Whitey Grandad

Does anybody know how long this will last? I have regular air shipments from the Far East and it all my suppliers are a bit surprised when I rais the question of delays.

I always used to get nervous when it got bumpy but now it doesn't seem to bother me. Sit as far forward in the plane as you can and I always used to think of those brave chaps in their Lancasters over Germany. At least you're not being shot at!

You can believe that if you like, but it ain't true. I've seen too may friends and relatives eaten away by the dreaded addiction.

Highlights on BBC for uk viewers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/default.stm We are at 06:50. I wish I'd been there.

Smokers should be banned from everything.

I'm told that over the Himalayas it can get bumpy.

Thanks. That is still a considerable reduction.

Which players would that be? The expensive, talented, ones that they bought with taxpayers' subsidy? This is the essence of the complaints, that if they only had players that they could afford, then they would not have distorted the competitions in which they have played.

Wasn't that brought down from £8m over the season?

I think it increases with more generations of inbreeding.

I've asked around and these people have good reports: http://www.mrclutch.com/branches/36/southampton Might we worth an ask. If you need a tow, I have a tow-rope.

'twould explain a lot.

So the one month notice can be given 30 days from her intended return to work, i.e 11 months after leaving? In practice a company is extremely unlikely to sue any mother that did this.

Cable broken?

I'll ask a local garage (Hound near Netley) for an idea of the price. Where has it got to be towed from?

What car is it?

In practice I believe that there is nothing to stop the mother saying that she intends to return after one year and then changing her mind at the last moment.

Find someone good, but cheap, to do it (or do it yourself) and who will wait until your payday.

You've said the magic words there. If the work can be carried out by others then the post must by definition be redundant.

?? As I understand it the mother does not have to decide whether to return to work until just before the return-to work date. Some people milk the system. I know of one schoolteacher who after having the child went back to work one week before the start of the summer holidays so that she would be paid over the summer..

You really couldn't make it up. I hope to God that we don't rely on this sort of person if there ever is an emergency.

That's absolutely not true. That job must still be done in the interim period and after 9 months or a year a replacement will be up to speed.

What, even in my own time and in the privacy of my own home. :confused:

Oh yes. And be careful what you Google, especially '100 ways to get rid of a dead body' or 'how to cheat at insurance fraud'. Internet searches histories have been used as evidence of intent.

I heard this on the radio the other day: 'So, we're heading for a hung parliament. Where do we start?'