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.

le manoir its ok if you have a good meal before hand or you leave be hungry going home

what absolute rubbish!
we had the 5-course tasting menu, and it was more than enough, and neither of us are what you might call reticent eaters
actually, we could also have added a cheese course (absolutely unneeded) from what looked like a very well-balanced and well-kept selection

Jimbo,

Yes, Florida. We only stayed there a couple of nights as we were traveling down the Gulf coast a few years ago, and weren't overly impressed from what I can remember.

A man boarded an aircraft at Heathrow Airport for New York , and taking his seat as he settled in, he noticed a very beautiful woman boarding the plane.

He realised she was heading straight toward his seat and bingo - she took the seat right beside him.

"Hello", he blurted out, "Business trip or vacation?"

She turned, smiled enchantingly and said, "Business. I'm going to the annual nymphomaniac convention in the United States ."

He swallowed hard. Here was the most gorgeous woman he had ever seen sitting next to him, and she was going to a meeting for nymphomaniacs!

Struggling to maintain his composure, he calmly asked, "What's your business role at this convention?"

"Lecturer," she responded,” I use my experience to debunk some of the popular myths about sexuality."

"Really", he smiled, "what myths are those?"

"Well," she explained, "one popular myth is that African-American men are the most well endowed when, in fact, it's the Native American Indian who is most likely to possess that trait.

Another popular myth is that French men are the best lovers, when actually it is the men of Greek descent.

We have also found that the best potential lovers in all categories are the Irish."

Suddenly the woman became uncomfortable and blushed. "I'm sorry," she said. "I really shouldn't be discussing this with you; I don't even know your name!"

"Tonto," the man said. "Tonto Papadopoulos, but my friends call me Paddy."

will be in the old radison twin towers hotel by universal now called .
double tree and now up for sale again
in 3 weeks and just up the road is a great restaurant and very good food

hilary ,Naples is a lovely town if you spent time there , the Gulf coast the best ,i am not keen on the Miami side .

Jimbo,

Don't get me wrong, I love the Gulf coast including Sanibel Island - it was just the place we stayed at in Sanibel that I wasn't so struck with.

We have friends in Clearwater, so we stayed with them for a couple of days then headed down the Gulf coast as far as Naples, cut across to Miami, and then down to the keys where we chartered a yacht for a few days. We honeymooned in Key West, so it was good to go back down memory lane.

I know what you mean about the Atlantic coast though. I spent a Christmas and new year in Fort Lauderdale and I was a bit taken aback by it.

Looks like an Old Etonian party!



Where is Boris?

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http://www.millionairesblueprint.co/promo-offer/?clickID=1739721690&aff=clkbt3cpl&c=IL&aff_id=4926

Looks like a scam.

They give away a free trading robot in return for you opening a binary options account via their referrer link. You trade, and they earn a commission on all of your trades, regardless of whether you win or lose. The more you trade, the more commission they earn. Simples, innit?

They're also building up a mailing list (although they didn't use a DNS resolver, and quite happily accepted my email address of crap@crap.com), so once folks have lost all their hard-earned and tire of this current heap of junk, they can email you with a *special offer* for another heap of junk.

So Alders, why does the link you posted contain a query string with an affiliate id?

I can probably answer that.

JEREMY CORBYN
you may well not agree with his politics, but he does speak very well indeed

that is an great deal more than could be said for liz kendall who had quite a long slot on yesterday evening's news, and was clearly the lightest of lightweights

ExecLine

What do you think it is ?

Michael Foot was one of the best speakers but managed to almost kill the Labour party.

corbyn presents an awful lot better than michael foot, not that that is saying much

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11762773/Ive-lived-under-Jeremy-Corbyns-rule-it-turned-me-into-a-Tory.html

How Arctic ice has made fools of all those poor warmists

The belief that the ice was vanishing has been for the warmists the ultimate poster-child for their cause

Two events last week brought yet further twists to one of the longest-running farces of our modern world. One was the revelation by the European Space Agency that in 2013 and 2014, after years when the volume of Arctic ice had been diminishing, it increased again by as much as 33 per cent. The other was that Canadian scientists studying the effect of climate change on Arctic ice from an icebreaker had to suspend their research, when their vessel was called to the aid of other ships trapped in the thickest summer ice seen in Hudson Bay for 20 years.

For more than a decade now, the belief that, thanks to global warming, Arctic ice was vanishing has been for the warmists the ultimate poster-child for their cause (along with those “vanishing” polar bears). In 2007, with the aid of scientists such as Wieslaw Maslowski and Peter Wadhams, the BBC and others were telling us that the Arctic would be totally “ice free by 2013” (the Independent even cleared its front page to announce that the ice could all have disappeared within weeks).

By 2011, the BBC’s science editor Richard Black was telling us that the ice would “probably be gone within this decade”. In 2012, his colleague Roger Harrabin was reporting that the sea ice was now melting so fast that more had vanished that summer than “at any time since satellite records began”.

So taken in had others been by all these dire predictions, that in 2008 the activist Gordon Lewis Pugh, after speaking at a conference alongside

Al Gore, set out to paddle a kayak to the North Pole – only to have to abort his trip after a few days because “the ice was too thick”. In 2009, the three-man Caitlin expedition, sponsored by a “climate risk” insurance company, and backed by the BBC and the Prince of Wales, set out to walk to the North Pole. Their intention was to measure the thickness of the vanishing ice with an electronic instrument, but it froze so hard that they had to resort to a tape measure. Again, after a few weeks, they had to be airlifted back to a rescue ship because the constantly shifting ice was “too thick”.

In December 2013, the world followed agog the plight of yet another “scientific expedition”, when 52 climate activists, accompanied by reporters from the BBC and the Guardian, sailed into the Antarctic to measure the effects of global warming on its sea-ice. By Christmas their ship was so dangerously trapped by thick, multi-year ice that they had to be helicoptered to a Chinese ship 10 miles away, which itself then got so trapped in ice that they had to be airlifted again to two other ships even further away.

What made all this particularly absurd was that, despite being led by an Australian scientist, they were so taken in by the make-believe that they seemed quite oblivious to the satellite records showing that Antarctic sea-ice had long been expanding to such record levels that these more than matched any decline in the Arctic ice at the other end of the world. But wasn’t the whole point of this warming that it was meant to be “global”?

Of course, the reason why they have all wanted the ice at the poles to melt, not least on the land in Antarctica and Greenland, is that this would bring about their ultimate scare scenario: those sea levels rising by as much as 20 feet, which, as Al Gore showed in his Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth, would flood New York, Shanghai and many of the world’s most populous cities.

But, alas, it just isn’t happening. In recent years there has been more polar ice in the world than at any time since satellite records began in 1979. In the very year they had forecast that the Arctic would be “ice free”, its thickness increased by a third. Polar bear numbers are rising, not falling. Temperatures in Greenland have shown no increase for decades.

The greatest scare story of all simply isn’t turning out as their computer models predicted. And no one has been more dangerously taken in by this silly scare story than the warmists themselves.