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.

Cheers cynic for the relevant recepies will look later. The law is an ass.

Sorry to hear about your brother dc. you are probably right 3 points and a telling off.
The boys and I were nearly taken out yesterday coming home from the pictures, a driver coming around a bad bend completely on the wrong side - I quickly braked and steered out of the way nearly hitting a tree - the boys screamed I looked through my mirror and the prick was speeding down the road. I sat for a while and shook like a jelly. A couple of feet further on and and we would have been in a ditch nose down. Life hey, it's great if one doesn't weaken. He was probably as -issed as a newt.

Thanks ahoj, you just hope for a sensible judge on the day.

Agree 3m, I can only say how can you hit a cyclist with 500yrd visibility on a straight road. He of course was not on the phone or putting a text together. :-))

Dreams.

Supposing, that as a cyclist he doesn't have insurance cover and the court case is a criminal case and not a civil action, will your brother be able to obtain State Legal Aid to enable him, to sue the car driver and the driver's insurance company?

Or are the family going to support ongoing, possibly expensive, often drawn out legal expenses.

(I hope your brother makes a complete recovery.)

Sorry dc, I don't know how one can hit a cyclist with a 500 yard visibility on a straight road and I feel sorry for your Brother. Injuries have a knock on affect and no money in the world can put things right, it can help and I do hope the judge is kind on that day. Good Luck in June. btw it does not surprise me about your brothers works - one is only a number and I swallowed that pill once.

Thanks Fred and 3m, again until the case cannot say to much,. Money is not a problem Fred.

New law may be here soon as like some European countries , hit a cyclist end of story.

fred - legal aid almost certainly will not apply .... nevertheless, as with sports injuries, there are very good lawyers who will handle this type of claim on a no win no pay basis .... and no, i do not mean the ambulance chasers who keep advertising everywhere

Thanks for your interest as well cynic.

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DC - let me know if you need any guidance and i'll scratch around

Thanks again Cynic. Sorry I cannot tell you more (you understand why at this time)
Will update you after the case. I can only say if I was the driver I would have held my hands up BUT we are not all built the same.

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Cynic,

I have just spent a little time refreshing my information about "legal aid", what surprised me was how proscriptive the conditions were. I wonder what the effects will be of the changes currently being made.

Ummh.

Skinny,

You have destroyed Foyle's War for me.

Some of the scenes from it brought back memories, which are now confabulated into my memory bank.

8-)

Fred I see your pal has chickened out of the task he was going to take part in. Dont be to rough on him. After all he is a senior citizen.

sticky - don't be cheeky :-) ...... as i wrote earlier (i'm really not that senile!), i only promised to supply a budget (shopping list) for food giving a good, well-balanced and healthy diet ..... as i have now asked 2/3 times, please allocate me a fair sum from the £56 for this - i originally suggested £20, but i think that is too great a % even with housing and council tax paid "elsewhere"

if you think i am reneging, then prove it by c+p from my posts - and no i'm not getting sniffy, let alone forgetful


fred - i suspect, but do not know, that legal aid will now be particularly difficult to get .... it was already very difficult, and i don't know exactly what the rules were, but have heard that they are now even tighter ...... how fair or justifiable that may be, i really do not know

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All the best

that is very common, but you're right to be very wary

Cynic,

"this year, it'll be the usual +/-200 miles just south of the loire - loches (just south of tours), valencay, buzancais, poitiers, parthenay, loudun and back to loches"


Is that the current geriatric cycle race.

Won't boast again of how I took part in the Tour de France when I was sixty.
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I was married when I was a student and both my wife and I were on very limited incomes.

But we lived well, because we knew what and how to prepare food and cook it.
Also, had enough sense to go to the butchers "Greiges" about half and hour before they closed, to buy corners of bacon, rolled pork leg and trotters, not sure where we bought the lamb legs shanks and any beef we had was “cheaper” cuts.

After, that it was MacFisheries to buy the chickens livers, gizzards, hearts and wings. Fish if there was a “bargain” and salted for later.

Then the final haul for the week was down to the open air market, which was just closing and buying the vegetables and fruit which was left out and being sold off, by the stall owners who were too “tired” to put them away over the weekend and Monday.

Lentils and Beans from the Asian shops.

It seemed fun, but we knew how to salt some meat, process some vegetables and prepare food.

Other students used to come to our “flat” for meals and sometimes provide the “drinks”, in those days we didn’t imbibe much.

However, we knew how to “cook”, many other students were clueless, like much of the present population of this country.

Also, I managed to marry a woman, the nationality of my wife being known by the number of fridges her mother had and also the skill level of the mothers.

Good days.

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