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I assume that Camelot advise them on security or I could see their kids being grabbed and held to ransom.

Does he wear an enormous pair of antlers? That sometimes can be a clue. (Cue old Monty Python sketch).

Went up to the Triathalon in Hyde Park on Tuesday. As well as being deafened by 3 helicopters overhead, they felt the need to blast out music the minute the commentary stopped. Seems to be a growing trend. At least Test cricket hasn't succumbed.....yet.

My local butcher and very good but they're not cheap.

That's lunch sorted then.

Make sure that you do the requisite business mileage or the taxman will clobber you.

Plugging it into another laptop could give problems if it's not the same model as there will be hardware differences. As the previous poster has said, you can buy a caddie that you can put your drive into and it has a USB connection to a working machine where you should be able to see your drive and extract any files.

T'was ever thus. The bigwigs get wined and dined at Buck House and people who actually do the work get shat upon.

Up at the crack of Dawn. How does Dawn feel about that?

Losing 3 wickets for 1 run wasn't too clever.

Syria's supposed to be nice.

Too many bloody traffic lights. Someone at the Civic must be getting a back-hander from the lights manufacturer. They take perfectly good roundabouts (Charlotte Place and Millbrook) and plaster them with lights. It notable that when there's an occasional lights failure, the roundabouts function much better. On my commute from Upper Shirley to the Waterside I go through 20 sets.

The Olympic ethos is about individual achievement. In some events you can be disqualified for assisting other competitors. The GB coach didn't help by saying his team was the "best the world had ever seen" and obviously put few backs up. He also advertised their tactics. Did he think that the others would just let them win?

Virgin have all 24 extra channels in both normal and HD.

Should be hyphenated if a phrase is being used as an adjective - ie. sports-car-production-line costs.

As someone who has had no interest in cycling, I really enjoyed the women's race.

Been a lot in the Echo recently about this lot. They photograph your registration when you drive in and again when you leave and you enter your registration when you buy your ticket. You're allowed 15 minutes. It's not a fine (only the Police and Local Authority can issue fines), it's an invoice, so it's treated like any other debt. Whether they would bother with debt collectors - who knows? Does it say on the notice what happens if you don't pay?

The word "heritage" - hardly existed when I was a nipper but it's everywhere now. Any corporate speak - someone at work yesterday was on about giving a "heads-up" - utter ******. "Empty space" - what other type of space is there? How come the swear filter catches b o l l o x when it's not a real word?

As a non-royalist, I was pretty disinterested in the Jubilee although the Thames procession was quite impressive despite the BBC's inane coverage. Quite looking forward to the Olympics although the opening ceremony will have to go some to be better the Beijing.

If you all know each other, stop ****ing about and do some bloody work.

It's not the weapons you have that's important, it's the weapons that your enemies think you have that counts. He could be bluffing to discourage outside intervention.

Super Kenny Monkou

This lady speaks the truth. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9416535/Problem-families-have-too-many-children.html And I'm far from being a right-wing nutter.

Quite right. There are many artists that I don't like but still recognise has having talent.

Exactly. Bought our first house in 1975 for £10000 (£9200 mortgage), sold in 1985 for £32000, paid off mortgage and put £22000 into next house at £49000 so had 27k mortgage which we paid off in 2008. So our highest mortgage was 27k and we now have a house worth 270 - 300k. Over the long term, property is still a good investment.