Whitey Grandad

Fractions to decimals you can normally divide in your head for most cases. For more complicated long multiplications I just use the traditional method of putting the larger number over the smaller and multiplying the top by each digit from the lower row in succession. Then you add the number of decimal places in the two multiplicands and stick the decimal point in the answer that number of places from the right. It's amazing what calculations you can do in your head with a little practice but for exam purposes you usually have to show your working.

Thanks for the update. What was the answer for number 1?

2) is three and a half times three and a quarter, so: three and a half is 7/2 three and a quarter is 13/4 multiply the two gives 91/8 which is 11 and three eighths which is 11.375 (square metres) It's difficult to write fractions so I have used words. You can easily do this calculation in your head.

F*** me, we were good. Thanks for that.

That's about how I feel. When I first saw the look in the mother's eyes it wasn't distraught or despair, it was resignation, almost as though she knew that her daughter was gone and not coming back. Just a feeling, nothing more.

It's not the same now that the fit bird's gone. Not that I ever watch it, of course, far beneath me.

More likely to be the idiotic decision to move the Council Offices back into the Town Centre.

Fit and Proper Tested Person?

Didn't we have a waterlogged one, or is my memory playing up?

Of course, Pap, I have done my little bit this morning. It's just as well that we live in different constituencies or your vote and mine might cancel each other out.

Yes, that's the heart of the matter. My thoughts go to the poor little girl. It was no more than a feeling, and I can usually read people's behaviour, but my reaction at the time was 'they know more than they are letting on'.

Worth quite a bit of money these days. I take all my stuff to these people: http://www.jameshuntleyandsons.co.uk/ Drive in onto the weighbridge, see the dealer in the office, weigh the vehicle on the way out and collect your cash. Simples. Give them a call for the latest prices, yoiu'll be surprised what it's worth.

Euros. Certainly not the Olympics, over-hyped athletics day.

Let's hope he doesn't do a Benali.

And enough paper towels to last until half time? Can we afford all this???

I was there for three nights in the early eighties. We had a spare day at the end of the exhibition so two of us hired a car and drove to the Grand Canyon and back in a day. I'd have liked to have gone to the painted desert but didn't have enough time.

Nor Shelvey.

Rather a Yaris than a snail on a cold day.

Doesn't every PL stadium have them? I have always thought that they were supplied by the advertising company and not the club. I hate the things, even though my business is based on something similar.

I don't see how you could be an unmitigated failure in the long term. If it ever got to be a long term then the period in between must be mitigating cricumstances.

Whichever way you look at it, we get plenty of rain and we lose plenty through leaks so somewhere along the line is mis-management of our water resources. There have been lots of suggestions for a kind of national water grid, mabe using the canals, and I have been told that part of the delay over the high-speed rail route is because the plan is to include a water feed of some sort into the project. No pumping need because it's north to south and so downhill all the way! (only joking - don't bother).

Careful, nobody likes a smartarse. I should know.

Yup, me too a few years ago. If you've got more bedrooms than people then a meter's reckoned to save you money.

Certainly not this year.

I thought we were looking at it from behind and it started at 50:55.