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.

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.

and if it's in the daily mail it must be true, just as was everything put out by breitbart

better still .............

Russia is promoting the idea that Sergei and Yulia Skripal could be dead, as the fallout from the Salisbury spy poisoning continues.

With numerous conspiracy theories promoted by Russia about what exactly happened in the nerve agent attack on the streets of Britain, a high-ranking official has suggested the Skripals may not have even been poisoned.

Vladimir Chizhov, the Russian Ambassador to the EU, made the extraordinary claim as he stated that the British Government has been ‘more successful in dividing the EU than we would have ever been’.

It`s all the fault of the Freemasons - llluminati rules.

Trump , Friday the 13th .... what could possibly go wrong :-)

It will be OK.

Trump thinks he can buy bananas.

Fred

Why are you and your lefty lot going after Amber, when you know who was really behind it?

As for Trumpo, can he do anything right?

60+ years of armed stand off, and he gets the two sides talking .. what a plonker.

Max.

One down another to go.

But May is already in self-destruct mode for the tory party and doing a very good job of taking the UK with them.

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I think NK and SK in spite of Trump are moving "slowly" in the right direction, and the South would now be happy to see the back of the USA.

Both NK and SK will benefit from "agreements".

In spite of... Obama, Clinton, and the Dynamic Duo.