My cousin is one of the helicopter pilots dropping water on those fires. It's quite a skillful job as the pilots have to fly low enough for the water to take effect and not just dissipate as mist....
I know this was a repeat from last year but I'm more convinced than ever that the government is behind, or the cause of, penalising the motorist. Government cuts mean that local councils have to find...
They aint good enough. England and the other home nations are only doing well because of the collapse of Soviet Russia which allowed lots of smaller nations to enter. Add to that the fact that FIFA...
BBC2, 11.30 pm, tonight (Sunday) - Oranges and Sunshine. The true story of how the British and some Commonwealth governments colluded in the deportation and persecution of young children for over 70...
The Yanks don't "take shelter" anywhere do they? They "hunker down". Where does this ridiculous term come from? What is a hunker? Do you have one in your collection? I went in a few BUNKERS yesterday,...
Not exactly new this but can anyone remember, many years ago, the BBC used to always lead into the hour with the chimes of Big Ben? I ask this because of the current work being done on it, the bell...
I responded to a question with this: Dunno. I never watch it. That was my post and it must have been removed by some sort of peculiar person for some sort of peculiar reason. Any ideas? What site...
With the recent political conferences, I've heard various media people (TV and Radio) saying things like "Pardy", "Polidical" "Commiddee" "Meedding" etc. What's wrong with these people? Why can't they...
I watched some of this yesterday and I got the impression that the Tories were saying the same things as they did in the election, which didn't go very well for them did it? e.g. look what happened in...
I ask this because of two things. Firstly, there is a stupid programme on BBC1 during the daytime called "Thief Trackers" where valuable items with trackers are left openly where they can be stolen,...
Michael O'Leary went into a bar in Manchester and asked for a pint of Guinness being advertised at 50p a pint. The bar man said: that's £8.50 please. O'Leary said, I thought this was the cheapest...
Is all of this just a prelude to Ryanair going out of business? Seems a strange way to run a business doesn't it? But then again, I've never run a business.
....you've got 15 seconds! That's your response time if you're a guest or the time allowed if you're a caller. Rachel Burden is a complete nuisance. She interrupts the guests regularly but others do...
What's the connection? Well, as many of you will know, Reg Gutteridge was the famous ITV boxing commentator. Back in the 1980's he was attending a boxing themed dinner in America and was sat between...
I've got over 100 photos on a memory card in my Nikon camera. I can view them all when the card is in the camera but when I put them in my card reader on the PC, the prog says some of them are...
I paid a visit to my sisters' grave earlier today. She is buried just a few yards from Lee Rigby. I was surprised to see a tall man in combat gear wearing a green beret marching with a pace stick,...
Klopp said that Coutinho wasn't included in the squad this week because it wasn't right for him. What he meant was that Coutinho didn't want to play for Liverpool because they refused to sell him to...
Today I attended the funeral of my favourite uncle. He was a lovely man. A bespoke tailor by trade. His grown up children asked me to speak about him as they were too upset by his passing. It was an...