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..and not too many strides from the Post Office for mail order! If only I was 50 years younger!

Literally just a stone's throw from the exchange, so does this mean there's FTTC there? The major complaint of many small business is lousy Internet.

Donald Trump should make a State Visit to the United Kingdom. It's going up faster than any one I've ever followed. Pity the petitioner can't spell! The interesting thing for me is will the BBC ever mention it; they've been doing a magnificent job of promoting the Corbynista one for days now.

A friend in East Anglia just messaged me about his switch to BT Internet a short while ago: He's a very senior citizen so not prone to switching for the sake of it.

I've pinned the thread for now Sym, though maybe we can find a better way.

Unemployment falls by 52,000

Is that anything like Skype?

Post-Brexit vote, UK leapfrogs Sweden and US in allure

You'd think that as a (fat cat?) lawyer Emily Thornberry would be an expert communicator, after all that's what she is paid a lot of money to do. But boy was she struggling to communicate on Peston on Sunday! Peston quizzed her on Labour's immigration policy saying ""There is so much confusion about your position. What is it exactly?" After much talking around the issue ("The economy is most important thing. We have to be looking after the economy.") he was reduced to a "You have not made it clearer", to which she replied "I've done my best." Well your best leaves everyone - including it seems Labour MPs - highly confused Ms Thornberry. It's simply not good enough for a professional communicator, so I'm offering you a bit of help borrowed from none other than a former adviser and speech writer to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett. He was faithfully reported thus:- "The economy is most important thing. We have to be looking after the economy." - Well, of course it is Ms Thornberry; that's made very clear in those notes from your spin doctor!

How could the Robinson family bible get it so very wrong?! From misty memory the authoritative "Gee" family bible has it at 4400 years. but of course that was about 100 years ago right now, so maybe we can split any remaining difference?

Exclusive: Chancellor Philip Hammond took personal stake in food technology company months before it won share of £560,000 Government contract The opposition are going to play this one for all it is worth. Hammond was always a dumb choice for Chancellor. In the old "honourable" days this would have been an instant resignation matter, but they will try to ride it out.

On a slightly less serious note... Is this glorified Post-it note worth $4000 - $8000? No, I'm not poking fun at modern art collectors - far too easy a target, and also so easily overdone. It's the signature of course, and what it says about us that we'd want to pay that. Isn't that Andy Warhol's "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" point? Fame by association has a definite market price, even if the association is with an 85p tin of soup. And, here you have a BOGOF offer.

Maybe twenty! Moon formed from merger of 20 little ‘moonlets’, new theory suggests So, everything we were told about the Earth being the result of the collision of two smaller planets was likely a load of bunkum. What's more, this has been suspected ever since the first samples of moon rock were chemically tested; now how long ago was that? What I find amusing about the failing theory we were taught as certainty is the pseudo precision (around 4.31 billion years ago) of something which likely never happened. The current "global warming" hype hinges around precision measurements (0.12c a decade) which even modern instruments are struggling to resolve. This further illustrates just how dumb the BBC Guardianistas are when they proclaim that "the science [of so-called climate change] is settled", and so there can be no further discussion. That can only ever be the case if you are veering into politics and religion, and the inconvenient counter evidence is embarrassing. Real scientists retain an open mind, and constantly denigrating Trump for having (what is these days) the courage to sit on the fence, is in fact a massive display of bigotry from the very people who regularly level that accusation at others. I don't think anyone is saying "carry on as before", as it's only common sense and good housekeeping to clean up our act. But in the hysteria about (anthropogenic) climate change it's so easy to overlook other polluting factors which may turn out to be vastly more important; this in order to fit someone else's political agenda. It also becomes so easy for politicos to divert vast sums of (other people's) money into madcap schemes, and thus ignore areas of more pressing need. The only certainty here is that those who don't retain and encourage a degree of scepticism very surely possess a hidden agenda,

"bug stopped play for me" There is "something going around" in town here too, and I probably caught it during the 4.5 hour+ communal Christmas lunch (only in Italy!). Mrs 3G seems to have escaped with only an early light cough (is this positive for the 3G family gene pool you ask?) Anyway.. it's now just over a full decade (6th December 2006) since I arrived here permanently in "the Mediterranean outback" from the total civilisation of Bedders, and HOW things have changed here since! Maybe some of the details later. A Happy New Year to everyone!

An amazing quote in today's Daily Express: But hang on a tick "Ms" Graham: are you telling us that if the Blairites get back control of your party things will be any different? You both want to open the floodgates to mass immigration. The fact that it's the Corbynista's communism, and the Blairite's intention to force working people's wages down in the fascist EU, is a little academic here don't you think? I take back anything I might have said about your intelligence Ronnie; you clearly have enough smarts to know when the Labour Party gravy train is about to hit the buffers.

Philip was a friend of our family, and I'm sure did a fair bit of our industrial electrical work too. I can recall some humorous discussion about his cable stripper in the late 1950's or early 1960's, but never actually encountered one of them myself. This info regarding his injury explains a lot. Reg Dixon is another name that passed over my head as a child, along with Bill Orange, Bill Elliott, etc... It was a smaller world then.

A video to calm the nerves of your fellow travellers as you queue for ages at the inevitable security check.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/12/22/uk-car-production-roars-17-year-high/

The fact that she got away with unarguable massive fraud has to show even the naive who voted Remain exactly how the Euro-elite system actually works. 5000 of them in France alone, and they heavily intermarry to keep the gravy train on the rails for generations to come. The membership queue includes most of our MPs, and particularly the Blairite Labour ones. The Brexit vote was a disaster to these people, but Blair is plotting behind the scenes to undermine it.

Yes, that's certainly part of it: he was contemptuous of it, but as it was his "comeback number" couldn't refuse to perform it. Main thing is his producer rushed the recording because he didn't have an exclusive deal, and got wind of another major release by... I forget who. As there was no time to organise a proper song arranger Frank simply had to ad lib the ending. It was recorded in only two straight takes and the best bits of each one quickly spliced. Then the producer got air stewardess' at the local airport(s) to hand deliver pre-release copies to radio stations in different parts of the USA to get it on the air before the rival version. This obviously worked well for Frank. It's actually a foreign song (the Balkans?) with English lyrics added later. I'd heard of the Scooby Doo connection but was a little dubious. But, if there's attribution it's most probably correct. HAG = Have A Go Sorry, lazy typist at times!

So you know about the solar array then.

It did. Not the only town to have a smoke problem; I'm still kippered from last night on the bike! Shower beckons!

Get it in the Services Directory then, and yes we are a community resource and a Bedlington URL (and your very own FREE webspace) is there for the asking. You can also have your own forum on the board providing you provide your own moderation, and it can be as open or as closed as you wish. PM if you need any other help. P.S. Don't forget to post your meetings and other events on the calendar.

The reason(s) behind the doo-bee.. are even more interesting. Laters if no one can come up with them. Amazingly the charting of this song in the UK and the final days of HAG are approximately time coincident. Coincidence or not?

Excellent! I didn't think anybody would get that. Long before my time - of course! Here's an interesting factoid: His wife Mabel played the piano in the quizzes in later days, but when HAG started in 1946 the piano player was non other than the latterly famous Violet Carson, so maybe that harmonium in Coronation Street was there by request?