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.

Morning Cyners.....ohh shut up.................LOL.

hi sticky - are you cross because there has been a deviation from the usual soapbox tripe and rants? :-)

btw, and just as an aside re worldwide economies ......
i can't recollect the last time that we were quite so busy with very serious and substantial enquiries, not only for the carriage of relatively mundane chemicals but also on the very specialised gas side

smoke and mirrors re improving economies?
facts say otherwise, though it should be remembered that chemicals lead the upward cycle with improved employment and other stuff following in its wake

Stan - You probably will remember Dunlop 65's :O) Persimmon woods etc, loved the whooosh sound the ball made through the air. Titleist Pro V1 golf balls - softer feel, more distance and longer lasting. Revolution of modern clubs, titanium faced drivers and shafts make golf unrecognisable from those days.

Cyners Im really glad that we have growth .........at last.

But please dont get confused between growth and the standard of living.

Working people can pull the purse strings in tightly in bad times but expect in good times rewards for their part in the economic turn around.

Please do tell what the tories are doing to help this???????????????????????????

ps, dont say apprenticeships, they are mickey mouse apprenticeships this government are offering, usually on the tills or 6 weeks customer care prog.

ps, Cyners not cross at all, been up all night listening to the test match. Had the odd beer LOL.

England well on top.

code name.................. broadsword.

That card should have on Tories and Hedge funds.

sticky - you can't improve a country's standard of living without growth in the first place ..... nevertheless, an improving feelgood factor leads to a slackening of pursestrings and thus more spending and so on, with all the obvious knock-on effects further down the line

WRONG. I posted yesterday the debt postion the mass find themselves in. Check it.

Early yesterday post.

And when interest rates rise.

Gosh I wonder if the main partys have thought this through.

Why get elected in 2015 with all the sh-t further down the line to come. !!!!!!!

Might be an idea to let Raving Nigel rule the country for 5 years LOL.

Amsterdam employs alcoholics as street cleaners and pays them in beer






Charity working in the city – renowned for its ‘pragmatic’ approach to substance abuse – says scheme keeps the alcoholics occupied and out of trouble



Adam Withnall

Wednesday 20 November 2013



Amsterdam has launched a government-funded scheme which uses chronic alcoholics as street cleaners – and pays them in beer.



The project, organised by the Rainbow Foundation charity and paid for by Dutch state subsidies and donations, rounds up alcoholics who have been “causing a nuisance” in parks and puts them to work.

They clean three days a week, from 9am to around 3.30pm, and are paid €10 (around £8), five cans of beer and half a packet of loose tobacco per shift.

The alcoholics are split up into groups of 10, and their beer consumption is carefully monitored.

“The aim is to keep them occupied, to get them doing something so they no longer cause trouble at the park,” the charity’s chief executive Gerrie Holterman told the AFP news agency.


More: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/amsterdam-employs-alcoholics-as-street-cleaners-and-pays-them-in-beer-8951403.html

Hey thats a good idea Max, wonder if Hays will be taking up the offer.

lol :-)

sticky - i refuse to get dragged into the usual soapbox nonsense that pervades this thread like japanese knotweed, but your comment in response to mine is nonsense ..... peeps debts almost certainly are heavier now that they were say 5 years ago, or even 2 years ago, but as the economy picks up, so in time will living standards .... de facto, indebtedness will reduce over all ..... a better indicator would be the volume and trend of mortgage defaulters and similar

Watch out the Oracle has spoken!

Cyners........TIT.........the item includes the trend of mortgage defaulters and similar including credit cards.

sticky old bean, there'll be such a swamp of other tripe since your thingy of yesterday, you'll need to re-post it here

You mean in code......." I cant be arsed to find it"

the following is the best i could find so far, though i acknowledge the info is from november last year ....

The number of homes being repossessed has fallen to a five-year low, according to mortgage lenders.
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said there were 8,200 repossessions in the third quarter of 2012, the lowest quarterly number since 2007.
The number of borrowers in arrears was stable, at 159,100.
Repossessions have fallen steadily in recent years, due to low interest rates and lenders showing restraint with borrowers in difficulty.
The figure for the three months from July to September was down from 8,500 in the second quarter of this year, and lower than the 9,600 repossessions recorded in the same period a year ago.