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.

Look's like we have two Fred's on here , or is it just his poodle ?

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Stan , the president of Fred's fan club, membership 1 [ Stan ]

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Yes - dust off those Christmas jumpers :-)

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Its my idea of having fun , sad really .... lol

I had one very similar to the middle one - circa 1973

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mnamreh - I seem to remember being an early advocate of "recycling" :-)

Russia PM Vladimir Putin says US encouraging protests

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of being behind protests over the results of Russia's parliamentary elections.

Mr Putin said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "set the tone for some opposition activists".

S,

You not allowed to recycle N, bur I have a 55year old pullover, which when the house is empty I am allowed to wear.

It is more like a blanket.

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PS.

I do hope I won't have to resit my A level Physics.

Seem to remember the Physics and Chemistry masters used to be able tell us 90% of the questions to mug up before the examination.

How much worse can it get


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16058860


The Home Office minister Damian Green confirmed that both he and the Home Secretary Theresa May are aware of the loophole.

I never heard of that before , now everyone who watch's or hears the BBC new's will know now. Is there still a BBC World service ?

Beat me to it aldwickk - its incredible!

I will be glad when we get out of that mad house called the European union

Food for thought.


Estimates from accountants Deloitte found that European banks hold more than 1.5 trillion of non-core and non-performing assets on their balance sheets. Deloitte estimates that while banks will have to drastically reduce the size of their asset books, they will probably encounter major challenges in doing so given the scale of the bad loan problems they face. British banks, despite beginning their disposal programmes much earlier than their
Continental European peers, still have by far the biggest pool of toxic assets. Deloitte estimates the size of the non-core and non-performing assets held on the balance sheets of UK banks at 460bn, more than the combined total for Ireland, Spain and Italy. German banks come a close second to the UK, with a toxic asset pool of about 447bn, says The Telegraph.



Britain's economy will have lost five years of growth by 2013, a leading economic think-tank said today, as it will only then be back to the same size as it was in 2008. UK economic growth slowed in the three months up to November, with gross domestic product growing by 0.3 per cent - down from 0.4 per cent in the three months ending in October, said respected forecaster the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. But more tellingly, the NIESR said that the UK economy would not recover the massive 7 per cent shrinkage from its early 2008 peak it experienced in 15 months of recession until late in 2013. 'Economic growth in the UK remains subdued,' NIESR said. 'These data lend support to the further loosening of UK monetary policy,' The Daily Mail reports.


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Fred - at least that's an American trillion these days - so less to worry about!