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Ha! There's a little plaque with this on in my parents' house. Your slippers are by the fire, dear Your pipe and a book that's new Your dinner is in the oven But where the hell are you? Happy days, eh?!

I walked past today and it looks like they've made a start.

I'm still happy with QiQ - Premium offering @ £30/year is all I've needed. Tell 'em I sent you @ https://www.qiq.co.uk/portal/aff.php?aff=22

They've started updating the listings at http://www.localcarols.org.uk/sings.php

Ah yes, the beer. I had a pint of Oyster Stout from Wentworth Brewery. Yummy and local.

Had to look them up. Yikes!

I had a really lovely meal at the D&P last week, so I thought I'd better post a recommendation. Nicely cooked and presented little plates, and a good selection of tastes from the 3 for a tenner menu for me. Plenty of other choices too. Here's the menu. Have you been too? What did you think?

Goodbye Redrobbo - thank you for all the good things you did. Condolences to those who are grieving.

The end of Cybersyn. I've always been a bit of an admirer of Stafford Beer.

Brian Perkins reading The Shipping Forecast by Les Barker. Moderate to Good.

Well said, Edna! I've never been fussed about the 'big names' on the main stage stuff. What I am amazed by is the incredible talent that can be found in corners of the city you might not usually go to. Even better if the free Busker's Bus takes you there and you get to join in a singalong (quite possibly with a 'big name'!) on the way. The Tramlines weekend has introduced me to some fabulous new music and I'm looking forward to seeing those artists again.

DANCE FOR ST. GEORGE - IN SHEFFIELD CITY CENTRE... Saturday 20th April 2013 With Sheffield City Giants and their friends... Dance sides: · Sheffield City Giants (SCG) · Yorkshire Chandelier (YC) · William Morris (WM) · Handsworth Sword Dancers (HSD) · Boggarts Breakfast (BB) · Lizzie Dripping (LD) · Three Shires Clog (3S) · Lord Conyers Morris Men (LCMM) · Silkstone Green (SG) · Sheffield City Morris Men (SCMM) · Steel City Rappers (SCR) Programme: 11.00 am – The Lord Mayor arrives to watch the dance display in front of the Town Hall. Sheffield City Giants begin the display followed by the other teams in the order above 12.00 pm - divide into 3 groups: 1. Town Hall: LCMM 3S SG 2. Peace Gardens: SCG LD SCMM BB 3. Barkers Pool: HSD WM YC SCR 12.30 to 1.30 - Lunch 1.30 pm - divide into 3 groups: 1. Barkers Pool: LCMM 3S SG 2. Town Hall: SCG SCMM BB SCR 3. Peace Gardens: HSD WM YC 2.30 pm - all teams gather at the Town Hall · 2.45 pm - Grand Circassian Circle (all together !) · 3.00 pm - Finish! From http://www.facebook.com/sheffieldcitygiants

Grrr. Temple.

Open your spreadsheet and press alt-F11 to get the Visual Basic editor. Choose Insert/Module from the menu and paste in the code below. Press alt-Q to close the editor. You can use =Rot("My string",2) or =Rot(F3,2) to encode your string with offset 2. Option Explicit Function Rot(codeString, Optional offset) 'Simple encrypting. Rotate original string by 'offset' characters 'By maggi 13/2/13 Dim charIndex As Long, charCode As Integer, alpha As Integer If IsMissing(offset) Then offset = 0 ' ignore missing values End If If offset > 26 Or offset < 0 Then offset = 0 ' ignore invalid values End If For charIndex = 1 To Len(codeString) ' for each character in the string charCode = Asc(Mid$(codeString, charIndex, 1)) ' get the character code ' only use an offset if the character is A-Z or a-z If (charCode >= Asc("A") And charCode <= Asc("Z")) Or (charCode >= Asc("a") And charCode <= Asc("z")) Then If charCode >= Asc("a") Then ' are we in upper or lower case? alpha = Asc("a") Else alpha = Asc("A") End If charCode = charCode + offset ' add on 'offset' characters If charCode >= alpha + 26 Then ' have we gone past the end of our case range? charCode = charCode - 26 End If End If Mid$(codeString, charIndex, 1) = Chr(charCode) ' substitute the new character Next charIndex Rot = codeString End Function

*sharp intake of breath* Uh-oh

And, at last, we get to Bayswater.

Oooh, just goes to show, doesn't it? Arno's Grove has me baffled for the mo. Anyone else?

Arsenal! ..........

Did you miss the word 'musical' in the title?

Top Sheffield combo Hey Sholay had their van with all of their gear in it stolen from outside their practice room in Rotherham this evening. Here are the details :- Transit van - ML05KPP - choice equipment - juno 60, 2 vox ac30 amplifiers. One ampeg valve head and trace elliot cab. Fender 1952 telecaster, gibson sg - heavily customised es335 with 'rosie' laquered to it, custom electronics, epiphone lucille with nicrophone input. 4 kaoss pads, four pedalboards all customised with various boutique pedals. Pearl export drumkit and sabian cymbals. Korg ms2000b synthesizer, cased, three stands, trace elliot bass cab. Keep your eyes peeled please.

There's a programme on SheffieldLive 93.2fm on a Friday morning from 10-12 called Thank Goodness It's Folk. It has a Facebook page, and you can download podcasts of previous programmes.

I hope you're talking about The Matilda. The Gardener's Rest is very much open - I was in there last weekend. The Sheffield Porter was excellent http://www.sheffieldbrewery.com/our-beer.php

Cheers Mort. Hope to see you down there with your shaky egg!

A record breaking fund raiser for MacMillan Cancer Care and the Intensive Home Nursing Service. More details at http://www.folk-network.com/m4 I assume there'll be a door charge - probably less than a fiver. Bring your instrument(s) and dancing shoes

If you're down the south end of the city (and you like your beer), The Ale House on Fraser Road in Woodseats/Millhouses is spot on.