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Beavis, what you on today apart from My Way de Solzen to beat Inglis Drever. Fancy Albertas Run, Voy Por Ustedes, Inglis Drever and Don't push it, with Racing Demon EW.

Nice one Just won £100 on Katchit myself Will be backing his stable mate on Thursday My Way De Solzen IMO an EW chance, can't oppose Inglis Drever.

Got an EW lucky 31 running, 2.00 Binocular 2nd 8/1 2.35 Tidal Bay 1st 6/1 3.15 Katchit 1st 10/1 4.00 Oferel D'airy 4.40 Kilbeggan Bay Got my money back already

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Mark, one other thing I don't think has been mentioned. You state that you expect about £30k redundancy payment, this would suggest your company has a policy of paying enhanced redundancy payments as the stautory redundancy pay is £310 per week which would come to about £5k depending on your age. Make sure that this enhanced rate would apply to you. I know from experience that a company I worked for had in the past used the employees salary as the weekly amount to calculate redundancy but when they hit hard times that policy was dropped and they only paid the statutory minimum. They were allowed to do this as the enhanced amount was not in any union agreement or part of anyones contract of employment. Worth checking

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Mark, I am not a lawyer but I would have thought it would be worth having a chat with a solicitor who deals with employment law, most reasonable size practices have one, would probably not cost much and if they thought you had a case would probably work on the basis of no fee but a % of any settlement.

Hello & Have got the bumper parking sensors and recommend them but IMO wouldn't have thought that ones fitted in the number plate would have the same wide field of view.

Hello & from the ex lurking record holder at 18 months.

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Reason it was so hyped is because it was forcast to hit the soft South, when there are storms due up North there is maybe a one line mention in the news.

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Use the Zed mostly weekends in Spring & Summer, rest of the time I'm buzzing around in a Punto 40+ mpg. Really appreciate the Zed when it comes out of the garage.

Don't forget little old me

Hello & At least any chance of further snow will have gone by Friday.

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I nearly apologised to you Tere but then noticed the spelling of Scots Guards, only one "t"

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On the ferry to Rotterdam tomorrow evening, driving down to Mechelen Belgium, back on Sunday, hope you and I have a nice weekend for a drive

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Britain is Repossessing the U.S.A. To the citizens of the United States of America: In light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas , which she does not fancy). Your new prime minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Colony, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect: You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. 1. Then look up aluminium, and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. 2. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix -ize will be replaced by the suffix -ise. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up 'vocabulary'). 3. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as US English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell- checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of -ize. You will relearn your original national anthem, God Save The Queen. 4. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday. 5. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun. 6. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public. 7. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and this is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean. 8. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour. 9. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline)-roughly $10 per US gallon. Get used to it. 10. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar. 11. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. South African beer is also acceptable as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of British Commonwealth - see what it did for them. 12. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie McDowell attempt English dialogue in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater. 13. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies). Don't try Rugby - the South Africans and Kiwis will thrash you, like they regularly thrash us. 14. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries. 15. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad. 16. An official from Her Majesty's Inland Revenue (i.e. tax collector) will be with you shortly to ensure the collection of all monies due (backdated to 1776). Until these are paid, there will be no representative government in the USA, in line with the policy: "No representation without taxation". 17. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 pm with proper cups and saucers (never mugs), and with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; strawberries in season. 18. Some tea has gone missing, and we expect it back. We'll be searching Boston first. God save the Queen.

When I'm not in the Zed I'm on the end of a railway platform with a notebook.