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.

I like bears!

Cheers Fred.

Bin having a look at IG for oil prices.

http://www.ig.com/uk/ig-commodities/brent-crude


It looks like an excellent way of losing your shirt in a very short space of time.

Who needs dodgy smallcaps?

Doc,

I am a fan of Strictly, but I didn't know Ola Jordan had injured herself. Apparently she was practicing on a dry ski slope for 'The Jump'.

Looking at the leg brace, it certainly suggests a knee ligament injury, and there also seems to be some kind of dressing under her leggings in front of the knee itself. I'm not sure why they'd need to dress the knee unless the skin had been punctured, either during the fall itself or in surgery??

I don't know when she injured herself, but I think they need to wait until the swelling goes down before they can run the MRI scan. That in itself can take a week or two, and, if you've ever wondered why football clubs are cagey about releasing information about player knee injuries, it's because they can't run the scan to find the full extent of the injury before the swelling subsides. That aside, an experienced physician doesn't need an MRI scan to tell you if an ACL is snapped - they can simply hold the lower leg below the knee and move it about freely.

Assuming it is ACL, and if she's had reconstruction surgery already, she'll be out for 6 to 9 months. The rehab is seriously hard work, but she's fit, so I'd guess closer to 6 months than to 9.

Hi Hils,

bet your loving the weather over there.

Really shiity here.

You jammy so and so.

Are you actually trading as much as you would do here??????????????.

Or do you just close down and enjoy.

Very interesting list of the various non majority scenarios.

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/12/15/tricky-politics-hung-parliaments/

Fishfinger,

It's still very early in the season, and I don't think the links between the villages will open until next weekend. And, even once everything does open up, I'm not out there every day - some weeks, I'll be lucky to get out in the snow just a couple of afternoons. And then we have corporate guests staying a couple of weekends, which is a real pain. I normally get so p!ssed off with them that I 'accidentally' guide them to the top of the Wall and wait for them to wimp out and ask to take the lift back down.

And the trading? I don't do a great deal of manual trading nowadays. It's a bit boring, and I mainly use robots to do it for me. I just keep a login open into the VPN so I know what's going on.

ROBORTS............HAYS you mean.

Wondered why he wasnt posting as much as normal.

Anyway Im rather shocked that u arent getting stuck in as much as you used to do.

I have enough dosh to call it a day now easily, but I still love getting up every morning at 7am, ready for the day.

Without the Stock Market id be lost, genuinely I would be lost, OK I have other business interests, but without daily trading, that would be the end for me.

In fact if you check my posts youl find me posting at 2 or 3 in the morning.

I just love it, cant help it.

Anyway lass, enjoy your holiday/break and keep posting about what your doing every day, its certainly something I enjoy.

Cheers Hills.

The benefits cap seems to be working. DWP have said that people subject to the benefits cap are 41% more likely to find a job than people who were unaffected. Who would have thought it!

You are as brass necked as IDS.

Examine the figures more carefully.

Thanks, Hils.

Enjoy these drawings (can't think what they remind me of)..... ;-)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30474521

Labour MPs told not to focus on immigration when campaigning

A leaked Labour document - which has been sent to some of the party's MPs and activists - says they should "move the conversation" away from immigration when they are talking to the public.

It says campaigners should listen to and understand public concerns but focus on "stronger" issues for Labour.

Not surprising that Labour want to avoid conversations about immigration as they caused the problem.

Hays................. i agree 100% well said.

Just been watching Con and Lib Mps on Daily Politics,

Jesus they could be Doppelgängers for Haze and Napoleon.

Partially in denial and repetitions of mantras and hand downs from party central office.

They are not listening to the public.

Out of contact with reality!

.

And millipeed is in touch??


LOL !

NHS litigation claims double under coalition

Scale of clinical negligence claims is now unprecedented prompting claims that reorganisation has harmed patient care



Daniel Boffey, policy editor


The Observer, Saturday 13 December 2014 14.34 GMT


The number of litigation claims made against the NHS in a year has almost doubled under the coalition, prompting claims that the service is failing to deal with growing demands on its limited resources.

The scale of the clinical negligence claims is unprecedented, with 11,945 cases reported by NHS trusts over the last financial year compared with 6,562 in 2009-10.

Such are the costs of dealing with the legal actions that the NHS has increased the amount of money it retains to deal with claims, up from £8.7bn in the first year of the coalition government to £15.6bn in 2013-14 – adding to the financial stresses within the service.

The analysis, based on figures published annually by the NHS Litigation Authority, comes as NHS England revealed that 35,373 patients waited more than four hours for treatment in the first week of December. That number was 66% higher than the same period last year. Meanwhile 7,760 people were kept on a trolley for between four and 12 hours before a ward bed was found – up from 3,666.

Amid a barrage of criticism on Friday, Dame Barbara Hakin, the national director of commissioning operations for NHS England, was forced to admit in interviews that the NHS was “under a huge amount of pressure”. “We are seeing far more patients than we ever have before,” she said. The Department of Health has insisted that the NHS was well prepared for winter and that an injection of £700m would pay for extra nurses, doctors and beds this winter.

Labour said, however, that the figures on litigation should act as a warning.

The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, had previously admitted that a high number of litigation claims was a good indicator of poor care in the system. In a speech given at Birmingham Children’s Hospital in October, Hunt said standards in safety and quality of care must improve to reduce avoidable costs.



More:http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/13/nhs-litigation-claims-double-under-coalition