Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

sky news still going on about syria . do they not know you can not help muslim countrys they will turn on the west if they help just look at the other countrys we have tried to help . forget them let the muslim world sort it out they no best how to deal with the problem.

At least we can now continue giving millions of wonga in foreign aid to India without having the problem of being accused of just using our foreign aid policy as a bribe (perish the thought) to obtain trade deals.

I bet we are the only country to continue to give such aid to countries that regularly put both fingers up, saying ---------------------.

Space left for self expression.

At least I can understand foreign aid as a bribe, if it works, but whats the use if it don't.

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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime :-)))

then he fishs to extinction.

best to teach people that breeding out of control when you can not feed them would be better

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.

Don't give a man a fish and don’t teach him to fish. Just feed yourself. He’s a grown man. Fishing’s not that hard.

Want to run a pub? but on "your" terms. Listen how to do it in about 5 minutes on R4. You and Yours. Very interesting.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/a-local-pub-for-local-people-micropubs-are-catching-on-2217205.html

The answer is 42!

Douglas Adams loved ideas, but hated writing, says Terry Jones

Monty Python star Terry Jones remembers his friend Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, who would have been 60 this weekend.

"He was such a brilliant writer," says Terry Jones of his old friend and fellow real ale aficionado Douglas Adams.

Stan - interesting item, it sounds worth a visit!

Yes I heard Martin present at that Eastbourne event and was very impressed.

Stan - its interesting to see the "Butchers Arms" described as the smallest Free house in England. I always thought "The Little Gem" was the smallest Free house in kent!

I don't know, always wary of such claims myself.

I've been to the Little Gem and it is just that - very small and a Gem!

Yes some of these pubs really are a haven aren't they Skinny.

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Clearly a case of not going into the right pubs and mixing with reasonable company mn.

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Pushing DOW towards 13k.
Banks trying to be positive.
after a week loss.