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I think you’ve all just run up huge debts on this here thread. The forum bailiffs are working on it!
This must be the longest thread I’ve started!
Anyway, recession now looks like it might turn into depression!
My work is connected with the property sector and I still see some new-build housing projects being started and I think ‘Nooooooo, they’ll be hard to sell, even at a big loss’.We had the jack from our beach boules set stolen by a seagull. The same seagull had stolen another jack from someone else who was playing boules the previous day – we saw that happen too!
The follow-up to my original post is that this morning I came down to find sicked-up potato on the sofa!
I have trained my three cats to ‘sit’ on command, which is quite fun. It’s very satisfying at meal times to say ‘sit’ and see three cats lowering their bottoms to the ground in unison!
I’m wondering what the market for a decaffeinated and detanninated teabag would be.
One thing that will not happen to my home is flooding. It could get struck by lightning, the roof could be blown off in a storm, it could catch fire or be affected by subsidence but it’ll never flood!
We live at the top of a hill. A few years ago I contacted Direct Line about changing our house insurance policy to them – in fact I think they sent us junk mail and, uncharactersitcally for me, I followed it up.
Anyway, I phoned them and they said, after checking their computer, that they declined to offer any insurance deal as I live in a high flood risk area. I explained I live a quarter of a mile away from the small river and about 75 feet higher, but they said it was a flood risk area and that was the end of it.
Since then, a new housing estate has been built right next to the river!
I was looking up national anthems on YouTube while ‘researching’ for my original post. Among the gems I found a Cornish national anthem, which was rather a stirring song.
Cornwall, so it now appears, rather embarassingly, has never officially been part of England. When the Saxons, Danes, Angles etc. were all united under King Alfred, first king of England, Cornwall wasn’t part of the new realm. Part of the UK, yes, definitely, but England….well, there’s nothing to say it is, apparently!If you don’t know the claimed Cornish national anthem, yerr t’ez!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMJYzyty2Z8&feature=related
It’ll bring a tear to your eye! Cornwall is a superpower, judged on the basis of anthems!!
It’s a bit like the ‘Grand old Duke of York’, but better.get fvcked sassenach
OK, but only if you take Brown, Darling etc. etc. back north of the border!!
Anyway, Glasgow is now Scotland’s second city! I know it’s bigger than Edinburgh, but Edinburgh is the capital!
we colonised the falklands. we have no right to claim it, and we have no right to be there.
Everybody colonised somewhere. We got to the Falklands first. They were part of the British Empire before Argentina even existed as a state. Argenita lays claim to the Falklands although hardly any Argentinians have ever lived there except during the brief occupation in 1982. Chile also lays claim to the Falklands, although it’s a dormant claim.
We in Britain still live under Norman rule, is it not time that we should be reasserting our Saxon/Viking/Dane/Roman/Celtic roots? Oops – I forgot – they were all invaders too. Anyway the Normans were Vikings who’d conqurered Northern France a few centuries before 1066, sort of!
When I was about 8 or 9, in the 1960’s, we had an overtly racist teacher who had previously been a PE instructor in the Army. We had two boys on an exchange visit from Kenya. This teacher overtly told us (when the Kenyan boys were not in the room) that he hated blacks and didn’t see why he should be nice to them. Mocking people was his greatest weapon and he was always setting the Kenyan boys up in class to make fools of themselves. We had an Indian boy too, but the teacher explained that Indians were OK, he quite liked them!
But on thinking about things more, I realise that this teacher, who’d been in the Army, as I said, might quite possibly have had dealings with Mao-Mao guerillas in Kenya during the 1950s. That might have coloured his opinion. Anyway, he was a thoroughly horrid man in all other respects, regardless of whether he was racist or not.
