Should be 500m.

Exactly, you or I would be doing a 10 stretch (and rightly so) and I’m not sure if I buy the mental health excuse. Just seems a bit of a cop out.

They should charge him with having a daft hat and glasses as well ;-)

The hats are soft. The rifles have bayonets though ;-)

The armed police on site have live rounds loaded though.

You’ll probably find those guns aren’t loaded. Back in the 80’s we’d put a couple of coins into the (empty) magazine so that it made a louder sound when slapping the magazine as we performed drill movements.

Wonder if they like dags.

Sorry, didn’t mean you personally. I should have written ‘I wish they would’ :-(

Will you stop putting his name first as the main part of the subject?

We see his name first and have a heart attack.

Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss.

Get good old Nige to take to Clacton. It will only improve the place.

Well played.

Probably $400 million worth.

vegetarian or vegan and have shoes made out of leather.

I’m certainly not going to throw away perfectly good shoes until they are no longer repairable. Or the leather belt my sister sent me from New Zealand in the late 70s.

Some people will give me stick for that though, all the time living their disposable lives.

P.S. My last two pairs of boots came from Wills Vegan Shoes 😉

Beard? It looks like he hasn’t washed for a week.

Seeing an Ora, Maxus, MG or BYD marque on the road in Britain still feels noteworthy

MG’s are quite popular here (Ware/Hertford) as I see a couple of them a week - and no, not the same one or I’d recognise the plates :-)

Nearly had that when they (less H) joined Fish onstage at Aylesbury some years back. Managed to get a couple of pics to treasure ;-) For me though - Genesis with Peter.

Perhaps they don’t know. I didn’t until your post.

Famous!

Could be worse.

‘Dead Monkeys are to split up again, according to their manager Lefty Goldblatt. They’ve been in the business now ten years, nine as other groups. Originally the Dead Salmon, they became, for a while, Trout, then Fried Trout, then Poached Trout In A White Wine Sauce, and finally, Herring. Splitting up for nearly a month, they reformed as Red Herring, which became Dead Herring for a while, and then Dead Loss, which reflected the current state of the group. Splitting up again to get their heads together, they reformed a fortnight later as Heads Together, a tight little name which lasted them through a difficult period when their drummer was suspected of suffering from death. It turned out to be only a rumour, and they became Dead Together, then Dead Gear, which led to Dead Donkeys, Lead Donkeys, and the inevitable splitup. After nearly ten days, they reformed again as Sole Meunière, then Dead Sole, Rock Cod, Turbot, Haddock, White Bait, the Plaices, Fish, Bream, Mackerel, Salmon, Poached Salmon, Poached Salmon in a White Wine Sauce, Salmon Meunière, and Helen Shapiro. This last name, their favourite, had to be dropped following an injunction, and they split up again. When they reformed after a record-breaking two days, they ditched the fishy references and became Dead Monkeys, a name which they stuck with for the rest of their careers. Now, a fortnight later, they’ve finally split up.’

I thought that was ‘Nun with a spear in her back’.