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.

Love the picture. My wife and son both play in brass bands. I have sent it on and I am sure that soon there will be hundreds of brass band players getting it as it is passed on.

Haystack - I can't remember the name of the pub, it was near Bewl Water.

Interesting, my wife and kids have sailed in competitions there.

For Manuel,

to relieve his boredom!

Does that mean Walt Disney is making a bio film of of Mrs T? They must have realised how popular that would be.

They could base it on witches and wizards.

Could be a great send up.

They could base it on witches and wizards.

Could be a great send up.

Skinny,

I thought you were older than that.

What are you taking?

Is Alzheimer's kicking in with you, as you seem to be repeating yourself?

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I thought that was the new 'theme' of the thread?

(repetition).

Lynda Carter could play Mrs T. and Worzel Gummage for Michael Foot. I can't think of any actors stupid enough to play Scargill or Kinnock.

Maybe they should close public offices and give kids a day off school so they can watch the most important funeral they will probably ever see.

most important funeral - hardly! .... and other than showing one's respect (singularly lacking in some quarters) it is but the marking of someone's short journey through this life

Respects given where respect is due!

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Holidays for kids, what will the Nasty Party stoop to in order to get liked by some?

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Bye the way, when they get back from their holiday they will probably find their schools have been sold off.

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Sourdough bread is beautiful, only wish it didn't remind of Manuel.

hays - this thread is now getting very tiresome .... please can we abandon it with its present addiction and move onwards to something else, not least because we may get shot of Red Fred and sticky in his more silly moods (MrT, like the poor, is i am afraid always with us) and on the other side, yourself in more aggravating and repetitive mode :-)

Perhaps we should talk about wine. I have a few connections with wine. I used to work for a major wine and spirits company for about 8 years as an IT consultant. Although I was not a member of staff I did the wine trade training at the in-house training centre (diploma and cert in wine). They were great days as we could get staff prices for incredible wines such as Mouton Rotchschild. The company owned Chateau Lascombes and we bought bottles for £2.50. In the managers bar we had free access to over proof spirits such as Bacardi. They had 2 million gals of Bacardi underground in tanks. At Christmas the IT dept staff order was as big as some of their real customers. There was cases of Fuerhed (forgotten the spelling) 1965 port. We even got a staff price for some Chateau Petrus but didn't get it as it was earmarked for a director.