SteveT

What's the price of seafood these days, would 'four tenners' be any good? My daughters birthday's coming up.

The system does not seem to have improved one jot. The MP's are still falling foul of the system which they created. Perhaps it is too complicated and should be simplified. Maybe one payment per year for expenses rather like a salary, might be more reliable.

Marmora Man wrote:- 'making an excessive profit' It is ridiculous, it is a damned sauce, it's not possible, that was market value! An excessive profit is mr Diamond taking ?64million from Barclays.

First things first, find where they are getting in to the building. How? take a fine sieve, fill with flour plain or self raising is good, walk around the edge of your abode tapping gently and sprinkle, look for where the action is and block with cement or stainless steel wool. Place spring traps at right angles to the skirting so they stick out into the room but the bait is nearest to the wall. A good bait is chocolate, a better bait is to melt the chocolate and add that blue poisoned seed to it, and when cooled break into small squares and load the traps. Save the remainder for future use you can sprinkle that directly on their runs. Sticky traps are good for a change, because the cunning vermin will not be trapped if one of their relatives have died in similar trap as they heard or saw it. There are also traps which are humane and leave the mice to live and persecute some one else, but they are different option, though once you have caught one or two you will catch no more. Collect them all up and use a different method. When using the poisonous seeds do not use the plastic trays provided, sprinkle on the floor as they are more likely to discover it and consume it. You might sprinkle some flour indoors to find where they move around. Best of luck.

I knew a guy he was sooo mean he stripped off the wallpaper.....................

They (Southwark) trim them every year HB whether you like it or not, and it is very narrow in parts especially for the notorious ED buggies.

Watching the baby robins hopping about the garden.

Edwardes need watching, when you go in look at the prices carefully and note the prices (write them down) of the ones you are interested in. Then ask for help from the staff. I looked at a bike which said ?370 looked around the shop came back to the one I wanted and when I went to settle up it had mysteriously lost the price tag and it was suddenly ?470.

SeanMacGabhann wrote:- We should be better than this So should those MP's doing such a hard job which is no doubt beyond the scope of most of us too, they made up their own rules and then they break them. They also make up the rules for us, but if we transgress and break those rules we are punished by the law, we either do time in gaol, or are fined. Why should the transgressions of their rules not be punished by the same law? When they pay back what they should never have taken in the first place, and resign, that seems to be their punishment, why are they not fined or imprisoned like the rest of us would be on this forum? Is it because he is gay he is exempt, or because he is a very wealthy, and very clever politician? I am only asking out of ignorance as I do not understand how the system works, but I do not expect anyone to get all heated about it.

When I buy I try to get best value for my hard earned.

It only means paying about double what you payed for your smeg, I have a miele and am very pleased with it, I am on my third one now, not because they break down but one was left in a house which I subsequently rented, and the second one was stolen by my ex-wife during the great divorce theft. The main thing is you only pay the high purchase price once, but every time you use it you will have to put up with the racket of a cheap machine, the miele is by far the quietest. Every time you load it it will pay you back, it has a better layout than the rest and the cutlery is placed in a sliding draw right at the top of the machine, rather better than dropping them into a bucket arrangement at the bottom. Now you know all that you can go and get a nice cheap one from curry's.

A chat with mlteenie might be beneficial. In my teens cyclo-cross was done on road bikes with maybe a change of wheels with knobbly tyres, so if you plan to be predominantly on tarmac then a road bike is the way to go. The lighter in weight the better, but a nod towards off roading may be done in the gearing, my top gear was a 44 point chain wheel with a fourteen point smallest gear. The next most important thing to the weight of the bike is the geometry, most of the off roaders are not comfortable for long distance rides on roads, as off roading means much of the time you are standing on the pedals. When I bought my first Mercian which is the midlands version of a claude butler, although in terms of height a 22 1/2" frame was correct, I only realized a year or two later when riding a bike belonging to another member of the cycling club with a 24 1/2" frame suited me better, and have the seat lower and closer to the frame, and a shorter handle bar extension as the frame was longer. Now according to all the experts the small one was the one which was correct for my height, but I have short legs and a long body, the larger frame was much easier to get along with in terms of pedalling and more comfortable for a days riding. The moral of this story is to borrow as many bikes from friends and colleagues as you can, and ride them for an hour or two, only then will you know which suits you best. It is really important to be painstaking before seperating yourself from your hard earned, as you will probably keep the bike for years but it will pay you back in full if you do it wrong.

The Guardian wrote:- Laws, the former chief secretary to the Treasury, was the subject of intense speculation today after friends expressed concerns that he might quit parliament altogether. Who would choose a fraudulant embezzler for any post in the treasury? There are honest people in this land but not it seems, in politics. Would that be because they have to twist, turn, and make deals before landing there in the first place, ensuring their place in the "Commons" leaves them with "soiled hands"? Tebbit wrote in the Telegraph:- "I very much doubt if anyone could form a government based in the House of Commons without including some of those who have transgressed the rules on expenses." Which all bodes well for the future of the "new era"! Laws was in it to the tune of forty thousand pounds. I know a guy who defrauded an insurance company of seven hundred pounds and got two years gaol for that first offence. Laws is reported as being very wealthy, if that is the case why should he be exempt from due process of the law of the land, it's not as if he was desperate for the money for his personal survival, he is hardly a starving waif. More 'snout in the trough' syndrome. Wouldn't it be a shock to read the headline Laws becomes an outlaw, gets four years for fraud. It'll never happen............

The dog wrote:- Yeah right.... But you still buy "The Star" W**F Quadruped, how I love to disappoint you, I have never purchased that publication. If you were wiser you would keep the wild accusations to yourself. Mangey cur!

Hooray! it's raining and we are well over due for a soaking. Now I don't have to hose down the fruit and veg.

lol:))

In my teens the best bit was leaving school and starting work, and the wage packet gave me status as an adult. In my late teens and early twenties I went from 'strutting' to getting a car. In my mid twenties and thirties, women found me more desirable and made overtures by persuing me via the phone, due I believe to having money, my own house, car, business, and single. In my forties, my two daughters arrived on the scene, and I joined the couples-with-kids-club and walking to, and collecting from, the school. My fifties, (as someone in his sixties confirmed) 'a good age, as you know everything, and can still do everything'. Mid fifties and mid sixties, you can no longer do everything or if you can, do it with care and pace yourself. Now I am single once more following the divorce, and loathe the legal profession, she arranges an expensive west end lawyer and I have to pay his bill, which is most unfair as I did not employ him. Mid sixties, I go to bed a normal-ish person and get up like a cripple with an aching back or painful shoulder from sleeping wierdly. I do some work in the garden come back in, an hour or so later and cannot straighten up without pain, whoever quoted the phrase 'ageing is not for the faint hearted' is correct. The chances are when you reach this part you will have a draw full of preparations and pills etc to hold you together from one week to the next. My ex father in law whose company I could not stand for more than 30 seconds at a time, said that retirement was rather like a wolf who had lived life in the forest and now living in a domestic garden. The kids drop in if they are hungry and cannot be bothered to cook. I love them dearly but once a week is about right. If they are together they tend to squabble, and compete. I remember some programme on Japan and they refered to their retired citizenry as 'big garbage' and since I have slowed down that is I feel an adequate description of myself. If anyone out there is looking forward to retirement fagedaboutit, for my money the best bit is when the children are small and you can still converse with the spouse in a civilized manner.

I think I might start buying the Telegraph they have been doing some great investigative journalism recently on the politicians, but more to the point they've printed it too. This paper used to be the darling of the upper classes and other assorted toffs, but now their remit seems to have changed and for the social good, a dramatic change of direction and they seem to have achieved their transition superbly. Full marks to the Telegraph, and they also have a good crossword too, which is a bonus.

Ganapati had succulent chicken but at forty quid for two of us, a touch expensive and for Peckham it was top whack really. We arrived at sixish and it was empty except for two couples, the waitress said loudly and accusingly "have you booked", the place was packed full of empty tables, so that irritated me. Never bothered to return, the pushy 'I'm doing you a favour' waitress was enough to put me off for life, the food was good but not outstanding and the size of the bill is what I remember most after the obnoxious waitress.

Next time you buy get him a pair of sevens plus a pair of insoles, fit one insole for the smaller foot.

He should do time for fraud if only things were straight and honest in this country. They always have a reason for not prosecuting these crooked politicians.

Do they carry little lamps ruffers?

If we did what he has done we would be jailed for fraud for a couple of years, he is getting off lightly.

I was looking for some tools to help a buddy finish off some plumbing, looked in all the likely places could not find them, a week later having finished the job I looked up to find one laughing at me. I hadn't moved anything, nothing had been disturbed, and there it was within arms reach, and this happens all too frequently, it is weird. I wonder if this house is possessed by a force not belonging to it's owner?...............no I just cannot find stuff when I want it because I don't remember where I last put the thing.

ruffers wrote:- Although I do make instant cake by shoving a spoonful of oats immediately followed by a spoonful of mixed fruit in the mouth. Recommended That recipe is not cake, judging by the quantity of fruit, it's a de-luxe muesli on the hoof although you need a swig of full fat milk as the final ingredient.