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.

statement . very good 10 out of 10 , far better than Osborne ever did

ken Clarke , take a look at why he wants to stay in the eu its all about is bank balance and family its nothing to do with the benefit of the country

the man is a very dishonest piece of work . is only interested in is own pocket with is contacts with the eu

2517,

Generally in response to good morning etc. I get a response, but I will relate my experiences of about 10 days ago.

I had a problem with my laptop which needed taking apart and applying a little solder.

Done by an Egyptian with a smile, who said no charge.

A little later I went to a park nearby for a cycle ride.

A Romanian with a smile was watching a rugby match and spoke to me and asked a few question and thanked me for the information and we shook hands and parted.

During my ride, I fell off my bike trying to avoid a small child was helped up by an Asian (Muslim) who checked that my bike over and me to see that both were still in working order.

While I was being checked a West Indian lady came over smiled and said I shouldn't ride home and would I like her to call a taxi.

I refrained from the offer.

Later that day I met another man while shopping and noticing his accent asked him where he was from.

Latvian was the reply with a smile and that he had arrived in 1946 similar to many Poles and others etc... (Including my outlaws), times of day were exchanged and good wishes exchanged. Very pleasant, we both left smiling.

Wandering around France, Spain, Portugal and Italy for five years or more, I had similar and generally helpful interchanges and very helpful when I had problems.

The thing which I did notice, was there was always more time to chat when in the country and villages than in the towns or cities.

But, the response you get from others, is more often than not due to the way that you others.

You must think we are basically thick Freda , fairy stories are your domain without a doubt .

more time to chat when in the country .... that is absolutely so; you could also have added "willingness"

V - are you the wicked witch then? ....... fairy tales are rarely meant to be the sweet little stories as trotted out to our children, but have a far grimmer undertone

Alsorts ignore you all breeds and whatever , you can smile at people and they think there's something wrong with you , such poppycock from our resident dreamer .

Vicky,

Not true. My wife was laughing at my day.

Even more amusing was that my daughter who had just stopped playing tennis, saw me fall without really recognising me had come to help and remained to tell me off.

She followed me, without me knowing until I eventually got on my bike back to my car.

Also, due to that, I had telephone calls from the rest of the family to check and tell me off again at the same time laughing at my day.

(I fell off, avoiding a small child who had run in front of me. Didn't harm a hair of her and I am grateful that I was only doing about 2miles an hour when the incident happened. Top speed nowadays.)

You sure you're not Charlie Drake .

Vicky,

Recalling the events are a humorous relief to listening to the failures of Theresa May and the failed tory policies and their lame excuses for the lunacies which will probably occur due to Brexit.

It is another name for madness.

You can get treatment for such conditions.

Yes obsession with the same subject is worrying also a little respite and straight back in with same old same old .

all parties' policies always fail to a greater or lesser extent ..... it's inevitable, and there will always be a variety of curmudgeons who will blame any gov't or anyone other than themselves for anything, whether it's tripping over an uneven paving stone or perhaps that they fell off their bike

Poor old Fred thinks his day is like a United colours of Beniton advert .

Fred we all encounter foreigners every day ,what do you think we all do ? swear at them and tell them to go away , you paint yourself as this god like character and everyone else as Satan , your a very deluded old fool.

Beware tossing empty baked bean tins around. And juggling them is an absolute 'No No!"

Apparently. Anyhow, t'lady next door told me. She says it's against the law, or soon will be, because you could cut yourself on the sharp tin edges.

So there!

Mind you, she can't stand cats and dogs so what does she know?

Anyway I've not been keeping up to date with some things , where are we with leaving , with all this court goings on is it poss it can be derailed . seems it's accepted in peoples minds but what can go wrong for us leavers . I live in hope it will happen but don't trust in some .

Dumbo.

I just dislike bigotry and latent racism which some indulge in on this thread.

Denial, self-deception and scapegoating their own inadequacies are some of their features.

Often, gloating and smugness at the failures of others are other features.

You seem to me to have ample supply of these traits.

would i ever gloat about you falling off your bike without any decent reason - eg someone poking a stick through the spokes!

Through something i have done in my life i have mixed and am friends with many more foreign folk than you Fred , you just assume too much ,you are so bigoted and blinkered that you would never really know what anyone else believed in .

Manuel.

The remarks weren't aimed at you.

Where's the Xmas party this year then , is it invite only .