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But there's still plenty of excellent places in the UK to visit, Clive. Northumberland is still one of my favourite places to visit. Must have been there 10 times over the years and I never get bored of the area.

What places have you got on your bucket list to visit? Near or far, doesn't matter. I want to visit the Menin Gate and Oradour-sur-Glane as being discussed on another thread. What about you guys? Or even places you've been that you'd recommend to others?

Who remembers this one?

I can't remember any Mod called Dan on there Clive. There was Dano, but he was never a Mod? Apart from the obvious ones, the ones I knew were Roy, Dave and Techno.

Nah, boulangerie doesn't open on Mondays, so I'd know if it was Monday.

No names, but he eventually just drifted away from the forum.

This fucking retirement business is doing my head in, Pete! I don't even know what day of the week it is now!

Personally I think Pete is right to go through this process for selecting the mods. Folks get to vote on whose input on the forum they've seen reflects their expectations. I'm not sure that previous moderating experience is really that relevant, as other sites owners may have just appointed folks as moderators because they're mates. I think a few of us know of moderators that are completely unsuitable, but they're just there to kiss the forum owners arse! I think that all of the runners in this contest would do a good job, experienced moderators or not. You need mods who can work together to reach agreement on issues that may arise. The problem I had when I first started moderating on another forum was that one of the existing mods didn't like me and I wasn't too keen on him either, so we often struggled to reach agreement on issues because we had a completely different viewpoint! So, another thing to consider is, which of the nominees could you see being able to work together as a team? Just my Saturday afternoon musings.

That was why I raised the point of having 3 votes, 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice. But I guess where does it end.

Yes, and we'd need to have a lettuce as one of the options!

Proportional representation.

It's a tough choice because I think that all the nominees would do a good job.

Non-ebike ride this morning. Only the coffee pic as I couldn't be arsed to stop on the way round.

Very underrated band, which was a shame.

What I want to know is, will there be a coronation and, if so, will I get a day off for it?

I'd not heard that, but it wouldn't surprise me.

And Ozzy!

Yeah, I remember something about that. Sign of our age, Pete, when all your musical heroes pop their clogs!

Yeah, it's a shame. I would have loved to see them live, but never got the opportunity.

76 years old, mate. Sad.

Rip Dan McCafferty