I’m getting more bewildered by the minute by some of this advice but I’ll pass it all on -thank goodness I’m back to living with just one old man again ( if anyone saw an old dear dancing for joy at LGW a while ago,that was me ).Totally agree about the tea though.

That’s great,well done mate .

That’s remarkably clever,even though I had to read it twice because my brain’s collapsed from the strain of living with not one but two old men for the past three weeks .Even having Kate Bush’s King of the Mountain on repeat for ages didn’t work yesterday. What else can I tell my daughter ?

It struck me after putting up that last post that this thread’s lost its way so badly that it really does need knocking on the head and putting out of its misery.I still think it’s none of the government’s damn business though .

” Aiming at BumbleBee ” reminds me of the time I decided I could never marry a particular boyfriend because he’d just casually squashed a bumblebee against a bus window for no reason at all. If I had I’d be living in New York now instead of beautiful downtown Chavsville,so that bee did me a favour .

Lucky you! On the down side,life there must get pretty boring or they wouldn’t spend so much time trying to kill themselves jumping off things.

I’m not saying it is,of course they have crime like anywhere else.I just think life’s a darn sight more pleasant there because the majority appear to have retained respect for themselves and other people .

I agree,but I have to say that when I was in New Zealand last year there just didn’t seem to be that general atmosphere of world-weariness and general defeatism we have here.Hard to put your finger on the difference,but people seemed more comfortable in their own skin than we are somehow ( and I just LOVE seeing really old blokes with pony -tails ! )