[theo_luddite]

Another good long well researched read that jjamez.

To answer a couple of your questions - I've not seen the Alan Carr thing on the tellybox. For an assortment of reasons my tellybox doesn't seem to find the ITV Channels unless there's a live match or the EFL highlights or some other sport on one of their channels I want to watch. It might be down to being force fed a diet of Coronation Street and Dickie Davies's Saturday afternoon grapple and groan as a kid, but otherwise my hoofer doofer seems to be allergic to ITV.

The Princess Di thing - I was over on a visit from Canada when news broke of her demise. I never really understood at the time why she originally hooked herself up with an older but very rich if not very good looking bloke with ears like wingnuts, when a skinny and skint bloke like me with a big nose and a penchant for standing in The Cowshed every other Saturday was still available and further more, in her age range. As Jim Bowen would later go on to say - "Look at what you could have won". I'm sure I would have been careful with her family's millions, being a died in t'wool Yorkshire lad. I'd have splashed out on a season ticket a few seasons earlier though than I eventually did. She might have turned her nose up at my Moggy Marina too.