Do you mean that if and when the expansion is completed it will be a white elephant?

After my first car – the Anglia – it was then Beetle, Beetle, Beetle and Beetle all 1950s/early 60s a couple with 150,000+ on the odo. For a young driver, ideal. Easy, cheap and reliable. Still love ’em, but not the “new” Beetle – ugly as sin.:D

Having not flown model aircraft for about 40 years I got a the new RTF electric B17 from Remote Island and I have flown it a couple of times since Christmas, weather conditions having not been that clement!!

It is lightweight and has suffered wing tip damage – my fault due to flying in too windy conditions – but they are easily repaired with the supplied adhesive. I am look forward to flying it this weekend – wind and weather permitting.

Parkzone was tempting but a little more expensive so I think I might get the Remote Island Mustang next and once I feel comfortable with these two, move up to Parkzone.

Hope that helps.

A leading H is often silent in English.

Many such words are derived from French, and English took over the French pronunciation as well as the word. But we have come to pronounce the h over the centuries for certain words: horrible, hospital, host, hotel, human, humour and it now looks like it is being done to Aitch, probably at the behest of know-nothing teachers who are trying to simplify things they don’t understand.

Moggy

Exactly so. I suspect it is in part due to the fact that children are now taught the alphabet by sounding the letter rather than saying it. They spell out a word phonetically and presumably “haitch” is the phonetic sound for the letter “h”.

I find it irritating and odd, because it has been “aitch” all of my life. But then I find much about modern speech forms and word usage irritating but that is due to age and the inevitable evolution of the language. I will fight for “aitch” but doubt that I will win in the long run.

The most recent irritation is as in this exchange:

” How are you today?”

” Oh, I’m good, thanks”.

Well perhaps you are good but are you well?:(:(:(

Hi Sky High, admittedly i have only scanned through it but i’m not sure what you find revealing in the doc? Is it simply that a country could withdraw from the EU?

I’m also still interested in your thoughts as to how the UK will make it’s way in the World if it withdraws from the EU.

It’s not a Greenland or Norway and doesn’t have the scale of a US so just how is it not going to be the poor relation of either the EU or the US i struggle to see. Cheers.

The interesting element is that the ECB is being forced to consider the implications of either forcing one of its members to withdraw from the EMU and therefore from the EU itself. Or to oblige Germany to effectively subsidise the Southern fringe just as it had to East Germany. It is a situation which it was thought by the devotees could and would never happen but now they are confronted with the realities of the falsely conceived common currency.

The UK and Denmark are not directly affected as we have opt outs from the EMU. It is primarily Greece, and possibly Portugal most immediately affected and in the longer term Italy, Spain and Ireland.

What is this planet coming to? 😡

Sadly for us, it is less the entire planet, rather our own wretched country.:mad: