I decided to treat myself to a knife last night, and was expecting it tomorrow, but it turned up just know. Knives get specially delivered now, with a special sticker on the package, and you have prove you're over 18 before you purchase. The knife has to be delivered in person, and can only be handed to someone over 18. This has been going on for the past few years, and being obviously a long way past 18, I've not previously had to provide ID. On this occasion, I had to find my passport, but there was also something else new, the delivery guy had to put my passport number into the system
Not the knife!
My team Quarry Lane United were winners of my class Subbuteo knock-out, in about 1971! 
I got the basic set, consisting of 2 teams of plastic players, 2 goals, and a green cloth pitch, for Christmas, a few years before that, and my dad, who loved anything to do with football, or anything that reminded him of his childhood, promptly blasted the heads off most of my players, by cheating 
Best I can figure is there was a power surge associated with the storms that passed through while I was gone. Everything else works fine 
