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Seems the 'royal variety' is a tad more serious than some thought...

No need for apologies LL. With all you have going on it's pretty amazing you manage to stay as positive as you do. I seriously doubt I would cope as well.

Either I'm waaay too old and slow or there's a way to cheat! quickest score on the one I tried (No 276) was 3:14! (I did 17:50), took me longer to separate the pieces...

On ours you have to push up not pull down and they swing out. On a previous AEG they were hinged and it was necessary to use something like a small screwdriver to prise one edge down.

I actually agree with most of your post but think government does quite a good job of restraining the unacceptable face of capitalism - though there will always be exceptions no matter who runs the show. Some remarks are as you say insensitive, in our judgement not in others. Not everyone plays nicely with political correctness. You seem surprised at my comments about Starmer though I don't know why. It's quite clear he's grandstanding, using Covid to take cheap shots at an embattled government, "They are taking to long' "They don't have enough", " They won't say when it wi

Not just companies, I will have quite a capital gains tax bill come the end of the year and I make absolutely no apologies for it.. I see little difference between making a profit buying and selling shares (and paying tax) and gaining a profit by investing in an ISA, (and paying zero tax). One is dealing direct, the other is still dealing but indirectly.

Just read Keir Starmer's comments as reported on the BBC news and he's already off on the typical Labour rant and whinge. "The Labour Party I lead will do our bit to offer solutions". He said and utterly fails to do so or offer a single idea during one of the most serious problems this country has ever faced in peacetime. A kiss to the backsides of essential workers to show what a grand caring, sharing chap he is. Bashing the rich is of course obligatory for him, as it was for Corbyn despite them being multi-millionaires. Like many before him he seems to have avoid

You're in the high risk category LL so you just be careful mate, the hounds need you!

I agree and have made exactly the same point at least twice. No disrespect to our doggy members but neither is dog walking an essential exercise. Despite this, as someone has noted, the number using dogs as an excuse for being out and about seems to be growing. I think there must a 'rent a dog' service somewhere.

True they don't but horses running wild tend to be a bit of a nuisance...

Horses, like dogs, need a bit of a run out too...

There is no need to be outside to take exercise. Climbing stairs or just walking round the garden will do it, it will also make you give up the will to live! Allowing people out is, like the clapping, the singing and the rainbows a clever construct to help with morale. They create a sense of involvement, an idea that we are all in this and gives an impression of togetherness, unity and purpose. Going out for exercise does in some small measure make life seem like it is carrying on as near normal given the circumstances.

If he's a kid it's odds on he has a social media account...

The window with the fluorescent light is it! Amazing... I'm now back in 1963 tasting those cobs

Well done Rory! Brilliant...

Lets hope you live long enough to find out RR but I'll let you into a little secret. Part of it watching and sniggering at the poor sods who still have to work for their bread n butter.

It would have been round the corner on Pilcher Gate. Cor me brain hurts remembering that far back...

I have saved enough of the world to be ranked world No1 in the game I play...

Bingo!! what would we do without you CT...

We have been shopping this morning (I was allowed out to drive, her car has a flat battery), and I'm told the majority of shoppers in the supermarket were middle aged males who were wandering up and down the aisles looking for all the world like the thirteenth tribe - lost and abandoned - yes many had a list.

No, I think they were on High Pavement opposite St Marys church, now called the Hungry Pumpkin. This was a tiny little shop adjacent to the pub opposite the Cross Keys (can't remember what it was called) Weekday Cross pub? A lady of err, mature years ran it and I don't think I ever knew her name

There was a little cob shop in Weekday Cross that made the best crispy cobs in the entire universe. Ham or corned beef, sometimes roast pork, I can still remember the taste. Greggs cobs or subs or whatever silly name they have now are just a poor stodgy imitation.

All above except salad cream... yuk!

So YOU'RE the one that drives me insane an does me 'ead in!!

Really glad to hear you're both improving, not sure what to say about Russia and their lockdown. I've never been but by their authorities reputation I'd say the truth will be difficult to establish.