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You did bridge too far, please see original post. 3 in total, well done. Did you think i'd only given you one? And btw, I am probably way too old for you, but I am flattered by your attentions. :smt008

I think that the money-go-round will always keep turning, and people will jump on and get pushed off, just ike they always have done. Sometimes though, those riding the older carousel horses on the outside edge (albeit going round in the same pointless circles) look at those riding the shiny newer horses on the inside, and wander why we (did I say 'we'? oops) can't ride them for a change. Also, it is because you are only allowed to ride the horses on the outside, that you run a greater risk of falling off an getting hurt. On the plus side, as I have personally found, when it does slow down, and you fancy a ride on the more gentle teacup ride, it is easier to hop off and let someone else have a bit of fun. At the moment the fairground rides are in need of a bit of maintenance, and it's a good time for everyone to have a good look at what part we all play in the financial welbeing of the country, people are scared of what the future holds, and maybe some will make errors of judgement re pay claims and maybe some will inadvertently shoot themselves in the foot, but I frimly believe that they are well intentioned. Moreover they are within their rights imo, so the economy WILL find it's natural level, and we ALL need to take stock and regroup, perhaps with a bit more respect for each other. Johnny B, it's quite likely that employers like your good self, will play a very important part in the rebuilding of the faith that the common man has lost in the current regime. As a businessman, the powers that be may well listen to you and your views. You sound like a fair man and a good employer to work for, big business has basically kicked the man in the street in the teeath and those at the top really have taken the ****, none moreso than the politicians. This country needs it's community feel back, local small businesses are the lifeblood and much more in touch with the real world. I would urge you to let the posties have their scrap, let them vent their spleen, ad then be there for those cast aside. Keep is small, keep it local.

Brilliant Harvey, brilliant I know that stevo and saint lard done well, but 3 correct answers to one question takes some beating. It's late so I'll give btf the carol King one, even though I was after the original by The Shirelles, plus I have a soft spot for you bridgey. :smt052 harvey take a bow, you are tonights juke box king. So harvey nicks it eh. boom tish

And on that note , I think I'll leave it.

I used to deliver to the Prince Consort years ago, really got on well with the couple that ran it, Elaine and Tim.

Just went to the Deal Hoy website, have a look if you want a laugh, I could be wrong but I am guessing that they did not spend much money on it: http://www.dealhoy.co.uk/ It's a great pub, with some gorgeous beers on tap, and although we love it, I probably wouldn't send a tourist in there, it's an acquired taste. They also have some really cracking live music nights in there. It's owned and run by a couple who run it as a kind of hobby, as it is the only pub I have ever known that closes on New Years Eve so that they can have a night for themselves, veryt strange in this day and age especially that ANY pub can afford to turn away the NYE revellers money! Talking of being proud of your hometown, I had a Deal website use one of MY photos to respresent Deal a while back, I was so proud.

/\ Netley holds a very special memory for me RnR but that's another story I would love to spend a halloween eve at the castle ruins too, I've heard it is very creepy, do they still do those events there?

tbf I did say sorry, and gavve you a point too, what more do you want?

This is all we need, more points deductions coming our way if we're not careful.

Just saw what I did, soz, sorted now. btw NOT Brenda Lee..

Just checked and yes, you are correct with those two, but they are not the versions that i had in mind, sorry. You can have a point, but I I'll leave it as unanswered for now, if you don't mind. Edit, Blimey that Guthrie bird was popular wasn't she..

aha, a castle, could it have been about Deal castle, Walmer castle, Richborough castle or maybe even sandown castle, there are quite a few dotted around to protect the lovely little town? Although Deal is the loveliest town in the world, the town's motto is something in latiun or greek; 'befriend the stranger' I think. The casual visitor should not be fooled into thinking the local inhabitants are a soft touch, I can't remember his name, but some chap once wrote of my fellow townsfolk something along these lines: "Deal is the most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people." He didn't say it to their faces though, pussy. I don't think Dickens liked it much either, he was a ***** anyway, born in Pompey and lived and loved in Chatham. He wouldn't know a decent maritime port if it bit him on his filthy skate bum. William Pitt's excise men regularly got their arses kicked by the towns people too. I know it is fairly easy to get hold of a few packs of duty free fags in most places around the UK, but in Deal, official figures would make you think that the place is full of non smokers, to this day not many people buy their baccy from the shops down there (he lied ). Being serious about it though, for a long time Deal was the sole naval protector for the country, and what we today call smuggling, was in fact a legal right bestowed upon the town by royal charter. I think that the original charter is in the museum on the beach, where the timeball tower is. If you are still reading this, I was actually born in a house built on the original site of the napoleonic dockyard just a stones throw from the beach. Sadly pehaps, I am quite proud of that fact. Writing this has made want to get myself down there for a pint in the best pub in Deal, the Deal Hoy, and in the morning I'm gonna sort this out. We are all a product of so many things and people that have gone before us, and if I could write properly I would love to write a book about the place and people that I come from, in fact I would say that my dream job would qite likely be working for the Deal tourist board. It is quite touching actually that someone had taken note of my previous ramblings, and remembered that I am a Man of Kent, let aone which little town I was born in. Cheers RednWhite.

We had one last year, free smoke alarms WOOT. There are some very tall, hunky firemen working in our area acording to mrs h, I hope you were not one of them. They wanted to put one up in our bedroom but couldn't get it to stay up, so I had to get my tools out later on and do the job properly.

I would gladly combine the two anyday of the week and buy you a beer ESB, neither would be a waste. Incidentally, I had a pint of that horrible, horrible Worthington Smoooooth at Beaulieu today, it was that or lager and even I won't stoop that low. In contrast I stopped at the Snakecatcher on the way home and had an intimate experience with a lovely warm pint of Ringwood Best, a beer deserving of it's name if ever there was one imho.

I'm not surprised. Ergo I was correct. Get in.

sotonjoe, although the shirley place can do the whole job, I'd always recomend getting at least two estimates, here's a good site for getting estimates: http://www.ratedpeople.com/ You could post the job under a couple of categories and check out the reviews of anyone who contacts you, it seems to work quite well.

I am clueless about flueless, but you could ask the fire brigade's advice re sweeping the chimley, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't offer a free service.

Shamelessly stealing the idea from the pub quiz thread here are some questions within songs and I would like you to tell me who sang them? Don't you want me baby? Human League (lardy) When will i see you again? - Three Degrees (stevo) Who killed bambi? - Sechs Pistols (lardy). Will you still love me tomorrow? - The Shirelles/Carol King (bridgey) Who let the dogs out (woof, woof, woof)? - Baha Men (Godawful song) (jilly) Why, Oh Why, Oh Why? - Gilbert O'Sullivan (harvey) Is she really going out with him? - Joe (Skate) Jackson (lardy) Do you think I'm sexy? - Rod Stewart (bridge2far) What's love got to do with it? - Tina Turner (bridge2far) incidentally, the second most saucy grandmother in the world imho Is there anybody out there? Pink Floyd - (lardy).. I can think of loads more, but I'll stick to titles for now. One bonus one though: "What's the point in getting sober, if you're only gonna get drunk again?

Seriously Suhari, you should have a round entitled "Questions in Songs" There are some good ones already. Do you wanna touch me? by the way, where and when is the quiz? you can tell me by PM and we'll split the winnings at a later date.

If I'm back from visiting the outlaws of Newbury in time, I'll pop along, but it sounds like a few of you will be too knackered by then.

Sorry Mods, but as we have a few plumbers on here, I hope you don't mind me doing this as a seperate one from my photo frame post? Cheers. Grundfos Central Heating Pump: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140345510734&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

When will I, will I be famous?

How much money will Matt Le Tiss lose when Sky cancel his contract?

Good point, well made.

So, when the postal dispute is eventually over, we agree that some of their business will have been taken over by the more efficiently run private sector, but only the profitable bits. Great. That may sound as though I am arguing against the strike, but I am not. The private sector will take the more profitable part sof the sector over, leaving Royal mail with the doorstep deliveries, the emptying of post boxes, the trawling down country lanes, deal with the hundreds of millions Christmas cards. There are lots of areas of the service that no private business will touch with a bargepole. Being a postie in my humble opinion is a pretty un-desirable job, crap hours and crap weather conditions to put up with. It is no walk in the park I can tell you. Then again they could all go and get a different job if they don't like it couldn't they. Oh, but what other jobs are there? They should think themselves lucky to have one in this current climate perhaps? Perhaps not I say.