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Gosh, I really am a lucky girl this year. Last week I won the Spanish Lottery, this week the nice people at the North London Prize Register want to give me a cheque for £25,000, a 42" Plasma TV or even a Mediterranean cruise, among other delights. One little `phone call to a premium rate number and I`m sorted. Or do I mean stitched up?  These things can be a real problem for some. I had to get all premium numbers blocked when my late mother got caught a few times. It only took the early stages of dementia to break down what would have previously been an automatic caution towards such too good to be true 'winnings'. |
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...Or do I mean stitched up? Probably the above Mort! |
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Did you know that MPs are allocated pegs with their names on? It's just like MJ's school cloakroom.  I seem to remember Ronnie Fearn (then lib-dem MP for Southport, now Lord Fearn) telling us at a school speech day that the pegs were originally for hanging your sword on - since you weren't allowed to take it into the chamber (even with the lines on the floor two sword lengths apart...). Apparently after the first time he told someone about this, he was presented with a toy sword which he dutifully hung on his hook (much to the amusement of the Sergeant-at-Arms), only to find that it was stolen (or at least moved), and gradually travelled round various MPs pegs until it finally disappeared. |
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« Reply #2358 on: 14:21:44, 23-01-2008 » |
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OK, off to Durham now.
Might stick my head round the door tomorrow night, otherwise I'll be around tomorrow.
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« Reply #2359 on: 18:09:42, 23-01-2008 » |
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I think you mean tonight, hh.
Or were you alluding to Hamlet?
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« Reply #2362 on: 01:25:57, 24-01-2008 » |
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when there's a full moon perhaps...
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'...A celebrity is someone who didn't get the attention they needed as an adult'
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« Reply #2363 on: 07:46:12, 24-01-2008 » |
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More worryingly, is Russell Grant black???
He used to live across the road from me here some years ago. Not only isn't he black but even his labrador was brown. He wasn't noted for his sense of humour btw. He came out of his gate once with his dog just as I was going past with mine. There was a brief altercation between them but we managed to each hang on and drag the dogs away from each other, so I said "Now you KNEW that was going to happen didn't you!" He didn't laugh. (So much for psychic then.) However he did write me a very nice letter when my dog died. |
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From the Radio Times for this evening Veteran wildlife photographer and film-maker Simon King... VETERAN??!! VETERAN??!! He's 44. That's hardly more than a boy. |
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« Reply #2365 on: 15:11:50, 25-01-2008 » |
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I agree, George.
Now people are young until they are 40 years old. Between 40 and 70 is middle age. I have few women friends, who had first children after 40.
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« Reply #2366 on: 15:23:58, 25-01-2008 » |
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I agree, George.
Now people are young until they are 40 years old. Between 40 and 70 is middle age. I have few women friends, who had first children after 40.
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« Reply #2367 on: 15:27:03, 25-01-2008 » |
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Ho Ian! Make the most of it my "boy".
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Some of course are blessed with the gift of perpetual middle age.
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« Reply #2369 on: 15:49:32, 25-01-2008 » |
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Plenty of time to tick off the last two or three on the list of all the experiences you were going to get in before you hit the two score, Ian. Where better than Totnes with all the ingredients to hand?
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