mockney piers

Twinings is fine, and they do a special earl grey in those funky tea bags which is pretty darned good I can tell you.

2003 & 2008 were the only years my (irish) wife and I didn't watch the game together, so she's enjoyed bragging rights on the day for far too long. This year is looking good though, which is the kiss of death if ever i wrote one.

"Libya's society is "ruled by the people"" Talk about choking on your own words.

Indeed. To be honest it was endgame that ended it for me. Diping in for a bit of questing or exploration or grinding or farming is fine, maybe meet up up with a mate for an hour of the above. The endgame ruined the fun factor and emant you had to commit to 3-4 hours of an evening and very quickly I just stopped playing. My lotros are currently between about 25 and 45 and I'm just enjoying seeing pretty stuff out of the books. But just not really getting that much gaming time full stop really. iPad probably gets most of my attention as the various tower defence games and angry birds type things are easy to dip in and out of.

Great, and you're welcome!! Best of luck with it all, and like i said, if there's anything any of us can do to help you know where to find us. Err, meaning here, as I've kind of let the flickr account go to seed somewhat.

Crikey, hello Kathryn, long time no see. I think I just interluded, but not sure it worked, let me know either way. If you need any of the old pootle crowd's talents, I'm sure we'll be happy to do what we can. P

Only admin can do it. It's not for us mere mortals.

There's a tick against your user profile which says whether edits leave a notification. I used to be a moderator, and I guess the tick remained ticked after my other magic powers were removed. I try to be conspicuous about saying edited though. But of course you knew that didn't you.

It's Kim Jong Il. bah, pipped Edited one time, one time. Last edit was february 22, 11:36am by mockney piers.

can you relax a nerve?

and relax those shredded nerves.

Ooh, finally we agree about something. These comparisons of cameron would be, or Brown would be are utterly pointless because you can't apply FPTP votes to a different electoral system. Not even peter SNow could swing *baddam tish* that one.

The queens is good because she's involved with the commonwealth is begging the question to put it mildly!!

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/plastic-fantastic-carrier-bags-not-ecovillains-after-all-2220129.html Seems that, like Nero, using my plastic bags as bin bags was the right thing all along. All those nasty cotton bag types need to make sure they're getting at least 350 uses out of them!!

Eek, good show from the dutch boy from port elizabeth. So, almost 300 to chase. Who reckons KP trys to smack it around and is out for two? Then we panic and play defensively for the next fifteen overs, then look like we might get back into it before a quick collapse?

"there are a great many successful projects" Indeed, I worked for two successful projects, both kept under 2 million quid, in a *gasps* quango*, doing good work for youth justice systems. On the other side in PS (not that I wasn't a PS employee, but I was earning the queen's coin, you get my drift) I've worked for some shocking projects, particularly in banking, often throwing several million euros to no end, then rinse and repeat the exercise. Our YJB (now MOJ) projects were mostly teams of individual contractors, expensive but skilled, in conjuction with decent civil servants. No expensive analysts from PWC, McKinsey, KPMG et al. The higher profile sister project however went down the route of blue chip consultancy firm (not EDS this time but might as well have been) who just chucked as much resource (paid surprisingly badly despite their cost; some were good but most proved the peanuts-monkeys adage) at it as possible, to squeeze the gravy out of the train until the cost/delivery ratio tumbled and the whole project was canned leaving youth justice and the tax payer considerably poorer and said consultancy laughing all the way to the bank. I'm not saying private sector can't do it, it just isn't a panacea by any stretch. *said quango no longer exists in name, but in practice the same people are there doing the same thing at the same cost, but this time direct to the MOJ. So not sure what all the fuss was about in that infamous quango axe swinging.

"There is one simple rule to getting government contracts - be the cheapest" Is taht how EDS keep getting awarded contracts time and time again dispite fucking everything up, over and over again? You'd have thought somebody would ahve spotted the pattern by now. Sometimes you have to spend a bit more to spend a bit less. And clearly you don't read enough Private Eye MM, the likes of KPMG, earning billions off the government are packed with ex-ministers with current ministers ears. Personally I'd happily have a decent civil service rather than spend ?570-?1500 a day on a surprisingly high level of fuckwittery from these companies. Especially when so much of that money is spent on all that nasty PPP PFI entanglement. Oh yeah, the private sector is the answer to everything ;-P

have you just outed yourself?

"they have stolen one from Pakistan" Between Canada poaching them and the rest having wrists slapped, I'm surprised there are any to steal!

I'll get into trouble if I say something about orangemen marching triumphantly won't I :-/

Funny you should say that. 8 saffas and an englishman in the dutch side. Sort of like a negative of the england side.

Dutchmen off to a flying start. (I should be a sun headline writer with quality material like that)

In an ambivalent sort of way, I'm with *Bob*. Especially regards annoying the scotch ;)

Weirdly I thought we normally lifted no fly zones when dictators are quelling insurrections. The Iranian ships going through Suez* is first sign of exactly what the west fears, middle east governments doing what they want, rather than what they're paid to do. Imagine what they'll do when they're answerable to the people**. Double edged sword that democracy malarkey isn't it!! Interesting times ahead!! *of which I personally have no issue **probably try and improve the economy, a surfeit of young unemployed men is feeding this wave of jasmine after all.

Not strictly done the Alps, but the Dolomites is incredibly well set up for rambling and families. Somewhere like Bolzano or Cortina would be a great base to kick off your daily walks.