http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6682607.stm

Next it will be Robots akin to The Terminator!

I’m sure that THE DOCTOR, will sort them out, Daleks are his favourite foe.

I think he’s scouting for a new Airbus factory.:D

Could be at Woodbridge then, now thats an expensive place to live.

Pete,just for your notes,our swallows turned up yesterday (Monday).Must be a different “tribe” to yours;) .

On a sort of pleasant note, I must admit that I have seen very few swallows, house martins and swifts, loads, I presume that the Spanish and Portugese have a surplus of swallow pate this year, and a shortage of shotgun cartridges.

I’m intrieged, tell us more.

It’s a long story and I’m concerned at being found out, I don’t want sump oil in my pond, or worse.
B###### filth came back and were well upset last night, I had to help out some poor innocent girl and her son who were quietly fishing in the river, she was very worried about their behaviour, what makes me puke is that the local constabulary are well aware of the problem, but choose to patrol in safe areas and threaten people for cycling on the pavement, pathetic, they should have these scumbags hanging from trees.

No.
But have been to Sudbury twice.
I wish I could afford to live there 😎 .

You probably could if you fancied living on the wonderful housing estate at Gt Cornard.
You won’t miss Cutty Sark either as they run lovely steam launches on the river, and with the new lock, you can go all the way down to the Henny Swan and have a pint.
Rail connections to London to, and a pretty decent swimming pool, one of my favourites, with a branch of Roy’s next door as well. Nice traditional market and a stunning cricket pitch.
What more could you ask.

Having said all that, what happened to the originator of this thread, we still want to know why.

I hate the Orwell bridge, you can’t see any of the amazing view when you drive over it.
Most major bridges in the country give you a good view, but not this one, the parapet is too high, had they already worked out that the A14 would be a death trap before it was built.

Does anyone here live in or around Ipswich/Suffolk?

I’m not that far away and go over there occasionally, why?

Ooh, I did a lovely further retort, but the computer said no and it’s out in the ether, lets try and remember it.
Now don’t get me wrong, I loved my parents and uncles with a great passion, and still do, what’s left of them, but I have to say that respect was well beaten into you, and this was fairly general, liberal parents were treated with disdain and suspiscion by all sides, kids as well as parents, not that there were many of them about.
Now my parents were not well off, but tried to do everything for us, it must have been a nightmare affording those days out and fantastic Christmas presents, but we were kept well in hand, to the extent that fear could take over, a cane was kept next to the gas cooker, it was never used, but the suggestion was always there.
In my case, this had the opposite affect, I wouldn’t say where I was going or what I had been up to, this attitude persists today, fortunately, my missus is well aware of it.
To quote an example.
Some gits had lit a fire in our favourite play area, Jacko’s Holler, a former, overgrown claypit.
My mate and I were well used to this, isolated the fire and saved the day, I returned home triumphant and smelling of smoke, but was given a good thrashing from my mother because of a minute burn on my jumper.
Worse than that, she got hold of my teacher the next day and we were dragged in front of the class, humiliated and threatened with prosecution, for doing nothing but help out.
Whats interesting is that the next time it happened, we went round to a mates house who was the only person with a phone, and who happened to have a liberal mum, she called the fire brigade, only to find that the fires were being deliberately lit by a gang from the railways, so we were once again threatened with prosecution, wasting time etc etc by the powers that be, except that she threatened them with legal action, not setting a good example to well intentioned kids etc.
After that, I never told any adults anything, and that just creates a back drop of suspicion on both sides.
It’s been interesting in latter years, revealing to my parents what my brother and I got up to, especially with regard to him, as they thought that the sun shone out of his backside, not, to me he was and remains the greatest older brother you could possibly have, though he reckons not to remember half of what he did, and you could write a book about that, hmmmmmm, sorry John.

To sum up, I have a son and stepson of 21 and 13, they have never been threatened parently, only talked to sensibly and openely, they live in the modern world for all it’s sins, but they are the most fantastic kids going, not only that, they really love each other too.

It’s not all roses in the past, live in the present please and work it out.