Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[Maggi Young]

 Quite, Anthony, that can't be right........Rude Old Near Enuff, the  bally dangler, would need more than oxygen, he's been dead for years, poor soul  



 If you mean the chap sitting next to the LARGE person on the aeroplane, Mark, then no, it's just that he has a beard and that, with the background of the head rest cover of the seat in front ,  gives that impression of a face mask.......maybe I can put off getting those new specs just a little longer....?  

[mark smyth]

I saw a programme recently called 'LAX' or similar based in an LA airport. The ground staff are allowed to turn away people who they feel could be a in the way in an emergency

[Anthony Darby]

I saw a programme recently called 'LAX' or similar based in an LA airport. The ground staff are allowed to turn away people who they feel could be a in the way in an emergency

Crumbs, that would be most of them Mark!

We had the misfortune to take a British Midland flight from Heathrow to Edinburgh (on our way back from Bali in 2004, we'd been bumped off a flight to Glasgow as our booked seats had been taken by passengers from an earlier cancelled flight. We had to rebook the Edinburgh flights). We sat in front of two stewardesses who bitched for the duration of the flight, except for the two minutes when one said to a lady who'd been trying to get some attention "I heard you the first time....and the second.....and the third....and the fourth. No, we don't have any hot drinks on this flight and no we don't have any blankets!"

[mark smyth]

Anthony some airlines will pay you if you offer your seat to those waiting from a cancelled flight. I wonder if I can try this with Ryanair?

There is a row brewing over here because Belfast City Airport wants to extend their runway by .5km / .3 mile to allow larger planes to land/take off. That's OK except the extension will destroy a nature reserve

[Paddy Tobin]

Some years ago a friend was waiting to board a flight from New York to Dublin when he was approached and told the plane was overbooked and if he would be willing to delay his flight until the following morning so as to accommodate those travelling with children. He agreed, was put up in a nice hotel overnight and given a flight token before departure the following morning. This token took him to Hawaii the following year.

Paddy

[Anthony Darby]

Anthony some airlines will pay you if you offer your seat to those waiting from a cancelled flight. I wonder if I can try this with Ryanair?

There is a row brewing over here because Belfast City Airport wants to extend their runway by .5km / .3 mile to allow larger planes to land/take off. That's OK except the extension will destroy a nature reserve

We got £200, but ended up in Edinburgh not Glasgow. Fortunately, we had friends coming to pick us up, and not only is Edinburgh closer, our fight was an hour earlier. Still doesn't excuse them.

[Lesley Cox]

Omigod! I discover that Teddy has found a French connection in the form of l'escargots! He came in through the hole in the wall (his special door) this morning, carrying in his mouth, a large snail. I hoped it was a long dead one or just an empty shell but when I managed to get it from him, found it was plump and very much alive. WE DON'T HAVE SNAILS HERE! In the 20 years that Roger and I have lived in this and our previous garden, I have never seen a single snail and precious few slugs. But we have a new neighbour who is building a house and in the meantime, he and his wife have placed a number of tubs and pots of assorted plants, along with a container of whatever, along their side of the boundry fence. They are currently living near where I lived 20 and more years ago and there were masses of snails there and I have this utterly terryfying feeling that they have brought some into this area in their plants. We've met them; they're nice people and we'll share a drink or two over the holiday period but if I see another snail..... neighbourly relations could deteriorate rapidly.

[fermi de Sousa]

Lesley,
encourage Teddy to release his "inner poodle" and devour the crunchy little snacks!
Otherwise invest in a large packet of blue pellets and "snail houses" to keep Teddy from temptation.
cheers
fermi

[Lesley Cox]

The little brute crunched all right, until he had all the shell off and then left the slimy body on the sittingroom carpet. Still I love him though .

[David Nicholson]

I can only hope that in the recent, and much publicised, train(s) breakdown in the Eurotunnel that the trains actually broke down in the British half of the tunnel. I would hate the French to be in a position to usurp the British tradition of being completely unable to organise any kind of public transportation system between the months of September through to May!

Am I the only one who would have credited any reputable engineer/design engineer with the intelligence to realise (a) it does tend to get cold in winter and (b) given this climatic certainty it does tend to be hotter inside a 20 odd mile concrete structure buried God knows how many meters deep in the earth

[Michael J Campbell]

 

[mark smyth]

You need a boundary of pellets between you and them

[Maggi Young]

You need a boundary of pellets between you and them

What? Between us and the French?
Have you never heard of the Auld Alliance, Mark?
 
p.s. Not the pub in Paris!

[David Nicholson]

 

I take it that civil engineering and international politics are possibly not on Mark's hit list?

[Rodger Whitlock]

WE DON'T HAVE SNAILS HERE!

From what you say, Lesley, it sounds like you DO have snails now.

In your shoes, I'd give my neighbors a large box of slug pellets for Christmas. As well as install a cordon sanitaire of pellets between them and you.

Theoretically, we don't have snails here, barring two non-destructive native species. Our agricultural authorities believe this fairy tale. But we do in fact have the European ground snail in some parts of the city, likely brought in on plants smuggled in from the US because legal importation is so afflicted with bureaucratic rules and regulations that smuggling is really the only feasible method of importation.

Sadly, one of the infested sites is the garden of a gentleman who sells plants out of the back of his truck at horticultural meetings. I once pointed out to him that unless he was taking considerable precautions, he was happily spreading snails far and wide about the city. This produced the usual wide eyed "deer in the headlights" look that ignoramuses adopt when the errors of their ways are mentioned.