Pre labour, the big issue was hospital waiting lists. Not somethign you’ve heard about for quite a while. There is a reason.

Yes, there is – the hospitals focused on hitting the waiting list targets as they were told to, see Mid-Staffs for an example!

Matt – I’d be gobsmacked if there wasn’t something about that in EC single market regulations/professional qualification recognition rules.

Might be worth having a read up on Directive 89/48/EEC

I’m surprised the unions aren’t all over something like that either

So, to get this right:

She’s allowed to teach a class, as a supply or temporary teacher, possibly for months on end if necessary, while they found a replacement

but she wouldn’t be allowed to teach the same class as a permanently employed teacher, or apply for the job that she’s essentially doing, because of the rules?

thats madness!

Following the recommendation on here – I got some of them there Barry Normans hot & spicy pickled onions

bloody hell, they really are wonderful

and the leftover vinegar is the best I have ever tasted for putting on chips!

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, “Dirt poor.” The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet,

Hence the phrase “slippery when wet”

If person B can prove he felt threatened

Person B doesn’t have to prove anything!

Have you reported person A for assault? Better to get your retaliation in first in that department, too.

This!

http://nightjack2.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/a-survival-guide-for-decent-folk/

Its legal to ‘strike first’ in self defence if you believe that you are about to be hit – so on the basis of A saying he was ‘going to ‘F’ you up, right now!’ and subsequent body language, B would be in the clear.

http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/s_to_u/self_defence/#Pre-emptive_strikes

Nor was B under any duty to retreat

http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/s_to_u/self_defence/#Retreating

oh, and one other thing if I’m reading between the lines – whatever you do, don’t be talked into a caution and shut the **** up and say nothing till you’ve seen the duty solicitor

French toast

You mean Eggy bread?

Eldest (15) daughters secondary school has a rule that you’re not allowed to use your phone at school, any being found with power on or used are confiscated – very fair

Youngest (12) daughters secondary school has a ‘no phones at all on school premises’ rule, which I think is unrealistic – if you’re working full time and trying to liaise around kids going to friends or after school clubs, or as with the other week everyone being sent home because of snow. I know most kids do have them, just keep them hidden.

Both are on a 100 minute contract, simple phones and never had a problem – when they had PAYG, they never had credit at the times they really needed the phone

More simple the phone, the better the battery life, and they always forget to charge them,

Definitely an Interesting source!

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how the **** does it cost 700k per year to run?

I’d be mentioning ‘duty of care’

if your insurance company knows that the house is, possibly, unstable and is unwilling to correct it, because there is no damage ‘yet’ – but then the house collapses injuring or killing someone…

All this guff about them being faux-folk, or whatever, is quite frankly, a load of pseudy bollocks

I’m going to argue the opposite here – the reason being that one of the most wonderful things about the ‘real’ modern folk bands is that they’re keeping really old songs, that are part of our history and culture, alive

if you look at, for example, Bellowhead – most of the songs on their albums are arrangements of old songs, really old traditional folksongs such as Broomfield Hill and Byker hill. Similar with the Unthanks, that blended in with some more modern stuff, the old traditional songs are there, keeping the heritage alive like ‘Gallowgate lad’ alongside other well rooted social commentary like ‘Close the coalhouse door’

its not the same as stealing a few lyrics from a Shakespeare play and claiming ‘inspiration’ from the odd twelfth century poem.

How long as she been there? Have they previously told people when they can take it?

introducing this now could well be a change in contract, if the old way has formed custom and practice

just because they can legally tell you when to take holiday, doesn’t mean they can just introduce a new rule at will.

So, are we allowed to like Bellowhead now, or not?

My former boss was getting quite into that Cornish fishermen folk singer group, until I pointed out that they were singing the wrong words to ‘Johnny comes down to Hilo’ and pointed him to the proper version:

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/royal-navy-singers/ 😈

Möbius strip!

(bound to be, from this day forward, all Earthquakes are officially due to Fracking!)

New video not looking too good for the ‘evil Japs rammed us’ narrative…

Having just had two and a half hours of screaming hab dabs over not done homework (funny that despite assurances that it was all under control all week, no evidence supporting the existence of any work could be found when it came to checking – maybe the computer accidentally deleted it like she claims 🙄 ) I can sympathise.

just been offered fortnightly psych sessions at CAMHS… we’ll see if they can get somewhere with her.

Is it running tubeless?

Benefits wise, better to walk and have a excuse – if dismissed for Gross misconduct, then almost certainly you’ll can get a benefits sanction if moving on to jobseekers – at least if you walk you can give benefits office an excuse underwriting your reason for leaving – asked to carry out illegal instructions, health and safety concerns etc, that would mean no sanction was imposed.

best outcome would be to negotiate an exit – have you got anything on them that would be inconvenient if revealed? could you walk and claim constructive dismissal?

Tocsin

we don’t need to eat whales, there are other things.

To be fair, we don’t need to eat any animals 😕

Thoughts?

Personally, I’d expect any ship to defend themselves from acts of piracy on the high seas – no different than what we’re seeing off the coast of Somalia really, is it? the only difference is their motivation, but thats down to international Whaling laws, and protest cannot be used as an excuse for piracy.

I just hope G4 aren’t part of the justice system out there

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/29/g4s-staff-sacked-tagging-false-leg

My twelve year old is recommending that you try:

the Witch of Blackberry bottom
the Belfry Witches

But to be fair she ended up with a reading age of ten by the time she started primary school…

Well, you could argue that in this case, the system worked

you need ten people to agree – if there is any more than two dissenting views on the jury, then there is no verdict, and another jury gets to decide. Is a pretty good safety factor, which means that even if you had nine idiots on the jury that didn’t understand, then there’s no miscarriage of justice.

(Z11 new login, long story)

Nah, pickled shallots is where its at, much nicer than onions!

My great aunt always made the best piccalilli as well, amazing stuff!