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I don't object to them. In many ways, I feel sorry for the queen and I wouldn't have her life for the crown jewels. Just because she's a queen doesn't save her from having children who are a rampant embarrassment, not very bright, or simply a PITA. Put one foot wrong or 'allegedly' put one foot wrong and the entire world knows about it. No privacy and what people can't find out as being fact, they simply invent. That's more of a dire reflection on the latter, in my opinion.

We have a similar system here too. Caused uproar when our then Prime Minister Tony Abbott awarded Prince Philip an Australian knighthood WTF. Awards should only go to Joe Public who volunteer their time freely in support of a cause they believe in. Certainly not public service mandarins, MP's, members of the armed forces etc. and any one else who got one for doing the job they were paid to do. They should never ever go to celebrities no matter how good their "charitable works" or how much they donated from their gazillions, they do not miss it no matter how much it is and anyway it i

ianFinn, I hope you're reading this one as well... Had our new washing delivered this morning and installed by two very nice blokes. They tested it then left, saying it was now ready to use. 2o minutes later, we had a bloody power cut !!

Colly hope you will feel better soon. It seems we are hearing more and more of people that have Covid. Today my daughters waitress has it but she should be out of isolation wednesday so will be able to work all being well after a couple of tests before my daughter opens again after the christmas and new years break. News tonight , over 50's vaccine is obligatory. Theyve been thinking about it for long enough.

My answer to question raised regarding the usefulness, or not, of our monarchy is that we are unable to dis-enfranchise their right to have a degree of control of titles, land and property and the vast wealth that I, for one, cannot find justifiable. There's a minority who appear to regard this non-elected group of people as near to gods. By their own god given right and by decree they are untouchable to a class of lower personage, this inludes their subjects and extends even to heads of state of more powerful nation states. Regailed in jewellry, crowns and sel-awarded

I phoned my cancer nurse as I finished radiotherapy 5 weeks ago & she advised me to just take co-codamol & ibuprofen which seems to ease it a bit, she said time will heal it. It feels just like I have a bad cold, my wife seems almost back to normal today.... I'm having some chicken in white sauce & mashed spuds, a bit better than marmalade init? Lol... Thanks Cliff ton, Stavo girl & Margie

“ @colly0410 I hope you’ll be negative after 8 days. Our 20. year old grandson has only just tested negative this morning after 10 days in isolation with Covid! He was still testing positive on the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th day after his original positive test. So what did he do this morning? Drove over to Milton Keynes to do some shopping… not the best decision in my opinion ….

He just needs a nice comfy chair in an old folks' home so he can nap all day...and someone to wipe the egg off his face, when necessary.

Hope you feel better soon Colly0410. I was supposed to be invigilating exams at the school for the next 2 weeks, but under the present circumstances am not doing them. Shame as a I do enjoy doing it, just hope things will have settled down by March when the next lot are due.

Colly apart from feeling like crap and suffering the dreaded marmalade sandwiches, have they given you any other treatment? We hear lots about Covid but little about the treatment, if any.

You've got through medical things before and come out the other side, so.........

Good luck with that Colly0410.

Prefer Chateau Dandelion and Burdock meself. Cheers !

Oztalgian, I'm no lover of the monarchy, in fact when I lived in Bathurst NSW, when the Queen visited sometime in the early 80's, I was asked if I was going down to see her when she drove along one of the main streets of the City. My comments came out and my mate said to me, keep your comments to yourself in Bathurst, people love her here and you're liable to get smacked in the face...So I kept my thoughts to myself, I was a "Republican" during my time in Oz, 100% in favour of pulling Oz out of the Commonwealth and having a President. Anyway, I will give Phil his due, he did serve in the

The Government are relaxing the rules on the follow up PCR tests so it will be easy to submit a fake lateral flow test. Crack open the Coca Cola!

Whoever had a school report that did not say 'must try harder'?

Col, the link isn’t working but I read this on ‘Best of Britain’ Facebook page.

Nah, a crook is a crook is a crook...