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Who could possibly have guessed this? Further proof - if any were necessary - that it's always best just to get on and do your own thing.

How do you rationalise the fact that despite the Deludocrats earlier siren warnings, the Trumpster was the only POTUS in modern history NOT to start a war? Wars always start through perceived weakness - Sleepy Joe being a prime example. You'll love this article in today's DE: My Labour chums can’t wait for Starmer to win power - here's why they’ll hate every minute

That's what my prediction is based on

That's a close call, Eggy. Biden will likely still be in office until early January, and there's the traditional first phone call. "1. I will be avoiding the first 15 minutes of the start of every BBC news broadcast for at least the next 42 days" Why limit it to 15 minutes and 42 days? The BBC no longer broadcast actual news. "a giant size inflatable Bedlington Terrier will hover" -- some great ideas coming out of this thread already!

@Vic Patterson I see we have two posts on the new rail line - but no updates for 5 months.

Haven't seen any updates posted online for weeks now Vic. I'll see if I can find any updates that are giving the progress = telling the truth. This is a link to the Northumberland County Council Northumberland Line promotion site :- https://www.northumberlandline.uk/

@Alan Edgar (Eggy1948) @Symptoms ...all of those 14 things plus: 1 Mickey Mouse will be the UK's prime minister. He'll need to have a long distance relationship with Minnie because she'll be in the Oval Office multi-tasking with housework, running the country and preparing a womanfesto for the next erec... (sorry FHF again, plus, I must take more water with my whisky) election. 2 Bedlington will receive millions from Mickey's government to prepare Bedlington for the hosting of the next winter olympics. The mascot, a giant size inflatable Bedlington Terrier will hover over the ski-slope, aka Bedlington bank, throughout the duration of the games. 3 The seats in Wetminster will be reupholstered in a high quality, waterproof, black and white striped material. 4 Included in the responsibilities and powers of the Speaker of the House of Commons is the punishment of offenders. Such punishments will now include those of a corporal nature. Wrist-slapping will no longer be curtailed to the verbal variety. Standing in a corner may also be added to the list of punishments allowed. TV-coverage will be so much more fun. 5 Black Rod will be called Red Rod and her knock should be answered by all MPs simultaneously singing a chorus of Mary Hopkin's Knock knock who's there? 6 Yorkshire puddings, having held the monopoly on the name for far too many years, will now be called Northumberland puddings. 7 Parliamentary night sittings will become night standings. That should put a stop to that mullarkey.

The first two lines of Nichi’s article say it all. ” What do undecided women voters want? That’s the question prickling many a Westminster wonk ahead of our July 4 election.” Westminster wonk? Please, somebody, anybody, tell me that’s a spelling mistake and make my day! In this erect… (sorry, must be too much FHF), election the risk is, I believe, minimal. Big Dicky’s tie is a direct no-no! Anybody needing a tie that long to point the way to his er… brain (despite his pet-name) is not going to get many female votes. They are wasting their breath, time and money with their manifestos. What we women need are womanfestos to help us decide and if we women reach Erect… (sorry, it’s that FHF thing again) Election Day, untouched by the main political parties’ attempts to woo us then we have a very efficient and reliable method for making that all important, final decision: Lick the index finger of the right hand, close both eyes, circle the licked finger three times in a clockwise direction at shoulder level, quickly move the finger in a downward direction until contact is made with the voting slip, open both eyes and place a cross at the point covered by the tip of the index finger. Never fails!!

Any updates? things must be taken shape.

Oh! ... I have to have a go at this. 1. The most fragrant Kier will sweep into No10 having slaughtered the Tory scum by a monster margin - 500 seats to a rump of opposition parties. He will be singing Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice as he goes through the black door. 2. The glorious Labour Party will sweep all the crazy SNP out of office up in chillyjockoland. 3. The devine Angela will co-ordinate the rounding-up of all those corrupt and swivel eyed Tory/Reform/Brexit nutters and house them in re-settlement centers before shipping them off to Rwanda in cuffs ... this will be broadcast during prime time on the wonderful BBC. 4. An arrest warrant will be issued for Boris Kerfuffle Johnson for crimes against public decency. He'll be captured in some upstairs room in a Soho knocking shop. After a lengthy trial at the Old Bailey he'll be found guilty and sent down for a 10 stretch at the Scrubs where he'll become the 'plaything' of a brutal lifer. 5. Tony Blair should join Johnson at the Bailey but will instead spearhead Blighty's re-entry into membership of the EU. 6. Manchester City are found guilty of all that financial naughtiness and stripped of all their silverware and relegated to the Northern Counties Sunday League. The mighty Toon sweep all before them and cement their place as UK/Europe's top dogs. 7. The Yankees elect Trumpet in November and he declares war on China/Russia/North Korea and the World as we know it ends.

Using your 7 predictions I go for :- 1. I will be avoiding the first 15 minutes of the start of every BBC news broadcast for at least the next 42 days 2. Anthony Charles Lyton Blair will resurface and make Donald John Trump and Nigel Paul Farage joint executives of the Institute for Global Change to ensure the UK is flung into the depths of depression and the UK population will have trouble doing normal day-to-day activities and will sometimes feel as if life isn’t worth living. (However I will still be singing and dancing in the rain doo be do do, do be doobe dodo, doo be do do, do be doobe dodo, doo be do do, do be doobe dodo, .................. ) 3. The congregations of all religions will swell as the UK’s population prays for Angela Rayner to be a convert to the Scottish National Party before the Labour short term government is embarrassed by Lorna Kuenssberg Sunday morning politics show. 4. Richard James Sunley Tice will have no seats in government and will return to making millions from real estate. 5. Rishi Sunak will stay as opposition leader. 6. Donald John Trump will be sentenced to four years. Is the White House the finest building in America or the crown jewel of the prison system (Bill Clinton 1993). 7.By the end of 2024 Sir Kier Rodney Starmer will not have communicated with Joseph Robinette Biden. One out of seven is a win, for me, and 7/7 means I will start my own party ready for the 2028 general election.

Wow, I'd never considered there might be a FHF (female hormones factor) in this election: Many women risk falling for Reform UK's bad boy boss Richard Tice in this election -- By Nichi Hodgson So all that's really needed for Reform to take a sizeable chunk of the vote is some beautifully framed pictures of Mr T? And.. we all doubtless thought that manifestos mattered, Nichi!

Sunak will lose over 150 Tory seats on July 4th. Tony Blair will resurface in some capacity (Starmer owes him, and he owns Starmer). We will get a one-term Labour government that will be in total disarray within 3 years. (maybe less) The Reform Party will win some seat(s) despite the huge FPTP disadvantage. Sunak and his wife will decamp to the USA, tempted by some plumb position. Donald Trump will practically sweep the board in the USA elections. By year-end, Nigel Farage will be appointed US special ambassador to the UK, and Starmer will be forced to go through him. Five out of seven is a win, and 7/7 would cement my pure genius! Feel free to add your own predictions. Go on, you know you want to! BTW Trump does support Starmer already, and I think I can probably see why.

Now I see it -

Miss Cambois 1960. 14.58. Got to love the "happy dancer" Zoom and freeze brings all the families back, slower simpler times, times were much harder then but you wouldn't think so looking at the faces, especially the kids. Most of these people have left us now but with the magic of cinematography we can enjoy their company again.

Hey, it's the modern BBC: you simply can't expect inclusivity, diversity, and getting the year right - all at the same time! OK, try 3:35 for the peek at the calendar. It's the time difference here, you see!

Is the year 1961 just refering to when the film was broadcast? Picnic 1960 was Saturday 11th June & 1961 was Saturday 10th June. @threegee I think I need a cup of tea and a lie down - I can't see any calendar at 4:35

I've watched that several times over the years, but there's always something I previously missed. Ken Russel's stuff always tends to the surreal after a while, and the rain-off plus carousel at the end deliver beautifully for him here. Far too many things I recognise to comment on, but the shot down into the council yard at 3:46 adds a bit to last week's discussion about The Shirt Factory. How do we know it's actually 1960 and NOT 1961? Well... look at the peek at the top corner of the calendar at 4:35 - Sundays were on the 19th and 26th of June in 1960, but if it were 1961 these would have to read 18th and 25th.

That brought back a few memories!

Great watch, x2, Looking for my then fiancé, family and tons of relatives (they came from far and wide) at my first picnic. Just re read the intro and see it was 1960, one year before we met, everyone except me would be there!

Fantastic bit of detective work!