Malcolm Robinson

Helen Mirren.

Possibly Megan Fox?

I can see Joanna Lumley and Meryl Streep .........but no Hot Lips Houlihan!

http://www.journallive.co.uk/northumberland-sites/bedlington-northumberland/bedlington-news/2013/01/09/woman-attacked-in-clayton-arms-pub-bedlington-61634-32574410/

ARHHHHHHHHHHH course! Sussing, frussing, cussing.........

Two couples were playing poker one evening. Jim accidentally dropped some cards on the floor. When he bent down under the table to pick them up, he noticed Les's wife, Sue, wasn't wearing any underwear under her dress! Shocked by this, Jim upon trying to sit back up again, hit his head on the table and emerged red-faced. Later, Jim went to the kitchen to get some refreshments. Les's wife followed and asked, 'Did you see anything that you like under there?' Surprised by her boldness, Jim admitted that, well indeed he did. She said, 'Well, you can have it but it will cost you 200.' After taking a minute or two to assess the financial and moral costs of this offer, Jim confirms that he is interested. Sue told him that since her husband Les played golf Friday afternoons and Jim didn't, Jim should be at her house around 2PM. Friday afternoon. When Friday rolled around, Jim showed up at Les's house at 2PM. sharp and after paying Sue the agreed sum of 200 - they went to the bedroom, and closed their transaction, as agreed. Jim quickly dressed and left. As usual, Les came home from golf at 6pm. And upon arriving, asked his wife: 'Did Jim come by the house this afternoon?' With a lump in her throat Sue answered Why yes, he did stop by for a few minutes this afternoon.' Her heart nearly skipped a beat when her husband curtly asked, 'And did he give you 200?' Sue, using her best poker face, replied, Well, yes, in fact he did give me 200.Les, with a satisfied look on his face, surprised his wife by saying, 'He came by the golf club this morning and borrowed 200 from me. He promised he'd stop by our house this afternoon on his way home and pay me back.' Now THAT, my friends, is a poker player.

Don't tell me............your Dick the Lone Ranger!

Just booked (and paid for....thanks Dad!) for some rail tickets for my daughter to come up for a visit. London to Newcastle mid day and mid week £16.85. I thought that is amazing value especially when the same journey could cost £185.00. Now if it was that for of cost for a Puffing Billy..................

Is this both Keefys now going for a Whitbread Prize? Quality stuff chaps............... "We are travelling through what has now become known as 'Vera 'country - named after the popular T.V . detective," I thought you were talking about our new Police Commissioner.

Ya wasted keef................. :lol:

Hmmm...........yes..........just looked at Bede's history, possibly born around 673 so might just fit. Sorry GGG I though he was born much later.

Steamy........... See Foxy is starring.............

Better get a move on with this film Merc......... Bollywood looks to be catching up on your idea!

Not sure that's going to be old enough GGG?

There you go John, cleaned up. Like the footage.........

That's why I put the last picture up Merlin!!!!! We are all in the house at the end of the explanation! Why......... I would say because the establishment has protected itself, privilege and class rather than hard work, prudence and effort. That's about word for word (OK different words but still!) what you said on the railway posting!

Anyone got a shovel.................

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jan/06/nhs-reforms-stafford-hospital-report

I think everyone in any sort of supervisory position in that hospital should be sacked forthwith and never be able to work in healthcare again! That includes bean counters! Then anyone who was supposed to scrutinise this hospital's performance including the politicians, sacked feathered and tarred! Its culpable homicide or voluntary manslaughter what was going on there isn't it??????? If that's the shape of the NHS in 2013 God help us all!

Maybe Canny Lass can get us the definitive explanation.......if Sweden has public libraries?

Johnny Depp, give someone else a chance!

Probably a little later than this purchase, an earth barrow kerbed with stones was constructed overlooking the coast within one of the 'appendences' of Bedlington at Cambois (HER 12074). The barrow was opened in 1859 and found to contain the skeletons of a middle-aged man and woman and of a man in his 20s. An enamelled bronze brooch and a bone comb, both of distinctively Scandinavian type, were found within the graves. They are clearly pagan burials, and contrast with the only other evidence for Scandinavian influence in the area which is a sculptured slab which was set ex-situ into the external east face of the nave of the Parish Church of St Cuthbert at Bedlington (HER 11764). This abraded stone, first noted in 1921-2, shows two haloed figures-one holding a staff and a book, the other a rod. It is unlike other sculpture from Northumberland and has been compared to Anglo-Scandinavian work from the Tees Valley which would suggest that it was made in the 10th century. The barrow and the slab both speak eloquently of the fluidity of belief and of settlement in the area. The form of the Early-Medieval settlement at Bedlington is unknown. The name is of little help in establishing this, but it would certainly seem to be of Anglo-Saxon derivation, probably meaning the farmstead of Bedel or Betla (Mawer 1920, 15; Watson 1970, 160).

yet more 'claims'........... http://www.englandsnortheast.co.uk/PlaceNameMeaningsAtoD.html

More......... http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-424000-579000

Bit more CL............ Simeon of Durham, a church historian of the late 11th and the early 12th century wrote that Cutheard, the last Bishop of Lindisfarne and the first of Chester-le-Street ( 900-915) purchased with the patrimony of St Cuthbert the 'ville' of Bedlington with its appendences; Nedderton, Grubbo, Twizle, Cubbington, Slikeburn and Camboise (Hodgson 1832, 349). Grubbo and Twizle......anyone??????