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refitman wrote:@Temulkar - just want to say I'm enjoying The Last Roundhead immensely. About half way through and have reached that point where I really want to finish the book, to know what happened, but also want to string it out to make it last.

Seconded - I'm in the same position. 'Tis very good

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Crispin Blunt MP, "Loth though I am, as a former soldier and serving Conservative politician, to side with a left-wing politician against the Chief of Defence Staff, I rather think that Jeremy Corbyn has a point on this matter and . . .* has strayed into political territory on this occasion.&qu...

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Not only did Corbyn bow but he also sang the National Anthem - and he went through to watch the march-past from Horse Guards' Parade. Heidi Alexander was good on Sunday Politics and Maria Eagle did pretty well on Marr.

@Temulkar: seconding thanks for the Wilfred Owen poem.

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Mornin'. Thanks, especially, to @ TR'sGhost and @ seeingclearly for their insightful overnight/early-morning posts. Like you both, I remember the ever-tightening harshness of the Thatcher/Major Governments. As a single-parent and musician with disabilities sometimes having to rely upon Social Securi...

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Talking of educational prejudices, why are Law, Psychology, Economics, Politics, Philosophy etc good enough subjects for Oxbridge degrees, but not good enough for the Ebacc? Or Art(s) - including Music - in either Ebacc or that there's a really strong argument that we should be thinking STEAM, not ...

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seeingclearly wrote:Paper bags of fried bits from the fish and chip shop, they cost a ha'penny.

Crispies! Our local chippie offers them, now, for 30p

And I still have eggy-bread (the only time I have tomato ketchup with anything!) and the occasional banana sandwich.

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Vesta Chow Mein. Not saying it was good but it was in common use. I liked the crispy noodles, mind. At this time of year I miss buying bags of hot chestnuts.

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ohsocynical wrote:So ... A slice of egg and bacon quiche? Or a lemon curd tart? .

Lemon curd tart, please! I've got clotted cream to go with it

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G'day all and welcome @ TRG - pop into the kitchen, at any time, and help yourself to coffee and tea, plus porridge from the pan on the back of the Aga, cooked all-day breakfast from the warming-oven (veggie on the top shelf, carnie on the lower) and croissants on the warming-plate. The Bar is open ...

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I'm a bit upset, I am. I've just been over to the G to see if anyone had responded to some comments I made earlier - and someone I like a lot (and respected, until just now) has accused me of having repeated digs at pensioners. I don't think I do that, do I? Not as far as I've ever noticed. (BTW: G...

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I thought Victoria Coren was impressive on QT last night. Justine Greening useless. Chuka equally so. Agree, wholeheartedly! Well, very very close to. Only that I thought Chuka marginally better than my own MP, Ms. Greening. Victoria Coren was superb - deeply factual and passionate, yet managing to...

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I say please don't give them ideas but I suppose we do have to think about these things as they're likely to do all or any of them - or sneak up with summat we've not considered. As for whoever it is that's plugging the idea of SFB resignations and coups, I hope it's more a case of someone's wishful...

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Oh guys, please don't give them ideas :( @ Ephie : Thanks for the morning post and for the link to Gav67's brilliant blog - what a great artist and storyteller he is! So, the DWP are claiming 146,000 people now on UC. I wonder what proportion of them are actually receiving financial support and how ...

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Roughting Linn (the waterfall) is magical and that's a great photograph of it you've found. Real pity that one of your memory cards failed but I appreciate your photo of the rock art very much. It's hard to believe that the rock isn't protected somehow - even a decent sign asking people not to stand...

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/georgeosborne/11978675/George-Osborne-to-raid-Iain-Duncan-Smiths-Universal-Credit.html George Osborne to raid Iain Duncan Smith's Universal Credit George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith clash over plans to soften the impact of tax credit cuts by raiding the bu...

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I just heard a loud 'for fucks sake' coming from Mr Riots in the next room. I went to investigate. He's just heard that we need to raise £100,000 to save Margaret Thatcher's clothes for the nation. He says they can have some of his old pants for free. Great minds think alike HindleA, eh. I'd like t...

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This is extremely sad. http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2015/11/tom-barry-boriswatch/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Tom Barry, better known as BorisWatch has died suddenly at age 41. As Tim Ireland says here Tom not only sought to stem the tide of bile and bullshit wi...

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Hang on, when was it up to Nick Gibb to evaluate syllabuses? And where are the extra CompSci teachers to come from, if they're going to try to increase the numbers of pupils taking it (currently 35,000) to make up for the ones no longer doing ICT (115,000)? Or do they expect the ICT teachers to ret...

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Help required please. For some inexplicable reason when I go to the Independent site I find there is no scroll bar on my screen ... so can't view any of the articles as I can't navigate. The articles open up ... but all I can view is the headline and photo because I can't move down the page. All ot...

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When Corbyn stays on point it highlights how far off point Cameron often is. People want answers not unsubstantiated prevarication. They are bearing the load of cuts and penalties that Cameron's government insist are necessary. People are right to want answers on why they are bearing the weight of ...

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Genius DWP vid re-voicing there, @TobyLatimer!

Very late edit: formatting...

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BBC News showing Mandelson on HardTalk, now. Don't know if it's a repeat but he started by repeating the 'unelectable' guff and South American leaders, £3 memberships, etc.,

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A suit and tie in that design could sell quite well. Surprisingly, it suits Cameron – perhaps because it picks up and reflects his naturally red skin tone. There are plenty of poppy-patterned items for ladies so why not for men?

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Great pic! It's so beautiful up along the coast there. And inland, too. Hope the visit to the parents went well this time - or at least got off to a promising start.

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Quite. Possible Javid stuck this out? Civil servants are supposed to point out stuff like this, and the Minister decide. One of Javid's SpAds I would imagine. Make the minister look good and more 'caring' than the nasty civil servant. But one would expect that civil servants also gave the positive ...

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seeingclearly wrote:Rowson on May, brilliant.

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'Tis genius

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Jim Pickard ‏@PickardJE 2h2 hours ago Top civilservant at Bis urged Javid not to help steel apprentices at Redcar SSI plant to avoid "unhelpful precedent" http://app.ft.com/cms/s/cc4fc042-7f20-11e5-98fb-5a6d4728f74e.html?siteedition=uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return fal...

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Happy Diwali to anyone who's celebrating that great festival of light.

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Heating engineer came. There's one split pipe and another that looks set to split, hence the system draining itself down and switching off. So, he's turned off and drained down the radiators part of the system and force-filled the hot water bit in the hopes that it'll give me hot water for however l...

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Waiting for our heating engineer to arrive some time before midnight. Huddled around the little fan heater they lent me last time this problem left me in the cold...

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Blimey. I might start taking Halloween more seriously in future. Where's he sprung from? Don’t be fooled by spook propaganda. The state still wants licence to pry Henry Porter (I haven't read it - but I did, for one strange moment, think we'd had a change of government overnight. Sadly not.) Anyway...

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Finally getting round to watching some gymnastics after having missed it all so far and Simone Biles...wow. Just phenomenal stuff. Great to see the Brits doing really well. Edit - oh, and even the gymnasts who are in the studio in their team uniform have to wear poppies. :roll: It's been a brillian...

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I find that Halewood thing implausible. Tax credits are the most complicated benefits. If people are claiming those, why aren't they claiming other benefits? A lot of people don't claim all the benefits that they would qualify for because they don't know they exist (its not as if the HMRS or the DW...

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http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/31/half-care-homes-could-close-cash-crisis Cash crisis ‘could close 50% of UK care homes’ Government urged to protect the elderly as providers face financial squeeze from falling fees and rising wages Closing loads of hospitals for mental health patients;...

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A peaceful Samhain to all

No sweets from my place, either. I used to make toffee-apples and hot chestnuts (no longer safe doing that) but nowadays it's fruit, nuts, and small coins.

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Well, late it is again. So, as a late night goody for the night owls, here's some Steely Dan celebrating the 50th anniversary of FM broadcasts from the Empire State building..... guess which track they chose.... Can't remember how to embed bloody youtube, so here's a link... https://youtu.be/kfyPB1...

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Tory MP's filibuster blocks bill to give carers free hospital parking Philip Davies speaks for 93 minutes to use up time allocated to debate Labour MP Julie Cooper’s private member’s bill http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/30/tory-mps-filibuster-blocks-bill-to-give-carers-free-hospital-par...

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http://press.labour.org.uk/post/132205625624/decision-from-the-ons-is-a-blow-to-the-chancellor Labour Press Decision from the ONS is a blow to the Chancellor - Healey John Healey MP Labour’s Shadow Cabinet Minister for Housing and Planning, responding to the decision announced today that the ONS is...

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"Debate to be resumed 'tomorrow'" I assume that means Monday?

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Rebalancing of the economy going well then? The deficit on the current account balance widened in 2014 to £92.9 billion. This deficit equated to 5.1% of gross domestic product (GDP) in current market prices. In both terms, this was the largest annual deficit since records began in 1948. http://www....

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@ RogerOThornhill : It sounds a sorry state of affairs at that school. What has happened there between 2014 (when they managed to increase the 5 GCSEs rate from 31% to 35%) and now – when that rate has halved in only one year ? The iPads bit might or might not be relevant as whatever tools you're us...

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@ tinyclanger2 Good to see you! I thought, yesterday, that you'd not been around for a while and I was going to set up a search party today. Hope all's well, you skiver. Have been bear-watching on Mars. V poor signal strength on the Red Planet I'm afraid. http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/61476...

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HoC are debating Julie Cooper MP's Hospital Parking Bill, now: The bill would place a duty on health authorities to exempt carers who are in receipt of, or have an underlying entitlement for, Carer's Allowance and those who have been certified by a clinician as providing, or intending to provide, su...

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http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/30/nhs-hospital-england-people-learning-disabilities-to-close-calderstones-winterbourne-view The only remaining NHS hospital in England for people with learning difficulties is to be shut under a £45m plan to drive through modernisation of services follow...

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So Mr Ohso had his polyp looked at on Monday. He actually has at least five and one of them looks suspect, so we're back on the uncertainty merry-go-round again. I have at least managed to get the central heating sorted, cystern working properly - bliss - new bathroom radiator, and tap washer seen ...

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Think you have to go to a park and look for an 8.5 million pound monster,I don't know if replicas are being sent into every park. Ha! Good one. :rock: :D That might, indeed, be the answer. It's a novel delivery method for the DWP/HMRC Public Information department but perhaps shows they've finally ...

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. And spent a vast sum of money on a brainwashing non existent bit of crap called Workie. Craig Mackinlay, a Conservative, says he is very worried about the impact of auto-enrolment in company pensions for small employers. Small companies are very worried about this, he says. Some will just get rid...

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G'day all :D Firstly, my thanks to @ utopiandreams for answering my question last night. http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/divisions.php is the site I was looking for. I must have imagined that there was somewhere you could choose to view the Ayes/Noes list either as "by name" or "by party...

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I know it's a daft time of night to ask but was wondering how @ HindleA 's mum is doing. Has she had her op and do they (and she) think it was successful? In a similar vein, best wishes to @ Toby Latimer , @ Ephemerid , Mr. Ohso and anyone else who's going through it at the mo. Back on topic: I'm pr...

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Lord Freud to Paul Gray: The Social Security (Housing Costs Amendments) Regulations 2015 It's late and I'm going to sleep but found the letter linked below from Lord Freud explicitly indicating the DWP does monitor people having applied and/or received or not received social security provision. I'l...

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