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Its got to be better than people just voting in the same old tired tribal they have always done without any thought. Or just not voting at all. I haven't voted in the last 2 general elections because I was disillusioned with Blair, wouldn't trust the Tories and Lib Dems were a waste of a vote. I am at least now interested in the campaign and the prospect of something other than the same old labour / tory revolving door. The strangest prospect is a patched up coalition of Labour and Lib Dems but with no Brown. Imagine ending up with a PM who didn't even participate in the debates ? ! Prime Minister Milliband or Johnson with Vince as Chancellor ??!! If nothing else I am hoping the result shows how screwed up and unrepresentaitve our electoral system really is. I am just hoping that Labour doesn't haemorrage (sp?) any more support (thus giving the Tories a small majority) - as I notice the Tories are now gunning for 20 labour seats where the Lib Dem rise might let them defeat Labour - and Liverpool Riverside and Garston were on the list ! Interesting times I think. (PS Brown hasn't just struggled because he is old and looks dour and shifty. He can't answer a direct question. A few times he has rattled out the same old stats and at one point last week he interjected as if he had something to add and Boulton gave him right of reply and he literaly repeated exactly what he had said moments before). My old history teacher used to say that a good prime minster needed to be a good orator, a good party manager, a good administrator and a few other bits. Well we can just add good tv game show host to the list now.

I presume s4 is on in the US and not in the UK yet ? Hopefully it will be on FX here fairly soon.

Bradshaw Farnham and Lea Bradshaw, Farnham and Lea sold my flat for me. Very good service. Negotiated on their fee i seem to recall aswell (which was nice).

Its amazing what sort of shite can be found on business profiles on t'internet. I'll start with: Jason Powell - CEO Premier Medical Group Expert Medico-legal Witnesses & Rehab experts Jason's CV to date demonstrates entrepreneurial spirit and business achievement in equal measures. Still some way from reaching forty-something he has taken Premier Medical Group (PMG) from one of many to market leader in the medico-legal reporting sector in less than three years. A self-confessed and dedicated deal-maker and innovator, Jason has grown the business by acquisition and organic growth, adopting and adapting new technologies to enable lowest cost best practice reporting. Under his stewardship as CEO PMG will deliver around 150,000 reports in 2009 from a network of over 200 doctors in more than 150 locations. His style is a compelling combination of the intellectual and the energetic. He holds a First Class Honours degree in Business Studies, is a qualified Chartered Management Accountant and has an MBA awarded by Cranfield. Prior to working at PMG his CV includes spells at BPCC, where he was Commercial Director, and as Financial Controller at BUPA where he was initially responsible for business planning and supplier engagement for the £7.5m Indian Outsourcing project, before becoming Head of Business Innovation. In his leisure time he runs along the banks of the Thames, skis, plays golf and is a keen mountain biker – exercise, he says, gives him time to clear his mind and adds lucidity to his strategic vision. He is also a keen supporter of charities based around PMGs office locations. Jason, who lives in Marlow with his wife Helen, is also a devoted family man with two daughters, Jodie and Milly, and a son Otto.

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Don't drop the baby - esp not on its head. Do change nappies Do avoid all the easy way outs for getting them to sleep - rocking / in your bed etc - you'll pay the price later. Them learnng how to fall asleep on their own is crucial if they are ever to sleep well alone. On that theme we found that "Baby Whisperer" lady quite useful - programme on sky and a book. That Gina Ford is a grotesque little nazi of a woman and if you have ever seen or heard her speak you would not pay any attention to her. As someone said its a confidence thing. Just get involved and you will learn the signs and the things for your own baby. If you don;t get involved you won;t pick them up and then wehn you do try it will be even harder. Cherish this baby but don't have any more of the little fuckers. Its a cumulative thing. One is hard. Two is very very hard and 3 or more are off the bloody scale. Good luck. (Quote - Dr Miriam Stoppard "Remember that it is perefectyl normal to feel that you want to swing your cryng baby by the legs and slam its head agaisnt the wall. It is however abnormal to actually do it". Remember that and you'll be ok)

I take some pride in the fact that my 5 year old boy requests "Man in Black" in the car. They like doing the da da da da da da der to ring of fire aswell.

You can repair a cat d or a cat c write off and return it to the road. Its A and B that must be crushed. Damaged chasis tend to be cat b's. You see cat d's needing a new bodyshell but not chasis. C is uneconomic to repair (ie repair costs at full reputable bodyshop prices) exceed pre accident value. D is that repair costs don't exceed the PAV but repairs plus salvage value do exceed the PAV (ie constructive total loss). So D's will tend to be newer cars where the residual salavage is still a few grand rather than a car with a pre accident value of only £2-3k will more likely be a cat c as the repair costs will be proportionately higher and the salvage will much less. All the info is on the ABI website. http://www.abi.org.uk/Information/Codes_and_Guidance_Notes/40510.pdf Always seemd to be that if you plan to keep a car for a long period then the fact that its resale is less because it was a cat d isn't so important as you won't be looking to sell it on. Unless you're in the trade and are not paying for the labour then there's certainly no easy cash to be made. I have seen a few on autotrader when once you pay proper bodyshop repairs you aren't saving yourself much if anything which then begs the question well why not just buy a decent one to start with. But if you get a cheap one and get it properly repaired and properly checked then I wouldn't be concerned about driving a death trap. Often welding 2 cars together is cheaper than repairing so thats another option (not recommended!).

Barbara Cartland Rose West That South African he/she runner.

Section's comment makes depressing reading and echos season 5 Wire at the Baltimore Sun. But if it's a choice between a future where newspapers look like the Metro and TV news is modelled on FOx News or we pay for online content then its a price worth paying. Can't say I fancy putting in card details on a daily or weekly basis to pay - nor equally do i fancy paying an annual subscription up front, nor do i want to pay thorugh my phone - so i'm not sure how it would work. The BBC's web news presence is obviously a problem - as said elsewhere Murdoch's idea to charge for online news will only work if everyone else does it. Given that when he cut his cover price to 10p in the 1990s they all ultimately copied in some way I would suspect they will follow. Depressing. If the pub hadn't closed down I'd go for a pint.

Mother Theresa Margaret Beckett not necessarily in that order.

Had the misfortune to go to a wedding in rhyl. took the air on the prom beforehand to kill a bit of time. Lovely beach but the place is a shit hole. There was a psychotic seagull with an injured bleeding wing hanging off as it lived out its last few hours scaring the shit out of passers by on the front. Summed the place up for me.

Mask. Very good analogy. still would tho.

Sergei said he needed the whole number across the front of the card and the 3 digits off the back plus my mother's maiden name and my favourite cheese just for the Post Office details. Lovely fella. Was really interested in where we are going on holiday. Lovely chap.

Oh well I've paid the fucker the £3.50 before i read Thants' authoritative guidance. It better bloody work now ! Can't be arsed arguing for £3.50. I might take the point next time. Great ebayer. Item as described. Thanks.

I realise how much I miss this place when i read things like this.

won an auction for something on ebay. At the top it said free postage within UK but in the text description for the item it said postage £3.50. I won the item for £5 and paid via paypal via the ebay checkout (£5). Seller now asking me to pay the £3.50 postage direct to his paypal. When i bid I expected it to be £8.50 but when it checked out automatically for a £5 I presumed he had changed it to free postage to boost his chance of selling. Does this sound dodgy to anyone who knows about Ebay ? It probably cost £2-3 at least to post so i don;t begrudge it. I'm just a bit of an ebay / paypal noivce and am paranoid about scammers. I want the item - its a second hand part that are pretty hard to find. Just don't want to get stung. And he has a weird east european name which makes me think he is Russian mafia or something - but appears to be in Surrey. cheers.

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It disappointed. All looked a bit forced. Bleakley was captivating as ever.Vics skids made me howl and I thought George was still good but overall it was disappointing and proves the old epithet - never go back. Saying that I'm not sure I would laugh as much at the old ones if I watched them now. We all move on. Michael Kermode Howard.

Flannel better for disguising moobs.

This one has a post from one of her "friends" after she had died saying "sorry to hear about your Mum. Keep in touch". I winced when i read it but also chuckled.

If she were a proper friend I almost certainly would leave her on. Its the facebook friend issue - ie not a real friend. If i can delete her without it leaving a visible audit trail on her page or mine then i will probably delete her. I have learnt my lesson since I accepted her. I have declined numerous present and ex colleagues since as they aren't my friends and i have no interest in what they are doing and I have no desire for them to know anything about my life. If i ever have more than 20 friends i will dubious. Makes you wonder how long before older facebook users will have scores of dead friends listed. Maybe they should introduce different tiers - real friend, friend - colleague, friend - RIP, friend - when i was 8 but has tracked me down etc

Wearing said garment as i type.

Top 5 nappy changes. 5. Up the back between the shoulder blades. 4. New born baby green tar sticky as fuck 3. Left leg seepage requiring whole new under and over garments. 2. Potty training full piss of pants and undies sitting on absorbent couch cushion. 1. Offering to change what smells like a shitty nappy but isn't meaning you can swerve the next one and the mrs gets the real shitty one.

Ok great. She's a gonna. again.