Nigel Gordon

Yes Colin, that is a problem with ITVHub. I am sure that the programme will surface elsewhere so just keep an eye out for it.

There has been an interesting documentary on ITV about Tom Daley's preparation for Rio. What is really interesting is the discussion in it about him coming out as being in a gay relationship. If you can access the ITVHub you can find it here: http://www.itv.com/hub/tom-daley-diving-for-gold/2a3955a0001

I must admit to being biased, I am a great fan of Chris's writing. In fact it was Chris's writing which resulted in me finding AD. So any new story from Chris is a draw for me. Farnham Beach is not exception. Chris has a talent for capturing the essence of a place that I can only envy. Already I feel I know Farnham Beach, although such places are completely alien to my experience. I also feel that I know the characters. Having now read chapter two I am hooked and cannot wait for the other chapters to follow.

Been listening to a very interesting programme on BBC Radio 4 about the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. It is a piece of documentary reporting that is well worth listening to if you can access it. You can find it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07lg6j8 Listening to it gave me an insight into some of the historical background to the political issues in the United States that many of us over this side of the Atlantic find difficult to understand.

Nick, I am surprised you have not found a thread for Excelsior as I clearly remember posting to it. Suspect it is one of those threads that got lost in the move between servers. It is a great story and one that I really enjoyed. Jumpshade is exactly what it describes but does not make sense until you read it in context then it is clear.

I have now finished reading Sioni Nionod and can only admire Mihangel for not only his story telling ability but for the accuracy of the research that went into the background to the story. Some years ago I researched the Onion Johnnies for a documentary about the historical links between Cornwall and Brittany. I thought I knew quite a bit about them but I have learnt a lot from this story. A great piece of writing very well done and exceptionally well researched.

Well Cole I can assure you that frachety is in use over here. Was at the RHS Tatton Garden Flower Show today and heard a woman telling her husband to "stop being so bloody frachety and pay the bill." Seeing the number of plants she had bought my sympathy were with the husband who had to carry them!

My elderly neighbour (88) and her family fled Nazi Germany in 1937. This morning she was in tears having heard Trumps speech on the radio. To her it sounded just like Hitler did.

Sorry Bruin, blame Apple spell checker. It is still trying to correct you to Brian in this post!!!

Actually it wasn't as it did address a question I raised, just not the inconsistencies.

I filed in the contact form or the author's homepage and commented on the potholes (nice word Brian I hope you don't mind if I use it sometime in a plot!!). Had a brief but considerate response, though she did not address the issues.

Brian, glad you enjoyed it. I agree with the points you made but despite that I agree it is a good read. The thing that really got me confused was at the start it is stated that Caddock's father wanted him to move close to home near Sheffield. Yet later they appear to be able to get to the parents for an evening meal, and when the nephew goes missing the father quickly is on the scene. I'm south of Sheffield and I have friends in Looe. For me to get to them is a six and a half hour drive if I am lucky. The last two times it was over eight. From here to Sheffield is at least one hour twenty in good traffic conditions, at the moment with the speed restrictions more like two. Dahlia is a good writer but I just wish she would check here details, especially when writing about somewhere you do not have immediate knowledge of.

With new stories coming from Cole, Chis and Mihangel, it looks as if we are going to get a plethora of quality writing. Even if we are getting all of Mihangel's in one go (I noted your apology Mihangel). It looks as if there is going to be some good reading for us over the summer.

Usually if there are factual errors in a piece of writing I quickly loose interest in it. The fact that I not only did not loose interest in this but kept on reading it, finishing it in one session on my Kindle indicates that it is either a very good read or very short. I can assure you it is not short. The is the story of Caddock a top flight rugby player who loses his rugby career and his brother all in a year. He also gains custody of his nephew and it is to give his nephew a new life that he moves to Cornwall to open a pub. There he meets Francis, an interior designer. What follows is a true romance, in the best Mills and Boon tradition. The writer was born in Britain but moved to the States when she was seven. At times this shows as there are a number of elements in the story that factually could not occur. Despite this it is a good read. It is published by the Top Hat Press and is available from Amazon as a paperback or on Kindle.

Very insightful and very well presented. Just hope he does become president one day. Isn't it time you amended the constitution to remove the minimum age of 35?

Boris is one of the most politically savvy operators around. Anybody else when shafted by Gove would have stayed in the leadership contest just to show they were better than Gove. Boris didn't, he stepped back and left Gove looking like the nasty piece of work that he was. He put his backing behind May and got one of the top jobs. Theresa has pulled off a masterstroke of political manoeuvring. She has place him and two other Leave leaders in a position where they are responsible for organising Brexit. If they pull it off and manage to get a decent deal with the EU then she can take the credit for doing a good job, if it all comes unstuck she can blame them saying "I put those who wanted to leave in charge of it." If Boris does pull it off it leave him in position to be the next leader of the Conservative party.

​Teresa May is on the the shrewdest, hardest and politically savvy politicians around. Politically, at least with respect to social issues, she is probably slightly to the left of the Conservative party but on a number of issues (like immigration and law and order) she is somewhat to the right. Although she officially supported to Remain side of the referendum she was very low key about it. Overall she gave the impression that she supported Remain to stay loyal to the PM whilst seeming to hint that she did not really believe in it. If you thought Thatcher was the Iron Lady this one will probably turn out to be a very sharp Tungsten Steel blade wielding Knife Lady!!

I'm glad he has, it is one of my favourites.

Actually he does have a good point with respect to the specific charge of adultery. If you are going to have equality before the law you are going to have to make sure that the law treats heterosexuals and homosexuals equally. For a time in the UK we had the situation where it was legal to sodomise a man but illegal to sodomise a woman. That was sorted out after a bit. There is still a discussion going on over here with respect to adultery as it is grounds for the dissolution of a marriage by divorce but is not grounds for dissolution of a civil partnership.

Yes, Merkel wants the issue out of the way and the UK seen to be getting a very bad deal before the French Presidential Elections. She is terrified that Maria LePen will use Frexit as a major campaign issue in the election which could result in a French referendum. The thing is Boris Johnson has stated that he will not invoke Article 50 until the terms for the separation have been agreed, at least in principle. There is a good chance he will be the next PM of the UK if the ABBs don't stop him. (Sorry ABB stands for "Anyone But Boris").

Because a lot of important social protections are based in EU rules and regulations. The whole basis of UK anti-discrimination law is EU law. Whilst we are members of the EU, and we still are and will be for at least another two years, we are protected by that fact. Once we are out of the EU there is nothing to stop a right wing government starting to unpick those laws. ​Already UKIP supporters are saying that they want the rules about discriminatory service (i.e. not being allowed to refuse to serve gay people) to be removed from the statute books.

There is nothing one can really say about this, it says it itself.

From what has been said this morning by Boris Johnson (the main voice on the Leave side) I suspect that we will not leave before the second referendum. Johnson stated before the campaign started that there was nothing to stop us voting to leave, the negotiating better terms and having a second referendum. That appears to be what he is now playing for. He has stated that there is no reason to invoke Article 50 (the procedure in the Lisbon Treaty to leave the EU) at the moment. I have little doubt he expects to win the Tory leadership contest and be the next prime minister. Once there in all probability I can see him refusing to invoke Article 50 and pulling out the negotiations in the hope of getting better terms. He has already stated that free movement of labour is not a critical point, though immigration was the main theme of the leave campaign.

I was campaigning for Remain. There were a lot of reasons for that but the main one was that I see membership of the EU as a protection for individual rights. It was EU pressure on anti-discrimination which brought about the growth of anti-discrimination law in the UK. Although not directly that indirectly resulted in the laws against discrimination on grounds of sexuality. Also one requirement for membership of the EU is that member states must be signatories of the European Convention of Fundamental and Human Rights. That is a Council of Europe charter, not an EU one. There are many to the right of the Conservative party and the whole of UKIP who would like to see us withdraw from the ECHR. Whilst we are in the EU we cannot. Withdrawing from the ECHR would in my opinion be one of the worse things we can do. It would put the LGBT community at risk in a number of ways. There is an increasing pressure now for a second referendum before any final withdrawal is made. There is even a legal argument that under the EU Treaty Act of 2011 a second referendum would have to be held. I hope it is because a lot of people who voted leave are now realising that they were effectively lied to about the impact of a leave vote. Yesterday the leave campaign stated they never said that leaving the EU would reduce immigration. Technically correct, they left that to UKIP to say but when it was said they did not deny it.