You and everyone else on that road were definitely being looked after then Jasper! Thank goodness you’re OK!
Hi Just thought I would enter the great escape cafe. It's sounds a good place to be. You will find me in the big comfy chair, next to the burning fire just chilling until I leave on the evening of 13 May after beating man city and securing our status in the best league in the world. Feel free to join me. Oh, and I would like a bacon sarnie and a hot chocolate please.
I watched darts on TV a lot at one time because I played in a couple of teams. This was a time when having tungsten darts singled you out as a serious player. John Lowe was my favourite, but Eric Bristow was a legend even then.
I play golf with John Lowe ........ he still gets asked when he books a table in a restaurant ...... trouble is, he spells his first name “Jon” ......
The burglar who got stabbed has been described as a loving person....sorry loving people don't go round upsetting people by robbing their houses and scaring them. Many people never get over being robbed. One friend of mine never returned to her house...she had to sell it because she never would have felt safe there. Apparently he comes from a family of career criminals. They said he got in with the wrong crowd....sorry, kids get in with the wrong crowd, but by 37 you should have grown up. Was said that he didn't deserve to die....well in one way, he didn't....burglary isn't a capital offence, but if you threaten people, one day they may fight back. I may sound unsympathetic, but that's because I'm not....there are far more deserving cases to feel sympathy for.
Absolutely. Seems (if reports are true) he threatened an OAP with a screwdriver. Nice “loving” person it would appear. He got what he deserved, sorry, but that’s my take on it. Break into someone’s house when they’re there and you are likely to be looking to at least threaten violence if not actually do it. The law says “reasonable force” and I hope they realise that a pensioner being threatened to be stabbed is entitled to fight back with a sharp implement.
Exactly. A pensioner would need to use force exceeding that threatened by the burglar, or its only going to end one way.
Yep I don't get it. If someone breaks in to my house and physically threatens me, they have to assume that I may fight back. I don't leave a knife under the bed or a baseball bat around in case, but if confronted in my house I'll grab what I can to protect my family and I. If the burglar doesn't want to be put in the life threatening position in the first case, then don't break in. ...and breathe.
If threatened in your own home at night I don't see why you have to give the benefit of the doubt to the burglar. People have been tortured and killed in their own homes....if you get a chance you take it....and I don't think you go for a minor wound either. You want this person down and out....not maddened with you.
if I ever break down on the IOW and my mobile battery is flat, I probably won't knock on Fran's door asking for help clutching my wheel wrench!
Any gardeners out there? as well as rhubarb the Serbs don't have swedes. I have some seeds, seems easy to grow. Any tips? We have an English language school and like to do British events for the students. Pancake day goes down very well, I'd like to do a Burn's night in January with Haggis, Neeps and Tatties. (I have a toned down haggis recipe)
Only advice is to keep them moist and cool. They also like heavier soils and watch out for Cabbage root fly as they'll completely knacker the roots and kill the plant. As you say though generally they are very easy to grow.
cheers harry! guess i'll be doing some watering this summer (Serbia doesn't do cool and moist in the summer)
