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And your memory is correct OC

Oh dear, is there no respect?

I had another look at Thurrock Council to see how the publication of the Best Value report is progressing, and it keeps on being delayed; local cynics are saying this is an HMG attempt to keep the Thurrock electorate in the dark until after the local government elections on 4 May in the hope that th...

The real reason why the DUP is refusing to agree to Stormont having a Northern Ireland Government is because the First Minister will be the leader of Sinn Fein and they can't stomach that. I agree with you Eccs - why not simply carry on without them and if some law or other needs to be changed to pe...

Well well well. The Swiss Government has decided it has had enough of the scandal-ridden accident-prone bank Credit Suisse and has forced it to allow itself to be taken over at far less than its nominal value by its rival UBS*; a lot of investors in Credit Suisse will be wiped out by that, but serve...

A follow-up to young Justus playing his marimba (I think it was that instrument rather than a xylophone). This Youtube video told me that Justus was around 7 or 8 when he played that piece. Also I think Justus is one of the Danish-speaking minority in North Germany as he is from Flensburg just south...

9 Labino; Lalique; Lipofsky; Liskova; Littleton? All fancy glass makers - Lalique turns up regularly on Flog It! . 14 Washington DC (1st and 2nd); Buffalo (3rd); Dallas (4th)? US cities where the President of the day had a fatal encounter with an assassin's bullet. Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Kenne...

Time for some Alpine harmonies.............a polka courtesy of some young ladies from near Kitzbühel in the Tirol.



Here they are again.

Great Ormond Street Hospital was bequeathed the rights to Peter Pan and gets money from that source every year.

3 Marduk was the chief god of which city? Babylon 5 Which three countries border both Russia and China? Kazakhstan, Mongolia and North Korea. 6 Hakuhō Shō is considered the greatest ever competitor in which sport? Pure guess - Sumo wrestling 7 Where is England’s only statue of Bonnie Prince Charlie?...

That's what I like - people having a good time and being happy. I'd have been happy there as well, with a map of Lancashire on the wall. Lancashire! La! La! La! or even Oh Lancy Lancy! Lancy Lancy Lancy Lancy Lancashire!!

Have a lovely day, Diana!

Lol OC. Was that original Trek? Yes, it was. It is the episode when they are on shore leave on a planet where the locals are non-violent and the Evil Spirit inhabits the body of the planet's chief security bod. It jumps out of his body into Scotty's and makes Scotty commit a murder for which he is ...

when people don't need to work to survive it's very difficult to make them do horrible jobs and it's the horrible jobs they struggle to recruit for. I think you have hit the nail on the head, Furby. The pensions carrot might keep very well-paid people who already are working for a few years longer ...

I thought Merry would like this.

The only place I ever saw a turkey display his tail was at the open-air museum at Ballenberg in Switzerland............and by the time I got my camera out he'd folded it up again!

Furby wrote:- I don't understand to oc level of course but i saw the 3% and it crossed my mind wasn't it 2.99 allowed maximum. So if Hampshire is doing the same it looks like what councils are doing this year. But in the law these tiny details matter don't they. Could we see a wave of referendums be...

Mr Spock used the fact that Pi is an infinite fraction/decimal to out an Evil Spirit from the ship's computer in an episode of Star Trek.

As I am a kind and helpful OC, here is a link to the detail of HCCC's budget for 2023/24. https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/doc/about/ip-budget/current/part-h-other-technical-info-and-summary-tables.pdf And here is a link to the page before that one. https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/about-the-council...

I received my Council Tax bill yesterday; it shows the % increase compared with the previous year for each component and I disagree with the way these % figures are presented. The calculations for the increases for New Forest District Council, Police, Fire and Totton and Eling Town Council were all ...