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They'll beat Tranmere but we really want Posh to beat them now.

One is rather happy.

It wasn't formulated that way and that was the major problem with it. As with many of these things, it was poorly thought out.

Your daughters are abdicating their roles as mothers if they are letting others raise their children for 10 hours per day. Far too many put career ahead of children these days.

It is, but for an old fart like myself, who did it at The Dell, it's tempting to get the boots out, one last time, for 45mins.

Years of experience. For example, no postal address or phone number, shipping 12 - 21 days etc. Take it or leave it it makes no odds to me.

Chinese knock offs.

This and the 6-3.

He is and always will be my footballing god. I have never seen a better goal than that one he scored at Blackburn. Corky Morris and I watched in stunned disbelief before going nuts. He actually missed a sitter in the 90th min which would have been his hatrick and secured a 3-3 draw.

I was jumping off at J11 and going down the A462 and rejoining the Black Country route by the Alfa garage. Haven't had to do this for three weeks, even on a Monday!

They have the hard shoulder thingy up to 10A but it's not been used yet southbound! Didn't slow down until I was actually at J10 yesterday and today and on Monday only slowed down a mile short. Haven't had to come off at J11 and head through Willenhall for over three weeks!

Perversely enough, the decrease in traffic is saving me being stuck in traffic from J11/J10A downwards or using a rat run which in turn means I'm actually using less fuel. Also saving me 30 - 45mins in a morning.

You are most obliging.

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I drive J13 to J10 of the M6 every morning and the traffic has become much, much lighter, even on a Monday, as petrol prices have rocketed. Is this reflected across the rest of England?

I can understand people wanting to drive their kids to school in mid-winter when it's lashing it down but it's nice to walk or ride your bikes when the weather is good. My kids are walked to and from school and if we do need to drive we park at the local children's centre and walk around. Some of my mates who live in more rural areas seem to have no choice but to drive as the "local" primaries are miles away as schools have become merged doing to decreasing numbers of kids. This is partly driven by youngsters leaving rural areas to find work and affordable housing and being replaced by an older demographic who have done their parenting.

I can really see the SoS for Education backing an idea that removes the choice of schools from everybody and allows it to be solely decided on the wealth of the parents. Yep, that's a vote winner for sure with the aspiring middle classes. Can see them running with that one, it's such a well thought out plan. Well done, you've completely re-written the tory education policy that they spent years doing consultations on before the election. If only they had just asked you.

Oh really? I'll ask Gove when I see him next week if plans that in the future.

£20 (for charity of course H4H in my case) that by the next election it hasn't been changed? After all, they mentioned it all the time from 97 onwards and it was such a key element of their manifesto and Gove has said it's a priority. Oh.

I'm sure the tories will be changing it forthwith then. Oh wait, they have no plans to.

A clever economics type explained to me that their debt is "owned", in the main, within Japan.

Ex-RN types (and their families) are used to it though which certainly helps.

True but not neccessary in my case.

WTF would someone on a cash turnstyle at Rochdale care about how many aways you've done? You rock up, pay your cash and watch the game.

Yep, I'd look at getting my offshore tickets. I know some ex-Andrew who work offshore (off the coast on India at the moment) and they are raking it in. One of them lived in Brazil for 4 years doing 4on/4off on a rig off the coast there. I'd snap their hand off for a £60k package.