Boris and Liz are both flying to Balmoral to see Queenie, but they can't/won't travel in the same aircraft!? It's big enough for one to sit in the front and one in the back. Grow up!
they're on tax payer funded expenses, You're being silly to expect them to fly on the same plane
For once there is a real security reason for them not to travel in the same plane.
Mr Johnson isn't prime minister any more so why should he have more security than any other MP? He could get on a train like a regular human being, or on a scheduled flight.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Boris and Liz are both flying to Balmoral to see Queenie, but they can't/won't travel in the same aircraft!? It's big enough for one to sit in the front and one in the back. Grow up!
they're on tax payer funded expenses, You're being silly to expect them to fly on the same plane
For once there is a real security reason for them not to travel in the same plane.
members of the royal family / cabinet ministers often fly on the same plane, why can't these two?
Technically he is still PM until he’s submitted his resignation to HM. HOWEVER he doesn’t have to do it in person. Many of his predecessors have done it by letter. He’s just so ‘me, Me, MEEEEE!!!’ 😡
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Another 8 days with no internet but chappy fiddling with theboxes yesterday said it should be OK now till the fibre optics go live. We'll see. At least he was right about it coming back today.
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)."
Air plants were very popular in the 60/70’s modern rooms. My mum had quite a few, then when I got my house I had to have them. I think they went out of fashion for a while, the GC at the Eden Project has some nice ones, in nice shells and containers.
I had a couple back in the early '90s but my sister broke my mister and it wasn't replaced. If I'd known I could dunk them in rain water instead they'd still be alive today. I'm not bitter about it though.
I read that the 1970s era boom caused the near extinction of some species though. A few dedicated nurseries bred them on mass and managed to repopulate as well as flooding the market with them to reduce poaching. Hard to imagine in a pre-internet world but it's a lot worse now with some cacti and succulents.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The average value of a self-invested personal pension has fallen by
12% from £221,713 at the end of December 2021 to £202,134 at the end of
February and the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to £196,109
now, according to Interactive Investor data — a drop of over £25,000.
Becky
O’Connor, head of pensions and savings at Interactive Investor, said:
“The war in Ukraine has consequences for global stock markets, which in
turn could affect the value of pension funds.
“For those years
away from retirement, this should not be too concerning — they may have
decades left for markets to recover enough to restore their pension
value to rude health.
“It is more concerning for people who are
close to or in retirement. But how consequential it will be for older
people depends on a number of factors, including their individual
exposure to global equities.....'
I heard Ken Clarke talking this morning - he seemed to think we're heading towards a recession (aren't we in one?), so goodness knows where pension funds will end up. I only posted this as someone else posted saying that pension funds may be invested in the energy companies making vast fortunes. Mine presumably isn't, as it fits with the average above - it did rally, but the past few weeks has seen it drop to the lowest point since June 2019. Not a lot of time for it to see the benefits of Lovely Liz's economic recovery plans for me. I'm already past retiring but put off taking the pension in the vain hope that the situation may recover.
Edited to add: That was a whinge eh? I have a pension. I have a house. I have a loving family.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The average value of a self-invested personal pension has fallen by 12% from £221,713 at the end of December 2021 to £202,134 at the end of February and the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to £196,109 now, according to Interactive Investor data — a drop of over £25,000.
Becky O’Connor, head of pensions and savings at Interactive Investor, said: “The war in Ukraine has consequences for global stock markets, which in turn could affect the value of pension funds.
“For those years away from retirement, this should not be too concerning — they may have decades left for markets to recover enough to restore their pension value to rude health.
“It is more concerning for people who are close to or in retirement. But how consequential it will be for older people depends on a number of factors, including their individual exposure to global equities.....'
I heard Ken Clarke talking this morning - he seemed to think we're heading towards a recession (aren't we in one?), so goodness knows where pension funds will end up. I only posted this as someone else posted saying that pension funds may be invested in the energy companies making vast fortunes. Mine presumably isn't, as it fits with the average above - it did rally, but the past few weeks has seen it drop to the lowest point since June 2019. Not a lot of time for it to see the benefits of Lovely Liz's economic recovery plans for me. I'm already past retiring but put off taking the pension in the vain hope that the situation may recover.
Edited to add: That was a whinge eh? I have a pension. I have a house. I have a loving family.