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.

What about it?


Or are you referring to the chicken hawks that hide within it?

If so, same answer.

It's Siracusa, Sicily, and Walter is a labrador who loves to swim in the sea.

Run Walter! Run!

I used to have a Labrador cross Spaniel and she loved wallowing in muddy puddles.

Max, I was referring to all the sexual abuse within the Catholic church which has been swept under the carpet for many years.

But if you know your betters, you shouldn't inquire!

Or you should be in control of the inquiry.


UMUMUMUM.

why aren't any of you saddos cooking up something special for dinner tonight?

Why bark when you own a dog cynic?! What are you cooking up?

I am cooking a chicken pie. Chicken, mushrooms, shallots, celery, stock, white wine, parsley, tarragon, red pepper, baby carrots, creme fraiche, a few other bits and bobs under puff pastry and veg.

Impressive Haystack, it sounds lovely. I always think shallots give casseroles or pies a better flavour than bog standard onions.

some magnificent turbot - supremely fresh, line caught and cut from a fish weighing about 2.25kg + sauce viege
a very nice bottle of 2009 corton charlemagne to accompany

yummy, yummy .... but nearly ready so must adjourn

I forgot. I also used Marsala wine. It goes very well with mushroom type sauces.

It is in the oven now.

I do like turbot.

Waiting for the potatoes to boil for the mash. I add lots of nutmeg and grated parmesan.

And a bottle of Gavi di Gavi.

I do the French beans the way I had them years ago in Mon Plaisir in Monmouth St. I can't eat French beans any other way now.

Boil the French beans in the normal way. Drain them. Crush some garlic. Put the garlic in the saucepan with the beans with a knob of butter. It is the only way to eat French beans.

I'm very envious, my cooking skills are basic. Food seems to take so long to shop for, spend time in the kitchen producing and fussing over!

Noo Labour have big problems....read the comments.

OOPS!

Another fine mess

The fashion retailer Whistles has launched an investigation after a report claimed T-shirts made for a pro-feminism campaign were manufactured in "sweatshop" conditions.

The Mail on Sunday reported the shirts - which carry the slogan "This is what a feminist looks like" - were made at a factory in Mauritius where machinists earn 62p per hour

http://news.sky.com/story/1365104/whistles-investigates-feminist-t-shirt-claims

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2817191/62p-HOUR-s-women-sleeping-16-room-paid-make-Ed-Harriet-s-45-Feminist-Looks-Like-T-shirts.html

62p AN HOUR: What women sleeping 16 to a room get paid to make Ed and Harriet's £45 'This Is What A Feminist Looks Like' T-shirts

Feminist T-shirts worn by politicians are made in 'sweatshop' conditions

Migrant women in Mauritius are making the £45 tops for 62p an hour

They say: 'We don't feel like feminists. We don't feel equal. We feel trapped'

Machinists sleep 16 to a room and earn less than average wage on island

T-shirt is sold in Whistles in aid of activism group The Fawcett Society

Deputy chief executive of the charity Dr Neitzert said they had originally been assured the garments would be produced ethically in the UK

When they received samples they noted they had been made in Mauritius

She added that if evidence emerges Whistles will have to withdraw range

Harriet Harman wore shirt on front bench of the Commons during PMQs



Workers earn just 6,000 rupees a month – equivalent to £120.

The figure is just a quarter of the country’s average monthly wage, and around half of what a waiter earns. Each ‘feminist’ T-shirt costs just £9 to make, but high street chain Whistles sells them for £45 each – a figure it would take the women a week and a half to earn.

£9 quid my ass, if it cost £2 it would be a lot, the other £7 is probably a bung.

Has, Haze has had his instruction from CHQ and the Mail or does is he journalist for the fish and chip paper.

Or is diverting attention from the Home Office and Cameron's failures over the inquiry..

Can't even get their own chairman.

Good one Fred...no sign of cleggy in that one...perhaps he has disappeared up his own

Notice he hasn't shown Lordy Ashcroft's pol results to-day

Survation poll in Rochester has UKIP lead growing to 15 points

The Kent Messenger are now reporting the voting intention figures from the Survation/Unite Rochester & Strood poll. Topline figures with changes from the previous Survation Rochester poll right after Mark Reckless’s defection are CON 33%(+2), LAB 16%(-9), LDEM 1%(-1), UKIP 48%(+8), GRN 2%.
As with the ComRes poll a week ago it shows UKIP with a solid lead. While there will always be some underlying churn, the obvious implication of the changes since the start of October is that the Labour vote has been significantly squeezed, and is breaking heavily in UKIP’s favour.


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Labour majortity 12 seats at G/E


In spite of Party CHQ dirty squad's smearing!