Vince Green

Know it well

Hi where in South Wales are you?

I have had similar several times with our company vehicles. Back then we used to give the drivers a single use disposable camera (remember them?) to keep in the glove box and tell them to always take lots of photos. Often just the act of taking the photos was enough to prevent anybody trying it on later

London is a massive international Hub, we have Heathrow Airport with five terminals all going flat out, Gatwick Airport with two terminals, Stanstead Airport, London Luton and London City airport all flying in huge numbers of people from all over the world every day. All the airports feeding travellers into the city by rail and bus links. I am genuinely surprised we are not way out in front of Italy

Yes you did the right thing, there are some out there who would have taken him to the cleaners over that. Milked it for all they could get The only sad problem from the old boy's point of view is that little unexplained bumps like that can be a sign that he shouldn't really be driving. My mother started like that, scraping posts and clipping cars in car parks. It comes to us all eventually.

In North London people build pretty much what they want and the council doesn't seem to have any REAL power to stop it. Part of the problem is that the registered owner cannot be spoken to, they don't live in the house allegedly. They only ever get to speak to the son/daughter/brother/niece etc and that's not a legal definition of making contact and they can't serve papers on a relative

We live in a London borough with a high Indian population. Lots of Indian shops and supermarkets. They still have rice

Is the internet going to stand the extra strain with all the people working from home, kids doing their school work and bored self isolators watching TV, films etc?

The trouble with the poll tax last time was that people just dropped off the electoral register to avoid having to pay. Also it was hard to collect where people lived in shared accommodation.

I had flu, real flue about 25 years ago and I never thought it was possible to feel that ill without dying and to be honest I wouldn't have cared if I did die. I lost three or four days where I don't remember anything. No conversations nothing. A total blank Six months later I still felt like nothing on earth, totally exhausted, dragging myself around just begging the hours to pass so I could drag myself back to bed. Twelve hours sleep and I woke feeling like my head hadn't touched the pillow. I was like a zombie and I still ached all over. I went back to the doctor and said "I can't still be feeling this bad" "Oh yes you can" he said "its called PVS, post viral syndrome" it can last for years. It took a year at least. before the cloud started to lift and gradually my old self returned. It probably cost me my job at the time, I didn't get fired but my performance rating went from 'exceeds' to 'marginal'. It was a time of restructuring and I was left out big time. Later came redundancy and I was in a dept earmarked for closure. You really cant imagine how bad you can feel, and it scares me now.

The only flaw in your case is that most of the hospitals that were sold off under PPI were sold off by Labour. Blair and Brown to be specific. Like more coal mines closed under Wilson than closed under Thatcher

Mind you she is not an immigrant, she was born here, but I take your point. Having lived for a while in West Africa where her family hails from, corruption is part of everyday life.

Yes but there is a difference between a cunning professional liar and a complete fantasist with so little grip on reality that its actually rather scary. To watch somebody completely self destruct over a speeding ticket is actually quite tragic. What ever your view of her or her politics this would have been, at worst, a £60 fine and three points on her licence. She may well have got off with a speed awareness course.

Bizarre behaviour, it calls into doubt her suitability to have ever been a lawyer or a politician.

Slightly different story but I have several times ordered small items that have simply never arrived. You end up thinking how much time do I expend chasing a couple of quid? they are going to say we sent it on xxxx , can I do anything?

The company I worked for most of my life employed a lot of shift workers who worked 5 x 8hour shifts a week rotating as earlies lates and nights. They approached the company and said can we change it to a 12 hour shift? 7am-7pm and 7pm - 7am? The company said yes as long as everybody agrees. The men then worked three times a week for two weeks and four times every third week. THEY LOVED IT. Sickness went down, productivity went up. The union worked out a way that shifts could be traded fairly and that worked too. One man lived in France, traded his shifts and did his ten shifts back to back on the run then went home for two weeks.. Others did one week on one week off. Everybody was happy. Flexitime but the peer pressure was so strong nobody took the pee. That would have meant nobody would ever have swapped with you ever again A win / win, one of the few examples in my life where unions actually made a positive contribution that benefitted both workers and employers

To be fair to the Councils they never wanted the job of recycling. It was one of those badly thought out EU directives imposed upon the UK by our betters in Brussels from on high.

I was told that the cost of producing a road cone from recycled plastic was roughly double that of producing one from virgin plastic. Councils talk the talk but then buy the cheaper ones because they have a legal obligation to keep down costs

Yes they do a lot of that here too.

This was always a Greenpeace thing, they opposed everything. Didn't like coal fired power stations, didn't like nuclear, didn't like wind farms or hydro schemes. Didn't like cars but oppose building new railways and bypasses. Just negative about everything.

Tomorrow (Wed 11th) Channel 5 at 8pm Worth a watch?

The reason is because five years down the line what starts as a voluntary bit of "going with the flow" evolves into a mandatory requirement

My Dad was on a destroyer on the North Atlantic convoys. I remember him saying once a destroyer had been at sea a couple of days in the North Atlantic there wasn't a dry place anywhere on the ship

Good idea, tell me where you are and I will be there for a bacon roll Round here (London) you would be cleared off in an instant by the criminally motivated competition who would petrol bomb you the first day you set up, after that it would get worse.

There is absolutely no requirement to keep a record of what you have reloaded. Don't get tricked into keeping a record, besides what purpose would it serve? you could write a load of old cobblers and they would never know. Why should the fact that I shoot 50, 500, or 5000 rounds a year make me a safer person to own a firearm? Why should it matter if I am only able go stalking/ foxing or what ever now and again? that I retired last year and am in process of moving house? Or that I have a new job and all bets are off till I get this contract sorted? Your suitability as an owner hasn't changed because life has got in the way? As it does