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Cambridge Analytica

I have watched with interest the kerfuffle surrounding Cambridge Analytica, what they have done has, imho, been going on in various forms for years, 35 years ago we would use Acorn analysis (a classification of residential neighbourhoods) which could...

£3 school shoes

Hi I resently bought my son some new plain black lace up plimsolls after his old ones were a bit worse for wear. He wears them as school shoes his school has a quite basic uniform school jumper school polo shirt black school trousers and school shoes...

£3 school shoes what was your cost ??

Hi I resently bought my son 12 some cheap plain black plimsolls he wears them as school shoes. What school shoes do your kids wear and how much did they cost ??,

Vernal Equinox

So first day of Spring today Yay!! Looking forward to warmer longer days and getting out and about more. Time to start planting in the allotment, but still have some back-achy digging to do. What are you lot looking forward to?

Seagulls?

OK, where are you birding types? Every afternoon I go for a walk round the lake and from October to March it's visited every day by varying numbers of Seagulls (I dunno which species). They don't seem to be finding any food, they seem to spend the da...

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Have PB already closed their free accounts?. I can't sign into mine.

Please remember the clocks go FORWARD....

One hour next Sunday 25th March

Is there as much

Poverty around these days as there was 50 years ago! I can remember the post war years when bread and dripping with salt and pepper was the order of the day, and yet these days with growing obesity among the young we are told that children are living...

There is a Yellow Snow Warning!!

Just heard this on the BBC !! Who writes this stuff

Can you see it? What can you see? Do you see what I see? xxx

Schoolwork?

It's occurred to me that schools are not really preparing kids for the Big Wide Wonderful World of (gonna say a naughty word now)...... WORK? Schools seem to concentrate on subjects surrounding academia and good exam results but not all kids are acad...

Unusual Road Signs

Anyone come across any unusual road signs A friend saw this one while driving in Wales

Gender equality.

Right, it's cat amongst the pigeons time. We've all seen the uproar over gender equality and up to a point...... they have a point. Now there are some things that women can do as well as men. There are other things that women can do better than men. ...

Kumquats

A few years ago, my local greengrocer had some tiny oranges the size and shape of large grapes. They had a rind as sweet as candy with a nice contrasting sour center. He never got any in again after that punnet and I've been searching for them ever s...

Gardener's World.

Apparently, the BBC are considering axing the Gardener's World programmes, and also the Sky at Night. I have my own theory on why these two are being targeted. I think there will be a big backlash if they do this as both programmes are extremely popu...

Wolf whistling is a hate crime!

Women should be able to report wolf-whistling, catcalling and unwanted attention on public transport to the police as hate crimes, according to Grimsby’s MP.Labour front-bench politician Melanie Onn MP has secured a debate in Parliament on Wednesday,...

How can we take the pressure off

Our Ambulance Service? Just listening to the radio discussing the fact that 5 people were responsible for calling for an ambulance 8000 times! In a year. This shocking figure is the tip of the iceberg as I know that every ambulance service have their...

A bit of snow?

We get a bit of snow and the country grinds to a halt? Countries that get loads of snow must be laughing their socks off at the way the UK behaves when an inch of snow falls?

New EBay App.

Does anyone here use the EBay App on IPad? If so...what do you think of the new version?

"Modern" words?

Now and again I hear a couple of modern takes on words which are irritating (to me anyway). First, when refering to a building or buildings they used to be also described as "premises". eg "business premises" whether referring to one or more. Now I c...

Wouldn’t it be nice

If folk who visit this forum realised how alone some people are! Why can’t folk talk and discuss things, other than Brexit and the weather! I note that there have been no posts on here since early afternoon such a shame imho. There ought to be life b...

Please don’t forget

During the predicted cold weather to put out some water and food for the birds, they are about to start breeding and should be in really good condition! I have my feeders topped up regularly and today had 10 goldfinches on the Niger seed along with c...

this is funny ..what ever next !!!

a ha had to laugh at this as i was walking to work this morning..  

look up

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-43146303/hundreds-of-drones-create-spectacular-light-show

I Got Stuck in a Lift Today

I live in a 9th floor flat.Earlier today, going out for a meal, I got in the lift with a couple of friends.It went down for a short while, then clunked to a stop, and the display said "Not in Service"None of the buttons worked, including the door ope...

For those who like a little Nostalgia

The old grey whistle test has been on this evening, utterly utterly brilliant, if you didn’t catch it it is available on catch up tv bbc4. Some real classics all presented by Bob Harris.