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Hi Brendan,

Hotel California is probably my favourite song - I think the Eagles are still touring? There are some brilliant solo covers of the song on youtube such as this one from a very young `Sungha Jung` ...

... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSIC1zJ3Nno

Oops, Malone, I see what mean. For the first time I’ve realised there is no ‘d’ in the word, I’ve always read it as penDant, shows what I (don’t) know about grammar.

Many apologies.

Malone,

Perhaps we could have a thread where people can do penance ... and, for semaphore enthusiasts, one for pennants ?

Norah, thanks. Glad you didn't mind me pointing out the … error of your ways! Chrise had a slightly more tactful nudge before I posted - I've never been able to be subtle.

Tyke51,

A great idea - penance, pennants...and some miscreants could end up in the penitentiary, perhaps? I've a penchant for 'pen...' words - maybe I was a Penelope in an earlier life (in Pennsylvania, of course).

Norah

Hope you`ve recovered your equilibrium - life does have a habit of kicking us up the bum at times!

Malone

We have a town in Yorkshire called Penistone - not sure where it got its name - Chrise may have an innocent explanation - he seems well - travelled!

I've passed through it, tyke. All I can remember is that it isn't pronounced quite how it looks!

Wikipedia has this:

The place-name Penistone is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Pengestone and Pangeston. Penistone is situated on a high ridge, which is believed to be the source of its name.[3] Penistone derives from penn in Old Welsh, which means head, end, top, height or hill, and the Old English ing, a place-name forming suffix and tun, an enclosure, farmstead, village or estate. It most likely means a farm or village at or called Penning

Thanks Chrise,

I`ve passed through the town many times when it was on the old Woodhead Tunnel line from Sheffield Vic to Manchester - this was a brilliant hourly service - shame they went for the Hope Valley route.
The last time I played cricket was an inter-office `do`at the works ground in Penistone - it caused some amusement for the small `crowd` watching as some of us had never played the game at all!

I was pleased to read that "cricket has re-started in this country". But it was in Guernsey, and to me that is not in the UK, or even GB.

It is part of the British Isles, a geographical concept, as I understand it, which includes the Republic of Ireland.

In Rugby Union we get the absurd "British and Irish Lions", when they used to play as "The British Isles" - nickmame Lions.

Hi Jigjag,

I`ve been to Jersey several times but not Guernsey. They play all the main sports on both islands, cricket, football and rugby - they are British Crown Dependencies and have their own governance, laws etc, similar to the Isle of Man I believe.