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I'd recommend Tarragona, which is certainly in the right area. It's a beautiful old city (Roman and medieval) which you can wander around, there's lots of good places to eat and you won't need to hire a car if you fly to Reus. You can get the train up to Barcelona, and there's an excellent water park a bus ride away.

Where was I referring to you referring to yourself?

People may say some unpleasant things about you, Hypo, but I do think it's really nice that you care.

OK, so that petition isn't exactly going to garner an awful lot of signatures, but I do like the fact that its starter is apparently one Ronald Tissier.

Thanks very much for that Viking - much appreciated. I'll drop you an email with a bit more detail.

I know from previous threads that there are a few posters here who have great knowledge and expertise in employment law and related matters (Viking Warrior springs to mind), so I thought I'd pose a question. Any advice gratefully received, needless to say. My wife has worked for the past nine years as an LSA at a local school. She has a permanent contract of employment, which was last changed a couple of years back when she started working one to one with a child with very specific needs. She currently works 23 hours per week. Her school has just carried out a re-appraisal of LSA requirements (driven entirely by budgetary constraints). They have decided that any one-to-one work with statemented children (which is exactly what my wife does) will be carried out on a different basis, with any LSAs thus occupied being employed on a temporary contract. At first she thought this would be OK, as the child she works with will be at the school for another two years. However, two additional changes are now proposed. First, the number of hours she works per week is to be reduced to around 18.5; second, the temporary contract will be for 40 weeks a year. It seems pretty clear that she will not be paid for any time that she is not actually at work (and I'm assuming that this will include time off sick and suchlike). So, we'll be significantly worse off. It's a shabby way to be treated after nine and more years of working there, but that isn't really the point. My question is how exactly does with work in terms of employment law? If a change is made to your contract of employment, you have to agree to this. In my wife's case, her current contract of employment is apparently going to be ripped up and replaced by a new one on massively worse terms. Should she choose not to agree to this, what will happen? Will she have to be made redundant and paid off? Or is there some sneaky mechanism whereby the school will get out of doing this? As you'd expect, she's currently looking round for another job, but I'd still like to know what the options may be regarding her current position.

How the fork did you do that?

Best of luck - hope it's as painless as mine was!

He was actually called Saint_Will (or something much like that), and he used to go on about golf one hell of a lot (more than Phil even), hence the nickname. I think I've got that right - I remember him being very touchy a lot of the time, until one day he lost it altogether.

Just because something has happened before (quite some time back at that, before this forum was around), that doesn't make it any less petty or pathetic. I'll give you 'astonishing' though - I should know better than to be remotely surprised. By the way, what happens when links to articles or threads on TUI get posted on here?

So it has. That really is astonishingly petty and deeply pathetic.

He hasn't been told. He also told me that there aren't any deleted posts which would explain the banning. Neither did he reveal Verbal's real identity, or indeed anybody else's come to that. I'd like to know what he actually was banned for, though I don't imagine we're likely to find out. But you're right, he'll certainly cope OK!

It is a foolish man indeed who would ignore the wise words of Turkish. Be thankful that your credibility will have taken no more than a minor hit. It could have been so much worse. So Lou will never get to see where the wild roses grow, then? She'll be disappointed, I'm sure.

Je suis désolé. In fact, nous sommes tous désolés. I made my way back to Horndean a shortish time after 5pm; I left in my wake the Goat, pap, Lou, Bucks, SO5 4BW, Ant and Lets B Avenue. We also had Jonnyboy and Sue Whistle with us earlier. What time the others made their way into the sotonian evening I do not know, but did you look in the garden?

You're not wrong UJ. As I'm feeling downright subversive tonight, here's the link. I hope you all realise I'm posting this at potentially huge personal cost. Foucault's Pendulum doesn't even come close. Should I fail to turn up for post-match libations tomorrow, you'll be able to guess the fate that will have befallen me.

Hardly surprising. The bastards are making him drink water.

I know. I forgot to add the "I'm being a sarcastic little ***t" smiley thing.

Crikey, that was a good one. Did you think of it all by yourself?

You beat me to it, Lord Duck. I remember BB co-hosting an Arena Blues Night on BBC2 about 30 years ago (John Walters being the main host). It was a great programme, and BB was just brilliant.

Just heard he's died at the age of 89. One of the great blues men, and certainly the best known. In his earlier years he did stuff like this: Fabulous. I think Lucille should be buried with him. RIP BB.

I think he posts on the Napoli forum.

I think the pungent aroma of herbs and spices from the subcontinent will hit us before we even see the Mohican and army jacket. Blues Brothers? Synecdoche Siblings, I says.

Hypo? Yeah, we all do.

OK, South Western Arms it is then. Will be along shortly after the match. Unfortunately I won't be able to partake of anywhere near as much beer as I'd like as I'll be driving. I'm sure SO5 will make up for this though!