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*Bob* you can have my Dualit for a tenner only does ones side of the bread on two of the four slots

I reckon that Father Ted looks like a big white owl. Tawoo

It's not the claim is it Sean. Wind, wave, sun, none of it's going to deliver what we need for decades so either we change our lifestyles dramatically - think no foreighhn holiday, imports by sea and slowly, reduction in plastics, ration electricity, get rid of cars and that includes taxis, etc etc or we have to take these 'risks' - them the choices. Guardian readers seem to think a few hugely innefficient, expensive and actually huge resource using (to manufacture and service) wind farms in the Thames estuary and a barrier in the Severn and it'll all be Hunky Dory (*genuine use not Bowie song referrence) back to 24 hour electricity and Tuscany mini-breaks. Wind farmer developers - white hats, Huzzah,drinks all round Nuclear Energy - black hats, global conspiracy by capitalits etc. We've a choice and neither's easy.

There's the tinny sound of the micro bells of StJohns or Barry Road then there's the distant onerous chime in the still of night of Big Ben, one of th biggest bells in the world - the sounds are so different, believe me it's Big Ben

*Bob* sooooooo wants a Dualit

Or http://www.halfmoonpub.co.uk/index.php?option=com_eventlist&view=details&id=252&Itemid=50

What sort of discount do you get for buying 6?

As a compromise how about when you've bought the wedding gift the sum spent gets credited on a credit card that can then be used to purchase food and beverages on the big day before you have to switch to cash?

...yup.....forget the Protestant Work Ethic bit though! And my weaving needs a lot of work to be honest..

Absolutely ITATM I understand that but then what's the issue with January starting? Surely that helps with the issues you've identified?

Ted - I agree, but I like him and his presenting style generally (The accents are hysterical in the way probably not intended though). It's ok but vignettes of people and issues of the time used as an explanation of how modern britain emerged so a bit history-lite for my tastes but amusing and I don't see much else on the schedules that I like.

David - The black death was a few 100 years before the Hugenots. The Great Plague (admittedly part of the same bubonic family that started with Black Death) was around that time but didn't decimate the population to the same extent PS - I have Hugenot blood

Grantham...certainly not Dulwich (though she had that neogeorgian monstrosity there).

Do you still run with your shirt off with a nip in the air like today?

Have you heard his accents on "The Making of Modern Britain"? Fancies himself as a Thesp methinks.

tee hee

But Peckham they don't, it's not that divided. Many doctors and consultants have the best of both worlds - Public Sector benefits (and decent pay) plus high earning private sector top up work. And to a degree good luck to them, they work hard and are used as basic high skilled slave labour during training so do give something back - but I'm pretty sure most privately practicing doctors and consultants don't abandon the Public Sector anyway. As it happens I think the publicly funded 'benefits' should be scaled down but I think that's true for the whole public sector and that's another debate that I don't think goes well on here.

;-)

Everton Liverpool has the look of a relegation 6 pointer to me.........

What? Jean Paul Satire?

You old romantic *Bob*...I will. Edited; what's a romatic?

Furthermore - on Channel 4 last night they said that the report openly criticised the last 4 bishops of Dublin for ignoring and burying the issue...sounds systematic to me this isn't an occasional priest turning a blind eye. The current Pope is also refusing to allow external checks on priests etc - I dread to think what sort of abuse could be going on in the Catholic developing world where media and the courts, governemnt and agencies are possibly less able to keep an eye on this than others. I think the report also said that of 44 priests looked at 11 had been abusers - ok, it's a small sample but a quarter!! I'm not a great defender of the Church or religon per se but given that Catholic Theology has the clergy and the pope as specifically the medium by which to contact Jesus/god in a way that most protestant based christianity doesn't (the individual is allowed to contact god/jesus personally) then the potential for abuse is and I'm sure always has been horrific. Historicaly, it is difficiult to make a case that the catholic church has been for the benefit of man.

Hope to see you during the Election MM - well actually before but understand your point of view.

Tolstoy's a bit camper

No that's Satre Brendan