These days you have to be man enough to admit to not tweeting, don’t you? Emails and google chat is about my limit. If people want to indulge then fine, but I find the whole thing a bit ridiculous, frankly.

Thank you for correcting my mistake GA – I have just discovered it and was about to edit my post. It does not make for any less sad reading and the death of anyone of that age is tragic.

Good heavens!! I doubt that many of us have not seen the famous trucks many times over the years. Eddie has not been a part of the business for a while and his younger son is the only family member in the multinational group, I believe.

Court order signed and issued where the respondant is to pay 50% of the plaintiffs costs.

Ah no, it seems that she didn’t mean it when she signed it as its not what she thought….. so I need to rack up more time, hassle and costs, to get what the court ordered and what was agreed…..

Part of me says just let it slide, part of me says get on in there…..

Maybe, if you can afford to let it slide, it might be better to avoid more hassle and more stress, but then again………………I don’t envy you!:(

An old friend of mine spent more time in court AFTER the divorce trying to get what he was due, than before the divorce. It’s a mugs game. It wore him down and he eventually gave up, forfeiting money he need not have paid as well as agreed access rights to his children. I rarely wish a roasting in hell on anyone but I do on his wife. And she was once a good friend of mine.

It is not an issue, if you mean a problem, it is a choice which people have to make. Yes it would be better to pay £1000 for your own property, but only if you can afford it. If you can’t then you continue to pay £800 to rent, don’t you. Or you go somewhere where £800 per month will get you a house.

And I have no doubt it is difficult for first time buyers in “expensive” areas, but then you start somewhere else, don’t you? My wife and I put our foot on the bottom rung well away from where we wanted to be because that’s all we could afford at the time.

As with many “institutions” and organisations it is often proper that the government has a regulatory or overseeing role to play as our representative. Banks are corporate entities and corporate entities cannot have responsibilities in the same way that individuals must have.

I am not sure how to answer your second point. If we make a decision to borrow we have to way up all the consequences. You used the word “need”. Surely the more appropriate phrase should be “would like”. Many people carried on renting because they were more cautious than others and decided to wait in the hope, which was realised, that they could get on the ladder when the market fell. The more people borrowed the greater the demand and the higher the prices rose.

But as long as you enjoy it, which you clearly do, as well as the aero side of it with Lindy, then all power to your elbow!:)