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.

even such a slow developer as taylor's '63 will not benefit from further cellaring
the next memorable earlier vintage was '55 and i'm quite sure fred won't have any of that, though no doubt the ob clubs, guilds and oxbridge colleges almost certainly will

I am glad your are that sure.

I played with a tennis partner who was a Taylor's rep back in 60s, but also provided me with Crofts and Cockburn's advice and access.

Long departed, like some of his port!

Fred you got a girl in every Port , or a Port in every girl , Hello Sailor .

My mum told me that I shouldn't talk to girls.

Sometimes, I wish I had listened to her.

absolutely sure .... i still have some croft's '63 and also other ports/vintages '66, '67, '70, '85

far far too much indeed, but it's out of fashion so shall not sell in auction
drink a little myself and also sell some at a very fair price to the golf club on sor basis

Give it up Dave, you have no chance!




Germany and France agree closer eurozone ties without treaty change

Proposals to be presented at EU summit in June will come as a blow to David Cameron who will table British pre-referendum demands at same meeting


Ian Traynor in Brussels and Frances Perraudin in London

Monday 25 May 2015 18.55 BST



Angela Merkel and François Hollande shake hands in Berlin. Photograph: Imago/Barcroft Media


Ian Traynor in Brussels and Frances Perraudin in London

Monday 25 May 2015 18.55 BST Last modified on Monday 25 May 2015 19.35 BST



Germany and France have forged a pact to integrate the eurozone without reopening the EU’s treaties, in a blow to David Cameron’s referendum campaign.

Sidestepping Britain’s demands to renegotiate the Lisbon treaty and Britain’s place in the EU, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the French president, François Hollande, have sealed an agreement aimed at fashioning a tighter political union among the single-currency countries while operating within the confines of the existing treaty.






The Franco-German policy proposal, said Le Monde, “shows that French and German leaders do not have much in common with David Cameron”



more: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/25/germany-france-eurozone-integration-no-lisbon-treaty-change-david-cameron

lets have the vote and get us out of the stinking rotten corrupt eu
it is no benefit to the working classes it has destroyed wages destroyed the services
and made the rich richer .
the only thing it as done is fcuk up hospitals schools filled the prisons
get the scum out of the uk Poland released all their prisoners if they left the country
and if they did not would be sent back to prison . facts

American and eu companies pay hardly any taxes in the uk they fiddle al their profits
its time to act and tell them pay your taxes or leave .
uk companies are now protesting to gov over a level playing field .
teco
mrw
sbry
m/s
waitrose
johnlewis
and many more are being hit because foreign companies pay very little taxes

the directors of all foreign companies pay no taxes in the uk
and most of their managers pay no taxes
close them down or pay your taxes

Please give me something I can bribe my party F, sorry neos with!

Is Hollande a puppet on a string , he looks a bit like one in that photo .

Could say that of Dodgy Dave on the strings of Con party Euro-septics!

What will he do to stay in "power"?

With a joke as opposition, not a lot!

Chuk backs Liz for numero uno


http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2015/may/26/queens-speech-cameron-juncker-politics-live

Liz Kendall will upset the unions. She is a Blairite. She is in the mold of Brown. There are stories of her throwing mobile phones at people and having temper tantrums and phone rage.

I like Burnham as he looks to be unelectable. The unions back him, although they have threatened to withdraw support if his policies don't oppose all cuts. That is unlikely as all parties have accepted cuts are still needed. Even Miliband admitted as much.

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Was mold a Freudian slip, Haystack? :o)