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"a coup of coffee" You successfully overthrew the dictatorial Nescafe? Sorry, couldn't resist......

"Looking into my family tree, iv discovered my mams family moved from cornwall to cramlington." My grandfather's family also came from Cornwall. I believe Great, Great grandad was a shaft sinker, and made his way up here after the Hartley disaster when such skills were in high demand.

I like Bernie, he's a cool cucumber.

"What has Sky got that you can't watch elsewhere" Most of the live Formula One races, and I refuse to pay.

"unstoppable international indecent" Plenty nudity, then?

"Also search on Roku. Sky is toast!" Interesting; I'm assuming, however, that you still have to pay to access sky channels?

"ChromeCast" What's one of these? Sounds interesting...

I didn't want to say, but this was inevitable. If you're interested I know a man who has created a set of authentic stocks (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Made-Evil-Furniture/209965445839267) ; put them in and we'll throw things at them.

4/13. There was nothing there about beer.

Missed this, hope you had a great day Adam

One that was doing the rounds on line yesterday, had me chuckling...... A burglar climbs into a dark house through a window, looks around for valuables, then suddenly hears a voice in the darkness: 'Jesus is watching you!' He freezes, waits a few moments, no more noise, so continues across the room. Again, he's disturbed by a voice: 'I'm telling you, Jesus is watching you!' Baffled, he turns on his torch, slowly casting it around the room, and alights upon a parrot in a cage. 'Did you say that?' 'Yes' says the parrot 'I just think should know that Jesus is watching you....' The burglar laughs. 'Yeah, right! What's your name then?' 'Noah' squawks the parrot. 'Noah? What sort of people call a parrot Noah?' asks the burglar. 'The same sort who call their rottweiler Jesus.........'

Oh, forgot to add, Mr Cowell going on about 'work ethic' is a bit rich, when myriad kids today believe that they, too, can get rich quick by becoming a pop star on a TV talent contest. Who is it that's behind that, I wonder?

"Simon Cowell will not give his son a penny and he is a multi millionaire." Adam, with respect, that's not what he actually said: he said his kid will not inherit his fortune. He didn't say he won't pay his bus fares and nor did it say he won't pay for his education, etc. The lad will be party to plenty of Mr Cowell's money across the years. On the subject, I'm not sure how to see it. Keith's right, transport is an expense and, for job seekers and many others, an essential one. Whether concessions should extend to children over 16 I'm not sure.

I'd give her one....vote,of course

We do have some sort of mining here, in several locations. It's on the surface, not underground. I don't know if you've taken a look at Shotton from the top of the sculpture, but it's huge.....

It's interesting; had I seen the person go down I would certainly stop to help; If I walked past someone lying on a busy street like that I would likely assume they were drunk. However, I like to think I would still stop to see if they were OK. A number of years ago a girl collapsed at the bus stop just as the bus was pulling up. I stopped to help her, despite the bus driver's insistence 'are you getting on or not?', called an ambulance for her, rang her father, the only number I could find, and waited with her to make sure she was OK (she was, she's still round also and a very nice lass). I was astonished that the others at the stop - two mature adults, one a woman - got on the bus. Is getting to work really that important when someone is in quite obvious trouble? When I explained my late arrival it was, of course, fully understood. What's a few minutes to help someone out?

I must confess to living in something of a pop culture vacuum these days, and had no idea what X Men were until I watched a film, by accident, last night. I am, apparently, Beast. Suits me.

Keith, you didn't think I was playing did you? Where would I stand my pint?

If it's the same cricket club that's there now it still has a bar, I was in it not long ago.

Malcolm for Prime Minister!

Maggie, Just re-read, the water was pumped up from Humford to the reservoir, the old pumping house was closed and replaced by the swimming baths so if there's still water in there, it comes from somewhere else now. I remember the great water shortage! I would like to know more about 'Old Hall Well' if anyone can shed light on it.

Yeah, I thought you might already have it, I didn't see it when you posted it. Interesting document.

Ok, let's see if this works.......there should be a rather large PDFattached........... Bedlingtonthing.pdf

"wonder if the water that collects behind the Red Lion is from a ground source ." Maggie, I'm sure I read somewhere that the water was pumped from Humford, but may be wrong.

Malcolm, the main item is a PDF but it's massive! I'll see what I can do.