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yahyah

Sudsiness, what a lovely word. Sounds angelic and bubbly but also a little naughtily mucky too. Thanks for those tips Lady C. Have got a small paintbrush handy so will do the sudsy trick later. Have just been drooling over Sarah Raven's gardening site, got a 20% voucher so have ordered some white al...

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Marr is starting now. Darling and EM are on. After hearing Marr and those two newspaper people setting up the "it's all bad for Miliband" theme I switched off. It's too nice a day to start it by listening to this crap. The woman is Isobel Hardman, of the Spectator & Telegraph, so hard...

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If Rebecca's reading, hope Toffee is back to fine fettle and you are all feeling better after the stress. &, on gardening... I've got a lovely chili plant on my window sill. Have had five chilis off it, and five ready to pick, and a whole load of new flowers on it so the chance for more to come....

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My user name came from a book I'd read 'The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood' but I spelled it wrongly. Some people on Cif think I'm a fan of Yaya Toure, and have since found out it can also be a slang word for female parts :shock: Think it also resonated for me as it sounded like jaw-jaw, mea...

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I'm a bit nosy but won't pry other than to ask where you are located geographically ?

yahyah

hence my pessimism at the moment I think it's an age-old problem. Idealists, motivated by a desire to make things better, tend to split into smaller and smaller groups as they fail to agree on every point or definition. This inevitably makes them less able to fight those motivated only by money and...

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I'm glad it's not just me that has wondered what's come over people. It is all very depressing. & RR2 Was going to ask you how it went last night, you must be psychic. About rural Labour, am sure I had an email from the party about something like that, but may be imagining it. Some sort of consu...

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refitman wrote:
yahyah wrote:Have just noticed we've got our political titles back.
I missed them, so set it up again this morning.

I think there's a few here who'd like to see 'pain in the arse' for mine

yahyah

Have just noticed we've got our political titles back.

yahyah

Time for a bit bigger donation than I normally give. You read my mind. (Not, I hasten to add, with regard to the size of your own donation!) The only good thing about losing our cat is we will be saving a chunk of money on her vet, food and medication bills, made a donation to Labour yesterday and ...

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Nasty scenes in Glasgow last night. Idiot right wing unionists looking for trouble, no surprise there. But what were the reported group of Yes supporters doing there last night ? Hoping George Square would be the place to start a Scottish Spring to try and push for their dream again ? http://www.mir...

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Morning all. So pleased to hear Toffee is back home Rebecca, what a relief after the worry. Have to echo the feelings about the RSPCA. There was a feral tom attacking cats where we lived in Cirencester, he caused a lot of infected wounds and split ears and left the pets traumatised and fearful. I go...

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Hello 51A :D We moved to avoid the ads via the old hosting company, here we don't have them. The bar can be wherever you like, so do join in as you want to. I'll ask admin to start a thread for people to introduce themselves, and old members to give a quick biog - do you think that would help when p...

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Off topic, but after a mild thunderstorm and a little rain last night the morning was overcast and misty. Now though the sun is blazing down and the temperature is in the mid to high seventies. I had socks on last week! We had sheet lightning last night, it was really uncomfortably humid. Didn't he...

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Here's an interesting article about the real people involved in 'Pride' (from my usual source) http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-77e1-Lessons-learned-with-Pride" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; And while we are already there, here's the badly underexposed, but ever excell...

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Agree with you. He seems a victim of his own delusion, rather a pathetic little figure. But unless you die, or retire with a massive approval rating like Rhodri Morgan did, what else happens to a political leader but failure & humiliation ? Imagining being the man who brought Independence to Sc...

yahyah

Off topic, but after a mild thunderstorm and a little rain last night the morning was overcast and misty. Now though the sun is blazing down and the temperature is in the mid to high seventies. I had socks on last week! We had sheet lightning last night, it was really uncomfortably humid. Didn't he...

yahyah

Dan dear, could you fix my Youtube please ?

I will get it right one day.

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Anyone seen, or going to see Pride ?

It looks an absolute hoot, Bill Nighy as you've never seen him before, as a Welsh mining official.
We've booked to see it at Aberystwyth.
Think Let'sSkip mentioned it was filmed not far from from where she lives.

yahyah

I have said plenty of harsh things about Wee Eck recently - and totally justifiably - but it is hard not to feel a *little* for him right now. He turns 60 at the end of this year, and at the moment must feel that most of his adult life has been wasted. (people "in the know" have said that...

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rebeccariots2 wrote:Salmond has resigned as First Minister ....

Retweeted by New Statesman
May2015 ‏@May2015NS 3m
Salmond resigns.

Well, well, well.

No wonder Sturgeon looked so perky earlier.

yahyah

Afternoon. This seems a very daft policy ... There's not going to be much of the MSM left to cover Salmond's latest if he carries on like this. (Wonder if they also banned Nick Robinson from attending.) Severin Carrell ‏@severincarrell 21m The Guardian declined its place at @AlexSalmond post-#indyr...

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Last known sighting: Lone male lurking in a suburban garden at Hallam in Sheffield. Sheffield Council's pest control department have been notified. 8-) :lol: Talking of Lib Dem pests has Clegg been sighted ? Have seen and heard from Cameron, Ed, Farage and our very own Carwyn Jones but no Clegg.

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Paul, I am delighted and proud that the people of Scotland have made this historic decision to stay in the United Kingdom. This was a vote for solidarity and social justice. It was a vote for our NHS, for the welfare state, and for unity — because we are better together. But whether people voted Ye...

yahyah

I've got faith in Carwyn, Gordon Brown, Alastair Darling & Ed Miliband working together and coming up with something.

Carwyn has been calling for a national convention on the whole issue of the constitution.

yahyah

I woke up expecting delayed counts and its all over! So after all the worries the polls were about right. I notice that suddenly the talk is all about reducing the voice of Scottish MPs in Westminster (I'm not commenting on whether this is right or wrong) rather than all the other pledges. The best...

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I'm delighted the Union remains & by such a clear majority. :clap: It's all bad news for Ed Miliband however - all Labours fault if the Union had been lost & all the reason the Union remains is all down to the Cons :roll: Can we now get back to concentrating on kicking out the Cons instead ...

yahyah

Highlands result makes it 55.3% No, 44.7% Yes.

Anyone else got funny ears this morning from having radio ear plugs in all night ?

yahyah

We're just playing Zep's In My Time Of Dying after our Cyrus's CD new laser reader

Lordy, lordy - the sound. Amazing.

Hendrix Voodoo Child Slight Return next. Our house is small but detached and can raise the roof volume wise.

yahyah

Why no play list for tonight ? My husband's just had his Cyrus CD player back from being serviced and a new laser installed. Cyrus say switch it on and leave it on for three days, 'with music playing continously' ! So it's party time here for three days, stacks of CDs at the ready. Doors 'The End' o...

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HindleA wrote:Frustrated by not having a vote on an election day,I made a box and pretended to.I don't know which way I voted because it was a secret ballot.

Thank you Hindle A. Post of the day and very funny

yahyah

But Jack,why are the cartoons anymore depressing/offensive etc than cameron portrayed as a condomhead/little boy blue thing,Ed M as a skeletal panda,and all of the other irreverent satirical political cartoons? I bet if we ever get to the point of a EU ref ,cheered on by Farage there will be a vast...

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Edinburgh and Glasgow due in at 5am, Aberdeen 6am. Right to the wire! So maybe better to go to bed and set the alarm for 5 am then. Being tribalist, [part of human nature] I do hope Gordon Brown's fantastic speech yesterday has helped rouse some more to vote No. Stay part of the UK, help get the To...

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Morning all. Assuming a Yes, do we expect negotiations to complete prior to the general election? Can't see it myself.Going to be a lot of argy bargy. Agree, & how much would it impinge on general election campaigning or even become part of the ge campaign as to what each party would give way/h...

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Thanks to admin, whoever it was, for adjusting the image size.

yahyah

Anybody staying up for the results here tonight ?

I'll probably listen on my little radio during the night, but Radio 5 reception is terrible in the early hours, not sure if Radio 4 will cover it as at least that is clearer/

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daily-cartoon-20140918.jpg Rather than ponder past activists' dreams for the future or venture into the area of metaphysics and perception of time, I shall lower the tone [as always] with this Independent cartoon. Salmond, the Martin Luther King or Gandhi of our times, a compassionate visionary or ...

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Just looking at the Scottish weather and weather starting cloudy in the north of the area but improving later. Not a bad forecast and decent temperatures. Has anyone seen any comment on how the weather may help/hinder either the side in the indy referedum ? We're normally told cold/rain hinders the ...

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Morning all. Roger & others who have a close interest in education may be interested in this, the former Welsh education minister has put his side of GCSE grading in his new book. ''Leighton Andrews' book Ministering to Education: Secret emails reveal truth behind 2012 GCSE grading fiasco... In ...

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Personal ambition has crossed my mind quite a few times over the last few weeks: Salmond will be either: Leader/President/Prime Minister of Independent Scotland Or: Leader of an opposition party within the UK. Salmond "could step down by November" if Scotland votes No Scottish First Minis...

yahyah

Just listened to Brown's speech. No wonder people from Simon Schama to the Mail are saying it was good.

Wow, it is a barnstormer, Gordon's got his mojo back.

Talking from the heart, and saying what he believes.

yahyah

The "serial murderer" one was a bit puzzling. People who didn't know a) that Ed wasn't even an MP at the time of the Iraq war and b) didn't support it, one presumes? Yes, very puzzling. I found myself wondering if they had actually thought he was Tony Blair. :shock: (Thank goodness he's s...

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Retweeted by New Statesman Media Mole ‏@ns_media 16m Sky's Kay Burley calls a Scottish Yes supporter "a bit of a knob" live on air http://www.newstatesman.com/media-mole/2014/09/skys-kay-burley-calls-scottish-yes-supporter-bit-knob-live-air" onclick="window.open(this.href);retur...

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I know I always lower the tone but as well as having a crush on Alastair Darling back in the day I used to find Gordon Brown sexy. He reminded me of my first love who broke my heart, a Marxist who was ten years older than me and used to work in the international section of the TUC. [Hi if you're an ...

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''Salmond's oil boom claims blown apart by Scottish energy consultant Scottish nationalist energy claims dashed by Wood MacKenzie after it says that 15.3bn barrels of oil equivalent remain in the UK http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/11101448/Salmonds-oil-boom-claims-bl...

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Any views on why the Scottish Sun hasn't come out for Yes ? Too close to call and scared of backing the wrong side (i.e. the one that loses ....)? That's my thought. Don't often agree with Caron Lindsay but there's an interesting video on her piece on LDV. http://www.libdemvoice.org/is-mike-crockar...

yahyah

Any views on why the Scottish Sun hasn't come out for Yes ?

yahyah

Have just had the oven on for 40 minutes and forgot to put the bread in.

I blame Alex Salmond for distracting me.

yahyah

I heard a Yes spokesperson on the Radio 4 farming programme this morning. A No farming person pointed out [as we discussed here last week] that the rest of the UK is a big market for Scottish products and that market could be dented if Scotland threatened to or did renege on its debt obligation if i...

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Salmond sounded a little downbeat just now on Radio 4, maybe the private polling his henchmen have bragged about isn't so rosy now.

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