BOO HOO
Anyone interested they have one in the charity shop in Dawlish near the co-op for £50. Absolute bargain. Very sturdy tripod from an excellent manufacturee. I would have bought it myself but low on funds at the moment. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/590219-REG/Manfrotto_526_545GBK_526_545GBK_Professional_Video_Tripod.html New they go for about £1,600 ...
@1263 - I think all councils have contracted the same mysterious ailment that has infected Westminster in that they ignore any issues that arise from their decision making with impunity in my opinion. We are just seen as lowly peasants whose only use is to supply a workforce and pay taxes to our overlords as far as I can see. As long as we do that and do not protest our anger then all is well ...
As a kid in the 1960's the phrase 'sticks and stones' was used a lot about hurt feelings. Also if some did annoy you to much then you had the right to flatten their nose a bit. Sixty odd years later and you can get fast pathed to jail for making a comment online that someone does not like! I wonder how the last few generations will do when Kier Stalin puts a rifle in their hands and ...
I spoke to a chap a few years ago and he said as a kid, many decades ago, they use to wear chest high waders and go into clear the Brook. Well that would certainly be deep compared to the average of a few inches below water now. You can actually walk across the brook in places literally to the other side and not get your feet wet. In todays political world everything will cost more and more ...
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@The Observer, oh dear! people are a sad shadow of what they were back in my day. As to you thinking clowns made people smile and laugh. I assume the answer to that is yes and no, take it whatever way you like.
@burnside - I find your comment offensive relating a person you feel is dangerous to that of clowns. I and my fellow clowns will be seeking an apology for this gross injustice to the clown community. We will be watching YOU burnside!
So Reform get just over 42% of the votes Labour got, but Reform get over 400 seats less in the election. If the election had been under proportional rules Reform would have got over 90 which would have been a better representaion of the peoples feelings. As long as we have first past the post we will always have a merry go round of the same old two cheeks of the same arse with the same old ...
Out of the General election a little ray of sunshine, well done to Martin Wrigley and his team on taking over as M.P. for Newton Abbot. May be the constituency may start to get some life pumped back into it and the councils given a boot up their backsides to start doing a bit of work for a change.