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.

Fred1 - Glad to know you have a TV licence, as you would not have been able to watch on catch-up without one I understand.

I bet your pleased that there is another Royal Baby to feed! thought you would have be proud to post some pictures of the Royal sprog. :-)

I was thinking of starting a thread entitled "Not the royal wedding !".....somehow I don't think it would go down well as the media fill up their broadcasts up with this stuff.....(that way the real news is hushed up).....

Are you anti-?


what is the right word?

Anti-royalist.

Pure diversionary tactics when there are other things in the news?

UMM<

How did they get her to hatch on the right date?

No...not at all...just suffering from royal media overexposure.....and ...I've worked out that my line in succession to the throne has just suffered a setback in the fact that I've just dropped a notch ....damn.....

"How did they get her to hatch on the right date?" By being inseminated on the right date of choice Fred. :-) Science is marvelous compared to when I assume you were nothing more than a sperm that was desperate to meet any egg it could get its clutches onto.

It is truly terrible.

To see somebody just born jump ahead in the queue without even being offered a peerage.

oh do stick a sock in your gob fred, and preferably one that has been worn for at least a week ....... you're just a cracked record that really should be binned

I doubt that you or I would drop to the floor in front of any queen or king to be knighted Fred but on the other hand you would suck up to JC if he were the head of state,and accept any reward bestowed upon you for your services to the party,

Manuel.

Have you had another bad day in the market?

If you do reply, try to do so without boasting.

By the way, I type with my fingers.

Do you use your snout?

hahaha! that's very funny for you fred ...... it happens that i'm in bologna, lest you had forgotten, so paying little attention to the markets

Good spaghetti out that way I presume......(some people think that comes from Birmingham).....

I hope you admire the architecture while you are there but suspect you would be happier in a bog.

yes thank you fred ..... we arranged a private walking tour and therefore one learns far more than on just wandering about rather aimlessly

assuming you have actually been here, i trust you had a good chuckle at the "highly contentious" medieval mural in st petronous catherdral on piazza maggiore

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pasta here is truly fantastic and far removed from what one gets in uk

Manuel,

Be careful you don't get booked for loitering.

I am told the cells are a bit uncomfortable.

only in the monastery, and i don't qualify for one of those

Must be bloody boring in Bologna if all you have to do is chat with Fred, C.

digesting a good lunch :-)

"Prince Albert"

Tee hee hee.

Hilarious!

Was this a Russian "Hit and Run"?

Hmmm?

Vladimir Uglev, a Russian scientist, was mowed down by a car near his house days after he claimed to have helped develop the nerve agent that almost killed the Skripals.

Vladimir was rushed to hospital in his hometown of Anapa on the Black Sea after he was struck while walking over a pedestrian crossing on Tuesday.

He suffered bruises to his head, right arm, and right leg and was in a stable condition while doctors awaited the results of head scans.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5655125/Scientist-developed-Novichok-poison-used-Salisbury-run-car.html

Of course Putin & co would never arrange anything like that EL - what are you possibly thinking. It is all fake news put out by the English who may have even killed the Skripals, all part of a plan to hurt the poor Russian State and its very rich friends that have property in London and stashes of money in the Channel Islands Tax Haven, as they welcome them there and allow them to buy homes - even though they are hardly ever seen.