Bassingbourne55

The police driver obviously was wrong as the advice, nay the RULE, is that where the roundabout is wide enough to permit 2 lanes, drivers going straight on should NOT try to ‘straighten out’ the roundabout by cutting across to the middle unless the roundabout is clear. Most police drivers round this way seem good, but even the best drivers make…[Read more]

As a man who has no particular interest in sport, I much prefer watching women doing sports than men, because they generally look nicer!

I have been self-employed for about 18 years, as an illustrator.
Nobody likes parting with money but I accept that I have to pay tax like everyone else does. I reckon that I’ve been no better and no worse off, tax-wise, compared to an employed person.

The biggest problem for self-employed taxpayers is not the amount of tax they have to pay, but…[Read more]

fancy a libarary stealin books. i thought they were all council ran so would it realley matter?

I think it’s what’s called ‘cashiering’ in the army – when stuff is nicked by one part of an organisation from another part. It isn’t theft really, because all the books belong to the County Council, but it’s still not nice when you lend books to…[Read more]

I suppose it was, but it was a mistake and I never got round to posting the book back.
Re the public library – I don’t think many of the people who got letters actually ended up in court – only those who had lots of books overdue or a particularly expensive book. Otherwise we just wrote off the overdue books. I sometimes used to get sent out to…[Read more]

I found, years after I left school, that I still had a library book out. The day I finished school after my A-levels, I dumped my briefcase in the garage and left it there, where all the stuff in it went mouldy, including a forgotten library book. I did keep the book for a while, but it was very dull and not worth much, then I think I threw it…[Read more]

Obviously if a cyclist rides dangerously and kills a pedestrian, or another cyclist for that matter, which has been known to happen, they should face a tough penalty, possibly prison as in the recent case. I wonder though, what the position would be when a pedestrian steps into the road in front of a cyclist, causing them to swerve and fall off,…[Read more]

Ah, but the train driver died as a result of the attack on him in the robbery, but it was just over the time limit for his death to be treated as murder. Biggs wasn’t the attacker, but he was part of the organised crime gang.

I’ve no time for the likes of Biggs but they might as well nominally release him because his real jailer now is the illness from which he’s likely to die very soon and he’s not exactly going to go anywhere except feet first in a wooden box anyway.

Taking a dog for a walk these days can be a bit embarrasing, since you end up having to carry a plastic bag full of poo home.

So why not train your dog to carry the plastic bag in its mouth? The dog can then saunter home carrying its poo with pride!

i didnt see any mutants.

mechanical mutants – the Lanz Bulldog road tractors! A marriage of primitive diesel technology (single-cylinder hot-bulb 2-stroke diesel engine), a farm tractor and elegant 1930’s car-style bodywork perched on top!

It’s probably too early to know what sort of post-viral infections might linger after people have got over the swine flu.

Also, in Argentina, where it’s winter, swine flu has spread very rapidly and the death rate is much higher than anywhere else.

We should have a UK day – 22nd July, to commemorate the Treaty of Union between England and Scotland on that day in 1706 – the birth of the United Kingdom, when our island became one nation for the first time.

It’s in my town and some of the nearby towns. People who attended the Glastonbury festival seem to have caught it there.

PS it’s just been reported on BBC that the there’s been the first death in England of a healthy person from swine flu – i.e. someone who had no previous underlying health problem.

Presumably his wife is a free individual who is at liberty to publish her family details on Facebook just like anyone else. She is not about to become the boss of MI6, is she?

Perhaps a more accurate name would be “British Fail”.

Doesn’t that term apply to the whole country?

Charlie is a feline equivalent of Muttley

Sorry, I amended my reply while you were replying!

I’ve got national pride but that doesn’t extend to the currency, it’s just something we use to buy things. Most of the pounds we spend are exchanged by means of plastic cards or direct debits anyway.

Other countries were willing to give up their currencies to join the euro, I don’t see what’s different about Britain.

Now that these scooters are available secondhand quite cheap, I’m suspicious that a minority of the people who use them are the ‘unfit able-bodied’, who see them as a lazy alternative to walking or cycling.