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Not sure you have the terminology or configuration right BK but it's interesting stuff... Suffice to say if you went over the weighbridge at 26 tons it's not surprising you broke three springs!

Nah, there'd be a bunch of 'em

Not only was the doctor female so was the student with her AND the two assistants... They try distraction techniques by talking about anything and everything........... it doesn't work..

Why is it when we get older it's all the embarrassing bits that need close examination? Why can't it be elbows or ears or all the innocuous bits?

I had never heard of them so looked them up on Youtube.... ouch!!

Some of the piercings I saw make me think they must have a very poor self image and self loathing. One lady in Scotland has destroyed her face she has so many, what she must look like when she takes them out to sleep is be beyond imagination.

Most of us think of the saying 'had his chips' as a bad thing. In your case it turned out well so good for you. I bet the bruises will be interesting colours...

In this day and age I really wouldn't recommend doing that... Age UK, netmums, gransnet..depends how serious you are..

There are sites and organisations that arrange surrogate grandparents BK though I do realise it may a bit sensitive for you..

I was going to find an amusing pic of a tattooed and pierced lady........................ good grief I'll not do that again!

We all say it, congratulations and well done, dunno why, your daughter did all the hard work! Any way congrats Grandad and a well done to daughter bless her...

I once ran a Thames Trader pantechnicon from Liverpool to Ilkeston using paraffin, apart from the white smoke when it started the wasn't much if any difference in the way it ran.

Where people make a mistake on the wire run at Holme Pierrpont is tackling the buoys at the turns. You have to go round them on the outside not the inside track which seems the more natural line. Wouldn't have thought the marshes had many mountains that needed rescuing, how big was the stretcher?

I used to have a back problem.... couldn't get the bugger out of the bed in a morning...

I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you.......... I stopped a week before Christmas.... I could still smoke one and quite cheerfully murder you for that last cigarette, the craving is still strong and for reasons I'd rather not get into chewing gum has to be rationed...

I had a power boat and water skied for years at Gunthorpe and other places, especially Flash Dam and Windemere. I was a member at Rother Valley when it first started. Eventually the nimby brigade got the better of us and owning a speedboat became anti-social so we gave it up.

I knew of the maternity allowance but can't remember much about it. What I do remember very clearly was the maternity box of goodies that that mam had with each of my siblings

Belated wishes Lizzie, who's chips did yer nick?

Four mugs from one tea bag... that's not just weak it's terminally ill !

Not me I make tea the proper way..

It’s true there was dissent from some quarters about austerity – but only from those that were not in a position of responsibility and objected mainly on principle. Everyone who did have a say chose austerity to tackle the problem. Yes Osborne was from the Micawber School of economics where his 2:1 in modern history didn't really prepare him for his job as chancellor. I don’t think he was ideologically opposed to public spending. He did make some effort to stimulate the economy, the Northern Powerhouse was his initiative – he just wasn’t very good at it. Aside from that he’s not known as a g

He knew it was all over when they told him Ben. He realised he could never compete.

Not going to accept that or any notion that there is a plot to deliberately cripple the economy. I'm astonished you believe it. Virtually every country that suffered in the crash chose austerity as a fiscal strategy, they chose to cut spending, why? because it's the sensible thing to do. You cannot spend your way out of debt. The economy in my view was not recovering, it was merely glossed over. The left winger McDonnell criticised Brown, in Parliament, blaming the policies for leaving the UK at risk of 'serious depression'. He said the government failed to recognised the seriousness of

Do they still eat their young in hard times?

It was one solution and the fairest, the other way was to raise taxes, they chose the lesser of two evils. It may also be pointed out that if Gordon Brown hadn't made such mess of the countries finances we might have not needed quite so much austerity. I know he thinks he saved the world but I seem to remember he used an awful lot of the reserves to achieve his 'prudent' policies. In actual fact all he did was to keep moving the problem, even without the crash of 2008 we would have faced a financial crises sooner or later. I will grant Osbourne was no better and possibly made things worse by c