Andy

I have stopped shopping in my local Morrisons because of the queues. I usually shop on a weekday evening and it was not uncommon to find only 2 or 3 checkouts open, with queues four or five customers deep. And the manager did nothing about it. At the tobacco kiosk one poor person is trying to sell cigarettes and newspapers, lottery, electrical goods, take in and return dry cleaning and do refunds etc. on the Customer Services desk. They launched a loyalty card that's worthless. Shame about M Local though, I find my local one quite useful. Having said that, it's hard to go wrong when most of your customers are just buying beer/milk/tea bags!

Hello I have the sad responsibility of organising a funeral. I would like to arrange a lunchtime buffet at a pub or other suitable place near Hutcliffe Wood. We expect about 25 - 30 people including a couple of children. Can anyone recommend a local pub or suitable venue? I moved away from the area 5 years ago so am not sure what the local pubs are like. Thanks in advance for any help Andy.

I never liked sprouts as a kid. Now I think they're quite nice. The thing is my mum cooks them til they're mush which is why I never liked them. When we went to a restaurant, she was moaning that the sprouts were too hard and weren't cooked properly.

Why on earth do people want to go to the shop on Christmas Day?

I can't believe what I've seen today. What is wrong with these people?

Our NHS should be for everyone. In your fantasy world what would happen if someone didn't have insurance but injured themselves doing sport? Would the ambulance service refuse to take them to hospital, or the surgeons refuse to operate? I am proud to live in a country that provides the best healthcare system in the world for all of its citizens, free to all at the point of delivery. I would never want our doctors and nurses to have to check eligibility before treating someone, and I would never want someone to be turned away due to lack of funds. Starting to restrict access to health care is a very dangerous step which can only result in the end of our NHS.

No! no no no no no!!!! It doesn't become afternoon until after midday, since midday is noon. Pay attention!!

All of this reminds me of the millennium celebrations that the whole country seemed to take part in one year early. Of course you start counting from zero for everything. The first unit (second, mile, tonne) is one. If I give you something for free it costs zero pounds, not one pound. ---------- Post added 22-11-2014 at 19:23 ---------- No apology needed but you're right. The point I was trying to make is that 13:00pm is meaningless. Does it mean 1pm or does it mean 13 hours post meridian? This thread shows why transport companies, the military etc. use the 24 hour clock!

I see what you did there. A double bluff. Very good. I arrive by train at 10:45 tomorrow, where do I report to? Please note that the battle must be finished by 19:00 so I can get the last train home - I have work on Monday.

Wimbledon FC do not scare me but the thought of drinking in MK does. I shall re-think my plans...

I keep seeing people write 13:00pm, which obviously means 13 hours after noon, which is One O'clock the following morning. Obviously. Unless there is a leap second involved.

I will tell my hotel story again. Staying with a female colleague, I was given a room on the ground floor. My colleague was given a room on the first floor. The receptionist told her "we don't put women on the ground floor as we've had problems with people breaking into the rooms at night". They did not get a good review! ---------- Post added 22-11-2014 at 14:03 ---------- With a bit of luck this establishment will have their merchant (credit card acceptance) facilities withdrawn. I suspect they may have been in breach of Visa/Mastercard regulations by retaining the card details after the bill had been settled which is no longer allowed. I do sympathise with hoteliers when they have unreasonable guests leaving bad reviews but this hotel clearly has a serious problem and ought to be closed down.

13:00pm actually means the same time as 1:00am - 13 hours after noon.

Midnight is not 12:00 it is 00:00.

Do not worry about me, I am just here temporarily, doing missionary work. Or maybe I am starting the infiltration of Hertfordshire - we will press north to meet your advancing armies. I expect our paths to cross just north of Milton Keynes

I am pleased to confirm that http://www.rotherhamforum.co.uk is now under our control.

Rotherham's Elder Statesman would like to negotiate a peace.

I hate this song. It's patronising, bordering on offensive. I find it completely inappropriate when it's played at Christmas parties - lets all have a big meal then listen to a song about the starving... I know they've updated the lyrics and I know it's done with the very best of intentions and I absolutely 100% support the causes it's raising money for... but I do wish they'd retire this song and create something new.

Your plan is flawed. How will you defeat Rotherham's navy? ---------- Post added 17-11-2014 at 20:46 ---------- I see the Town Hall is now well defended, someone must have tipped them off.

In case anyone is interested, here's a clip of London Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgNJhWjHx-c London Live has had a lot of criticism, but it's a thousand times better than Sheffield. However, London Live serves about 8 million people and is owned by the Independent and Evening Standard newspapers. Its presenters are paid, not volunteers. Despite all this, apart from the daily news and entertainment show, their schedule mostly consists of repeats of Peep Show, London's Burning and Cash in the Attic.

My local Homebase has just been refurbished and is now a "Homebase Design Centre". I can report that this refurbishment mainly seems to have involved installing a Costa Coffee in the middle of the sales floor, extending the garden centre and opening a small bicycle repair franchise in the store where the Customer Service desk used to be. The Costa Coffee was useful while I waited for the lads on the car park to finish washing my car.

I'm not Scottish but if I was, I think I would have voted to stay. I just don't think the numbers added up. Scotland would have been taking a huge gamble for no real benefit. If someone tells me that running across the motorway blindfolded is a silly idea, that's not spreading fear. If someone tells me that jumping from a plane without a parachute is not likely to end well, again that's not spreading fear. If I went to bet my life savings on a three legged horse... you get the picture. I think people did vote "No" because of fear but I think that's perfectly justified. It wasn't fear of the dark or a bogey man, it was fear of the reality that an independent Scotland may have faced a very, very difficult future. I have seen some pretty nasty comments on Facebook today. I've seen friends argue and I've seen people say they'll never speak to No voting friends again. There is trouble kicking off in Glasgow with riot police on standby. This is very sad. I hope Scotland can pull together again soon.

I was thinking more like Secretary of State for Scotland, if such a position will still exist in this brave new world. I think him reappearing in the Scottish Labour Party is much more likely though. Alternatively, he might be quite happy where he is. He could well have come back into public view over the last couple of weeks with great reluctance due to what he saw as a grave national emergency.

I can't see him returning as leader, but I can see him either taking a post in a future Labour government, or possibly being elected as leader of the Labour Party in Scotland.

Not sure this is actually the case - remember there was only one opinion poll that suggested "Yes" was in the lead. Every other poll told us the majority of Scots wished to remain in the UK.