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.

Hays was a page boy one year for the whitsun parade.

After the walk through the village all the band and the elders used to go the pub and get pissed.

Whitsun
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Whitsun
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Manchester 2010 Whit Walks
Date seventh Sunday after Easter
2013 date 19 May
2014 date 8 June
2015 date 24 May
2016 date 15 May
Frequency annual
Whitsun (also Whitsunday, Whit Sunday or Whit) is the name used in the UK and Ireland[1] for the Christian festival of Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter, which commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Christ's disciples (Acts of the Apostles chapter 2). In England it took on some characteristics of Beltane, which originated from the pagan celebration of Summer's Day, the beginning of the summer half-year, in Europe.[2] Whitsuntide, the week following Whitsunday, was one of three vacation weeks for the medieval villein;[3] on most manors he was free from service on the lord's demesne this week, which marked a pause in the agricultural year.[4] Whit Monday, the day after Whitsun, remained a holiday in the UK until 1971 when the movable holiday was replaced with the fixed Spring Bank Holiday in late May. Whit was the occasion for varied forms of celebration. In the North West of England, church and chapel parades called Whit Walks still take place at this time (sometimes on Whit Friday, the Friday after Whitsun).[5] Typically, the parades include brass bands and choirs; girls attending are dressed in white. Traditionally, Whit fairs (sometimes called Whitsun ales[6]) took place. Other customs such as morris dancing[7] are associated with Whit, although in many cases they have been transferred to the Spring Bank Holiday.

Oldham & Saddleworth Whit Friday Brass Band Contests

The brass band extravaganza in the villages of the West Pennines

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/9339581/Whit-Friday-Brass-Band-Contest-a-spectacle-to-treasure.html

Hays all Brass bands and Morris dancers up here nearlly all the year round.

Although 'last of The Summer Wine' now finished more and more tourist visit.

Mostly yanks and Chinese Japanese Germans Scandinavians. Tons and tons of coaches each day.

Can be a dammed nuisance, cant move at times.

Holmfirth Sunday Market is a corker, you and cyners would love the home/farm produce for your cooking.

sticks - it's not in my nature to take offense, and i shan't start now :-)

It is next Friday. I know some people who are going to it and playing in the competition.

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When do we get the results?

Manuel.

At least when you are being kicked you are getting attention.

Any straw when you are drowning is better than nothing!


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Mark.

Labour won.

UKIP 2nd

Greens 3rd

Tories still canvassing!

Count in started in Newark. Result maybe 3am

Candidates

Paul Baggaley (Ind),
David Bishop (Bus Pass Elvis),
Nick The Flying Brick (Monster Raving Loony),
Andy Hayes (Ind),
Roger Helmer (UKIP),
Robert Jenrick (Con),
David Kirwan (Green),
Michael Payne (Lab),
Dick Rodgers (Stop Commercial Banks Owning Britain's Money),
David Watts (Lib Dem),
Lee Woods (Patriotic Socialist).

Cynic here we have the evidence re- to my earlier post re- to right wing press distorting the real truth on many issues in support of the Tory party...........

Daily Telegraph hack Laura Donnelly today directly blamed the tragic death of a baby and the poisoning of other children by contaminated drips on the NHS:



In fact, the contaminated drips were supplied by a private company called ITH Pharma.

But Donnelly and her sick colleagues at the Telegraph have no qualms about using such a tragedy – and outright lies – to continue their political point-scoring in support of the coalition government’s commercialisation of the NHS.

Well done Laura. You’ve managed to drop below even my extremely low expectations of gutter press hacks when it comes to decency.

I’ve just got one question for you Laura.

How do you sleep at night?

NOW ASK YOURSELF WHY DIDNT THIS JOURNALIST IN HER HEADLINE PUT...........

15 babies poisoned by private company ITH PHARMA DRIPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


WE all know why and so do you if you were genuine. finito.

Because the cause of the contamination had not been traced to the company at the time of writing the article.

Labour controlled NHS in Wales slated on Question Time last night gf. No comments from you? Are you slacking, missed it conveniently. Or as I suspect simply does not fit your agenda, along with your cohorts Red Fred and Brother Stan?

sticky - if you had stopped to read what i wrote instead of leaping instantly onto your soapbox .....

surely virtually all drugs are supplied by private/public companies but that said, it is assuredly not NHS's responsibility to test the stuff for purity or whatever

unfortunately you tend to be selectively blind or worse

Tories win famous victory....only lose a half of their vote.

UKIP second with huge upswing.

Noo Labour third.

Dim Libs coming up the rear in sixth place

newark
tories will be chirpy because they still won with a comfortable majority
ukip will be cock-a-hoop, though of course anyone voting for them may just have been comfortable in the knowledge that it wouldn't make any difference
labour will just shrug shoulders and say they never expected anything much
lib/dems i'm afraid will just need to crawl under a stone and hope to die

They've already died c, just refusing to fall over.

i wonder where their disillusioned voters will put their mark at GE

Haystack - 06 Jun 2014 01:01 - 41994 of 42000

Because the cause of the contamination had not been traced to the company at the time of writing the article....................................ends

well if thats the case WHY imply its the fault of the NHS???????????????????????????? AT THE TIME OF PENNING THE ARTICLE.

YAWN, Newark was a forgone conclusion. Lets face it if labour or UKIP win the Tories 44th safe seat, the alarm bells should start ringing for Dave and Co.