Whitey Grandad

It's 2 yards narrow under Adkins so there's less grass to mow.

Never mind the bickering, what did you all think of the result? I must admit, I was a little bit concerned when they equalised. You could see it coming. The last fifteen minutes of the first half we had lost all sense of purpose and I was afraid that our usual lack of a clinical finish would comeback to haunt us.

RIP Deano, gone after only half a lifetime and with so much to offer. You will be in our thoughts and my condolences to your family.

You get used to it.

Yep yep. Collect your ticket on the way in and then put the same ticket in on the way out. I don't know what happens if you're over the 30 minutes.

Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer it in its natural containers, myself.

Nutshell. (Am I allowed to say that?)

That can also be a slow word. 'Celerity' might have been more appropriate. Nice of him to try, though.

One could say, The difference between Southampton and Brighton is that we drew at Hartlepool and they lost....

It's the table in May that matters, but it's certainly Brighton's championship to lose and I still think they'll hit a sticky patch sometime.

Check the small print - I had something similar offered to my business recently. The rental is about half price but only for 2 years, you have to sign up for longer and if you cancel before there are hefty charges. They will try and get you to sign up over the phone and get very shirty if you say you need time to think.

What figures are these? I have seen £1.6bn in 2008, which is a pitiful return on the capital invested. Some divisions have made losses, some such as their capital investment arm have continued to give good returns. £6bn of the quoted £11bn was from the sale of BGI to Blackrock. If the company is allowed by the government to offset write-downs against tax then these companies will do so. Headline figures are always misleading.

I assume your tongue was in your cheek when you typed that?

The profits are reduced because they are allowed to offset against losses from previous years. This has been the arrangement under several governments. Individuals and sole traders like me are not allowed to spread good years over the bad ones.

That's different, and on the face of it, 'highly dodgy', IMHO. No, all the banks are going to be paying very little corporation tax because of the hits that they have taken.

It's only 1% because of the horrendous losses in the previous years.

"...I wanted to take my wife back to her birthplace in Wales, for old times' sake, to Bangor." (Mr. Tebbs, 'Are You Being Served?')

Male or female?

As an engineer I found the Llechwedd slate quarry museums very interesting. http://www.llechwedd-slate-caverns.co.uk/ Then there are all those lovely castles, Caernarvon, Beaumaris, Conway. The Menai Straits suspension bridge. The narow gauge railways. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Wales_Narrow_Gauge_Railways Have fun!

It's only because of their horrendous losses over the last couple of years. Taken over a longer period the tax paid is higher. Much as it may be unpalatable, we need the banks to rebuild their balance sheets, in fact the government has insisted on it.

Some people would see it as a compliment.

At my age you get to be even more selectively deaf.

But you can't convert that 'wealth' into money with which to pay for publice services. As soon as you start to sell it, assumingyou can find a buyer, then its value will plummet.

Oh surely not!

Bankers already lose half their bonuses in tax. I repeat, there's nowhere near enough money in London's bankers to pay for the government's profligacy for more than a few months. What do we do when we've taken all their money?