tomlinson

I have friends returning tomorrow with a 5 year old child but they're using the ferry. I understand the French farmers have been blockading the roads in protest aginst the low price of meat. Oddly enough, my friend is a pig farmer! I hope he don't let on.

Thank you for allowing me an opinion. In saying I am too apathetic to check figures, I admit it and do not attempt to quote figures as you have read. The wherewithall I speak of is military aid. I put the question to you that if IS were to infiltrate our country, by no means improbable, and attempted to bring us into line with their policies and religions how would you react if you were given the means to fight back with the 'wherewithall', should you wish to? Yes, we live in the institutionalised 'bubble' you speak of; yes, it is pure luck and no achievement of anyone living. The fact remains

Doubtless you are correct in the figures most of the rest of us are too apathetic to confirm or otherwise, and we bow to your authority in offering to educate us, but the question I would still ask is, given the wherewithall would they fight to make their own country as they would wish it? Should they 'get of their arses' as you advised some to do in a previous post?

They are human beings and deserve compassion and no one blames them for running away from oppressive regimes but we can't be the refuge for all and some from europe are economic refugees. The answer? No one has any idea from what I've seen but there's always the option of fighting for their country and changing things. USA did it, USSR did it, we did it and more did it. War and those profitting from it is evil but these people may be helped by giving them the means to change things into something they are looking for, if they have the will.

As I think I've suggested before, how many of these asylum seekers are members of IS? It worries me that we may be suffering a sort of pacific invasion which could cause us a deal of trouble in the future.

Reminds me of school, wooden stems for the nibs, small china ink wells, a big bottle of ink with a spout, the smell of it and the mess! Those were the days before progressing to Platignum pens that fell apart after a week or twos' use.

There were many objections when the tunnel was built - we need to remain an island etc. I wonder if provision was built in to collapse the whole thing.

It is available on Amazon for £5.99, new, £3.99 used.

More than store information perhaps. I think everyone is telepathic to a degree but its use is involuntary and points to areas of the brain which lay dormant. Mind you, I've always thought my brain to be more or less dormant anyway!

I lived at RAF Sculthorpe for a couple of years myself, 1966/68, while based at West Raynham. Great ex - USAF base now sold off to private housing.

Bought a copy of 'Shall We Dance' yesterday'. I think Fred Astaire And Ginger Rogers were the ulltimate in making escapism films in their day and it's strange how black and white films seem to enhance the mood.

I remember reading about Peter Sellars putting Spike Milligan in the boot of his 'Roller' one late snowy night because Sellars could hear a strange knocking from there and Milligan was to trace it. Off they went with Sellars driving up and down the kerb to cause the knocking and he was stopped by a copper. He asked what was going on, opened the boot and saw Spike Milligan, said, Oh yes, it's him', closed the boot and wandered off.

I haven't any crockery or clothes showing anything about old age but I do have two 'Rupert Bear' mugs.

These old films stand out against most of those produced today which, when you look at them, seem to have been made purely for the sake of making a film.

Happy New Year Everyone!

Two places near here - Garvestone - Gravestone / Hingham - Hang Him

What annoys me about shopkeepers, counterstaff etc. is when you come to be served after queuing they say, 'Thank you for waiting'. I suppose they're told to say it but what are you expected to do, apart from walk away?

High tea.

Public announcements on the radio appealing for someone who had a relative 'seriously ill' and those that began with, ' This is Rediffusion'.

I used to like the 'Horlicks Casebook' ad's that used to appear in the dailies. A small cartoon usually featuring women not able to get the right sort of sleep somehow; short tempered; lacking energy; lethargic. Today you'd be off to see some sort of social worker or analyst. Have a mug of Horlicks!!!

Pennies dropping into the electric meter at a turn of the knob.

Shorts are another thing. I wear 'em about the house & garden but never in public. If I did I wouldn't know whether to post a warning or public apology.

The suck and splosh of a ponch in a dolly tub.

Like the man said; 'Not all Muslims are terrorists; unfortunately all terrorists are Muslim'. Not entirely true but you can see where he's coming from.

Sharpening a carving knife on the doorstep.