Geoffrey Cox manages to squeeze in almost £1 million in legal work  a year whilst claiming his tax payers' dosh.
    Devon.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    A Brit won the tennis at Indian Wells.  At least he's claimed as a Brit.  South African born, New Zealand nationality, US educated. :D
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited October 2021
    Great news isn't it B)  Norrie says he's a Brit ... this is his Wiki entry "... Norrie was born in 1995 in JohannesburgSouth Africa to a Scottish father from Glasgow and a Welsh mother who were both microbiologists.[3] His godmother is magician’s assistant Debbie McGee. After a burglary incident in 1998, when Norrie was three, he and his family moved to AucklandNew Zealand, where his parents still live.[4] In 2011, at age 16 he moved to London where he lived for three years before attending Texas Christian University in Fort Worth from 2014 to 2017. In June 2017 he ended his studies at TCU to turn professional during the grass court season of the 2017 ATP Tour.[5][6]

    Since turning professional he has been based in Putney, southwest London (close to Wimbledon).[7] When the Indian Wells Masters was cancelled in March 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic lockdowns, Norrie decided to fly to New Zealand to live with his parents for the rest of the year..."

    If he want's to be British that's good enough for me.   :D


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Norrie


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    my rtbc is 33 on Popmaster
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Good score @hostafan 👍  :D   .... I got 30 and 27 .... :o   don't think they were particularly easy questions, but there were quite a few from the right era for me ... really didn't see why the second contestant struggled quite as much as she did.  

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Good score @hostafan 👍  :D   .... I got 30 and 27 .... :o   don't think they were particularly easy questions, but there were quite a few from the right era for me ... really didn't see why the second contestant struggled quite as much as she did.  
    I mixed up Men without hats , WITH They might giants and I was ONE YEAR OUT
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I got They Might be Giants .... I also got The Archies .... I was particularly pleased with those two.  I was two years out both times  :#

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Great news isn't it B)  Norrie says he's a Brit ... this is his Wiki entry "... Norrie was born in 1995 in JohannesburgSouth Africa to a Scottish father from Glasgow and a Welsh mother who were both microbiologists.[3] His godmother is magician’s assistant Debbie McGee. After a burglary incident in 1998, when Norrie was three, he and his family moved to AucklandNew Zealand, where his parents still live.[4] In 2011, at age 16 he moved to London where he lived for three years before attending Texas Christian University in Fort Worth from 2014 to 2017. In June 2017 he ended his studies at TCU to turn professional during the grass court season of the 2017 ATP Tour.[5][6]

    Since turning professional he has been based in Putney, southwest London (close to Wimbledon).[7] When the Indian Wells Masters was cancelled in March 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic lockdowns, Norrie decided to fly to New Zealand to live with his parents for the rest of the year..."

    If he want's to be British that's good enough for me.   :D


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Norrie


    Fair enough.  I know I would still consider myself a Brit, more specifically of Scottish extraction, no matter where I lived.  It's nice so see that despite all his globe trotting he feels the same.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited October 2021
    Didn't Zola Budd claim to be British for a while? and the Canadian tennis guy? 

    Devon.
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