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And half of them work from home!

There’s nothing nicer than fresh, home grown tomatoes. Soon I’ll be lunching daily on tomato salads. Sliced tomatoes, olive oil, wine vinegar, pepper and salt, garnished with chopped chives, with wholemeal bread to mop up the ‘gravy’.

Years ago, when I worked at 24 Low Pavement, some of us grew tomato plants in pots placed in front of the large, Georgian windows and overlooking the garden at the rear. They did well there as they got lots of sunlight. At lunchtimes, fresh tomatoes, straight from the plants tasted very good. There is nothing to compare with the taste and smell of homegrown tomatoes.

I don't have a greenhouse or a shed, but have managed to successfully start off some tomato seeds that I've had wrapped up for nearly two years. As it's my first time, I'm looking to Mrs.B to guide me along. I believe they may be some type of Beefsteak toms. Edit. Should'nt be on this thread I know, but who's watching.

It came about after the 2015 spending review. In 2016 the EU referendum took place when the civil service had the smallest workforce since WW2. More were needed to prepare for the breakup with the EU - then came covid. The growth in numbers from there on just never slowed down. .

To have merit, or to merit something. To be worthy; of consideration, investigation, attention... Much like saying "there's some truth in it" I'm sure you don't need me to explain that stereotypes are over simplified generalised descriptions; but can serve to convey an opinion in short form. That's just left wing rhetoric... And three non-specific replies reads much like obfuscation and akin to Starmer's refusal to face facts... --------------- If so many functions have been moved to the private sector as you s

there's quite a few people in the asda at 06.00, the idea of going that early is the shopping is out of the way and the rest of the day is our own, bit of a bind getting up an hour or so earlier than usual but worth it' B, don't know about action man more like inaction man this past few days with this cold and windy weather but summer is forecast for one day in May this year so looking forward to getting all the outdoor jobs done on that day, Tomorrow is car wash day and get it fuelled up, maybe a bit of work in the greenhouse too Rog

I wonder what happened in 2016 that led to them having to recruit lots more civil servants.

Action man of the Lincolnshire fens!

And then operating on arms and legs, all before 09.00. Wonder what he does in his spare time. That's when he's not rebuilding buses or cycling all over the countryside.

I think it is.. because it is wrapped up in 'culture wars', NeoCon economic 'thinking' and all of the rest. If it may not be true, how can the principle have merit? Stereotypes are never correct, nor do they bear even superficial examination.

Well I certainly can't disagree too much with that.. having been a victim of it myself. In my early days in the Careers Service I was required to put in a simple monthly 'stat', detailing how many Guidance Interviews, Groupwork Sessions, Employer Visits etc., I had done. These were added into whatever reporting was fed back to Central Govt, which was mostly, youth employment/unemployment figures etc. It wasn't an onerous task. I had a caseload of 'schoolies', a section of the 'unemployed' register, a section of the Employer /Training Organisation base and that was it. I was pretty much auton

It must be pretty quiet in Asda at 6am. You must have been the only customers in the store! Do they open especially for you?

Afraid not Phil, up early (04.30) this morning, breakfast and coffee then off to the asda at Hykeham for the weekly shop, home by .6.45, more coffee, watched that clown Henry Cole (shed and buried) for half an hour then in the shed to do a bit of woodwork, cutting out new arms and legs for the next batch of gollyfrogs and frogs, then back indoors by 09.00 and thats where I stayed for the rest of the day, bloody cold here although that wind has now dropped and the sun has just started to appear eleven hours too late, never mind there's always tomorrow, hope everyone else has had a good day

I dont think it is cold, but that might be because I am a wimp , I am lovely and warm with central heating on and log fire blazing away and not been outside for a few days. But its boring staying in roll on warmer weather.

It’s bitterly cold here with the addition of the wind chill. I’ve got loads of outdoor work to do but can’t fire myself up to face the elements. No doubt Rog is outside, stripped to the waist, braving the Lincolnshire gales and digging his garden! Good on yer Rog!

£49 buys a USB player and facilitates recording on to discs or pen drive you can play in the car. No doubt Col will be along soon and sell you one for the price of a small bungalow you can only play under armed guard.

Funny day today........still by mesen....so being a bit bored thought i'd have a ''Rummage'' in the shed...... What a find and quite mysterious...Wooden box very heavy...full of LPs some going back more than 50 years....there must be about 100... Only recognised about half a dozen that were mine from way back..... Count Basie's Beatle bag...1966 The Last Dance....Motown...all 70s Sheena Easton...take my time.....1980.......God she was lovely....... Cliff....talk of the town....1980...... Can honestly say that all the others w

Outside today I've been wearing a heavy jacket which I hadn't expected to use again until next winter.

That would be Sandtoft I think, some trolley buses there including a couple of NCT ones Rog

It’s probably the old wartime airfield at Sandtoff. I flew into there many years ago. They did a good Yorkshire fry up!

Ah Garlic coffee! We had a subsidiary company in Dublin and one of the directors claimed that his cousin, who worked at the Shelbourne hotel, was the inventor. I thought it was a load of Blarney! Back in the day the Riverside flats were the upmarket place to live. Now they look like a concrete prison block.

Whether we agree with it or not at least someone is finally doing something positive and not just bleating about some ill-defined, hodgepodge plan no one, not even the proposers understand. Actually that's classic political debate. Every political party regardless will always claim to have an answer to a problem, just as they will always have a reason why it didn't work, and a place, or someone to lay the blame upon. It's not a particularly right-wing gambit. It's always been a popular axiom that something easy is "like a job on the council". An urban legen

@plantfit, Rog, remind me please, of the name of that other transport museum up near Doncaster way. I believe you've been there afore. B.

Used to love the Chateau, back in the day when Irish coffees were considered posh. I must have had some of that Birds Eye apple pie in my time. My aunty used to have a flat at Riverside on Wilford Lane.