there was talk of moving the railway inland , but the cost of £1.5bn was dismissed as too high . The very next day Crossrail was awarded an EXTRA £1.5bn. The "solution" they've come up with is to move the railway 300m away from the cliff, ie, further INTO the sea!! You couldn't make this stuff up could you?
Regarding Brexit, irrespective of voting for it or not, we are where we are so need to start looking forward rather than bitching about what has or hasn't happened in the past
Regarding Brexit, irrespective of voting for it or not, we are where we are so need to start looking forward rather than bitching about what has or hasn't happened in the past
Totally agree. I very much look forward to being proved wrong and that the whole thing proves to be a wonerful success.
I find all this very odd. I'm used to party politics where you support a thing because of the idea behind it. Just because your party loses an election you don't stop supporting your party and automatically support the opposition because 'they won' do you? I fundamentally think that Brexit was wrong - still do and probably will do (I am always op
en to persuasion by a valid argument). This 'semi brainwashing' attitude of 'you've got to support blah' to me is just plain 'b*ll*ks'. I saw on one of the placards up at the 'party' last night someone had 'lock up the traitors' - I'd love to know their definition of traitor - as mine includes people who attempt to shut down parliament, and hence democracy, for a fictitious reason. When the lies become truth eh?
...oh and maybe you want to espouse the 'just accept it' attitude to all those Tories and Farage cloned Brexiteers who ignored the previous 'people's vote' and tried for decades to get Britain out of the EU. Makes you smile eh?
Belly pork!! It's the only pork joint I can buy here with skin on for crackling. Have just unwrapped one to dry out the skin a bit ready for roasting tomorrow and the perishing SM butcher has removed the skin!! Grump grump.
Fortunately, OH is friendly with a golfing pork butcher/charcutier who uses locally reared pigs and has offered to prepare me "English" joints so we'll go and have a chat next week but that leaves me with plan B to workout for tomorrow night.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I'll never forget the embarrassment I felt years ago when I went into a pork butcher in a little town in France and asked for two beef steaks - I didn't know at the time there were different types of butchers in France. He was very courteous though and pointed out the beef butcher down the street.
It does seem rather more important today @philippa smith2, especially given the next 11 months of wrangling.
@Lizzie27 - the UK used to have them too. I can remember in my teens in the 60s going to the nearest local town with mum for the weekly raid on the pork butcher for the ham to boil for Saturday and Sunday tea and then pea and ham soup, sometimes sausages for later in the week and a joint for the Sunday roast when it wasn't going to be beef or lamb. That was another butcher.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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The "solution" they've come up with is to move the railway 300m away from the cliff, ie, further INTO the sea!! You couldn't make this stuff up could you?
Fortunately, OH is friendly with a golfing pork butcher/charcutier who uses locally reared pigs and has offered to prepare me "English" joints so we'll go and have a chat next week but that leaves me with plan B to workout for tomorrow night.
@Lizzie27 - the UK used to have them too. I can remember in my teens in the 60s going to the nearest local town with mum for the weekly raid on the pork butcher for the ham to boil for Saturday and Sunday tea and then pea and ham soup, sometimes sausages for later in the week and a joint for the Sunday roast when it wasn't going to be beef or lamb. That was another butcher.