Re: Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th August 2016
Posted: Sun 07 Aug, 2016 4:09 pm
Treasury looks at quitting the single market http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/201 ... jects-nor/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Well, I must confess to always having had a bit of a downer on TS Eliot for using Greek script in some of his poetry. I think that's taking things a bit too far.tinyclanger2 wrote:I bet in a previous life you were a real inkhornist (if that's the right term)PorFavor wrote:171 now I've added my name . . . .AngryAsWell wrote:"This sort of ignorance postulated by Leavers is astounding:"
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What?
I'm not so sure after some of the stuff Cameron used to come out with. Mind you if you suggested something that needed cleaning from your shoes, you'd better make sure they're size 9 or more... unless there be ladies with very large feet in the House.PorFavor wrote:... Ha! I don't think using my exact wording would be a recommended path to take - but I don't actually think it's technically unparliamentary language. But I'm not an expert on the subject.
Your post is a good one. The electorate need to know how government works. The process shouldn't be so difficult to understand.PorFavor wrote:@citizenJA
Yes - I know yours was a genuine question so there's no problem there. I'm just sorry I'm not equipped to answer it.
Oh please, PorFavor!PorFavor wrote:... Well, I must confess to always having had a bit of a downer on TS Eliot for using Greek script in some of his poetry. I think that's taking things a bit too far.
Yes. But to feel really secure, you'd have to move to the Steppes . . .tinyclanger2 wrote:large dalek impeded by small bridge
Labour, sort your problems out immediately, please, we need youPress release
7 August 2016
Prime Minister Theresa May has changed Shale Wealth Fund proposals to include the option to give more of the proceeds to local residents.
"A scheme to spread the benefits of shale gas will include options to give more of the proceeds to
local residents than previously planned, after the new Prime Minister changed the plans as part
her drive to deliver an economy that works for all."
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oh, yeah rightPM rewrites plan to put money from infrastructure in the hands of local people
Too many quotable bits to quote them. I urge you to read the article.Chinese firm with military ties invited to bid for role in UK's nuclear future
China National Nuclear Corporation on government list of preferred bidders for development funding for next-generation modular reactors (Guardian)
It's been good knowing you all, sincerely, even when we've disagreedPorFavor wrote:This is a new twist to the story.
Too many quotable bits to quote them. I urge you to read the article.Chinese firm with military ties invited to bid for role in UK's nuclear future
China National Nuclear Corporation on government list of preferred bidders for development funding for next-generation modular reactors (Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ear-future
Yes - it's been a blast. Or may well be . . .citizenJA wrote:It's been good knowing you all, sincerely, even when we've disagreedPorFavor wrote:This is a new twist to the story.
Too many quotable bits to quote them. I urge you to read the article.Chinese firm with military ties invited to bid for role in UK's nuclear future
China National Nuclear Corporation on government list of preferred bidders for development funding for next-generation modular reactors (Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ear-future
Have just checked and the ladybird book "the shed" does not specifically mention the qualities of the brick shed. Perhaps you could write in with a recommendation.PorFavor wrote:@utopiandreams
Beautiful! And I'm (seriously) a big fan of brick-built sheds.
Ladybird should do a book devoted exclusively to the brick-built shed.tinyclanger2 wrote:Have just checked and the ladybird book "the shed" does not specifically mention the qualities of the brick shed. Perhaps you could write in with a recommendation.PorFavor wrote:@utopiandreams
Beautiful! And I'm (seriously) a big fan of brick-built sheds.
Oh, I don't know - it sounds quite wonderful.utopiandreams wrote:So you wouldn't have liked the 24 footer timber one I built to the left and slightly behind camera, PF. It was covered with pale pink climbing roses though and had an eight foot bay window. I was going to line it and fit a radiator for my office after having cleared mine but...
A brick-built edificetinyclanger2 wrote:"Using your shed as an office is called shedworking"
(ref: The Ladybird book of the shed)
My house came with quite a large one at the bottom of the garden:PorFavor wrote:@utopiandreams
Beautiful! And I'm (seriously) a big fan of brick-built sheds.
Those are the neighbour's cat's footprints.refitman wrote:My house came with quite a large one at the bottom of the garden:PorFavor wrote:@utopiandreams
Beautiful! And I'm (seriously) a big fan of brick-built sheds.
December 2014, my first Christmas in the house.yahyah wrote:Blimey, I know we've had a bad summer but snow in Wombwell in August ?
I went to a strange mix of a secondary school. It was formed out of three schools, a boy's grammar and boy's and girl's secondary moderns. I started there in 1979, it's first year as a comprehensive. Those of us who lived in the local villages had to pass the 11+ to get there, but those from town were streamed based on junior school performance and didn't sit the 11+ at all.utopiandreams wrote:Now now, Roger. Grammar schools, look what they did for me. On second thoughts my sis failed her 11 plus and it wasn't until she was 13 and we moved elsewhere that she went up a set and what became of her? Head hunted by one of the major financial institutions. Oh I see they've been in the news again, possibly best left unsaid.
As it happens you could have called it that. I built it as a workshop for furniture restoration when my wife had her stroke. Didn't pay much mind given everything else I had to do.tinyclanger2 wrote:"Using your shed as an office is called shedworking"
(ref: The Ladybird book of the shed)
I passed my Eleven + in 1966, the last year Manchester Education Committee ran them. I was one of only two boys to be offered a choice from only four Grammar schools, and there were at least a half dozen girls offered the choice of every (non-boys only) Grammar school in the city. It really is a rotten age at which to select, especuially for boys.TR'sGhost wrote:I went to a strange mix of a secondary school. It was formed out of three schools, a boy's grammar and boy's and girl's secondary moderns. I started there in 1979, it's first year as a comprehensive. Those of us who lived in the local villages had to pass the 11+ to get there, but those from town were streamed based on junior school performance and didn't sit the 11+ at all.utopiandreams wrote:Now now, Roger. Grammar schools, look what they did for me. On second thoughts my sis failed her 11 plus and it wasn't until she was 13 and we moved elsewhere that she went up a set and what became of her? Head hunted by one of the major financial institutions. Oh I see they've been in the news again, possibly best left unsaid.
As schools go it was pretty rubbish, a few good teachers but some absolutely hopeless ones including the first head and deputy head who had previously been running the boy's grammar. The physics and maths A-level results in my year were appalling, despite both being taught by ex-grammar teachers.
One thing about the value of the 11+ has stayed with me. Four of my year who passed it at 11 left school at 16 with no qualifications at all. They did enough work to stay in the upper streams in everything while being very disruptive, then at 16 methodically failed all the exams. Their places would have better gone to others.
And that those who want the 11+ and grammar system back mostly resist understanding that it had to be weighted in favour of boys otherwise too few would pass compared to girls, that the more you practiced for it the better your chance of passing and that there is no reason why, just because you want your children to take the 11+ and go the the grammar, that that will be the outcome. 90ish percent of the children of the grammar enthusiasts would end up at secondary moderns.
Of course, if along with grammars goes the right to buy your child a place, as happened in some schools even after the 1940s changes, they probably regard the 11+ as a life-limiting factor that only affects others, not them and theirs.
I've never seen a cat on a pogo-stick . . .refitman wrote:Those are the neighbour's cat's footprints.refitman wrote:My house came with quite a large one at the bottom of the garden:PorFavor wrote:@utopiandreams
Beautiful! And I'm (seriously) a big fan of brick-built sheds.
Goodnight, yahyah.yahyah wrote:Night all.
Goodnight, utopiandreamsutopiandreams wrote:See y'all. Mmm, mixed bean curry tonight.
I hope you aren't going to be around lots of people afterwardsutopiandreams wrote:See y'all. Mmm, mixed bean curry tonight.
Riding the Trump Train Sleeper, 'til the morning light.AnatolyKasparov wrote:I hope you aren't going to be around lots of people afterwardsutopiandreams wrote:See y'all. Mmm, mixed bean curry tonight.
23 here, so I should really. That pesky ceiling had me flummoxed.tinyclanger2 wrote:Got 13 but with weighting for pub and club knowledge I should be a shoo in.HindleA wrote:Morning
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StephenDolan wrote:23 here, so I should really. That pesky ceiling had me flummoxed.tinyclanger2 wrote:Got 13 but with weighting for pub and club knowledge I should be a shoo in.HindleA wrote:Morning
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"Could you pass a Scouse Citizen test?"
Am going back a bit, and it was all too brief a stint, but have to admit I was poor on proper information. Much better on dance and snifters I'm afraid.StephenDolan wrote:23 here, so I should really. That pesky ceiling had me flummoxed.tinyclanger2 wrote:Got 13 but with weighting for pub and club knowledge I should be a shoo in.HindleA wrote:Morning
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"Could you pass a Scouse Citizen test?"