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GOAL! 3-3!!

Hearts 1 - Gretna 1 !!!

3-2!! Gunnar....can you hear us?! Stay away from the light!!

2-2!

I took my family for a lovely day out....last bloody week!! I said to my missus when the truth dawned, "why didn't you tell me it wasn't mother's day?" And she said, "you wouldn't have taken us out!" Now I've got to do it all over again!

It's a good match

Ah, you're too kind! Philippe Dufour! The movement is a double escapement. Not sure about the US patent.... Cheers!

Hmm...I tried... But you've beaten me, you sly fox! :fox4: Any other takers?

I wanna see this haircut in green!

I think they hired Multiplex because they had done such an 'amazing' job with Stadium Australia(!)....slightly overlooking the years of continuous grief and f*$k ups in the run up to Sydney 2000! I guess they never got to see The Games... London preparing for the 2012 Olympics will be hysterical - I love their endless optimism. But for a city that can't build a stadium on time for AU$2 billion (I was a billion out before), can't build train lines for about the same amount, and only managed an indoor car park (Millenium Dome) for about another $2 billion - it will go pear-shaped at great expense! FA Cup Final kick-off is midnight tonight on, where else (?), SBS.

Ah, Cardiff, that hotbed of Aussie Rules.... Intriguingly, the English FA Cup final is only being played in Cardiff because the English FA paid the Aussies (Multiplex) a billion dollars to build the new Wembley....and they haven't quite got around to it yet. But it's on their 'to do' list.....

Of course, he must find it difficult to walk around....

STOP PRESS: Scotland score five goals. Not in a single year....in one game! To paraphrase Sir Alex: "Bloody hell, eh?" Strange days...... Anyway, actually wondering if Edge was going to be heading down Hampden way for the Scottish Cup Final. Obviously the neutrals all want Gretna to win, must be annoying to be a non-Old Firm team getting to the final and be treated like they own the place! Should be a great day of football - Scotland triumphing in the Kirin Cup (ooh, love that Kirin beer. Did you know Japan has beer vending machines on the streets? Heaven! I'll tell you...those vending machines wouldn't last five minutes in Craigmiller. They wouldn't last five minutes in Morningside!). The Scottish Cup Final. And, oh, should be some 'proper' football down in Cardiff. Enjoy!!

...and they only made prototypes during this time because the factory was making fuse timers for the war effort! Thank you for another great journey into the history of watchmaking!!

1943/1944 - the first Timex. It's upside down because it's a nurse's watch....

You made this too easy with the pic link......

Yeah, that's not very attractive. Would 007 wear a watch like that? Not sure who the target market for the (gen) watch would be - incredibly rich eleven year olds?!

Sounds great! Nothing but encouragement coming to you all the way from....Sydney!! I don't have any high end reps, but thinking about it, one of the reasons would be that there was nobody down the road who could ever look at them if they broke!! Best of luck!

Hi! Post some pics of the new arrival if you get the chance! Cheers!

With all our watches now in a million pieces, that would make you a popular man! Thanks for your great post.

In the UK it really is titbits! It's tidbits in the US. Chambers

Add.... Cheated of win by referee not allowing goal that didn't cross line or go into net.

Scotland are years ahead yet again! Been bleak down Hampden way for quite a while now More seriously, I think McLaren is slightly in awe of European tactics (as has been the British vogue for quite a while now, getting foreign managers etc) and tries to mimic them....badly. Then he resorts to pub team tactics when it all goes wrong. If there's one place you are going to get ripped apart at the back by just hoofing the ball up the pitch it's international football. I think Craig Brown at least understood that much.

Excellent 4-0 defeat by Sevilla, showing tactical acumen at the highest level. Rubbing my hands....