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.

More evidence... think you have had too many -):

http://whatpub.com/pubs/BAT/202/tucker-s-grave-faulkland

Happy Xmas to Cameron and Osborne.

"UK economic growth revised down


"The UK economy has grown more slowly in the past year than previously thought, official figures indicate.

Revised figures show gross domestic product (GDP) in the third quarter of this year was 2.6% higher than in the same period in 2013, down from an earlier estimate of 3%.

Also, the UK's current account deficit widened in the third quarter to £27bn.

That put the difference between the country's export and import of goods and services at a record 6% of GDP.

David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce, said: "The stark revision in annual growth confirms that the pace of recovery is slowing."

"The most concerning aspect of these figures is that the current deficit has risen to an unsustainably high level.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30585678"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2884453/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-David-Miliband-faces-new-torture-questions.html

Secret papers, unearthed by the Mail, today reveal how David Miliband and the Labour government wanted to strike a squalid deal in 2007 to send Guantanamo Bay resident Shaker Aamer, a Londoner, to Saudi Arabia.

In public, the Foreign Office assured Mr Aamer’s British wife and four children that Mr Miliband was lobbying for him to be returned to the UK from the world’s most notorious prison camp.

In fact, it seems ministers and officials were duplicitously plotting with the US and Saudis to have him sent to the hard-line kingdom instead – where, as a Saudi-born terror suspect who had committed the criminal offence of marrying a foreign woman without permission, he would almost inevitably have been imprisoned.

According to Mr Aamer’s lawyers, the reason for the Foreign Office wanting him stuck in a Saudi jail, rather than a free man in the UK, was brutally simple: to prevent him ever talking openly about his own torture by the US and, crucially, his claims that a British agent witnessed the torture of another detainee.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2884455/Anger-human-rights-charity-backers-Concern-grows-David-Miliband-s-suitability-role-given-record-hushing-torture.htm

Anger of his US human rights charity backers: Concern grows over David Miliband's suitability for role given record in hushing up torture

Hays Hays Hays Hays Hays Hays Hays Hays, oh forgotten what I was going to point out.

Hays Hays Hays Hays Hays Hays........ditto.

Have another pint of Baileys

Hays hays Hays Hays Hays Hays Hays Hays.................

was just going to wish YOU a Merry christmas and A Happy new Year.

Where is everyone????

Hiding!

On the piss.

happy Xmas Haze.

getting myself prepped to take a number of us on a good pub walk
it's only a couple of miles or so, but there's about 600 yards that is uphill at about 25% across the fields

half way round there's a truly delightful little church to visit with existing parts dating back to saxon times

And the message from Con party Central Office

Good one Fred.

as usual, can't be arsed with your stuff fred, but nevertheless enjoy yourself with your family
perhaps go mad and splash out more than £10 on a few bottles of something respectable to drink

Don't be such a pooper c, that McVey effort is good stuff :-)

i never read fred's political stuff; it's all so predictable ..... as of course is sticky's, stan's and hays's

Typical Red Fred (Welsh Txxt) Christmas Eve and still banging the drum for the Loony Left :0)

Alf can read now?... that's progression then -):