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Not that unusual really. I woke up here in Pattaya a few mornings ago with a big hangover and realized I'd given away my southern port... <sorry>

Well done TC. I had three of your picks plus Catherine Parr, I forgot Anne of Cleves & Catherine Howard. I'm cross with myself because many years ago this question came up in a quiz & I resolved to remember their names. I didn't think it would take 30+ years for the question to come up again. And when it did the old grey cells failed me... What a life Henry lived! Six wives at a time when marriage was for life. And what a fantastic bonus he left the world thanks to his voracious appetite for women. i.e. he broke the hold of the Catholic Church over every aspect of life with the establishment of the Anglican Church. Without that the Pope would still be the most powerful man alive today & things like the internet would never be allowed under their watchful eye. Three questions about the above list: 1) Which wife is he reported to have loved the most? 2) Who was the ugly one? 3) Who was the mother of the next most important monarch in British history?

some lovely writing here guys,well worth a read......Greece seems to be mentioned in dispatches quite a lot...only been the once,fell asleep on the beach the first day(on a small island called Agistri)....got sunburned badly,took best part of a week of misery to recover from that,and then on my last day,stood on a sea urchin...spines in the foot.....doctor ,medicine etc.....never been back to Greece. Turkey?Ive been a few times.....i thought the beaches were (mostly) shit and the people none too friendly....Istanbul is a blast tho'-spent a few days there.....since ive discovered Thailand,all my holiday money is being spent in Los

And, of course, the country who proclaims the most outrage over this [besides the people of Ukraine] has a history of doing the same exact shit in......wait for it....... Chile, Vietnam, Iraq, Guatemala, Grenada, Afghanistan, Iran, Nicaragua, etc......