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1. Wine ‘can help treat gum disease’
2. Research increasingly indicates health benefits of beer could surpass wine
3. A little red wine may help to ward off cancer
4. Red Wine Wonder Compound May Also Improve Kidney Function
5. Wine ‘can protect women’s hearts’
6. Red wine could protect men against lung cancer
7. Red wine boosts good cholesterol
8. Red wine improves artery health in heart patients
9. Red Wine Molecule Shown to Extend Life
10. Guinness good for you - official
11. Beer Just as Beneficial as Red Wine, Research Shows
12. Whiskey May Have Anti-Cancer Benefit
13. It’s for medicinal purposes, honest

1. Work - Reaching a deadline to finish my current project which has meant I haven’t had the time to post during lunch (Lunchtime was just extra work time).
2. Traffic - Ongoing roadworks along my route home delay my journey by up to 1 hour.
3. Other SItes - Work on a couple of my own projects is taking longer than I expected.
4. Football - End of the football season. Also watching my favourite team progress to another Cup Final.
5. Home - Due to the late nights caused by #1 & #3 I have had to find time to be with my wife.
6. Pool - 2 Nights per week playing pool also caused some late nights.
7. Music - The pub I play pool for have live music at least 3 nights per week of which I attended 2 (Friday & Sunday)
8. Friends - Went out on Saturday night to another pub to meet up with some friends we haven’t seen since Christmas.
9. Food - I sometimes do the cooking at weekends. Last weekend was one of these times.
10. Work - Again due to the deadline I have had to put in extra hours to get the thing finished.
11. TV - I’m an avid fan of 24 so I need to find at least 1 hour per week to watch it.
12. Snooker - We are now at the closing stages of the World Championship.
13. House - There have been some little things to do around the house.

1. The Alan Parsons Project - The Best Of The Alan Parsons Project - Old and Wise
2. Chris Rea - Road To Hell - Tell Me There’s A Heaven
3. Camel - Stationary Traveller - Stationary Traveller
4. Electric Light Orchestra - A New World record - Telephone Line
5. Eric Clapton - Pilgrim - My Fathers Eyes
6. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
7. Schindler’s List - Soundtrack - Main Theme
8. Trevor Jones & Randy Edelman - Last of the Mohicans Soundtrack - Main Theme
9. Tia Carrere - Dream - I Never Even Told You
10. Roger Waters - Radio Kaos - Home
11. Robbie Williams - Wscapology - Feel
12. Peter Gabriel - Shaking the Tree - Biko
13. Jim Croce - Photographs & Memories - Time in a Bottle

1. Richie Blackmore’s Rainbow - Liverpool Royal Court 1983
2. Chris de Burg - International Garden Festival grounds in Liverpool 1984
3. Dire Straits - Brothers in arms tour Deeside 1985
4. Deep Purple - Reunion concert at Knebworth 1987
5. Pink Floyd - Momentary lapse of reason tour Manchester Maine road 1988
6. Paul McCartney - Let it be tour Kings Dock Liverpool 1989
7. Gloria Estefan - Evolution tour Birmingham NEC 1996
8. Eric Clapton - Pilgrim tour Birmingham NEC 1998
9. Status Quo - Birmingham NEC
10. Robbie Williams - Phoenix Park, Ireland 2003
11. Kylie Minogue - Birmingham NEC April 2005
12. Creme - Reunion concert Royal Albert Hall May 2005 (last night)
13. Mark Knopfler - Shangri-La tour Birmingham NEC June 2005

1… London Hackney Carriages (taxis/cabs) must carry a bale of hay and a sack of oats.

2… It is illegal for a lady to eat chocolates on a public conveyance.

3… It is legal for a male to urinate in public, as long it is on the rear wheel of his motor vehicle and his right hand is on the vehicle.

4… Placing a postage stamp that bears the Queen (or King) upside down is considered treason.

5… It is illegal for a woman to be topless in public except as a clerk in a tropical fish store.

6… Excluding Sundays, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.

7… A license is required to keep a lunatic.

8… If someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your commode, you must let them enter.

9… You can only shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight.

10.. It is illegal for a Member of Parliament to enter the House of Commons wearing a full suit of armour.

11.. Any boy under the age of 10 may not see a naked manequin.

12.. Any person found breaking a boiled egg at the sharp end will be sentenced to 24 hours in the village stocks (enacted by Edward VI).

13. All English males over the age 14 are to carry out 2 or so hours of longbow practice a week supervised by the local clergy.