Went and had lunch with my sister over near Uckfield. (East Sussex) She had cooked a very nice lasagna with a mixed salad.
I fixed her toilet set for the third time as the casting for one of the hinges had fractured. Looks like some kind of monkey metal. Several washers later and fixed.
I've just done a Google search and it looks like hinge sets are readily available at a reasonable price so if it goes again we'll just get some new parts. No need to scrap the entire seat and lid.
Maybe they'll get a few Glasgow kisses. 
Imagine the look on your neighbours faces with that on your front lawn. 
Just a heads up to members that BST ends this coming weekend and the clocks go back one hour at 2am Sunday morning.
Now that's what I call real pickling, cows are so de-rigueur.
The sooner Biden is replaced the better.
This is what I've found:
Tribe says that section four of the 25th Amendment of the Constitution can temporarily “sideline” the president for three weeks at a time, if invoked. But it’s a very difficult process and has also never happened.
Essentially the option exists “if the vice president and the majority of the cabinet members decide that the president [is unfit for] office, that he’s got Alzheimer’s or doesn’t know what he’s doing, doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about,” Tribe says.
“But it’s not likely that the vice president and the majority of the cabinet would certify that,” he continues. Put another way: Members of the president’s own party would have to be moved to act against him and the voters and outside of Congress.
In the unlikely event that this course of action was taken, the president would step aside for three weeks and the vice president would act in his place. The House of Representatives and then the Senate would determine how to proceed.
Can't see his own party doing much more than letting Kamala replace him.
Quite a decent day today. Bright sunshine and 14C. We sat out in the local's beer garden in shorts and T-shirts with a couple of cool pints of Stella. I was even able to dispatch a wasp with the newspaper that was making a nuisance of itself. There's only one good kind of wasp and that's a dead one. 
Must be mortifying for Alec Baldwin. Who ever loaded live ammo needs to be identified.
Brrr. Only +5°C this morning. First time this autumn to need to wear a fleece getting the paper.
Sparkly sunshine but soo much colder. Yesterday was 18°C. Today it's barely 10°C
Winter draws on as they say.
People have aright to peaceful protest. What they do not have a right to do is to forcibly prevent others from going about their lawful business. To permit that is the route to chaos and anarchy.
Nasty looking weather moving in for tonight. Batten down the hatches chaps.
The trick is to get the specification for the contract right, and then monitor it to ensure compliance.
The trouble is that civil servants with arts and humanities degrees are far too easily bamboozled by hard nosed businessmen.
Well it was only a matter of time before the people start to fight back against the morons.
Indeed:
What exactly would privatising the NHS mean, them only saving the lives of people who can afford to pay and bugger those that can't?
I don't really care who runs the NHS so long as the service is "To each according to need and free at the point of delivery" as was the original tenet.
It is a fact that non state run businesses are much more efficient as the amount of bureaucracy is much less. A more efficient NHS would be able to treat more patients for the same amount of expenditure. The graph below shows the eye-watering amount the NHS swallows up yet many complain of "cuts" no doubt caused by havng ever more managers and poor procurement.
Welcome to the forums Suzie. Enjoy your stay.
Unfortunately your still at risk unless you use Firefox and harden it
Script blocker, ad block pro, redirect blocker to name three that I use with FF.
This from my Sunday redtop:
The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack, it'll still look exactly the same afterwards.
