Vince Green

That was exactly the quote that my ex wife got at the food bank when they tried to hand out tins of vegetables They also didn't want things that required proper cooking like packets of macaroni

things like biscuits pringles, anything that wasn't a vegetable basically I think

My ex wife worked for a while as a volunteer at the local food bank. Some people would come in then sort through what they had been given and chuck out things like tins of peas or carrots and ask if they could swap them. Its not a straight forward subject.

School meals are not the responsibility of Central Government, they are provided by the individual schools and funded out of Local Government. The Government made an additional £60 million available to local authorities to cover hardship. However, the cost of providing the school meals in holiday or half term is much higher than just the cost of the meals. The school has to be opened up and heated, staff have to be paid to come in, teachers, catering staff, caretakers etc even though its their holiday time and they might not want to, or be able to because they have kids of their own at home. School dinner lady is a popular job for mothers with school age kids. Essential and scheduled maintenance cant be done. Its a much bigger problem that it first appears.

I'm told its variable, according to my neighbour who travels up there every day. when I had to get the bus to pick my car up a couple of weeks back I unfortunately hit 3.30pm just as the schools were turning out and the compliance on the bus was well below 50%, both masks and distancing. Plus the bus was overcrowded

It had a lot to do with how long I was inside the supermarket though

The other day I got stuck behind a middle aged woman who stood and watched all her shopping come through the checkout then only when it was all through produced some tatty old carrier bags and started putting the items into the carrier bags one item at a time like she was in slow motion. When all the items were bagged up and all the bags were in her trolley then she started looking for her purse It always seems to happen to me

Thats very true, I often used to stand behind mothers in the supermarket checkout queues and marvel at the amount of rubbish they were buying. And spending a fortune in the process.

They said supermarkets are having to close their clothing aisles and take things like CDs etc back into the stock room. The idea is that people don't linger in the shops, just pick up the stuff they need and go.

You just need a good LED head band

On my few visits to A&E (mostly with sports injuries with my sons) over the years I have found myself sitting with a waiting room full of people who had no visible outward indication of why they were there. I'm sure a small attendance charge, like they do in Ireland, would clear most of them out.

Not far away, I lived in Redbourn at that time but used to shoot all over, mostly up Tring, Ashridge, Cheddington Markyate, Cupid Green. my mate was a warden at Ashridge and thats the area where a lot of the cat sightings were

Some years ago a friend of mine had somebody clone his wife's number plate, he had a world of grief.

getting things delivered is not so easy in parts of Wales. Supermarkets don't cover all areas for delivery and even if they do getting a slot is next best thing to impossible

My God could you imagine it?

The popular wisdom is that if you did shoot one and reported it the body would be taken away and never be seen again. This (allegedly) happened more than once in Hertfordshire in the 80s when I lived there and was in close contact with a lot of the shooting people. The Ministry, and presumably the police as well, were intend on keeping it all very quiet, not broadcasting the fact that there was a problem. Probably also because the problem was caused by badly worded legislation.

Much the same as me, but the first stage is to convince the disbelievers that they really DID exist at one time.

I don't know, I am not pushing the agenda here but I remember reading that big cats coats go black(er) in low sunlight

In Hertfordshire in the late 70s and early 80s we shooters were aware they were there and that the farmers and gamekeepers were in close liason with the Ministry to get them mopped up as quickly as possible. Frankly, I'm amazed it is a story that anybody would doubt, because at the time it was fact. Could they hang on for 40 years? I don't know I know that where my SIL lives on Bodmin there were a couple of times when their dogs went into an absolute frenzy but nothing was ever seen. However, attacks on sheep are a matter of record up on the moor. Its also a fact that a lot of the farmers carry rifles. go figure

Nothing is more expensive than a badly worded will

The problem is often with the receptionist. My old doctors years back had a receptionist from hell. A right witch. The power goes to their head

Prior to 1976 you could keep them as a pet in the house and lots of people did, it was considered 'trendy'. I can remember as a kid being taken by my uncle to Club Row, an open air market near the docks in London and seeing them for sale, along with parrots and monkeys. All straight off a boat. I even remember stroking one. My uncle used to buy goats there

Yes they can, she can't clear probate in order to inherit his half of the house until all his debts are settled. But if they divorce she will have to sell the house anywav to give him his half of the value.

I don't really think the parallel with Brexit comes off that well. The EU is a very expensive club to be in

After the DWAA in 1976 there were loads of these big cats turned out into the wild by their owners who had little other choice. Most of them were subsequently caught or shot by the then Ministry of Agriculture on the quiet. That was forty odd years ago though. Could they have survived and bred all these years?