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notDistantGreen said:
When I was a lad, I had school friends whose families fished from and lived in Mevagissey. If you were local, you could get a few fresh mackerel off the quay for free. If you were in the Ship Inn most nights perhaps, but certainly on Fridays and Saturdays, the fishermen would start to sing at about 9:30. There were real shops selling groceries, meat and fresh baked bread. It's a characterless ghost town in the winter now and an overcrowded mess strewn with fish & chip waste in the summer. The shops all sell cheap trinkets and similar tat. All of what were once fisherman's cottages are now holiday lets, empty for two thirds of the year.

So no, I don't have a second home. Second homes and holiday lets should require planning permission, with the requirement applied retrospectively to those already in operation. They destroy communities.
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The good old days aye......when Mrs Plym and I first got married in 1964...I used to give her £4 housekeeping.....and at the end of the week if she had some housekeeping left over we used to have a good old fry up......Now a large Persil detergent cost £12.50 and a 16 pack of our favourite toilet rolls cost £12......and a daily delivered paper is costing £27.05 a week.

That is a weekly cost of £51.55 for just three items.....in 1964 I was chuffed to come home with a £20 wage packet.
 
It's because Mumba, Azaz, Lonwijk and Matete are all loan players from teams higher up the pyramid. Nothing to do with what they're doing for us. Michael Cooper would be valued as a League 1 goalkeeper no matter how good he is.
 
Never mind all that ficticious crap than means nothing. Camilla will never ever ever be a Queen in my World. I find it hard enough to stomach Charlie boy as a King but at least he was born into the family. All she did was assist in a marriage break-up. This Country is going to the dogs.
 
PARKING APP.

Michael Gove has told councils they should not be forcing older people to use smartphones to pay for parking.

He wrote to local authorities in England reminding them to ensure they "do not discriminate" against vulnerable and older people, amid concerns elderly drivers are at risk of being fined over the phasing out of cash meters.

About a dozen local authorities are cashless in car parks, while many machines require a mobile phone or bank card payment

Daily Telegraph...6/4/2023.

Your a bit late Mr Gove.....Bromley Borough Council one of the biggest in London/NW Kent with a population of a third of a million went cashless in many parts not long after Christmas...now any remaining cash machines have been covered over with expensive looking top half covers.....obviously waiting to be rooted up like they did in central Bromley at the beginning of the year.

So few people realized at the time what had happened....I found myself circling the roads with many others....with parking bays empty in all streets.

Having eventually found out that parking was through an app called 'RingGo'....lots of info to put into the app before it accepted your request to join....by then it was probably to late to park and shop.

Been one of my moans this year.....especially when I got a £40 fine because I hadn't done it quite right....looks like I didn't press the final pay button.

If only the Government could keep up with what's happening....until they do us oldies will just be hibernating and wishing it will all go away.
 
sensiblegreeny said:
Never mind all that ficticious crap than means nothing. Camilla will never ever ever be a Queen in my World. I find it hard enough to stomach Charlie boy as a King but at least he was born into the family. All she did was assist in a marriage break-up. This Country is going to the dogs.
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Charles and Camilla were an item years before Diane was ever on the scene.....but for some reason it cooled off....and she married someone else.

Charles was reminded that his first duty in life was to provide a heir....and because the love of his life was now married with children.....he had to find a young fillie to bear this heir....love was a secondary requirement....Diane eventually realized that his love was elsewhere....and the rest is history....as they say.
 
Oh well that's all ok then. Lets put some of that in context shall we. He is suposed now to be the head of the CoE. He stood in a place of God and made an oath. What you are saying is he lied. You are also sort of condoning him "taking a fillie" and using her for his own ends. Camilla also made vows she clearly didn't keep either. These are the people we are now supposed to look up to and call King and Queen. Well you can excuse them if you wish but I don't consider either of them worthy of a title and certainly not somebody I would bend a knee to.
 
The Government is on top of very little. Michael Gove admitted this morning that successive governments had made a mess of social housing policy, leading to Grenfell Tower, the death of that little lad due to mould in his damp home and now the discovery of that woman who's lain dead in her flat for 2 and half years despite neighbours repeatedly reporting issues to their landlord.

They've made a total mess of energy policy so that we're over exposed to imported gas costs. They've made rules to force car makers to sell increasing proportions of electric cars without ensuring we have a battery manufacturer in the UK or that there are sufficient chargers to power them. As the only significant British owned car company, Jaguar is saying it cannot achieve those targets without the sort of subsidy available to rivals in America and the EU. The UK boss of one of the European companies making cars here said recently that unless the UK Government sorted itself out, it was highly likely their UK capacity would move to Spain.

And to get back to parking charges, they've pressed for elected mayors and are now allowing them to introduce bespoke congestion and clean air charges in their cities. Can you imagine what it's going to be like moving about the country when every city has a different list of cars needing to pay the charges and different methods of detection, payment and penalties? If these things are needed, can we not have ONE system covering the whole country?
 
Our weekly trip to Sevenoaks would be yet another parking app to add to my phone....but we are in the NT so we park for free in Knole Park and walk out down to the High Street.....about a mile and a half.....and they do say that the exercise is good for you.
 
Quiet day expected this Good Friday......missing the chance of queuing on the Dover road looking at the asphalt for 24hrs.......or spotting the friendly French Customs Officer with his rubber stamp.

Wouldn't say no to a photo shoot with the PM and local dignitaries' standing around one of our many local pot holes looking in.....but I doubt if that chance will come.

I'll just have to wait for the 3pm/5pm Argyle torture slot then... with everything crossed.
 
BIG BROTHER IS ALIVE AND WELL.......AND IS IN DEVON & CORNWALL.

A police force in the South West has become the first in the UK to use drones to help catch speeders.

Devon and Cornwall Police will use the remote- controlled aircraft to monitor vehicle speeds from the skies to catch out dangerous drivers. The drones will be able to spot vehicles from nearly four miles away and calculate speeds by using fixed points on the road.

If motorists are found to be travelling too fast or driving dangerously, the car's details will be relayed to a team on the ground who will use their own cameras and pull over speeders.

Daily Telegraph...Wednesday...12/04/2023.


Well, well you can be by yourself and miles from anywhere....and still be seen picking your nose.

Beware notDistant you can get a speeding ticket in leafy Devon...just as easy as coming back from Wembley after a miserable time with Akinfenwa and his mates.

Joe you'll after turn on your speed governer once you cross from Somerset back into Devon......big brother is alive and well and just as alive as in 1984.
 
I see that PlymouthLive have published an interesting article regarding James Brent and the Pavilions ?
 
I read that nonsense plym online yesterday.. well i keep my speed in the vans on the way back from London at set 60 . on the A303 or Motorways no rush these days
Well all i say is im glad i sold my car after covid,, or i would probably be banned now.. as it just wanted to go ,, not that i was speeding about in a Porsche Spyder .. who would
 
Just read that story Joe which I hadn't seen before. I'm a bit surprised it wasn't an actual Jail sentence by the description. Given when the offence took place it would seem his club aren't going to do anything to him either. How shallow these people are. Touch him on the pitch and no doubt he would collapse holding anything he thought was near the hand and he would expect to get a result from it. He kicks the crap out of somebody with the help of another and gets fined with no further punishment.

I also read the story of James Brent and his trousering of his 30 pieces of silver from his "business" with PCC and the Pavillions. You have to wonder how these people get away with it all. I have expressed my opinion of Brent many times in the past. He isn't for me the saviour he is made out to be and never has been. I wouldn't trust him with the contents of a childs piggy bank.
 
Investors are entitled to a return on their money just as you expect a return from your savings account. It’s a business cost just like wages or taxes.

Equity investors bear the risk of losing their investment altogether and so the return must be higher than where the risk is lower.

Don’t forget your private pensions depend on dividends from companies the funds invest in, so you receive dividends too, albeit indirectly.

Normally, dividends are declared on the profits of each year as part of the statutory accounts process. As the accounts will take several months at least to produce and so receipt of the dividend can easily be a year after the end of the accounting period in question.

Property and construction profits can be very lumpy as they depend on completion of small numbers of big projects rather than a steady stream of small sales.

I read that James Brent story and as I remember it, it was along the lines of “Man receives dividend a year before company goes bust” which probably means they relate to profits two years and more than the company went bust. And then of course insolvency is a process that can easily take another year.

If there’s nothing unusual about the declaration of the dividend, then this a click-bait story for the envious. Dividends require that there are profits from which to pay them and that the auditors can sign off that the business is a going concern. I suspect the profits from which the dividends were paid were pre-Covid and the business went bust afterwards.
 
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This is a story about James Brent and the never ending Ice Rink Saga.....the promise he made that when the Pavilions closed down he would build a new one on the patch of land he owns next to Home Park and the Leisure Centre.....many people think his track record in other areas suggests that it is all pie in the sky.

Any inkling of possible scandel will be jumped upon by some who fell out with pasoti and formed the breakaway website of ATD.

PS.......Of course the runniing costs of an ice rink now would be astronomical....making it unprofitable beyond imagination.
 
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Absolutely correct, as it is with swimming pools that need to be kept warm.

Such developments are carried out by consortia, including those putting the bulk of the finance in, usually financial institutions, not the developer. If any one group of potential partners lose confidence in the segment in question, the whole thing grinds to a halt.
 
It's a great surprise that after the departure of Nicola Sturgeon and her husband and the subsequent raid on their home to investigate shortfalls in SNP funding, it's been discovered that the SNP had bought a £100,000 American style camper van. This was apparently to be used as a party "battle bus" if Covid prevented other means of campaigning.

Of course, this never became necessary and the camper van has been well looked at after at the home of Nicola Sturgeon's mother-in-law.

On an entirely different subject, there was a piece in the Times over the weekend analysing how single party domination, whether in whole country or a local council, breeds inefficiency and corruption, because there is no effective scrutiny of the administration's actions.
 
China, N Korea,,,,,and of course our old friends in the Kremlin come to mind.

Of course Putin does do B&B for his opposition party politicians with a little sideline in poisons to keep them in line.

Now as for Scotland we will see what comes out of the woodwork in the next few months.
 
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