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.

EURO
this time or a little later last year i was rubbingf my hands that £/€ was 1.20 or even 1.25 .,.... this morning it is 1.40
shall i buy my hol money now? .... not sure

Just 50% cynic....not bad 1.4.....if it slips back to 1.38 change the other 50%...might go higher but more bad Greece news needed....

Does it matter?

Whats a few quid one way or the other?

1.2 to 1.4 is a lot...in percentage terms...new cars might be cheaper abroad now....by the way : check out AFC energy.....

A major purchase ie: property, super yacht etc.

Yes, well worth the effort, but for holiday walking around money...use credit card.

When the chicken comes out!

max - when on holiday, i nearly always use cash ..... in any case, i do not have a personal credit card of any kind
for biz i have one charge card and one credit card

Without plastic, how do you get by c?

last night we had a club meeting and we have finally decide we must keep
the lunatics out of power ed is a nutter anti business anti workers
so we are all going to vote conservative we would love to vote ukip
but we must keep the nutter out at all costs

One for Fred (nicked from across the road)

max - very easily ..... i use one of my biz cards in restaurants and hotels or for other "heavy" bills, and then settle with the company each month ..... quite often, i'll use my direct debit card

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oh MrT, you really do brighten my day and make me chuckle sometimes :-)

cynic the labour party is a party for the idle and against the working person trying to get on . they would destroy the will to both to work to make their lives better it would be pointless under a lab gov

you don't need to convince me not to vote for wallace, nor even fred, for he won't vote at all :-)

my wife was interesting this morning ..... she reckons she'll turn off as soon as we start getting the pre-election mud-slinging and propaganda ...... she'll vote for sure (as will my children), but i think the general public finds all this electioneering a meaningless bore and i fear a low turn-out

Max,

The same as has been said of "here to-day gone to-morrow tub-thumpers".

Being able to point out the problems and getting others to shout with you doesn't solve problems.

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This election so far has been a poorly managed PR event.

I suppose you have to spend £50 million of ill-got gains somehow or other!

Must have filled a few back pockets!

fred - i trust that is a non-partisan x-party comment

Of course!

I was to young to be a partisan.

Terrorist is a different matter.

so you're more like aged parmesan then? :-)

Not quite as hard!

the good stuff is quite crumbly and good with a decent red wine - rather like you i'ld have thought

If you mean crumbling, at this moment in time you are quite right, but many a good dish contains crumbs.