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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    No but luckily I didn't marry her for her cooking :)
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @wild edges. Did you ever work out what that thing your dog found was? It's vaguely disturbing.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I did have a quick google but no luck. I'm thinking of adapting it into a plant pot now and growing some weird succulent plant out of the hole.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Or mustard and cress
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Normally I'd say that growing cress only serves to highlight how little cress you actually eat but I had an egg pita earlier that was dying for some garnish. I'm not sure I could convince anyone else to eat food grown in a second hand dog toy though. :/
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Well we're out.
    What I think rankles with me more than a bit is that Farage, who spent his political life trying to break the UK links to the EU, will receive a pension from the EU. I think I read 3.5% per annum served - so 20 years is 70% of salary. And potentially also getting a parachute payment of up to two years (20 months in Farage's case). https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48037162 - 2019 so not current.

    I think I also heard Gove on the radio yesterday initially stating that certain parts of the country had been left behind and ignored by politicians and then saying that UK politicians could no longer hide behind the EU's decisions. So, so odd - as his implication was that the EU had ignored the UK regions and that by leaving the EU the new shiny Tory party will blanket the country in fluffy cotton wool - totally ignoring the actual fact that the deprived regions were a result of UK government  policy since Maggie and  NOTHING to do with the EU.

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    steveTu said:
    Well we're out.
    What I think rankles with me more than a bit is that Farage, who spent his political life trying to break the UK links to the EU, will receive a pension from the EU. I think I read 3.5% per annum served - so 20 years is 70% of salary. And potentially also getting a parachute payment of up to two years (20 months in Farage's case). https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48037162 - 2019 so not current.

    I think I also heard Gove on the radio yesterday initially stating that certain parts of the country had been left behind and ignored by politicians and then saying that UK politicians could no longer hide behind the EU's decisions. So, so odd - as his implication was that the EU had ignored the UK regions and that by leaving the EU the new shiny Tory party will blanket the country in fluffy cotton wool - totally ignoring the actual fact that the deprived regions were a result of UK government  policy since Maggie and  NOTHING to do with the EU.

    Agree totally , and yet the Cornish and Welsh voted to leave despite being the greatest recipients of EU funding.Clearly they didn't ask why they needed EU money in the first place.  No doubt Westminster will flood them with cash. 
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    One of these for every household in Cornwall and Wales .

    An alarm clock for every household in Birmingham so that they can get up 20 minutes early when HS2 is cancelled.⏰
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    B3 said:

    One of these for every household in Cornwall and Wales .

    An alarm clock for every household in Birmingham so that they can get up 20 minutes early when HS2 is cancelled.⏰
    HS2 won't be cancelled, it's connected to London!!! 
    Devon's only connecting railway was closed again this week due to bad weather but we're not expecting that to change any time soon.
    Devon.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    ...aaahhhh, yes...you may not have trains or even new shiny hospitals but you're forgetting that you'll have Cabinet Meetings in a Town Hall near you - and you may even see Boris waving from a balcony. What a bunch of ingrates you are....
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
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