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.

This Woman Lives Every Day Like It’s 1939 - And Is Looking For Love

For the last decade, Joanne Frances has been living life as if the Second World War has just broken out.  

The 41-year-old has eschewed modern life and technology in favour an authentic wartime existence.

She no computer, washing machine, television or car – instead cycling to work on an 80-year-old pedal bike.

Living most days in an authentic Land Girl’s uniform, she sometimes spends the evening in an air-raid shelter she built in the garden.

The woman, who works as a cleaner, has committed to the austere life of the 1940s – having ditched central heating for coal fires and using an outside toilet.

Joanne has built an air-raid shelter in her garden.

She even once attempted to live off the equivalent of rations.

But one thing is missing from her life – a wartime husband.

“I would like to meet someone,” she said. “I’ve had few boyfriends, but I know I’m a bit of a novelty and once that novelty wears off, well, most people find me quite hard to live with.

"But I haven’t entirely given up hope – I mean, I still like to think that I am a pretty good catch.

"I would have their tea on their table when they came home from work, I’d do their washing and ironing. In fact, I’d take care of everything.

"The only problem is that most people who want that kind of housewife are either in their 90s or dead. Joanne wants to be a wartime wife. "I might just have to accept that I was born just a few decades too late. But until then I will keep on looking.”

Joanne, who lives in the pretty village of Burton-upon-Stather in North Lincolnshire, said the lifestyle began in earnest a decade ago.  

“Every morning I come downstairs and empty my chamber pot in the loo outside. People think it’s a hardship but it’s not – you get used to it,” she said.

“I think the neighbours realised I was serious when I ripped out the kitchen and bathroom as soon as I moved in.

"The units were just too modern. Besides, I wouldn’t have had a bathroom in 1939 and I definitely wouldn’t have had a Jacuzzi bath.”

Her obsession with wartime memorabilia started at a young age.

“I’ve got bloomers the size of barrage balloons too,” she added. “I look like I’ve stepped off the set of Upstairs Downstairs.

"People tend to be much more civil to me when I’m dressed like this and I honestly think it makes me a better cleaner.”

She said that she has always been attracted to the period. "I remember walking into museums and thinking: ‘It feels like I’ve come home’,” she said.

Joanne cycles to work on an 80-year-old bike. “I began collecting bits of pieces of memorabilia from quite an early age, but it was only when I moved in here 10 years ago that I guess it became a full-time lifestyle.

"I still have a good social life and enjoy a beer or a glass of whiskey,” she told website 'Survivor 79. It’s not always been an easy lifestyle to adapt to, she admits. “One year I did try to live off the equivalent of rations, but that was a step too far even for me,” she said.

I know the perfect man for her

Jeremy Corbyn!

my staff all get paid considerably more than £8 or even £10 ph!

cynic and pension benefits how many do you employ
are they full time or just evening workers

cynic give me the name of your restaurant and I will bring you 4 clients

it's no longer a restaurant i'm afraid
it was a wine bar or brasserie or creperie for 40 years, but when my last (excellent) tenant decided not to continue, i couldn't find a taker with even half-way decent covenants ..... best bet would prob have been a russkie who approached me!

with greatest regret, ground floor and basement were then let to an A1 estate agent and the upper floors were converted to a seriously nice 3 bed + 2 bath appt which is now let to corporate clients

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my staff are very well looked after, and can even work flexi-hours when suits

Hays that's the girl for me .

cynic thanks we are off to the toby just out side Banbury tonight
just off junction 11 its very good spotless

good grief .... that chain is surely as crappy as chef+brewer or harvester ...... yuk! but if that's what you like, then good luck to you


me and my 2 sons are off to Barshu in Frith Street which is meant to be ace Szechuan
it'll sure make the tastebuds tingle

jimmy

She would be a cheap date.

EU referendum: Cameron says only project he's interested in is 'Project Fact' as Boris Johnson calls it 'baloney'

The Prime Minister has denied the "in" campaign has launched "Project Fear" to fight a negative battle over the polls



By Laura Hughes, Political Correspondent

5:45PM GMT 29 Feb 2016



Boris and Cameron at war over 'Project Fact'


Cameron says only project he's interested in is 'Project Fact', but Boris Johnson calls it 'baloney'

Asked about claims the "in" campaign had launched "Project Fear" to fight a negative battle over the polls, David Cameron denied the accusation and said he was only interested in 'Project Fact.'

He told an audience in Ipswich today: "Project Fact is about saying stay and you know what you get. Leave, and you're taking a gamble with people's lives".

He added: "This is not about raising concerns and worries which aren't there - they are real concerns and worries based on fact."

But Boris Johnson described project Fact as "baloney".

He told LBC: "There is an attempt going on to scare people into staying with the status quo, when I think the real risk is that we will simply remain in a system that is less and less suitable to our needs and its time for the UK to have the courage to strike a new series of views.

Asked if he believed the facts supported him, he replied: " I do."



More:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/eureferendum/12177363/EU-referendum-Eurosceptic-ministers-reject-claim-Brexit-would-prompt-decade-of-uncertainty-as-pro-EU-camp-accused-of-instigating-Project-Fear-live.html

Hays , you would just have to buy her some nylons and an orange .

Merkel not popular any more in Europe ..

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/648644/EU-migrant-crisis-leaders-bicker-refugee-violence-Calais-Jungle-Greece-Merkel-Austria

British tourists could be left stranded abroad if voters choose to quit the EU, ministers warned today.

An official government report setting out the process of how Britain would leave the EU also predicted a decade of economic chaos if voters backed Brexit as the country would have to negotiate complex new trading relationships with Brussels.

Oh dear and the bogey man might come in the night if you don't eat your porridge.

To think that we actually pay people to produce such crap. Brussels wont last a decade in its present form if we quit.

you're right ..... it's total crap
what is worrying, is that someone actually allowed that to be broadcast

Desperate Dave I expect

EU threatening us again , read the link above it looks like a lot of Europe has had enough of Merkel .

The migrant crisis continued to unravel after Hungary announced its own plans to build a huge border fence on the frontier with Romania which will effectively seal off northern Europe from the Balkans.

No-nonsense Prime Minister Viktor Orban ignored pleas from Brussels to drop his radical plans to reduce migration, insisting he was acting as a defender of Christian Europe.

He said: "We will teach Brussels, the human traffickers and the migrants that Hungary is sovereign country.

"We cannot solve the demographic problems of the undeniably dwindling and ageing European population with the Muslim world without losing our lifestyle, security and ourselves. Those coming here have no intention of adapting to our lifestyle."

Unbelievable ,Merkel has no plan B but says closing borders is not the answer .

http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/648702/There-is-no-plan-B-Angela-Merkel-German-admits-no-back-up-to-deepening-migrant-crisis-EU

''Those coming here have no intention of adapting to our lifestyle."

As we well know from those already settled here and continuing with Sharia Law, not the Law of the Land.
2517

More sexual assaults in Europe's swimming pools , i suppose its easy pickings for these animals.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/648743/14-year-old-boy-migrant-arrested-rape-swimming-pool