Whitey Grandad

Around 20 minutes walk from the station, if you're heading east.

I use a piece of masking tape, that usually gives enough grip.

Of course it is, but that is what we were being told at the time.

We were nowhere near self-sufficency even during the war when every scrap of land, including the parks, was being used and there was national food rationing.

It will stay dry until I get back to laying my patio, then it will pour down.

It doesn't need to be a big one.

Only about 10% are Latin. Most of mine are Anglo-Saxon.

This time last year it never even occured to me in my wildest dreams that we might even be in the playoffs, let alone promoted, so much so that I booked a cruise which covers the playoff dates. I'll be back for the final though, if needed. I'll take promotion by any way, shape or form and I wouldn't feel guilty or undeserving.

Dune, I usually enjoy your posts even though they may at times be naive in the extreme, but this time you're talking ********.

There is something in the League rules about every club stumping up money to guarantee parachute payments for those teams relegated to League 1 and yes, that includes our fishy friends down the road. There's money to be had from the playoffs and also traditionally the two clubs in the Wembley final make an agreement that the losing team will take all the profits from the final itself.

Fixed it for you

That's save them watering the pitch then.

I shall be wearing my lucky Saints keyring. God help us if I forget it. If the players ever see me without it then we're doomed.

58% of how many? I can't remember the exact figure, but it used to be held that you need about an acre and a half per person and we have a lot less than that. My figures date from a couple of decades ago and we have a lot more people in the country now.

How much?

The problem with the 'scroungers' is that there are so many of them. £26,000 take-home is a hell of a lot of money, there are plenty of hard-working families on much less than that. As for overcrowding, the evidence is all around us. Official figures put the UK population at over 60 million but I remember when it was only 50 million. This figure is an underestimate. Some supermarket estimates put it at nearer 80 million. Immigration and emigration records at ports and airports stopped in the early 1960s so the government figure is a wet-fingered guess. I don't see why you quote 77% on 5.8% of the land? Cities are the most efficient method of housing people in high densities so you would expect something like that. There is not enough land in Britain (note that includes Scotland) to feed more than about 22 million people so spread us all out and we shall starve.

If there's money to be made then it will happen. The problem with just cutting down unilaterally on emissions is that the Chinese will bugger it all up. It's no good being holier and poorer if it was all for nothing.

We could end up with a frozen planet.

Don't worry, it was just a jerk reaction.

Yup, I agree with all of that.

Nothing wrong with tax avoidance. It's not even illegal.

The reason we're short of housing is because the country is grossly overcrowded, mainly due to net immigration although many would like to deny that. Another big factor is the increase in the number of single-parent families. I only chose Tony Blair because he is an easy target. Instead of staying in politics and serving the community that put him where he is he buggered off at the first opportunity. There are plenty of others of all political hues. I have no problem with anybody passing on wealth to their children. What really irks me is the number who have decided that they will live off the state, which basically means they are living off their fellow citizens.

Why use a greek word when a german one does the job perfectly well?

No I can't and yes I do.

What type of land are we talking about? Arable land, pasture, central city?