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  • I live in Lincolnshire,I can do that going to Tescos and back.

  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    T_C_E said:
    Thanks Ray. They came top/cheapest of my moneysupermarket quotes, but didn't beat my existing insurer Esure (a few weeks ago).
    I didn't even look at the detail ie per mile etc.
    I pay £170 to have a relatively new bmw estate parked up and if I do the same amount of miles I did last year I expect to top that up by another 25 quid. My best fully comp quote elsewhere was £250. 
    Do you mind if I ask what miles you do
    ....ball park 




    I’ve not done over 1500 miles a year for over 3 years which was when we used to kennel the dogs in Northampton. Last year taking them to The Valley 3 times took my mileage too around 1300 miles. To find an insurance company that charges only when I use it is a dream. 
  • New flat being near Gunnersbury Park. Bedroom windows open and listening to The Specials headline a day festival. Haven’t seen them live in a few years but they still sound superb. 
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    Getting sent this earlier. 😀
  • T_C_E said:
    Getting sent this earlier. 😀
    what's their favourite story?
  • The Real Inspector Hound? 

    (Yes I know it's a play, but go with it...). 
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    T_C_E said:
    Getting sent this earlier. 😀
    what's their favourite story?
    We had a child in my first term at the school reading a book clearly above his level but was making a good attempt at Reading it when he suddenly paused. Asking what the problem was he said he wasn’t sure he was allowed to say that word, as I looked down the offending word was “bugger” I was surprised to to see the word but thinking times have changed I asked him to read on missing the word out. He continued to to read a paragraph where the two main characters were having a row, hearing the child read as characters got more heated was amusing me, when suddenly he said. “ if you carry on I shove that up your fat, hairy arse” ok, that’ll do, you can sit down with the dogs as I looked at the book closely and there it was. I did wonder in what household could a child not say bugger but could say hairy arse. But from that day children are not allowed to bring books in from home. 😂😂
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  • That will fuel the rebels for a couple of weeks. Cheers. See you on the streets on Oct 7th

  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    A very specific thing that pleased me. Seeing the "We are undefeatable" charities advert and noticing a Charlton protest shirt in the background.  Well done that man, whoever you are!


  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Driving to Wales and finding out they've scrapped the toll. Time to do it at Dartford now.
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    Having had 3 months off work following my redundancy I’ve just landed a job as Design Studio Manager for The Royal British Legion based at Borough High Street.
    Its particularly pleasing because Military History is a huge interest to me!
    Even though I don’t start until next Monday they invited me to the Imperial War Museum yesterday to view some films from the Museums archives on a Steenbeck 35mm projector, then we all went for a drink!
    Well pleased!
  • Greenie said:
    Having had 3 months off work following my redundancy I’ve just landed a job as Design Studio Manager for The Royal British Legion based at Borough High Street.
    Its particularly pleasing because Military History is a huge interest to me!
    Even though I don’t start until next Monday they invited me to the Imperial War Museum yesterday to view some films from the Museums archives on a Steenbeck 35mm projector, then we all went for a drink!
    Well pleased!
    Congratulations on the new job!!
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    Trench might be done soon. 
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,123
    Dazzler21 said:
    Trench might be done soon. 
    Zzzzz WW2&THG now up....
  • Orwell Mayhem is an anagram of Yellowhammer.  
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,957
    While descending the Bakerloo escalator at Paddington this morning, seeing a small Charlton athletic sticker stuck to one of the digital advertising screens.
    Another further down has been partially removed, but well done that man!
    (I obviously do not condone mindless acts of petty vandalism. Except this one)
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  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,957
    looks more like perching on a row of bar stools for their future, but hey ho, good for them
  • My eye was randomly caught by this chap on the net. 

    It is of a character so often quoted on CL I'd begun to wonder what this Cnut actually looked like.  To give him full title it is 'Cnut The Great'.  Deeper reading gave me the knowledge that he once ruled England having landed at Greenwich, although there is no record of him taking in a game as he had an important fixture at Brentford to attend to.  

    Although of Danish origin I was delighted to read that he adopted the cockney sense of humour when he named his son Harthacnut.  


  • Another year of sick & terminally ill children & their families enjoying a weekend away at Disneyland creating priceless memories :)
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    Another year of sick & terminally ill children & their families enjoying a weekend away at Disneyland creating priceless memories :)
    I bet they bypassed South London somehow.  :smiley:
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    If you got a spare hour -

    https://youtu.be/4408_DJOu3I
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    If you got a spare hour -

    https://youtu.be/4408_DJOu3I
    One of my heroes!
    What a man he was!
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    edited September 2019
    Don't make em like that anymore...

    Watch from about 31:20 for a couple of minutes @Greenie mate, proper stuff 
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    Don't make em like that anymore...

    Watch from about 31:20 for a couple of minutes @Greenie mate, proper stuff 
    Yes mate seen it before , great to see Bob Stanford-Tuck and  Johnnie Johnson both who I was lucky enough to meet many many years ago and the German Ace Adolf Galland is there too, all wonderful brave men, I still have all their autographs!
    Thanks for posting!
  • Strike well and strike determined, for Mother Earth, humanity and creatures, great and small.


  • Another year of sick & terminally ill children & their families enjoying a weekend away at Disneyland creating priceless memories :)
    I saw them all heading off down the M2 one year whilst driving on the other side of the road, something in my peripheral vision clocked there was something odd on the other carriageway and I realised every car was a black cab - got into work and looked up what it was. 

    Such a lovely idea.