The Round Table

Knives???

Just reading and watching the news about all these stabbings made me wonder where all the knives used in those offences come from? Are they all "kitchen knives" or "steak knives"?? Ebay is full of them! Carrying a "knife" is an offence isn't it? Howe...

Death of the High Street?

Many towns have lots of empty shops and "the media" often mention the death of the High Street and some are blaming online trading for the demise. However, is that really the case? Might it not be that really there were just too many shops selling th...

The train now departing is

Running at 200% of capacity, I am and always have been fascinated by trains, from my early years watching the stanier Pacific’s charging up and down the west coast main line, to the arrival of diesels and then electrification! All of that happened un...

Rehousing ,,,,,,,,,,,

My wife and I applied to our housing association for a smaller house / flat on the ground floor as my wife has had a new knee and will need another. As we have to climb two flights of stairs to get into this flat we thought they would put us maybe in...

New Years Day????

January the first seems a logical choice from a calendar point of view but the "new year" had already started by then? The shortest day is around the 21st of December so the next day is surely the start of a new year? "They" want to stop the annual c...

Happy New year.

Happy New Year and best wishes to everyone.

Tragedy at sea

Each day we get reports of deaths and coast guards picking up people in the English Channel, the latest batch seem to be coming from Iran, I have never been there and I only know what I hear on TV about the regime that rules said country, it is said ...

Boxing Day sales .................

are reported to be down again, the third year in a row.Last year my wife and I decided to only buy a couple of small gifts each to open on Christmas morning and give each other money to go to the sales. My wife decided on some new clothes (surprise s...

Charity Shops

I am quite surprised at how many clothes do not make it past the sorting .Staff pick over the goods, retaining the better items for sale in the shops, and rejecting the rest... .ie unfashionable - eg colour, pattern, style or material (such as nylon ...

Merry Christmas

to you all and especially to those missing someone at this difficult time of year.Remember this please, you just cannot see them but they are with you as you carry them in your heart and mind and I hope all the happy memories you made together help y...

How much should i get for this ...

How much do you think i should get for this Skirt ..it could easily be worn for school as its very stretchy and a size 8 ..

This Drone business

Although yet to be clarified, The problems faced at Gatport Airwick seem to be blown out of proportion, were there drones or one drone, was it maliciously motivated if so what is that motivation, but possibly the most obvious question is why the damn...

Today's the day?

It's the day with the longest night. After today, each night will be a little shorter and it's the start of the time when we can begin to look forward to the best time of year, SPRING. Celandines, Wood Anemones and the Bluebells. All the trees will b...

100 days to go- Deal or No deal tick tock

Well-

O-kay ho-say?

So, Jose has been sacked? Is he really bothered? It seems he has a pattern of doing well steering a team to early success only to fail badly later on? Do well, negotiate a nice new contract then fall out with the team to the point of getting the sack...

What happened to the Nags Head?

Morning not been in here for a few years Things look like they have changed drastically I was a regular in the Nags Head as Mad Mare

With Christmas fast approaching

Have you received loads of Christmas cards or are you sending fewer? I have noticed a considerable drop in the number we receive which is sad, I know as one gets older a lot of your friends die and that there will be a natural decline however I wonde...

Cleaning Mirrors

What is the best way to clean a mirror ..trying to get that misty haze off is almost impossible ..

Has anyone?

Been subjected to corporal punishment at school like the cane, or plimsole or chair leg etc etc and if so has it left You traumatised? I am of course referring to the type of punishment administered a long time ago when people were far less enlighten...

Christmas adverts.

There have been several threads before about our favourite christmas TV ads, but which ones do you hate. My vote goes to V.I.Poo. The advert in its self is totally gross but to suggest people give it as a christmas present is beyond belief. What's yo...

Maoam Sour Stripes

I haven't seen them in the shops for a few months. Only the plain Maoam Stripes. You can find the odd Sour Stripe in the Maoam MaoMixx packs. The shop keepers I've asked recently, didn't even know they had them in stock in the first place.

Ad-blocker?

I use an ad-blocker and in the past people have criticised on the grounds that newspapers (particularly) rely on advertising to fund themselves. Well, yes they do BUT..... (you knew there'd be a "but"?) there is a limit surely? Some papers have a hug...

Alarm bells for me

I have 3 gmail accounts, purely because of eBay as I have 3 accounts here. Alarm bell number one went off earlier this evening when I checked my spam folder as sometimes non-spam ends up in there, only to find an email addressed to me by my full name...

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An old friend is dying.

An old friend seems to be on the way out and it's sad to see it happening. It seems as though it's going to be a long, drawn out, painful affair. It's an old friend with whom I've spent many happy hours and had many interesting conversations plus qui...

Anybody Know who to report this to??

Hi all hope you are having a good start to the weekend. Just looking for a bit of advice really. Over the last couple of weeks i have bought several items from Amazon both fulfilled by them and from private sellers, however the advertised price on sc...