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Managed Goose Green park for a windy game of "what's the time Mr wolf"...bring on Mum's roast beef, kids at pm party and a Singapore Sling with the old girl...and maybe a new arrival tomorrow.....

Well...so what, it happened in Italy, under the judrsitriction of Italian law and the trial took place there under the scrutiny of the legal system there...what we've read in the papers and heard online hardly puts us in a position to give a verdict does it? Won't stop people though...

....not the missus, my mum! Anyone? I'm not taking my mum to Adventure or Boho....

We've just had that! Limboland still :'( all the best to you all

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Keef Uruaguay and Mexico are both decentish...but > SA are one of the weakest teams overall agreed. > > PS my comment on Italy was that they'd an easy > group rather than a big name going out! I'd agree

too many visits to the Den

Still not in the bottom 3, still a decent GD, played 5 of the top 7 at home and only 1 of the bottom 7....that's how I'm deluding myself tonight

Had a splendid evening and home by 12.45 to no signs of contractions... Catch up with many posters, missed a few who were there and just caught the very late tweeded arrivals (tsk) Special mentions to the glamorous granny proving non-drinking can be fun and Daizie for beating my 'she'll never show' cyncism I like both the snubber and snubbed so hope they can sort it out and that perhaps there is an explanation for what does strike me as out of character rudeness. Cheers all

My mum's here and she likes a bet so we may do this!

C,MON YOU IRONS

Keef Uruaguay and Mexico are both decentish...but SA are one of the weakest teams overall agreed. PS my comment on Italy was that they'd an easy group rather than a big name going out!

This was about an hour into the August 'meet' http://http//alcoholinfo.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/drunk.jpg

mmm..or maybe Italy

I reckon us or Argentina have the easiest group

Very decent draw - Don't like the look of Brazil's Brazil Portugal Ivory Coast North Korea

Fantastic - 8/10.

Jah, I meant Old Boys' - including meself...dreadful apostrophe placement old fella apologies

To join Jah in the old boy's alcoholic reminiscing, when I started work in publishing in the mid-80s we went to the pub everyday. To not go was considered not joining in with the workplace and was generally frowned upon. My office canteen had a bar and any director had a drinks cabinet with spirits/red wine for meetings. Monday was about the only day you could get away with not going to the pub. Plus everyone drank alcohol, no 'lime and soda' crap, and Fridays especially were a write off after lunch (although 'cos the pubs then shut at 3pm then, the afternoon involved drinking spirits or wine out of tea cups). Scarily alot of people were driving in or driving from the station when they got home. In addition everyone smoked anywhere so the office was full of smoke. I think this was pretty normal for most 'service' jobs then, certainly my mates who worked in advertising, finance, research etc all had similar routines. I think the early 90s recession was when it started to change. Now, on the rare occasions you get anyone at work to go down the pub at lunch anyone under 30 drinks soft drinks.

They all look sensible, apart from the rail one...not sure how much they or mine would save

I do believe that 2p on over ?200k wouldn't increase the tax significantly at all and maybe counterproductive but it's a nice gesture when it's all the 'riches fault' rather than anything to do with the government. As an aside, the richest 1% contribute 10% of income tax revenue and the richest 10%, half of the total income tax revenue. So, to Hugenot's point you're p1ssing in the wind with that sort of taxation change and risking our economy but polotics of envy is always popular. I'd like something far more radical like a doubling of fuel duty for private motoring as well as an across the board reduction of 5% in public spending.

You would have thought that HonnieB wouldn't have recycled last year's Christmas card...cheapskate

I may make this possibly with my missus possibly without, but as she is due to pop on Sunday we/I won't be there for long and wont be necking the booze..I may have a couple :)-D

The 85 Bazillion squids is not a gross spend - it will net out at far less and possibly will end up positive - that's the sharebuying and mainly the guaranteeing etc. Still not nice but not costing the ?40k per family quoted just what we are guaranteeing if the whole world goes bust *(still possible). The size of the Public Debt and the size of annual public spending budget was very worrying before, this has compounded it and if we lose our AAA rating the cost of serving it will rise considerably which is another reason it has to be tackled. Both Labour and the Tories know this - the boom tax receipts of the past 7 years are gone and gone for a long while and the size of the PS is massive - we can't afford it on current tax revenue. Raise taxes significantly - and that won't wash politically (and some argue economically) or cut governemnt spending significantly or a bit of both. Tough choices but if not we'll go bust, we may anyway.

The most efficient way is too impose the cut universally and then let the individual departments do the budgeting. My prejudibe is thst they could all lose 10% without affecting their efficieny...they won't agree naturally.

Nah, give Gavin & Stacey another pop