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.

why beds for those of 70+?
a cardboard box in a shed in the carpark will suffice

This threads getting very depressing , no wonder Fred's gone barmy .

Jimmy the UN STARTED IT , is that a first .

Time to top up with shares in Dignity (DTY)
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Here a nice picture to cheer you all up , some of what's great about Britain .....

there was another great pic on the net yesterday where a pigeon had photobombed (or it was faked) a red arrows formation, "taking out" the wingman with the vapour trail seemingly coming from the pigeon

quite so jimmy .... fun isn't it

Great picture , i couldn't post it any smaller .

Jimmy,

In your post, where it says:

<img src="http://img.thesun.co.uk/aidemitlum/archive/02357/01_27154417_ca97c9_2357529a.jpg" alt="" />

You can control the image size by editing it, like this:

<img width="300" src="http://img.thesun.co.uk/aidemitlum/archive/02357/01_27154417_ca97c9_2357529a.jpg" alt="" />

You'll then see this. It's now 300px wide.

Thanks hilary as you can see i don't have a masters in computer science .

seems you have a mistress instead

I didn't know how to do it either, thanks hilly :-)


Not sure why the height got changed as well, but who cares?

You're welcome, boys.

You can enter either width or height attributes within the img tag, and your browser will automagically calculate the other. You can enter both attributes if you wish, but, if you don't do the sums right, you run the risk of skewing the aspect ratio and distorting the image.

Good to see Wavy Dave going cap in hand to Angie asking to help in solving his problems at home.

What a creep.

Also, see he is going house to house around Europe, not sure if his passport is order, or if he has to kneel in order to be let in.

Also, I hope he has medical insurance, just he has the fortune to have a heart attack.

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Good to see Wavy Dave going cap in hand to Angie asking to help in solving his problems at home.

What a creep.

Also, see he is going house to house around Europe, not sure if his passport is order, or if he has to kneel in order to be let in.

Also, I hope he has medical insurance, just he has the fortune to have a heart attack.

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Angela Merkel: David Cameron's demands for EU reform 'not impossible'

Germany Chancellor meets with the Prime Minister to discuss EU reform but Polish counterpart says he 'won't get far'




By Matthew Holehouse, Political Correspondent, in Berlin

12:56PM BST 29 May 2015

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Angela Merkel has handed David Cameron’s bid to reform the EU a major boost, saying that treaty change is not “impossible” and that the rules on migrants’ access to benefits can be reformed.


Following talks with Mr Cameron in Berlin, the German Chancellor said that European leaders “cannot say that treaty change is total impossibility”.



The Prime Minister is demanding major changes to Britain’s relationship with Brussels before the in-out referendum he has promised to hold by the end of 2017.


At the centre of the plan is a pledge to ban EU migrants from claiming in-work benefits for four years, in the hope that remove the state subsidy for low-paid work cuts migration.

He insists full treaty change is needed to secure the reforms – opposed by many other leaders, in part because it could trigger a round of referendums in other states to ratify it.

The remarks were a positive end to Mr Cameron’s rocky two-day tour of Europe to sell his reform package, which took in four capitals and three servings of strawberries. He wants to speak to every EU leader before a summit in Brussels next month.


They came hours after Poland rejected Mr Cameron’s benefit plans as a “definite no”.

However, Germany wants to make it harder for migrants to claim from its own system, and Mrs Merkel said she is closely watching rulings from the European Court of Justice, the EU’s referee.

She said European leaders must look carefully at Mr Cameron’s demands before ruling out treaty change.

“Where there's a will, there's a way,” she said.

"I will go into these discussions constructively. I want to find a solution.”


“Of course, when you are convinced of an idea you cannot say that treaty change is a total impossibility.”

She said that the EU is “not a social union” and the level of benefits “vary starkly”. “We have strike a fair balance with social benefits,” she said.

Mr Cameron said he was “very heartened” by her remarks.


He said that Europe needs “the flexibility of a network, not the rigidity of a bloc”, and said his counterparts must not be “frightened” of a looser arrangement.

Mrs Merkel recognised Mr Cameron’s election victory by rolling out the red carpet. He was greeted at the Federal Chancellery by an honour guard comprising of a marching band, which played the British and German national anthems, and a large detachment of sailors.


Earlier in the morning, Poland’s Prime Minister told Mr Cameron she would fight his benefit plans. They have caused outrage among politicians who vow to defend the “rights” of their expatriates, many of whom send their earnings back home

Over a breakfast of smoked trout and strawberry salad at the Palace on the Water in Warsaw, Ewa Kopacz told Mr Cameron she is “strongly opposed measures that may lead to discrimination against Poles and other EU citizens seeking legal employment in the UK.”

“She defended one of the fundamental rights on which the EU common market is based,” he office said.

Mr Cameron reassured Mrs Kopacz he was “committed to respect the principle of free movement”, a No 10 spokesman said.

“They agreed that there were issues concerning the interaction between free movement and national welfare systems that should be discussed further."


The news served by Francois Hollande the previous evening alongside lobster and turbot had been no more appetising, according to those present.

A French source at the Elysee Palace dinner said Mr Cameron’s welfare plans would be difficult for many EU countries to accept.

A No 10 source acknowledged the difficulty of the meeting, saying there will be "a lot to work through but there was a clear willingness to talk further".

George Osborne, the Chancellor, dismissed the protests from some capitals as bluster.

"Whatever public positions you hear people in Europe take, what I detect is a real willingness now to negotiate,” he said.

Mr Hollande made a point of telling reporters that Mr Cameron had only shared “some” of his reform ideas, and he expected to hear more in due course.

The tour was begun with a lunch of lemon sole with Mark Rutte, the Dutch Prime Minister, on Thursday. Mr Cameron hailed the Netherlands as an “old friend” and a “like-minded ally”.

Merkel doesn't want us to leave the EU and looks like being helpful in getting the changes we want.

LOL!