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no but someone told me they performed it Boxpark Wembley before one of the games.....I couldnt get in to Boxpark for any of the matches but we managed to get tickets for it for the final so hoping for a great build up to the game!

thats a lot.....I remember going to Euro 2000 in Charleroi and getting a ticket on the black market for the game against the Germans (we won 1-0) and paying £180 for it back then and thinking that it was a fortune to pay but well worth it after we won.....in contrast when you are a member of the supporters club and go to games at Wembley and around the World you get access to tickets at face value, I paid £70 (85 Euros) each for my 2 semi tickets.

eh? never had a side good enough? from 2000 to about 2010 we had a team littered with world class players, scholes was picked out by Zidane as the best player he has played against, Lampard, Gerrard, Beckham, Cole, Ferdinand, Terry, Owen, Shearer, Rooney how long have you got.....youv'e been out out of the scene for way too long Paul to know much if anything about our England team.....having the players was never an issue.....in fact the problems back then were not only the rivalry between clubs but trying to fit all these world class players into one team.....Gareth has changed the whole feel.....there is a unity now that wasnt there 10 or 15 years ago.....no rivalry and I think this generation of young people have a different outlook to past generations and that rubs off on the pitch.....oppositions always new they could get under the skin of one or two of our players and get a reaction......that doesnt happen anymore.....Italians will be a whole different proposition and we will need to be at our absolute best and need a big big chunk of luck to come through it.....if we win you can dine out on your English heritage for a few years Paul.......................................................through gritted teeth

BBQ's are outdated....everyone is cooking pizza in their pizza ovens.....we got an Ooni pizza oven at the start of spring.....cooks a pizza in 60 seconds.....well thats what they say but if you budget for 2 mins you wont be far out.....they are excellent.....we hardly use the BBQ any more.....if I was you I would ditch it.....sell it.....we sold ours before we came home....TBH I was amazed we sold it.....it was a few years old and covered in grease but someone came along and gave us almost what we paid for it......If I was in the UK I would have probably thrown it in the bin.

the new song is "sweet caroline" V the Germans....I was in there somewhere behind the goal and last night against Denmark from my phone A52BBADD-E0A1-40C7-8BEB-84779470FA81_2_0_a.mov

After 3 years in Perth we returned to our "old town"......we found it to be exactly as we left it 3 years earlier.....the only thing that had changed was us.....we had realised that the lifestyle we actually wanted was right there in front of us the whole time.....its funny because you often don't realise what you had/have until you have lost it.....unlike the OP we never came back because of family....we just felt our lives were empty in Perth and we were going through the motions.....could have stayed for another 10 years but wisley chose to return and its not a decision we have ever regreted or even dwelled on.....To the OP.....dont be unhappy.....life is too short to be unhappy.....its a great time to return.....there is a good vibe in the country at the moment......its coming home!

I don't think you are being selfish at all......I think you are still suffering the loss of your father and it is this that is causing you to feel the way you do.....you have said you have good friends and a decent life in Australia.....for me you need to get some help with the grief of losing a close family member.....coming to terms with the loss might help the rest of your life fall back into place..... Goodluck.

If I were you I would do some research.....I live not far from Reading and if you think Reading is quiet I would say you will find Canberra to be very remote....isolated and extremely quiet. I Lived in Perth for 3 years.....it has a population of about 2 million.....I found it quiet and isolated.....Canberra has a population of about 400,000.....it is about 10k from one side to the other and not a lot more after that......There are lots of people on here that live in Canberra and can give you an idea of what life is like there......I can only compare our area (Berkshire) to Perth (which is bigger than Canberra).....Do your research.....go and visit if you can.....what a lot of people do not factor into their move is the isolation of a lot of Australian cities and Australia in general.....good luck!

do you deliver mate......?

There is your answer.....if thats how you genuinely feel then I would put a stop to the house building and the kiddie talk before its too late.

@M1cha3la for the cold have you ever considered a gas heater.....they are a little odd in WA in that they are on a long flexible hose so can be moved around.....most houses have a few bayonet connections dotted around to plug and unplug the heater....I think they are a few hundred each but worth the investment.....they kick out quite a bit of heat.

I can remember him coming from nowhere in one race during the 87 TDF.....he was dead on his feet and made a miraculous recovery to close the gap on his rival. What was it he used to say......"in our house.....its the potatoes we eat"

It very rarely is........

also meant to say re the scenary.....their decent on the Col de la croix de fer takes in some unbelievable scenery.....narrow roads carved in the rock face with views reaching for miles down the valley towards St Jean de Maurienne.....quite stunning....I can remember them through the sweat and tears on my ascent

yes amazing strength and determination......Ive ridden plenty of those climbs over the years and can say from first hand experience how brutal they can be.....stage 17 looks especially tough.....I rode the col de la croix de fer (iron cross) last year from the route they are decending and its a toughie in 30 + blazing sunshine.....but just does not get near the Telegraph and the Galibier......have ridden them also 2 or 3 times and they are very tough.....especially the last 8km on the Galibier.....will also be watching the whole race.