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- 08 May 2024, 21:39
- Forum: Ongoing Family Research
- Topic: Ancestry.co.uk
- Replies: 238
- Views: 95536
Re: Ancestry.co.uk
Yes, and when you start dipping back beyond 1800 it's easy to forget how different life in England was at the time. That sank in for me when I posted that observation of a parish register baptism record which stated that the mother had `seven previous bastard children'. My first thought was that sh...
- 08 May 2024, 21:32
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12649
- Views: 1339287
Re: POLITICS CORNER
Pity Elphick didnt Jump Ship (? Small Boat) LAST Wednesday. Might have thrown a few more votes ( to , or from, Labour ?)
- 05 May 2024, 22:10
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16616
- Views: 1936750
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Formula 1 sometimes gets mentioned here. So in Miami , FL , USA British Driver Lando Norris in a British Car - McLaren takes First Place for his first F1 win , good speed, good strategy and a touch of luck going his way. Well Done and nice to see a little change for a change.
- 05 May 2024, 22:05
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12649
- Views: 1339287
Re: POLITICS CORNER
I understand the share of total vote for england council elections that labour took is about 1.7percent less than the last comparable under Corbyn. Starmer probably is the right leader - for the Conservatives. Who would be a better leader for labour - in all honesty all the good ones are dead, maybe...
- 04 May 2024, 17:08
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12649
- Views: 1339287
Re: POLITICS CORNER
OK, so assuming the working majority for Labour come sometime by 2025, what should be the vision , at least nationally , for the next five years , and what can be delivered and noticable within a year ? I think perhaps A List of State Funded Schools / Educational Buildings with RAAC Concrete and a p...
- 04 May 2024, 14:17
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12649
- Views: 1339287
Re: POLITICS CORNER
So Local Election results are all over bar the shouting (as Salford wont finish counting until Sunday) but I cannot see the conservatives now getting more seats than the LibDems in the areas that have voted. Greens have lost their seats at Epping Forest which is odd , an increase in Independents and...
- 04 May 2024, 08:49
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12649
- Views: 1339287
Re: POLITICS CORNER
Lib Dems take Dorset, and are largest party in Cheltenham. It is interesting this is often due to a lower Tory vote - is Reform taking some tory votes + stay at homes benefiting Lib Dem "protest?" vote ? Often Lib Dem locals dont give a Lib Dem National Election result . BBC results dont r...
- 03 May 2024, 19:10
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12649
- Views: 1339287
Re: POLITICS CORNER
Indeed - and some got re-elected ? Oddly Brighton and Hove remains Labour Hold, which given Gaza , Greens high student numbers and Kid Starver Starmer seems a mystery to me. Worcester Results seem more balanced Labour has gained three (for a total of 17), the Greens have gained two (bringing their t...
- 03 May 2024, 18:14
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12649
- Views: 1339287
Re: POLITICS CORNER
Maybe folk LIKE their independents and libs. Quite what they expect from Conservatives is beyond me
- 03 May 2024, 15:57
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12649
- Views: 1339287
Re: POLITICS CORNER
The BBC in the rolling headline noted Pendle remaining under NOC but the detail missed out 3 wards as still to return (or 3 seats in one ward?) Notable to me Oldham "pro Gaza" taking votes and seats off Labour (less so in Rochdale apparently) Tees Valley Con mayor holding position. Canvey ...
- 03 May 2024, 15:48
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12649
- Views: 1339287
Re: POLITICS CORNER
First migrant has gone to Rwanda! In my book not really deported as he went voluntarily after receiving a bribe of £3000 in cash. He also went via a scheduled flight. I would also assume that as he went voluntarily he will be under no rules to stay, Effectively he is a tourist with money. Not sure ...
- 16 Apr 2024, 11:21
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
- Replies: 3943
- Views: 596476
Re: DIALECT AND WORD MEANINGS
What rankles me is the insistence of sticking an R in many perfectly good and already pronounceable words such as MASTER , CASTLE etc. There is no R in either example and many more that gets the treatment. It normally seems to automatically follow an A which in my book is pronounced Ah not Ar. :don...
- 16 Apr 2024, 11:17
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
- Replies: 2040
- Views: 359819
Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
I note that the forecasters have stopped talking about the wettest February since records began but it has still been a very wet month with higher temperatures than normal. Is this the reason why my stone and concrete flags are all turning bright green? I think rooves and flags not being green in t...
- 16 Apr 2024, 11:14
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
- Replies: 6904
- Views: 943987
Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
Obviously little support for them in the town. Reminds me of a shop I thought must have been there forever (but wasnt) that mum went to mainly for "foundation garments" for her and her family , located in the small block of shops at the tube station in London. Being London not counting the...
- 16 Apr 2024, 10:48
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12649
- Views: 1339287
Re: POLITICS CORNER
I read that Lord David Cameron has flown to the USA to speak to some chap called Donald Trump and urge him to support the supply of more weapons to the Ukrainian Government. I understand this Trump fellow may be a candidate in the next presidential election, and Dave is presently British Foreign Se...
- 16 Apr 2024, 10:36
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12649
- Views: 1339287
Re: POLITICS CORNER
Is Angela Rayner the thinking mans Liz Truss ? Meanwhile I see the right-leaning people are saying Muslims have taken over parliament, and left-leaning ones say the government is being run to the order of the state of Israel. defence spending to rise to 2.5% (of GDP). might be easier to achieve if i...
- 06 Mar 2024, 17:26
- Forum: Local History Topics
- Topic: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
- Replies: 6904
- Views: 943987
Re: FORGOTTEN CORNERS
Anyone remember the School Board Man. I always thought so called cos they would come round your house with a clipboard and check on the reason - pregiven or otherwise - why you were not in school that registration period (they would check afternoons sometimes). I didnt realise at the time Local Educ...
- 06 Mar 2024, 14:40
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16616
- Views: 1936750
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
I thought Sugar Beet was partly fed to cattle as cattle cake , etc. Meanwhile the Chancellor mentioned the removal of "Multiple Dwellings Relief" and the justification for it. Now this appears to be a Stamp Duty (SDLT) thing where if two or more Dwellings are purchased in a "linked tr...
- 06 Mar 2024, 14:25
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16616
- Views: 1936750
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
. LV used to be the Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society (est. 1843). However: Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited was deregistered as a friendly society and registered as Liverpool Victoria Financial Services Ltd. on 2 January 2020 with the company focusing on life insurance, pensions and i...
- 06 Mar 2024, 14:19
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: BEWARE! THE BANKS ARE OUT TO GET YOU!
- Replies: 3243
- Views: 477446
Re: BEWARE! THE BANKS ARE OUT TO GET YOU!
Banking hub opens tomorrow. I will test it's services when I bank the weeks takings for the shop. That is unless Andrew 4 Andrew is in the way with his photo opportunity. :ohno: I am likely to have a lot of coinage as we have had a clearance sale this last week at the shop where all items were redu...
- 06 Mar 2024, 14:07
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12649
- Views: 1339287
Re: POLITICS CORNER
Household Support Fund I doubt many in need actually benefited from this , with admin costs , a lack of some folk to seek help when they need it . Of course decent benefits and cheaper housing havent been put in place to help either. the 2p NHI Cut for Lower Paid workers will be enough to pay the n...
- 06 Mar 2024, 14:01
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: POLITICS CORNER
- Replies: 12649
- Views: 1339287
- 02 Mar 2024, 23:11
- Forum: What, Where, When, We, Who, Look & How
- Topic: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
- Replies: 16616
- Views: 1936750
Re: WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?
Formula 1 Race Day being Saturday (as it will be next week) rather upsets ones routine of a post sunday lunch watch or listen. The reason is being in the middle east next Sunday is Start of Ramadan , so things had to come forward one day. (Thursday Practice is nothing new, Monaco has a religious hol...
- 02 Mar 2024, 23:08
- Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
- Topic: MEDICAL MATTERS
- Replies: 7634
- Views: 863513
Re: MEDICAL MATTERS
local news websites to me report 35 new admissions to hospital had covid this past week, that might be a rise.
Apparently the last year or so has seen overall a lower number of "expected deaths" compared with (ahh, which 5year average) in the UK
- 02 Mar 2024, 23:06
- Forum: General Miscellaneous Chat & Gossip
- Topic: TIZER'S SCIENCE NEWS
- Replies: 2242
- Views: 332646
Re: TIZER'S SCIENCE NEWS
Schools Looking at Crystal Structures From my MSN news feed , apparently some High Schools have been engaged by Hartwell (?) Oxon to look at calcuim carbonate crystal growth in sea shells. (results read / dealt with by high speed x-rays ) Interesting as chemical compounds (and elements) arranged in...