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Possibly because the banks who borrowed from the gulf at 15% per annum need a little help with the repayments.

The law which gives the spouse suing for divorce the lions share of the assets which she had never earned. The law which gives the recently moved in girl-friend a call on your property within 6 months. The law which allows children to have more say in the school classroom than the teacher. The law which the Health and Safety crew thrive under. The law which prevents one from sacking on the spot, an employee caught thieving. The law which does not protect us from the behaviour of an owner of a dangerous animal. The law which prevents one from speaking one's mind on any racial, or religious subjects. The law which does not control the sinister fremasonry. The law which does not protect you from shyster lawyers shafting the innocent citizenry. The law which allows the cranks in power to administrate a charge to drive across the city we live in.

I would not scrap laws but rewrite them in simple English. I would scrap lawyers.

The government has taken a lot of equity in the likes of RBS, and once the situation is stable, they will release the stock, probably at a profit. It does stick in the throat that many employees of a failed company are still getting paid very well, but at the end of the day they need to retain their staff, so what can they do? Sometimes you need to look at things from a logical - rather than an emotional - perspective. Wrote Jeremy. To attempt to look at things in a logical way one might argue that Bob Diamond taking 64million from the coffers of Barclays, who have borrowed large from the Gulf at 15% per annum, might be considered to be gilding the lily a tad, for one years work excluding his salary. A few years back when the Vikings did it, they called it pillaging, now due to a severe drop in standards we call it banking

Last time I was round the lake and the heron moved a step towards the ducklings, mum let out a quack and they all instantly went under water until the heron had gone.

Bonniebird I could not walk away from the pitbull which attacked me. I am a citizen, I was attacked, I am allowed my say. I am not intent on punishing all dogs, merely making the animals safe enough, for strangers to feel safe. I think it would be no different to putting the lead on, the animal would get excited at the anticipation of the excercise, not the actual muzzle wearing. I do not hate dogs at all, I hate the fear they can cause people. I resent the lazy obnoxious owners who only care about whether it won the fight. Although the responsible owners are not guilty of fighting dogs, not all collect up their pets deposits. All I wish is to cross open public land and not be at risk from an unleashed animal.

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It sounds good practice to me RosieH, muzzle all dogs as you suggest, before they leave home and reach the street.

Jasmine smells nice, is evergreen, and tends to grow happily any where. Another sweet smelling shrub is Mock Orange my neighbour has the most fragrant one I know but it's grown large at 12 feet high. If fragrance is not important perhaps a clematis, there's loads to choose from.

My daughters went through mixed primary and secondary schools. I asked if either would prefer single sex both refused although I asked them 3 years apart. Both had the same answer, they preferred mixed because when it all got to bitching time at school, as it inevitably does, they felt they could always hang with the boys, who were obsessed with other more important things, like who was going in goal.

EDKiwi wrote:- as people don't rent a van to drive around with it empty all day. :)) Can't argue with that logic Kiwi!

I suspected this place was becoming a banana republic.......................with royalty?

Perhaps give it to someone as a present so it lives in a different position, one that it prefers, where it can live a fulfilled un-mildewed life. The ungrateful so & so.

There is a vegetarian indian restaurant in Drummond st (diwali) or something similar, which gets full of indian families and is often very busy, it is very good value but there is no booze the most popular drink is lassie. There is an enclave of indian restaurants there so you will not struggle for a good meal.

Try a different variety perhaps.

Yes it is annoying, but it is soooo worth it.

I have been double digging a trench to plant more veg as I'm shortening back the lawn. The soil is so dead nothing moves in it when I turn the soil over, no worms or earwigs, even the robin is not interested in poking around. So I am removing all the stones and any other bric-a-brac and then adding a dose of pellated lime, as any earth becomes acid if it's not cultivated. I shall leave it turned over with the lime and wait until it rains before I do anything else to it. After the rain I shall add a sack or two of compost to it so that it remains softer and more likely to hold moisture for the pea plants, and then all the sticks I can find to keep the blessed pigeons off it.

So the Sun collects news items from ED forum, I always used to prefer the mirror anyway when it had Keith Waterhouse and Pilger. I don't suppose the Sun will print this bit of info.

They can be recycled for hard core.

You two sound like an old married couple!:))

They should be jailed for such practices.

What are the facts upon which you base your conclusions about the Kennel Club? wrote first mate. There was recently a programme about the KC and the way it has been operating. One part of the programme was filmed at a dog show, the winner was a German Shepherd which was soooo weak in the back legs it couldn't stand up without being supported by the owner's hand placed under it's stomach, as soon as the helping hand was removed the dog collapsed. They also highlighted the facts about king charles spaniels having heart defects which reduced their lives to four years. Soon after this programme went out Pedigree Chum pulled out of supporting the KC losing them their single greatest financial source of income. Bull terriers had been losing their popularity since the forties, and it only became more popular when illicit dog fighting became big and the money stakes rose accordingly. Another boost to it's popularity was in the black market drug industry. When the friendly neighbourhood dealer discovered that the bull terrier could keep at bay the police dogs long enough for him to make his escape from the police. If we have to put up with these creatures why not have them muzzled in public places, is it too difficult for us to organise something so simple?

HAL9000 wrote:- As for the banks - they are the economy - they create money through debt. A few months ago property was deemed the economy, now it's banks. I usually agree with most of your posts HAL but only when you're right. The economy is driven by what we produce and sell abroad at a profit. Banks will not produce anything like the revenue they have in the past from foreign investment, because they have been outed as lying thieving untrustworthy ne'er-do-wells, and I do not expect peoples perception of them will change anytime soon. Banks roles originally was merely a safe place to protect the goodies we gave them to look after, and not as the prefect of the financial world. That role has been bequeathed to them by successive improvident, lazy, lack-wit governments who seemingly new no better and were either ignorant of there behaviour or clean out of ideas, although probably both. The banks have proved beyond all doubt they are not up to the job of managing their own businesses or any money judging by how much of our the tax payers hard earned has been stuffed into them free of charge. All other companies being bailed out to a fraction of this extent would have been nationalized. The chairman and board removed, and someone put in their place by the bank to run things until a buyer was found, but essentially it would belong to the people who paid the piper until purchase was finalised from another source. If what HAL says is true about banks being our economy, just harbouring the thought sends shivers down my spine. The economy is not going to improve until we manufacture competetively to a high, world class standard and doing it on a large scale. People sitting in front of screens as a full time job is essentially non-productive, and usually expensive. A person who weilds a kit of tools who is vital for production is frequently lower paid and has a shorter working life. These imbalances are due to how we perceive the value of a job, and until we rethink these things on a national scale, and rapidly, then we will be no longer part of the G8 but a banana republic who cannot grow bananas.

ImpetuousVrouw wrote:- Are they after the vehicle or it's cargo do you think? What does that matter to the innocent victim, either way it is a dangerous and disturbing incident to happen to you.

A bandit's hideout?