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Operation Scheduled For Tomorrow - Fingers Crossed, Please

I should have had it done a few weeks ago but it was cancelled the day before. Hopefully this won't happen today. Just a simple, straightforward day case little op under local anaesthetic to lift my...

granny grump

Current Strikes

Watching the news tonight I just started wondering. Do strikers get paid or can their families claim benefits? Life and budgeting at the moment is hard and losing money through strikes must make...

ToraToraTora

U K Chosen Ahead Of The E U S S R For Major Battery Factory......

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65698529 ...no doubt our 5Cers will find a way to spin it as a bad thing....

douglas9401

Churches To Close And Become Refugee Centres With Immediate Effect.

Well, it's what Jesus would want, innit. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65535784 Another barking mad cloud chatter....

ToraToraTora

Well Done Plod.....

....for keeping these plonkers out of the way. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65523439...

Bazile

Classic Comedy Lines

Well may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plain......

codswallop166

Liverpool

What is the history behind the booing of the National Anthem at Anfield?

Prudie

Happy Birthday Sqad

Happy birthday my love. I know you don't like these and I'm not in the mood for posting either but have to get your special day on the record (nothing else going on today is there?). Wishing you the...

Khandro

Sudan

Does anyone ponder why so many British passport holding Sudanese are in Sudan? One chap on the front page of today's Telegraph is weeping because he had left his wife & son there when he boarded the...

ToraToraTora

Why Are They Reporting The Weather In Spain?

Perlease, I keep hearing "record breaking temperatures..." etc yada yada...in kin Spain! For EFF S! Who cares this is UK and it's still pretty kin freezing! Why are the news channels reporting on...

webbo3

Racism At The London Marathon.

https://news.sky.com/story/how-the-london-marathon-is-seeking-to-change-the-face-of-running-by-attracting-more-diverse-participation-12863815 Maybe black people don't want to take part, and all of the...

barry1010

Bet They Weren't Expecting That! Just Stop Oil Protesters

sentenced to five years. Good https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11999669/Just-Stop-Oil-protesters-scaled-bridge-Dartford-Crossing-bridge-caused-gridlock-jailed.html Will it deter others?...

sp1814

Raab Has Resigned

Your thoughts? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dominic-raab-report-rishi-sunak-news-b2324028.html?amp (This report is a bit outdated)...

ToraToraTora

Another Savage, Rightly In The Slammer.....

https://news.sky.com/story/farmer-jailed-for-wanton-destruction-of-stretch-of-herefordshire-river-12862372 ...mindless vandalism....

mushroom25

Should Manchester's Football Clubs Ditch The Ship?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/19/abandon-ship-does-this-symbol-of-slavery-shame-manchester-and-its-football-clubs although probably not visibly racist, are the badges of the big...

barry1010

Bread

Just curious as to how much bread you eat. These days i eat very little but even as a child I'd have at least two slices of toast for breakfast, usually with dripping in the winter, take sandwiches to...

gulliver1

Chaos At Dover

Thousands of coach and car passengers endured a miserable Wait . Many of them all through the night for their much awaited Easter Holiday Stormy weather and the French were blamed by the UK Government...

barry1010