Imagine if Charles marched on, only 9 people against him in Nothumberland, think it was. If he had re-established the Stuart monarchy - no Hanoverians - No George ( forget which one ) who lost the American War of Independence. No Queen Victoria. Nor her grandson the Kaiser who took Germany to war, which led in turn to the Treaty of Versailles which harshly punished Germany and eventually led to resentment and the rise of Hitler. Makes you think.

yeah... but maybe there'd have been a course correcting incident and things would have turned out similar anyway.

Ahhhh  is that a Terry Pratchett thing?

no lost... desmond saved charlie from dying multiple times.. but the universe kept trying to kill him... making sure what's meant to happen happens.

pratchett is more the trouser legs of time... huge everett's all worlds theory... any choice you make, alternate realities sprout off in every direction you could've have went.

Ok thanks,  I like TP's one better.


The Top Gear Live show is in Dublin this weekend.
If I heard right, theyre doing nine shows. Packing 'em in .

9 shows? lovely... you not going i guess?

I wish... if I still lived in Dublin I would. Heard about the 9 shows on Gerry Ryan show ( RTE Irish radio online ). He's going at the weekend and will tell all on Monday. Ooh ooh! TG on Sunday features Jezza racing in the storm drain under Belfast. Hope he doesn't slag off my home town, like he did Romania. Don't know how I'd feel about that : (

i'm sure he will... he is jezza... i don't think he'd be able to help himself.

james is on paul o'grady today!

over the christmas period top gear will air a show were they take on el camino de la muerte... just incase you need a translation that's the road of death.

richard makes a new friend according to the xmas/new year radio times...

Yikes I missed James... but thanks for telling me anyway. Oh brilliant - Christmas TG sounds good... if a little scarifiying. History of Scotland ( Tobacco + slavery episode ) just finished. There were no knees, but N.O. was sporting a fine five o clock shadow + looked very dashing by candlelight. Phwoarrr.

yeah the next episode has knees...this weeks must be the last.. there was mention of the 80's... i prefer the medieval stuff to be honest.

Yes it was interesting, the older stuff. And sometimes gory too heh heh


Yay!!! Jezza didn't slag off Belfast. Though with an angry ice hockey team bearing down on him - good idea.

yay for jezza!

Yay for Jezza : ) Wonder how they got the car on top of the crane? ( There are two huge ones at Harland + Wolfe shipyard, called Samson and Goliath ). Belfast - like Glasgow - was a big ship building town once.

yeah, i saw when i  sailed in on the cairnryan to belfast boat last time i was in ireland. big buildings kind of like our granary (gone now.. to make room for ugly flats).

i have a big yellow cran outside my window... other side of the river mind... so it's not massive part of the view.

james is on have i got news for you tonight by the way. and on twitter.com/Mr JamesMay

Yay or cranes!!! Thanks, I caught JM on HIGNFY, he did well + got one really big laugh.

i enjoyed him and the always brilliant reginald bonding over the global warming experiments.

It made me laugh, they think alike   They'd be a good partnership.


Speaking of which, saw in the Christmas RT, that Oz Clarke has been partnered with High Dennis on a drink show. Hope this means what I think it means...

it means we don't have to watch oz clarke anymore! *celebrates*

i did mean to mention that... sorry. *ahem*

should i start a reginald d hunter as the star in a reasonably priced car campaign? lol