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.

Lets get out and give it a spin. Yes a bit turbulent at first but we will soon recover. OUT, OUT OUT. :-))

Shake it all about!

8-)

Is Fred doing a Cameron ! i think so ,he's so confused right now he doesn't know who to go along with ,probably started drinking early . Wes me speling alriht Freda ?

Freda's not a lot different to Dave really , as he's now using scare tactics to make a case .

The sister of a Birmingham pub bomb victim has demanded the “gutless” individuals responsible give themselves up, in an angry confrontation with a former IRA intelligence director.
Julie Hambleton issued a stinging riposte to Kieran Conway after he claimed the bombers were “relatively blameless” and would never face justice despite their identities being widely known.
If the European Arrest Warrant is such a great thing surely these people could be brought to the UK for questioning if they are known.

I think this sums up some of the Brexiters.

Dumbo is in the left corner.

I see another how to eat healthy program last night , and would you believe the outcome was astonishingly that a good all round balanced diet was the most healthy option .

Is Cameron a closet Libdem?

'Tax freedom day' has fallen in June for the first time in 15 years, raising a "red flag" that the tax burden is moving in the wrong direction, according to a think tank.
The day marks the point when employees have theoretically earned enough income to pay their taxes for the year - and it is four days later than it was last year.
The Adam Smith Institute found that tax receipts are expected to be 42% of net national income this year and will take workers 154 days to cover.
The institute's director Eamonn Butler said: "The Treasury hates tax freedom day because they don't want us to know how much tax we really pay.
"They conceal the tax burden with stealth taxes that we don't even realise we're paying.
"But it's shocking that the Government takes over two-fifths of the country's earnings - and then borrows more.
"We work longer for the Government than mediaeval serfs had to work for their Lords.
"It is absurd that people on the minimum wage are liable for National Insurance Contributions, which raise their cost to employers and make it harder to move from benefits into work.
"The poor are also worst hit by regressive taxes like excise duties on what they buy."
The institute said that net national income has increased by £34.6bn from last year but the Government has taken up £35.4bn more in taxes.

last year I posted about all the immigrants in our prisons from the eu
well today it out 13000 in our prisons and the eu will not allow the uk to deport most of them Poland Bulgaria will not take back their murderers

the uk is used by the eu as a eu prison

they should just be put on a plane and drop them off we do not want their scum

Dave Swarbrick snuffs it, a fine fiddler and funny fella in live sets http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36443117

A sad loss.

I lived next door to 'Fairport' in Muswell Hill. It is the house where Fairport Convention used to 'convene' and is the source of the name of the band. He later played with Martin Carthy. I have quite a few of the albums. I used to go to gigs in the 60s onwards where he was sometimes playing with John Renbourn and Bert Jansch.

A friend and I joined a fledgling folk club in Tottenham Court Road next to the Dominion Cinema in the back room of a pub called the Horseshoe. The club was called the New Contemporary Folk Club and initially there was about ten of us in the audience. After a few weeks of the new club they formed a group called Pentangle. Swarbrick came regularly as a member and then joined in. We also used to see same bunch of people at a club in Greek Street Soho called Les Cousins. Swarbrick was a brilliant fiddler and you could listen to him for hours. He was such a nice guy to talk to.

Swarbrick and Carthy - 'Sovay'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkpujKDSTTo

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee,"

You didn't necessarily have to like Boxing to love that guy!

Only boxer I got out of bed in the early hours to watch.

I think we all did GEORGE , there will never be anyone like him again .Ali ,what a great life .

Some Ali quotes -

On being fast

"I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark."

On Retirement


People don't realise what they had until it's gone. Like President Kennedy, nobody like him.

"Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing."


On Joe Frazier

"Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head,"

Top Gear reboot 'boosted by canned laughter' as viewers brand it the worst show on TV

The new series of Chris Evans’s new-look Top Gear has been caught up in more controversy amid claims “canned laughter” was inserted to cover up “awkward silences”.

Recordings of hysterical laughter are said to have been inserted into the first episode by producers when the audience failed to laugh at jokes by new presenters Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc.

The first episode of the BBC’s motoring series was critically panned and drew in 4.4million viewers– the lowest figures for a series debut in more than a decade.

It's a sad thing that nowadays the actual build up to the bout lasts about ten times longer than the actual boxing match .