I can only vaguely remember Kennedy,  but I remember when I heard about Diana.
I was in my aviary feeding all the budgies,  when my husband at the time, came and told me it was on the news.

As an aside on uninsured drivers a bloke rang my bell with a tale of woe yesterday. There had been an accident at the roundabout down the road the previous day and the driver of the other car had done a bunk and he was walking the route looking for CCTV.

I immediately said there was no chance of my cameras seeing anything of any use at the roundabout (it's 200 yards away} but he explained that he wanted a picture of the car as it went past mine to get the number. He showed me a picture he'd got from nearer the roundabout but couldn't see the number. I got him to WhatsApp me and promised I'd look. With a picture of the car and a time all I had to go on I thought there'd be no chance.

I looked at the recording around the time he gave and was amazed to see the he car go by. I pulled he video and got a snapshot and the number was readable. Gobsmacked I sent him the picture showing the number and a pretty poor one sort of showing the driver.

He got back to me later to thank me. He'd found the car was uninsured which was why it just drove off obviously.

The bit I found odd though was there was obvious damage to the car with the rear bumper partly detached.  I can't think of any obvious accident scenario where a car and the back of another bump where the driver whose car had hit the back of another would be chasing the other driver up when they've done a bunk. Odd.

Operation is over.

I'm trying to work out if the offender is a sole trader or not.  Why would he only have a business only insurance (if it's under his employer's umbrella one then he'll be on bother and may get the sack) and in any case why was he driving for personal/leisure??  Complete tw@t.  If it were me doing the same dodgy nonsense, I'd have tried to sort out a deal with Mups to get the repair done and to avoid the insurers anyway.

Maybe you need to wear some different tights and a longer skirt 🤷🏻�♂️😉

i think we may have a lot more lamenting to do about the mismanagement of the economy. 

It looked good in Margaret Thatcher's time because she found an alternative to borrowing, which was asset stripping. This carried on right into the Blair years, but now not only have governments failed to stop all sorts of industry going abroad, they've imported masses of extra people and they now have nothing to sell. The books don't balance. It's a bloody mess in my opinion.

Something I can't do....without feeling really uncomfortable .....being alone in the lingerie section of a store while Mrs Vlad is browsing nearby ....are people staring?...do they think I am an elderly tranny? It's even worse if Mrs Vlad gives me her handbag so that she can try on a coat and wanders off to find a mirror. 

Ethel struck lucky at the bash
She took Tom home - said he could crash
But he got cold feet
When Ethel ripped off his sheet

Quote from: Scrumpy on November 23, 2025, 05:11:37 PMHe didn't drink water before bedtime...!!!

Actually, I did - still puzzled