Dickensman

The festive season is hotting up as it took 20 minutes to send a recorded envelope, even though they had 4 0f the 5 windows manned. Traipsed in at 2:55 left at 3:15. It would be soooo nice to hear "window number twelve please" fat chance as there are only 5 of them.

I would have received a memorable message from the back of my mothers hand, a swipe to my ear for such lairyness.

The David Mitchell VO makes it sound like a sketch from That Mitchell and Web Look. Except it wasn't funny. Or entertaining. Or good. wrote kford Yes but kford, the positive bits you have delibrately missed out, it was short!

There is not nearly enough capital invested in this type of essential research, we would rather invest in failed, huge liability, banks and their bonas systems.

I didn't know that so thanks for the input daveR.

I like paying tax, I wish I was paying a thousand pounds a day.

The cost of the bobbing duck was raised to a cost of x10 to get it dropped according to one of the documentaries featured many years after the event. With all due respects Huguenot you are a French immigrant so cannot be taken seriously in this particular matter, being your homeland is vying for the lead.

I asked a waiter at Langans which was there most popular dish cod 'n chips and the second favourite was bangers 'n mash.

Fully grown walrus have been known to maim to such an extent it can eventually kill a polar bear. As they out weigh them by over half a ton, not too surprising. The smart money would go with ruffers selection. But even the army ants will make it move along somewhere else.

Quite right likansuk stick it to 'em. The dog pooh dilemma is solved, now it's been buried by the snow. The lax owners will have to scrape it up off their own gardens as the "walking" disappears with the harsh weather.

In severe weather there is more ground movement as the frost penetrates deeper into the ground, when this happens fractures occur the gas often follows the outside of the pipe causing the smell where ever the gas escapes. This can be dangerous if the gas goes all the way into the dwelling. The cure is to dig down to where the pipe is and leave an air gap all around the pipe so that the pipe appears to "bridge" the hole to allow the gas to vent to atmosphere.

I have just received a letter asking for the times and dates of the power loss and compensation is to be paid. The letter headed UK POWER NETWORKS, NICOLE SCOOT, CENTENARY HOUSE 161 BIDDER ST, LONDON E16 4ET they offer ?54 for a domestic customer or ?108 for a business, which is nice. A further ?27 for each additional 12 hour period without power. I pay British Gas for my electricity! So get your claims in pronto.

Our greatest energy resource discounting the sun is flopping around several thousand miles of sea shore all around the coast. Consecutive governments have ignored this non-vote catching reservois of free power for decades. The Americans have been pushing to sell their nuclear system and latterly the French too. Amazing how foreign corporations can manipulate the happenings in this country by purchasing a handful of our cheapskate politicians. North sea oil revenues should have been invested into harvesting sea power, whilst simultaneously creating a new industry to offset the decline in mining and other failing industries.

Shaun the Sheep, Southpark, Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy. Favourite box set 'The Sopranos' Favourite from the bbc 'I Claudius'

If the money is not an issue the stairs might be clad and a door fitted at the bottom of the stairs, it would take a few days work by a joiner.

I admire you adultery in this matter. I find many women prefer an assertive man, especially in the bedroom!

It may be most cost effective to have the curtain at the top of the stairs. Heavy lined curtains are quite cheap at charity shops provided you care little about fashion. A sausage at the bottom of doors helps to reduce draughts. A plastic laminate kit from a diy shop in front of the window will help. The cheapest solution is a woolly hat and a pair of fingerless gloves with an extra fleece.

What were you best at in school? What did you do better than your classmates? Perhaps if you decide to challenge yourself with a mammoth task like run a marathon, you may find your answer on the journey. Incidentally if someone gave you a million pounds the answer is "count it" not 'nothing'. Now get up off your lazy talented arse and get to it, or you'll get the back o'my hand!

We used to dream of living on a council estate when I was a kid, they had hot water and indoor lavatories and bathrooms we had none of that plush living, all we had was a cold tap and a kettle, with a bog at the end of the garden which froze up every year unless we put a parafin lamp under the cistern. But we were 'appy!

Peanuts is not what the dentists that I've used in the past, work for!

You might take your gym kit with you, in case the pool is frozen over.

My garden was graced with the presence of a family of long tailed tits, they always travel 'mob handed' it seems, because you never see one on its own. They only ever appear when weather is particularly harsh in the gardens that I have looked after, although they are to be seen in Peckham Rye park anytime in the year. It is always a pleasure to see them inspite of the inclement weather.

I cleared and salted mine yesterday so I could still sleep at night and now this lot has come back to haunt me and I have run out of salt. Bar stud! So I think I might leave it and see what happens.

The radio2 morning slot has never been the same since that shallow garrulous chump took over the mic. Whilst the demure and sweet natured Sarah Kennedy was witch-hunted out of office, the bunch of useless, tasteless, bar studs!

Switzerland have much more regular snow, and are a wealthier country. wrote Jeremy There are only about 500 swiss and all those banks full of ours and other peoples money, no wonder they can afford gritters, bar studs.