Grumpier Old Men

Also add tinned fish and soups to that list.

We already pay for social care with our council tax.

Do we? When my wife went into a care home it cost me somewhere in the region of £65,000 a year IIRC, the council only contributed some £10,000 I have just recovered fpm a broken him which cost me some £10,000 in care home and physiotherapy.

I wonder if it will apply to those high end properties owned by wealthy Arabs or do housekeepers, etc count as residents?

Allegedly!

Usually I am a fan of tits and bums but I will pass on this one.i

I ate there very recently. I cannot remember what I ate, it was distinctly unmememerable! What I can remember was the cost and service, overpriced and poor.

I agree, I have a particular problem with the tiny 75mg asperin tablets

I see that 19 guests are on line, are things looking up?

Rod Liddle has shuffled off.

It amazes me how much some people will pay for coffee accoutrements. My daughter in law paid £75 for a hand grinder and that I believe is at the lower end. I use a French Press, it cost about £18 and makes a perfectly decent brew

Some people will pay good money for the stuff

I live on the Oxford/Berks border at Caversham. It sounds like a good idea to me.

I paid £9 for a pint of Old Speckled Hen in the Royal Albert Hall recently. Mind you, that was peanuts in comparison to the cost of the seat

Not a fan. I used to occasionally catch one, a Merchant Navy class to work from Woking. Dirty smelly beast!

No doubt the Metropolitan Police will give him a slight smack on the wrist

I think that it may well a bit more unpleasant that that.