And the band is…?

Been a light nudes day has it?

Naturally, my dear chap, why else would I go?

I have just murdered someone and will be leaving the country, but only because I want to, not to escape justice. I was going anyway…

That would make going for a swim a rather hazardous activity!

On another note, RB can be an incredibly boring tool sometimes, can’t he…

cleaning out the Augean Stables

Perhaps he should divert the Thames through the House Of Commons?

Thank you Stoner, you put my point more eloquently than I.

Sorry Julian – you are wrong. Not one life has been saved by these drugs and never will be – they simply mean it takes you longer to die. If NICE says these drugs are inneffective thats good enough for me.

I wasn’t suggesting that a life had been saved by these drugs, rather that it was wrong to allow people the option of taking something that may extend their life if they wished to pay for it.

I assume from your second sentence that you take the utterances of every official body as true then?

As for paying to study the side effects, you can’t argue it both ways. If there are going to be side effects surely the person will have to live longer for them to become apparent? If they are going to die, do the side effects matter that much?

This is on a different level, obviously, but paying for extra goes on elsewhere: I heard a story that only basic wheelchairs were handed out at a certain place, but if you were prepared to make up the extra cost ON TOP OF THE BASIC PRICE you could have an upgrade.

Besides, life is two- (or more) tier – those who have money can have more things than those who don’t. Simple.

Sorry CFH, that’s diapha[/b]nous

Collins English Dictionary

di-a-phone n 1.a the set of all realization [sic] of a given phoneme in a language. b. one of any number of corresponding sounds of different dialects of a language. 2. a foghorn that emits a two-toned signal [C20: from DIA(LECT) + PHONE]

Sorry and all that, but I could let that one pass!

Agree that diaphanous is good, definitely.

TandemJeremy – Member
Julian – you mean the chap who backed up the NICE judgement that said these drugs were too expensive and were of little benefit?

Completely wrong, TJ. I mean the man who refused to let patients pay for THEIR OWN Herceptin / [insert name of appropriate drug] unless they also paid for ALL their drugs – the drugs which were being given free to patients who couldn’t, wouldn’t or didn’t want to pay for any extras.

BigDummy – Member
There can be few people who have ever held high office who are not “murderers” by such a generous definition.

Having read your post three or four times I think I see what you are getting at but would you care to expand on that?

Hi Stoner. Yes it has now been reversed thankfully, but my disgust towards a person who is prepared to kill (or at least let others die) for their socialist policies remains.

@Stoner – Johnson was the man who blocked private payment for extra cancer drugs unless the patient paid for all the stuff the NHS would otherwise have administered free if the patient hadn’t been having the extra drugs.

Socialist murderer.

Please not Alan Johnson for Home Secretary. Not that murdering swine. Even less for PM. I hope they find something shady in his expenses, I really do.

Everyone, by the look of it…

Mainland Greece – especially the Peloponnese.

It’s more about the principle and the fact that it was for a wreath for Remembrance Day. How low can you get?

Cleo arrives tomorrow (Sunday) night! Will let you know how it goes!

If the hard drive isn’t knackered you should be able to get the data off it…

Very difficult but too important to leave to chance. I think you should have a quiet word with him.

Baby Robin?

Look for a ‘Reward.txt’ or similar file on the phone telling you who to contact if you find the phone?

I have this file on my iPod, my phone and my DSLR (both cards on the DSLR)…

Don’t you all?

Beaten to it! Mach 5 is faster than the SR71 Blackbird!

geetee1972 – Member
Chocolate by Joanne Harris – dreadful, trully, utterly, dribblingly dreadful.

Never read Chocolate, but Chocolat was excellent.

Would never read Dan Brown: too commonplace.

Carlos Castaneda is awful

Not sure how much space you get with a Windowes Live account, but it’s free.

No way.

Military Orchid

Chicago recently looking after a parcel for next door

Thanks ernie_lynch and Joxster!

You are both stars and we hope it works out, but really appreciate the possibility of finding a home for Cleo where she would be loved and appreciated.

We’ll certainly be able to give it at least three weeks to see how it goes…

MySQL and EMS MySQLManager? More complicated than Access but good (if you like Open Source) and free…

Got a copy of EMS MySQL Manager somewhere if you want it.

Thanks, colnagokid. We’re looking forward to the challenge of introducing Cleo to Chicago.

We really couldn’t live with the idea of Cleo potentially spending her last few years trying to get re-homed.

Gotta make it work…

Nice one sharki!

That pic was the only one I could get before it flew off. We should like to get better at identifying all wildlife. We’re just good at orchids and birds at the moment, but it will come…

Update – having said all of the above, we’re having Cleo.

@ernie_lynch – thanks for the tip about Foals Farm: that will be our next port of call if this doesn’t work out, but we’ll try everything we can to make it work!

Cheers all

@notlocal – No audible noises!

@sharki – thanks, think you are right there! Are you a beetle expert?

ernie_lynch – Member

if you know a web site where I can get a reliable ID in future I should be grateful

Why ? Have the little buggers been upsetting you ?

Only ‘cos I can’t figure out what it is! And I should like to get better at identifying things myself…

Thanks Nico, will do some digging.

Yes, I wondered about ‘beetle’, and I thought it might be on a sedge.

Will Google ‘beetle identification’.

@mefster – use the ‘URL’ button above the text box and put the wording you want for the link in the second prompt that comes up.

@rs – not going anywhere – and if we were we would make sure Chicago was coming with us.

It’s a friend’s cat and he doesn’t care about cats as much as we do, so I’m trying to make sure that Cleo is OK. Chicago is the reason we can’t have her, or we would like a shot. Chicago is 16 1/2 years old, diabetic, hyperthyroid and has a heart murmur and hates all other cats, so it wouldn’t be fair to her to take on another cat here.

Thanks again, ernie_lynch. Just about to phone Foal Farm. Will let you know the outcome.

Yep, in the south east and we’ll check them out.

Thank you so much for your reply!

Yep, think about this when next you vote – General Election anyone?

We are the most spied up nation in Eurpoe.