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Here you go for the ex pats............ https://bedlingtondesigncompetition.wordpress.com

Hope you have a Gudin Brian.

and the debt keeps rolling up...................... http://www.nationaldebtclock.co.uk

It's great isn't it, this repeated juggling of the country's finances!

We have been more successful with other local shops. All comments have been noted. Now the paper is off and the old walls may need skimming. No chance to sit and stare Eggy. 'Whats this life if full of care we have no time to stand and stare'. No wallpaper, no objects of art to stare at : in our case the old framed newspapers are hidden away till all is done and dusted . I might add Eggy they are history objects . Start of War 1939 (old Evening Chronicle ) then (The Journal's) Victory in Europe and finally Japanise surrender .

You may not have followed Round the Horne then! It's just that the innuendo in those days went right over way the heads of the sfuffed-shirt establishment and was so much more hilarious for this! Those in the establishment who did get it - clearly not Mary Whitehouse - had the good sense to keep their mouths shut. In fact it was so cutting edge that you got gems like this: Try that sort of thing in these PC days you luvvies; especially if you are one of those threatened with prison (Kenneth Williams)! Fanny was brilliantly lampooned by the late great Betty Marsden (as Fanny Haddock), at a time women weren't supposed to do that sort of thing. This has recently been revived by Kate Brown in Round the Horn Revisited - a must-see for anyone that believes their more recent generation invented satire. ...and, yes, I do realise the irony in your post!

GOTTA PEE Two women friends had gone for a girls' night out. Both were very faithful and loving wives, however They had gotten over-enthusiastic on the Bacardi Breezers. Incredibly drunk and walking home they needed to Pee, so they stopped in the cemetery. One of them had nothing to wipe with so she thought She would take off her panties and use them. Her friend however was wearing a rather expensive Pair of panties and did not want to ruin them. She was lucky enough to squat down next to a grave That had a wreath with a ribbon on it, so she Proceeded to wipe with that. After the girls did their business, they proceeded to Go home. The next day, the husband of one of the women was concerned that his normally sweet and innocent wife was still in bed hung over, so he phoned the other husband and said: "These girl nights have got to stop! I'm starting to suspect the worst. My wife came home with no panties!!" "That's nothing," said the other husband, "Mine came back with a card stuck to her arse that said...... 'From all of us at the Fire Station. We'll never forget you.' "