Had a lovely day out there two years ago, a bit tricky to get there by bus from Penzance but I managed.
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Had a lovely day out there two years ago, a bit tricky to get there by bus from Penzance but I managed.
I'll be voting for Josh as I believe he's the better candidate, although Prue Bray has merits and will get my second preference, I won't even consider the other one.
I'm afraid its looking more like Flanby Hollande.
Also several of the packages that come with Apex are useful outside of APEX such as for QR code generation.
As someone who meddles with APEX a couple of times a year, using it for things like this is great.
France is basically having a very slow motion Serpell.
It's probably a wedding hall.
If I go to my local shop, for local people, unless I get there very early after the bread delivery, all that there is white Chorleywood bread and a couple of loaves of 50/50. Either she lives somewhere very posh or she's making it up again.
Has anyone looked at the final polls last time that had willingness to vote and compared them to the turnout because my memory says that the polls were predicting a higher turnout than what transpired?
Of course, Reform have overall gained councillors from defections, which none of the others have. And only Reform and the LibDems are positive in principal council by-elections since May. So their performance in losing councillors is very average really. 2 /2
Thanks to a member of a political forum who is a diligent chap, we have some stats on resignations or changes of alligience for the four largest parties. Tories: 115 / 4,413 = 2.60% Labour: 118 / 6,134 = 1.92% Reform: 15 / 810 = 1.85% Lib Dems: 30 / 3,197 = 0.94% 1 / 2
One of the other judges is a former Conservative parliamentary candidate, I bet they omitted that, I dropped my Times sub earlier this year because of shit like this.
Is it time for a performance of Swan Lake?
Now that's a tour I could go on. I seem to be rotating between three different farmhouse Wensleydales this year and I can't decide which is my favourite.
When they run, the Vomitors don‘t like to get wet. Did it in a Pacer once which was fun.
I'm not entirely sure this is true and that someone hasn't been fed a line. Not only is the candidate dead, but the Mayoral role has an area qualification - candidate needs to be on the electoral register, own a house or land or a business in the borough. Hence why a pensioner from Bradford.
That has to be the most Spursy Man U have ever been.
I make it 15, but it’s been more than outweighed by by-election wins since May and by defections to reform. They will probably pass in Greens in the number of councillors on principal authorities by the end of the year.
If you want an extreme example, the post office did a post code change and moved a street from B28 to B11. The complaints still roll in 25 years later.
Same here, a lot of the Politics of Stourbridge is that we are not Dudley and we were taken from Worcestershire. It even infects people who weren‘t born when it happened. It is, however, diminishing now.
Until it dies.
For me it‘s Frankfurt, always Frankfurt.
Are there any arrivals experiences that are glam which don‘t rely on a first class ticket or very high status on an airline?
The people encouraging them to do it would rather Rommel had won.
I have one, of course and a Worcestershire flag which is also a recent confection, although the black pears of Worcester have quite a lot of history and were the main part of the emblem of one of my schools. But the flag itself, very 21st century.
I would rather have a McDonalds that a bloody Jamie Oliver place.
It was a crap brand of cheese in my distant youth which was wrapped in shiny foil. It was not allowed, we only had proper cheese bought at the market not supermarket cheese.
It's golden, so it must belong to him.
But surely all their problems went away when Grimey took all the Pride flags down?
Ah, the return of His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Doctor Eddie Elizabeth Hitler, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the Meffs of Bootle is now on the board of Reform, I did wonder if they would run him in the Runcorn bye.
I‘ve disabled it because my fat fingers keep hitting it.
The doctor suggested to my maternal grandmother that she gave up her bottle of stout and 2 fags a day at 95. She lived to 104.
Gav’s spider hole of Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge is the main one in the West Midlands that boils my piss.
Ancient Tradition. I have a old friend who live in Wednesbury and the place is a bit odd even for the Black Country but not in a bad way.
Peter Butterworth as Boromir Jack Douglas as Denethor
Possibly a bit of a booby?
Silly has a lovely little brewery which produces a number of nice beers of which my favourite is Scotch de Silly. A very sensible place in my book.
Yes, it is.
Barney was just satanic, I remember going into a toyshop just before Christmas when they had the singing barney on sale and the staff were on order to keep it singing from opening to close - they looked like they were going to break any minute.
Mind you Freisler would have loved to be on the telly.
So if various Conservatives think they know better than the jury who heard all the evidence, things that judges are woke activists and that the government should take action, it’s clear that what they want is a People’s Court. No, the TV one, the one presided over by Roland Freisler.
White Christian Males over 60.
Madri is “brewed” in Tadcaster. That’s pretty EMCL land.
All of which at some airports will be operated by the same company - SSP.
In some airports they have very few buses mercifully and in some they have very long bus transfers. Yes, you FRA.
And unless they are offered big bucks because of the investment they’ve put in there are very unlikely to move to Finningley.
And yet the ones that do have relatively low intermodal shares outside of that London. Both BHX and MAN are well connected by rail but most passengers arrive by car or taxi.
Sounds possible, I was nearly always using MUC as a connecting point from BHX to somewhere in Europe and it worked great, especially in comparison to FRA.
If you put your fees up too much (or don’t discount them enough) Ryanair will just pull their routes for instance which limits that revenue stream.
PHX wasn’t bad to use but was that odd municipal grim in terms of decor. DEN was pretty good.
Well, I haven’t used it for a couple of years now because I can’t fly these days, but I’ve been through it a couple of hundred times and never had any problems either as a transit airport where it excels or as an o&d airport where it was OK. If it’s gone bad, then I’m sorry to hear that.
I haven’t been through it for 20 years but EWR was awful.
Yes, it’s way out, but it’s very efficient and very nice to transfer in. ZRH is amazing but a bit too clinical but they will get you and your luggage on your connection.
Not unknown at BHX to be fair.
And yet none of them are MUC or ZRH.
Which is why I have four sizes of luggage and am contemplating a fifth so I can mix and match as needed. Happily five nights in Brixham doesn’t require too much changing.
Same here should have spotted it from the station
Ah, Thurso. Nice little town and smart little station.
Possibly because the Old Porte was on Seraglio Point, it got moved to where the Istanbul governors office was. It’s now a really quite nice museum.
They’d just call it the Bâb.
The Sublime Porte, please.
Don’t think it happened but the kids coming out of Welsh-medium schools are at least bilingual.
Triumph des Incels
Nah, you had a panic attack as some who had a wart lasered off I came pretty close to panicking as well.
Well, the first book was set in 1980, until it became 1730. But she's been making speeches with Mr Farage, so I don't think she'd be suitable now.
I must admit I used Taransay as an internment camp in the first part of the Azure Main trilogy with the Superintendent of the Camp being one Anne Widdicombe. So I think it could be used for a couple of hundred people.
There must be a suitable island like Taransay available.
What movie have you seen an unhealthy number of times?
The remaining vacancies in the West Midlands have now been scheduled, Walsall MBC, Pelsall will be on the 11th of September, the two on Warwick DC will be on the 18th of September.
There’s something they play in the Barbers. Radio 1 I think.
Reform have won the by-election in Hednesford Green Heath on Cannock Chase DC, it was previously a Labour seat. Votes cast: Rfm 525 Lab 230 Con 126 Grn 101 Ind Jagger 31 UKIP 5 TUSC 1
It would be horrible.
If you want an allotments based scandal, the City of Birmingham with over 7,000 allotment places at 113 different sites has council staff support of 0.6 of an officer. Bare in mind that some of the not doing so well sites don't have allotment committees or their committee is not functional.
"sing" would be more appropriate.
Counter-counter-argument: In Brum we have just over 7,000 allotments, they are 85% occupied, many of the most popular ones have waiting lists but there are some which aren't popular and some which are very unpopular. The very unpopular ones could be re-purposed as has happened to some small sites.
Doubt it, smells a bit councillor party but surely then in The Wood she'd have gone Reform.
In one of the more uncommon defection moves, the Solihull Observer reports that on Solihull MBC, Cllr Jane Lamden (Chelmsley Wood) has moved from Green to Conservative.
Yes, I can understand that
Inner London. Not so sure about Havering or Bexley.
And the thing is, I don't think they've worked out what they did wrong at all, so we can expect more of the same next time. Sod that I'll be watching sky, but I will miss the BBC's little silly stunt which they feature at the start with a lot of hype and then cut back to once through the night.
Now if I could work it out surely their bigbrains could and talk about that and how Labour was winning seats they'd never had a sniff at before, that the LibDems were killing it and Indos and Grn were doing very well in some seats. But no, lets cut to a shot of Farage through a window eating a meal.
It would be nice if they actually told you what was going on instead of endless chatter between pundits about pundit things. I think by 2am, I a rank amateur at this game, had worked out that the turnout badly down, that Labour were probably at 35% and that reform were underperforming the poll.
It seemed to be all about who the presenters found to be interesting or had in their contact book.
It was dreadful, the worst I've seen and I've watched everyone since 1979. I saw a bit of one of the 1974's and was then sent to bed. There was also the strange reluctance to talk to or about the party that was going to get 72 seats. I honestly won't watch the BBC next time.
Saesneg is the language, Sais is a Saxon (therefore English) man as in the cheery greeting Twll dîn pob Sais (arseholes to the English)
Three councillors on Warwick DC have gone from Labour to Independent. One on Coventry MBC, Cllr Grace Lewis (Weetwood) has also gone from Lab to Ind and said she will be joining "You Party". One Labour councillor on Wolverhampton MBC has had the whip suspended because of an investigation. 3/3
There are three pending by-elections although not have yet been formally called. Birmingham MBC, Moseley due to the sad death of Cllr Kerry Jenkins last week. Walsall MBC, Pelsall due to the impending resignation of Cllr Gary Perry and Warwick DC, Leamington Clarendon due to a resignation. 2 /3
A week of some change in the West Midlands local government scene. This week will see the Hednesford Green Heath by-election for Cannock Chase DC. Candidates are Con/Grn/Ind/Lab/Rfm/TUSC and UKIP. The county division the ward is in went Reform in May 1 / 3
'Useless eaters' when talking about welfare cuts.
Bins on a Sunday, good grief, of course they collected them on Wednesday (20 days late), so there weren't that many out for the missed Thursday collection this week. One day this seemingly never ending bin strike will be over and we won't have to put bins out out just in case they decide to collect.
For which we should probably be grateful.
Some of the best food I have had has been in Spain, especially in the Basque Country and Galicia. However, in other places it has not been so good. It has commanding heights but overall Italy does better on average, where even the tourist traps produce decent meals.
Oh, who has started on the Dolchstoßlegende. Ah, I see, who was this Tory Party Chairman? Mr Bimmler of the North Minehead Tories?
Hmm parents were (4,5), I suppose I count as an IT engineer which makes me a 3, but how the hell did the web designers become 2's, is it because they use a Mac?
From Weoley, with love.
Obviously an attempt to speedrun Winston McKenzies track record (Lab->LDm->Ind->Veritas->Ind->Con->Ind->Unity->UKIP->English Democrats and now his own Unity In Action.
So the leaking bay window turned into a rather bigger and more costly job involving replacing some very rotten battens and sorting out the back chimney. Oh well, all done now, now just the garden fence on the list of "things to find someone to do".
The Agriculture students can be entertaining at times. I'm not aware of any good restaurants, you'd have to go to Stroud or Cheltenham for that. It has been a few years since I wandered down that way though.
I don't hate IPA's, I had one on Saturday, but I am tired of walking into somewhere and finding the choices are Doom Bar and 6 IPA's.
or perhaps a last remnant of the savory at the end of the meal - I've seen some dining car menus from the 1930's with "Scotch Woodcock" as a final course - it's scrambled eggs on anchovy toast.