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.

leave him alone you old tart and enjoy my latest FTSE post which is there for your chuckles

OK captain.

The trouble with Yougov is their error rate. Labour has been +6, +5 and +8 on three consecutive days. It is caused by their polling methods as I mentioned some time ago. They are getting online members to vote. The population has been selected by their choice to sign up to the Yougov system in the first place.

marriage tax break who gets the break the man or the women .

the cons are getting very desperate only 20 months to go and even less
before campaign starts the chance of the CON party getting in is zero
some con MPs are panicking big time will they stand for ukip
at least 156 will lose their seat

I have loads of tory friends and nearly all are ditching the liars

The married tax break is transferable.

hays yes but if both work and the wife wants it and the husband wants it
what then

Haystack, u do need to explain it toTanker as he obviously only reads/understands what he chooses

Call Harry Hill?

Broadcaster Alan Whicker dies at 87

Journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker has died at the age of 87 after suffering from bronchial pneumonia, his spokeswoman has said.

With a TV career that stretched nearly six decades, he was best known for his long-running documentary series, Whicker's World.

How many wickets are England going to lose by?

IF they do, and it's all at an interesting stage, then by less than the number of seats UKIP will win the next election - but then that's almost a "no bet"

I see Cameron is cheating again on the health of the nation's youth for political gain.

Promise after promise.

When will he turn his back on the NHS.

What a creep.

Government rejects Labour's cigarette 'U-turn' claim

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23281804


As many have said you can never trust a con man!

Not sure about that score.

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Manuel,

are the mirabelles plums in fruit at the moment with you.

If so, bring me a tart home. (A plum tart.)

far too early, even over here ...... surely they don't come into season (so to speak) for another 6/8 weeks?

Anytime from now - even this year I would think.

I have never seen as many plums on my 2 plum trees as I have this year, they are like large bunches of grapes - heaven knows what I am going to do with them all apart from putting a stall out the front and selling them, obviously I will use what I can. Another 6/8 weeks and Victoria here we come. I will have to get someone to come with a ladder when they are ripe before the wasps get them.

The prolonged cold winters of the past few years have given the fruit trees a real rest -unlike the milder winters of the previous few years - this results in heavier crops.

Surely you're more likely to see Mirabelles trees in north east France than in Provence.

My summer house is in the next region along from where cyners is, and I can't recall having seen Mirabelles growing. Loadsa vineyards and olives, but no Mirabelles.

wonder if you're right ...... they certainly grown plenty of fruit down here and in the luberon, including plums i'm sure ..... confess i really know mirabelles as an english hedging species