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Found a purse outside Tesco in Redding. Just handed it in to customer services.

Hi all. Sorry I have not looked through the previous pages, so this may well have been answered. Is the match on TV? I see it is on Premier Sports but I don't have a subscription for them. Is it on anywhere else? Cheers.

My summer jobs at uni were the best I ever had. Two summers as a roads surveyor for the council (the ultimate in skiving jobs; we couldn't work in the rain. 4 of us in a van, we'd start the day buying rolls and coffee and, importantly, a different newspaper each. Drive up north and spend the day sitting in the van, drinking coffee and reading newspapers. We passed them round when we were finished to try to stretch it out the whole day). One summer working in a castle. One in a furniture shop. No stress, just show up and do the hours. I do miss that kind of job sometimes, especially when I am lying in bed thinking "when I start in the morning I need to do a, b and c."

6 for Wednesday

Congratulations...I think?

This is as good a place as any for this. I've posted before that my dad is having extremely serious health issues. Mum was phoned by an NHS guy who was utterly brilliant. He talked her through the whole process when discussing the resuscitation issue. He allowed my mum time and information to go and talk to my dad and me. And when he called back, he dealt with all the paperwork for her so dad now has a letter he keeps on him that will be given to the paramedics when the time comes. He had only ever introduced himself by his first name (dad gets phoned about 3 times a week from NHS people, many of whom he is on first name terms with now). Mum phoned back to say thanks but didn't know his last name. She phoned around looking for this doctor - turns out he wasn't a doctor at all but some kind of nurse/paramedic (I don't know the exact title). Without his help and intervention, I really suspect that my mum would be very unprepared and in shock when the time comes. Thanks to this guy, decisions have been made and, in a way, there is a plan. He has saved her massive future trauma. It will still be a shock for her, but this has to some degree cushioned the blow.

Jeezo!

British House of cards is tremendous, as is To play the King. The Final Cut was OK. It was all miles better than the US binfire show.

Tried to lighten things up with a semi-comedy episode. probably the weakest so far. enterprise Bingo was fun. Christina Chong - was wondering what she had been in before. Line of Duty.

The wife had this figured out before the last episode. I was clueless. Season 4 was very good. not a huge fan of the mega-long episodes. And why split the series into 2 parts when the second part is a whole two episodes long?

Try a Springsteen gig. If you don't buy food, you starve to death.

It gets on my clothes, mostly.

To Play the King, the novel (and BBC series) sequel to house of Cards had this in it. Won our boy an election.

Alcohol Focus Scotland think it's great: Look at that wee dip at the end of the graph (a 10% reduction). They claim MUP had done this. Nonsense, of course - just natural year-on-year variation that has subsequently been wiped out.

I wasn't stating the policy as a failure based on this one article. It caused a very brief drop in alcohol purchasing in 2018 which then returned to normal levels again afterwards. Didn't even bring alcohol buying down to 2014 levels. And the evidence is that for those at the extreme end of the spectrum, they just stopped paying for heating and eating to use the little money they had left on alcohol. And so, caused indirect health consequences on these poor folk.

Zero waste. Can't beat it.

Totally agree. It is a failed policy but the government will never come out and say "We got it wrong, we'll repeal it". They'll just keep the MUP at 50p and let inflation take its course.

Johnson has more riding on Lizzie popping her clogs than the Dead Pool do.

Marshmallows aren't though. Aerated pig skin gelatin.

Just to follow this up. When I was in financial trouble a few years ago StepChange was tremendous. They have specialist help for people with mental health issues also. They can guide you through all this very well. https://www.stepchange.org/debt-and-mental-health-support.aspx And specific guidance here: https://www.stepchange.org/debt-info/debt-and-mental-health-evidence-form.aspx I cannot recommend these guys highly enough. They can really help.

My first big sexy 10 in weeks.

Countries need a Head of State. Many combine that with the Head of Government (ie the USA where the President is both). Others have separate (Ireland has an elected President as head of state but a different head of Government). Monarchies act as Head of State whilst someone else (in our case the PM) is Head of Government. So yes, an independent Scotland could have the FM as both, or we could elect a ceremonial Head of State, or keep the monarchy.

This is an interesting wee debate for my wife. She is in the office 3 days per week and her manager is going nuts working out a rota to make sure there are 2 folk in the office at all times. Safety has been cited as a reason. Quite why is anyone's guess - others have their own offices, and the office next door to my wife's has people in it too. It is being used as justification for bringing people in 3 days per week as opposed to the 1 or 2 they have been doing for about a year now.