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I wonder what God thinks.

Well I started work in 1962 at the bottom of Fargate, and retired from work at the top of Fargate in 2010, I'm pleased that we have that one sorted out.

No Rich, but I wager that your friend Paul treasures his friendship with you.

My wife used to take beatings from the nuns who taught her as a little girl, heavens knows what these psychopaths would have done to a seven years old Down's Syndrome child.

Good on you Rich, whenever my wife or I bump into our friend Paul, we always leave him with a smile on our faces, he is an absolute champ.

The Sheffield Chess Club used to be located in a large Victorian house on Sharrow Lane, I'm sorry that I can't locate it's current location, if in fact it has one.

Well the Catholic church has shot itself in the foot with this one, a family friend has Downs Syndrome and is a credit to his parents. He has his own flat, works, and is far more intelligent than some folk that I have encountered. Shame on them.

High numbers top, low numbers bottom, and the bottom is on the low end of a slope, but that proves nowt.

Off topic, as usual.

Try http://www.optoutuk.com, I have been going up the wall with calls from everywhere offering me almost everything. This works, I am on the free version and have been nuisance call free for 24 hours, I was getting circa 5 calls an hour.

The general rule of thumb is two thirds of their tax-free lump sum (not finite but pretty accurate), and do bear in mind that they receive tax relief of up to 40% of their own pension contributions. What the public sector is asking of the private sector is for it to continue to fund their pensions at the expense of their own. And from what I contantly hear and read is that they want us to be happy about it.

Well stop siding with the ones that get all the perks then, such as early enhanced retirement, it's like turkeys voting for Christmas.

Something that we suddenly have a lot of 'experts' on. I worked for 48 years and am about to draw a variety of pensions, including the state pension. By my reckoning I will receive a total of £13,500 p/a, £8,000 being inflation/NAE linked, £4,500 increasing in line with fund growth and £1,000 not increasing, I will also receive circa £27K in tax-free cash. I say this because I was listening to The Jeremy Vine Show, a 70 year old, retired head teacher was on, moaning about his £30,000 p/a inflation/NAE linked pension, that he had been drawing since he was 52. Vine had to drag out of him the fact that both he and his wife also drew linked state pensions totaling £10K p/a, but he classed this as an irrelevance. He also stated that if he pre-deceased his wife that she would get none of his teachers pension, this is wrong as she would get 50% linked for life, along with her state pension, so £20K p/a for starters. It is no wonder that a lot of us are getting sick and tired of whinging public secror workers. OK it's off my chest, rant over.

A question to cuttsie, on reaching the bottom of Dixon Lane, the view across the road to the left, found the lady with the sit on weighing scales, now to be found in the museum on Ecclesall Road, that is the scales, not the lady. As you cross the road you enter the rag & tag on the right, it appeared to be on a triangular plot with another entrance/exit at the now, Commercial St/ Sheaf Baths end. Is part of the Sheaf Island structure actually supported in areas of the old rag & tag? Another thing, the once very nice Alexandra Hotel is now closed, with windows smashed. There are loads of spanking new office blocks within a spitting distance of it, a perfect position to catch the lunch time/early bar trade, what's the big deal with it standing almost derelict? As soon as the likes of you and me are no longer here, no body will know anything about the old market areas.

My late uncle used to dismember dead Germans for their rings and watches, because they did it to his mate, god only knows what he did to live prisoners. Suffice to say, I don't agree with you.