Steve Turnbull

Here’s one someone told me: when Sweden play Denmark the legend on the scoreboard will read SWE-DEN. The unused letters read DEN-MARK. Fun fact.

Project Fear! Love it. Was that the drive to get people to vote for what was never going to happen? I mean, as we’ve said before, a whole wedge of voters said leave on the grounds those horrible foreigners would go home? 

Mmm, I wasn’t suggesting one or the other...

Wouldn’t it be nice to have one local.,,

15 hours ago, webtrekker said:

My money is on Aldi. 

Well...

2 minutes ago, rosco said:

You can't compare Bedlington to a Scandinavian town

I’m interested as to why not? People have the same basic needs and canny lass mentions a not dissimilar population. I’m no expert on Sweden, however!

Reliable source! Almost from the horses mouth. I could tell you more, but Then I’d have to kill you. It’s not Waitrose.

Btw I have no idea why it says ‘ going to work’ at the end on my first comment!

Oh I couldn’t do that! Let’s just say from what I’ve heard it’s one of the only two chains that are currently expanding rather than cutting back, and one of those already has a store in bedlington. Of course, I could be wrong!

It was widely proposed that Morrison would close after Lidl opened. It’s still going strong. Brand loyalty is a powerful thing. You should be able to guess who it is!

35 minutes ago, webtrekker said:

Couldn't be bothered to look. Another crap website not scaled for mobiles. 

I agree with you. 

What a wonderful word! I shall tell her that, she’ll appreciate it. I’m her designated Head Gardener here at the moment as she’s away for six weeks on an internship at Woburn Abbey. Difficult to hide how proud I am of how far she’s come, and the gardens have played a massive part. 

She’s a young lady who has had a troubled time and was ‘rescued’ by my sister. Now part of the Tumby family! Her passion is growing plants, and she’s turned a little hidden walled garden that was an overgrown junkyard into a tranquil place of great beauty. It’s been as much a pleasure to watch her plants come to be as to watch her get from a very dark place to be able to be herself again, and to help her do it. Needless to say I’m very fond of her, and her roses! 

The brewing bit I appreciate! My favourite of Emma’s roses:

I trust his better judgement! My friend was unsure and is only a youngster still learning! Mind, she grows the roses, so she’s doing ok!

One of our roses

No, sedum. It begins with s and ends in um.

My lovely horticulturalist friend says it’s some form of serum. No, sebum. If that helps.

She’s a liability. I do find it sad, though, that  immigration as a general term is now regarded as something negative and detrimental. 

That’s not really fair Tony. We’re all entitled to support whatever political party we wish, and for 3G that’s UKIP. I looked closely at them also but they failed to deliver. 

You could be right there, although I was viewing on a laptop. 

It’s horrible; every I and small L is bolded. I’m offering advice from experience in online marketing and presentation. It’s akin to using yellow on white. I don’t know if it’s a mistake or deliberate but as you seem to be quite well in with them, please pass my comments on. Layout etc is fine; just ditch the random bolding. (Unless it is just doing that for me, which would be weird)

To be quite frank, I’m past caring. I’ve come to realise, through events that changed my life - and that of others in my circle of friends - at Christmas that it’s not the past doings of Dodgy Dave, or the current ones of Mrs May, or the events of Brexit, or the evils of Islam, or the fact that half the population can’t be arsed to find out what they are voting for, that shape the past, present or future; it’s what is there in front of you, on a personal level. If the stuff you get worked up about on here is what drives you, you need to rethink. You’ve still got a life; enjoy it. And you can’t reliably predict anything; none of us can.

People forecast the demise of Morrison’s when Lidl opened.

Excellent! I am a great admirer of Issigonis. Hobnobbing with the Agnellis? Now that’s something!