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Yes, I worked full time for 40 years as an employee on PAYE. I invested for retirement in my mid fifties. As a trade off, I didn’t have as much surplus cash as my colleagues so couldn’t afford nice cars, but credit card bills a massive mortgage or fancy holidays. They are still working, I’m...

I think it’s still ok. Definitely more pitfalls and you’ve got to be very careful. I know a couple of people who have used the + equity in one house as a deposit to buy another. Then with house price inflation, done the same thing several times over until they own five or six houses, on paper...

Envy politics. Hatred of anyone who works and saves. Same old Labour. Settle in for a decade of Tory rule.

Farm Foods have plenty of your favourites, Turkey Twizzlers, in stock. If you are struggling to find them in Waitrose, nip down there. They’ve got Arctic Roll on special too at £1 a pop.

Get a job.

Is it just me or can anyone tell two Education Secretaries apart? They all look the same to me.

Boris slaps 1.5% on NI. Get in, my pension payouts are safe :D The sad thing is, no extra money is needed to solve the health care crisis. Efficiency & competence is all that is needed. Johnson just needs to put Dildo Herding in charge and the mess will be complete.

It’s all part of the irreversible end to lock-down announced just a few weeks ago. I’m dead against it. I think all restrictions should remain lifted. It’s the only way people are going to realise that they need to look after themselves. It‘s harsh on teachers and people in similar profession...

Sadly they only deliver in the London area, but thanks for the link.

I’ve just checked and fortunately my dog’s 16 year old Subaru Forester will run on the new petrol. The petrol that we are now growing instead of food. Meanwhile, parts of the world starve. This also means that I won’t need to scrap the dog’s car for him and buy a new one with a production carbon...

E10 petrol. Who knew? My campaign for the reintroduction of Five Star has been dealt a serious blow by this revelation.

I know what you mean, but strangely I’d get far more pleasure from buying an old frame and transferring the bits from my bike onto it than dropping 3K on a new bike. I love my 13 year old Pro Connect, it’s a fantastic bike, far better in my opinion than what’s available today. The Alfine 8...

Completely off topic. Is 50 Cycles still knocking out Ebikes? I was looking on ebay to see if I could find a Kalkhoff Pro-Connect Disc 8 frame for a fiver. There’s a bloke in Loughborough called CycleMan 50 selling a complete bike Disc 8, but he wants close to a bag of sand for it. Looking at...

Yes, I think it all started when the Queen Mother and King Phillip had Diana Queen of Orphaned Children’s Hearts popped in that Parisian sub-way. Dreadful scenes of grown men blubbering in the streets over someone they new nothing about. Evil Diana did irreparable damage to the British stiff...

Dementia Joe seems to be having another episode. He’s threatening to make yesterday’s Afghanistan bombers pay for their actions. What‘s he going to do? Invade? Sadly, he seems to have forgotten that he’s in the middle of a retreat. Still, he gets to hide is own Easter eggs, make new friends...

I sort of agree regarding disposal of the carcass. It’s like holding a ceremony to put the bins out on a Tuesday evening. I think a funeral service is appropriate to acknowledge a dead person’s life achievements and contributions. Sadly, I’ve learnt a lot about people that I’d wished I’d known...

I want to agree with you and I hope you are right. It is weird that people want to pack themselves into pubs, stadiums, shops and other such places that essentially kill 100+ people per day, but would they get on a plane if they were crashing 3 to 4 times per week and killing all on board?

I agree, we must now take personal responsibility for protecting ourselves and do whatever we feel is appropriate for our own circumstances. As we have see, rules are useless, even the rule makers are too weak to adhere to them. Just highlights what a pathetic nation of wimps we have become...

I remember my Empire Made plimsolls from the late 1960s. My parents bought them for me to use during PE at school. I guess Empire Made would mean they were manufactured in India? Although India would not have been in the empire at that time.

Interesting that the number of virus tests being conducted is falling but infections are rising.