bridge too far

But we don't know the truth behind this story, do we. I've already mentioned my mother - she had leukaemia treatment at £30,000 a year for 9 years. The treatment started when she was 74!! Unfortunately, some pharma companies encourage people with terminal conditions to press for expensive treatments that haven't been proved to be efficacious over given timespan and it tends to be these drugs that aren't available on the NHS. The leukaemia drugs my mother was prescribed have shown remarkable improvements in life expectancy (she died from an unrelated condition). So it's nothing to do with the age of the patient. It's more to do with the illness and the efficacy of the drugs.

If you're a child, for example? If you're a pensioner?

And the most admirable part of 'free at the point of use' is that treatment is based on need and not on how wealthy you are / aren't. I still remember the case of the little American boy who died needing dental treatment because his parents couldn't afford insurance (in the Michael Moore documentary). I also remember lying on a stretcher in the Emergency Room in a hospital in Austria, in agony, and not being treated until they'd established that I'd got travel insurance!

I don't know what the cover costs. But I do know that my ex sister-in-law, who has lived and worked in the US for 40 odd years and paid health insurance, couldn't afford to come home for her mother's funeral because of the personal cost of her treatment for breast cancer. Her insurance didn't cover the cost of treatment. Her family have had to help her with the cost. A stark contrast to the cost of my mother's treatment for leukaemia - around £30,000 a year for the past 9 years and not costing her a penny. Thank goodness for the NHS for all it's perceived failings (many of which are media scaremongering).

I've paid now, honey, and I'm waiting for my rightful status to be granted. But thanks for your very kind offer

Bloody PayPal screwing up renewals, I think you'll find. I hate being a second class citizen

I loathe them. Custard cremes are my biscuit of choice.

What a palaver! It's taken me about 20 mins to cancel my PayPal account (because my bank card was changed following cloning) only to find it had cancelled the instruction to pay my subscription! So I then had to go through all the bank card reader malarky just to pay a fiver! Still, 'tis done now

So, in simple terms, if the good doctor does indeed take over the club for 1p, the ONLY income he will have will be from casual ticket sales! And how on earth will they repay other clubs where they've bought now to pay later? What a mess!

What? The Sun?

I empathise with this. Mr TF is a Skate :oops: and he was very supportive throughout our troubles. But I KNOW he was chortling behind my back. So now I solicitously ask from time to time how his takeover is going. And then leave the room for a big chuckle.

Thanks for the recommendation. Unfortunately, I don't live in the Southampton area. But thanks anyway.

Mine failed too

Nigel

Say you want to stay in to watch the Test Match. Unless Mrs H doesn't like cricket?

You've got your ironic hat on, haven't you Nick Since they were due to pay their bank on Friday, I guess they were waiting to see if they had any pennies left. And found they hadn't ...............

Yes good point. But, having been given his budget, AP is maybe adopting the 'cards close to the chest' strategy :smt102

Seriously, a few years ago we went to stay with some friends who live in Edinburgh. They offered to take us to 'the best Italian in the city'. I ordered a lasagne and it came with chips! I love lasagne - I love chips. But together? No tx

And lasagne and chips

But surely the 'market' is very slow ATM anyway? Not THAT many signings in any of the divisions from what I've seen. If ML is as shrewd as has been reported, he's probably suggested 'we' play a quiet hand so 'we' don't get ripped off by agents / players / clubs thinking we've got a small fortune to spend (or even a large one).

If it isn't paid, will this bank pull the plug as Barclays did to us?

I think they're all the same, the big boys. We're getting quotes for a conservatory ATM and I couldn't believe my ears when one company more than halved its quote in the space of 10 minutes! The usual line was trotted out 'this offer is only valid for 21 days'. My retort was 'well I'm getting a couple of other quotes so I'll wait until then'. Suddenly, another 5% off! We still haven't chosen who will do the work.

And the little window at the top opens horizontally then? Like the little ones at the top here: Incidentally, whilst googling for images (saddo that I am) I noticed that Zenith windows have a 50% sale on right now. But it's probably volume related rather than for one-off windows.

The only way a horizontal window could open 'from the side' is if it is a sliding window.

Still doesn't make sense, Stanley