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.

New law may be here soon as like some European countries , hit a cyclist end of story.

fred - legal aid almost certainly will not apply .... nevertheless, as with sports injuries, there are very good lawyers who will handle this type of claim on a no win no pay basis .... and no, i do not mean the ambulance chasers who keep advertising everywhere

Thanks for your interest as well cynic.

Derby fire deaths: Mick Philpott jailed for life

DC - let me know if you need any guidance and i'll scratch around

Thanks again Cynic. Sorry I cannot tell you more (you understand why at this time)
Will update you after the case. I can only say if I was the driver I would have held my hands up BUT we are not all built the same.

Plastic conservatories in Downton. Four-packs of lager in Merlin, and a Routemaster bus in Foyle's War. Have you spotted... TV's truly historic blunders

Cynic,

I have just spent a little time refreshing my information about "legal aid", what surprised me was how proscriptive the conditions were. I wonder what the effects will be of the changes currently being made.

Ummh.

Skinny,

You have destroyed Foyle's War for me.

Some of the scenes from it brought back memories, which are now confabulated into my memory bank.

8-)

Fred I see your pal has chickened out of the task he was going to take part in. Dont be to rough on him. After all he is a senior citizen.

sticky - don't be cheeky :-) ...... as i wrote earlier (i'm really not that senile!), i only promised to supply a budget (shopping list) for food giving a good, well-balanced and healthy diet ..... as i have now asked 2/3 times, please allocate me a fair sum from the £56 for this - i originally suggested £20, but i think that is too great a % even with housing and council tax paid "elsewhere"

if you think i am reneging, then prove it by c+p from my posts - and no i'm not getting sniffy, let alone forgetful


fred - i suspect, but do not know, that legal aid will now be particularly difficult to get .... it was already very difficult, and i don't know exactly what the rules were, but have heard that they are now even tighter ...... how fair or justifiable that may be, i really do not know

It seems that our emails are under attack. The way it works is you receive an email from a trusted source (ie a friend or colleague) within that email will be a link. Once you open it the content looks innocent but it attacks your address book and starts spamming from your account putting recent contacts in the To; category so their email addresses are shared.

So if you don't want to share your email contacts with all and sundry don't click the link.

All the best

that is very common, but you're right to be very wary

Cynic,

"this year, it'll be the usual +/-200 miles just south of the loire - loches (just south of tours), valencay, buzancais, poitiers, parthenay, loudun and back to loches"


Is that the current geriatric cycle race.

Won't boast again of how I took part in the Tour de France when I was sixty.
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I was married when I was a student and both my wife and I were on very limited incomes.

But we lived well, because we knew what and how to prepare food and cook it.
Also, had enough sense to go to the butchers "Greiges" about half and hour before they closed, to buy corners of bacon, rolled pork leg and trotters, not sure where we bought the lamb legs shanks and any beef we had was “cheaper” cuts.

After, that it was MacFisheries to buy the chickens livers, gizzards, hearts and wings. Fish if there was a “bargain” and salted for later.

Then the final haul for the week was down to the open air market, which was just closing and buying the vegetables and fruit which was left out and being sold off, by the stall owners who were too “tired” to put them away over the weekend and Monday.

Lentils and Beans from the Asian shops.

It seemed fun, but we knew how to salt some meat, process some vegetables and prepare food.

Other students used to come to our “flat” for meals and sometimes provide the “drinks”, in those days we didn’t imbibe much.

However, we knew how to “cook”, many other students were clueless, like much of the present population of this country.

Also, I managed to marry a woman, the nationality of my wife being known by the number of fridges her mother had and also the skill level of the mothers.

Good days.

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we cycle just for fun ..... we only do 40/50 miles a day depending on terrain as that gives plenty of time to see sights, smell the flowers, have a pastis and a nice picnic (usually) lunch ..... it is also a prerequisite that we stay in towns/villages that can offer decent food

as for your cooking exploits, you're quite right, though confess i have never even thought about let alone tried to salt fish .... of course, fish is no longer cheap, and indeed there's no reason why it should be .... after all, who on earth would want to be out in a trawler in the atlantic or baltic in mid winter - or even at the beginning of summer as we now are!

I wonder how much lower Osborne can stoop with his correlations between Welfare System, Philpotts case and lifestyles of those on benefit.

He should remember his Bulllingdon club behaviour and the disconnect of his lifestyle with the majority of society.

He is an insult to politics and a very unpleasant little man.

Why do you harp on about his behaviour when he was a student? Are you that desperate find something to complain about? I think Osborne is doing avoid job. You may have noticed that Cable often compliments Osborne on his policies.

apart from thomas cromwell and denis healey, i'm not sure who would be rated as fine chancellors ..... george osborne certainly lacks charisma - unlike dh - but only history will be able to judge his efficacy in a time of huge international financial difficulty and crisis, exacerbated by the augean mess left by his predecessor, darling darling

Beat me to it Fred.

Just posted this on twitter and loads re tweeting it..........

Mick Tarquin Kipper‏@MickKipper

I see George Osbourne is using the Philpots as examples as people on welfare. The chancelor is SCUM and people should see through this.

confess i cannot see the relevance either other than the fact that he is currently very high profile, for obvious reasons ......however, it is certain that philpott had worked out exactly how to milk the system for all it was worth .... shame he wasn't obligated to work that hard to find a job or lose (all) his benefits