Malcolm Robinson

If everyone switches their electric heaters on we might be able to 'help' global warming and melt ski slopes quicker!

If anyone else would like to contact this firm and leave Mr Collins a message…….. Pity it doesn't have a drop down menu for 'a couple of million Geordies want to have a word with you bonny lad! Pick a winda!' http://www.directski.com/go/contactus?session=906e87e5c32b9963ecd5fd74d25b541d

Can someone get a Facebook campaign going to make this firm retract this stereotypical slur?

Bit of a hiccup as I believe they have had some of their funding pulled which has resulted in some of the ancillary stuff not being done now on the major parts of the route. Also bridge link has been scrapped so I don't know what is to happen with the proposed route down past Church Lane. The maps have had several changes I think! Sign of the times I suppose?????

Grenfell's and the COOP funeral directors better watch out.........

My recipe for a quick quiche. Buy a ready made pastry, round if possible. Use a flattish pie dish and fit pastry into it. Mix 4-5 eggs with a bit of milk and seasoning, enough to fill dish. Chop up a few mushrooms, onion and bacon, or use lardons. Sprinkle grated cheese onto the bottom of the pastry then add bacon and mushrooms. Pour over the egg and milk mixture adding a little more cheese to the top. Small tomatoes cut in half can be added now, cut side up. Whack into a pre-heated oven, about ¾'s heat range, for about 20 mins or until cooked. I normally watch the pastry to tell if cooked as the middle sets better as it cools down and my lot like it a bit on the sloppy side. I have used chopped up sausages instead of bacon (half cook them first) and also flavoured the egg/milk mix with curry powder etc. Best served cold as far as I am concerned.

I'm saying nowt, its her mike. Still lucky bear!

Only when it comes to tax collection time Merlin! To paraphrase a famous war cry......... 'no taxation without representation!'

A useful tool to combat parking meters and speed cameras!

Pete, Brian, So what do you classify as British these days as we have rushed headlong into embracing multiculturism and a global economy? I think nationality is, by and large, a birth right but that isn't really what is being talked about.

The biggest supermarket groups look to be trying to take over everyone's lives from cradle to grave as they expand away from their core activities. Banking, insurance, funerals etc. Expect a Tesco village or hospital wing somewhere near you soon! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/propertynews/7633824/Tesco-mini-village-building-plans-will-make-it-more-powerful-than-government.html Loosing this car park for universal parking will inevitably result in pressure and overflow on the other two small sites and what is the rider NCC attach to their introduction of parking charges, there has to be demonstrable need for parking space. Overflowing free car parks just ramp up the likelihood of charges being introduced! This will also result in even more thoughtless parking and the back streets will become rat runs! Again NCC can hold hand on heart and say they are trying to sort out problem parking by painting yellow lines everywhere and forcing people into paying car parks. Considering they are about to take over the roles of traffic wardens and start issuing tickets council seems to hold all the cards! There are to be public meetings about the NCC parking strategy and here are the dates and venues. Interesting to see Bedders not on the list but the Partnership is trying to rectify that! Morpeth – Monday 1st November, Corn Exchange, Morpeth Town Hall Hexham – Monday 15th November, Council Chamber, Prospect House, Hexham Berwick – Thursday 18th November, The Guildhall, Berwick Ashington – Monday 22nd November, Bothal Suite, Ashington Leisure Centre, Ashington Blyth – Tuesday 23rd November, Briardale Community Centre, Blyth . Cramlington – Thursday 25th November, Cramlington Community Centre Alnwick – Monday 29th November, Council Chamber, Alnwick

'That's what you said BEFORE the election Mr Clegg.' 'Errrr where......'

Pole cat Pete?????

I don't think anyone can rationally argue to maintain the Foreign Aid budget never mind up it, certainly for the next few years! I don't even believe we really need the full remit of cuts, they won't even do what they are supposed to do and that's putting our financial affairs in order. Look at the overspending by the likes of the MoD it's astronomical. Why ring fence the NHS, with a budget that size there has to be savings to be made without disrupting service delivery? Claw back some of the Sir Humphrey's golden goodbyes as well! As for the EU, it should really be classed as 'Not Fit For Service' and I say that as someone who supported it initially! It has NEVER had a set of accounts signed off….that's EVER! The rebate Madam T 'won' is due to be renegotiated and the French are trying to stop it thereby making our contribution increase. OK then let's do that if the CAP is scrapped and as France is by far the greatest beneficiary to that crazy scheme I wonder if Sarko and Madam La Grande will be so willing to put everything on the table.

Had some help off these two...........

One for Monsta.............. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB4OR66H5Rs&feature=player_embedded

Millionaires are two a penny monsta, this guy is a billionarie! I believe he has already paid for some improvements at the ground? Pity some of our more local big shots don't show the same faith!

Beg to differ Merlin, you and others have made a difference to this one! In fact I will wager a daft penny there won't be a toucan crossing at that junction now! Still got the 'original' problem of course............

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Definitely going to be 2-3hr parking for clients only.

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And even then we sell our votes too cheaply!

Actually monsta at a time of deep cuts in the public purse one of only two (I think) budgets which will get increased is Foreign Aid? (£5 billion?) Now I am all for helping others less fortunate and all that but I do believe charity begins at home, because if we don't get this right there won't be anything to take this Aid money from pretty soon!

I think it does exactly what it said on the tin in that respect.....just most people though the change referred to the way the political process was applied not that it referred to a change of mind, mandate and honesty!

Interesting question Brian, takes nowt to set me off!!!! I think what you are talking about is 'wealth' as defined by FIAT money, that's the cash pound note stuff we spend in the shops. Personally I think a nation's wealth is its peoples and the social cohesion and gregariousness that should signify, but that's another topic! The value of most given currencies used to be determined by the gold reserves that country held until the get rich quick boys in the 'City' came up with the present day plethora of chaos theory based valuations and ephemeral fiscal economics. These did nothing more than implode a debt mountain onto most people and make a very few very rich. Without the constraints of something of quantifiable value backing a currency other ways had to be found which gave substance to the FIAT money supply. We see that now as overvalued housing and equities and that is why the BoE like most other central banks ran QE programmes which did little more than maintain this illusion of value and put money exactly where it is unsustainable. Interest rates had to be at such levels governments could borrow, and service the debt, to enable this QE process to proceed so we see zero interest rates. The reason why rates remain at almost zero is as part of the process of transferring bankrupt bank debts off the bank balance sheets and onto the tax payers, that's us the tax payers who are picking up the tab by taking on the liabilities and debts of the bankrupt banking sector, which STILL more or less remains BANKRUPT, that only survives as a consequence of government support by means printing money and keeping interest rates at zero. This means that savers and wage earners are being forced to subsidise the bankrupt banking sector and also finance the government's budget deficit and total growing debt mountain by means of the stealth tax called INFLATION, which seeks to eat away the value of the total debt, as well as any residual value in our pockets. The present value of today's currencies is in most part determined by the exchange rate it attracts towards other currencies. Now if we think about the recent trends in globalisation, something which our financial masters consistently fail to do, we can see exchange rates are being revalued according to the trade imbalances between the likes of Western Europe/USA and the likes of China and to some extent India as emerging dynamic exporters. The Western response has been to start up the printing presses and print more FIAT money and that path leads to hyperinflation or a 'Weimar Republic' or 'Zimbabwean' economy! Instead of deflating asset bubbles to get back to some fiscal sanity we seem determined to keep them artificially high to maintain a very unsatisfactory and ultimately unsustainable status quo! China has its own problems and needs to grow its domestic market to balance its own exporting success or it will go the same way as Japan and feel the effects of deflation. What it is doing is buying 'continuation of supply' as it buys more and more of the world's resources notably minerals and oils. If that is allowed to continue unchecked it will mean the West can never again manufacture competitively within an open market! Effectively I think we have shot ourselves in the foot and are now taking aim at much more sensitive areas!