Longines - the Jag was direct from the factory they also did a 4.8L - I am trying to find out how many they made as I am looking to buy some more for spares.

A decent mortgage broker is well worth it. Though it does depend on how much you want to borrow, there are still companies that will do a 100% and lend you more than the traditional mortgage lender at nearly the same rate.

There are also companies that will allow you to port your mortgage, ie you have a facility to borrow £250,000 but only need £200,000 when you decide to move you have the flexibility to take the additional 50k without having to reapply for another mortgage. As long as the value of the property is correct.

All the above is relevant to how much you want to borrow - anything under £200K you are probably better off just going down the traditional route.

BMW 5 Sports for road handling and totally bullet proof

Range Rover TDV8 for comfort

Jaguar S Type V8 Turbo charged for speed and comfort - but a total nightmare for electronic faults

Ford Capri 3L for your youth and constant sliding in the wet

Volkswagen Transporter - for knowing that you could never get a speeding ticket 0 - 60 in about 20 minutes 

Read this a bit late Mr Hopkin - the answer was Noooooo - not firing on any cylinders and that seems to be the way for a lot of Herefordshire trained horses at the moment.

Brushed Up was meant to go for a hard run today to see if she will go in a Bumper in March, though I do not hold out much hope a she likes the soft.

All round pretty depressing for the horses that I am involved in - even my associates who have far better horses are struggling to get into the enclosure.

A bit like poker you are either way ahead or way behind.

So 9 months ago you have had lifesaving surgery but over the past 4 months you have had 24hr pain – you have been put on a range of different drugs but none seem to work – you have gone backwards and forward seeing different specialist.

Now you get a call from your consultant, who has narrowed it down to spinal nerve damage and the only real way to tell is to have an MRI, but you cannot have one because the metal plates and 28 screws you have in your body from nearly 40 years ago will fry you.

So these now become your potential options:

1.   Have an operation to remove your metal and have it replaced with new metal (9 hour op) then spend 6 months recovering so you can have your MRI then have your back slashed open and have an operation on the spinal cord.

2.   Have your back slashed open and let them take a punt that they can find the problem and rectify it.

3.   Not do anything at all and live with the pain.

There is no option 4.

Personally I am for option 2 both option  1 and 2 obviously carry a degree of risk messing with the spinal cord one mistake and it not going to be good.

This strong importance Sikhs place on community also contributes to why langar—which roughly translates to 'kitchen' or 'canteen', and is a practice whereby volunteers in the gurdwaras cook bountiful North Indian food for anyone that wants to eat it—is still so abundant.

 Regardless of your faith, gender, ethnicity, or financial status, from midday to midnight at your local gurdwara, everyone is welcome to sit and eat an enormous free meal. The only condition is that you cover your head and take off your shoes before entering the langar hall.

I had 3 of these two in the car and one I use to lug around - they weighed a ton and were very expensive thats why most people had them fitted into cars.

You should have received a copy of the T&C with the booking form if you can prove you did not then you defo have an out.

December late eighties if I recall, on a nice and crisp evening my mobile went it was an associate who I had done a favour for the year before.

“What are you doing for New Year’s Eve” he asked “Me and the Mrs are just going to have a quite night in for a change” I reply. “No you are not I have arranged you a suite at the Dorchester for a couple of nights and there will be a little surprise for you on New Year’s Eve” “Thanks say I”.

Anyway we arrive at The Dorchester late afternoon – shown to the suite which is more like an apartment. We then go for dinner whilst having Coffee and Cognac the hotel manager comes to the table and ask if the food and service was okay – we reply it was as expected from such an establishment – he then informs us that we are on the guest list for the private party in the nightclub downstairs. Nice.

Off we go to the nightclub – we are taken to a private booth and a bottle of champs arrive – my Mrs goes off to do what women do – and I am joined at the table by chap I don’t know who introduces himself as Arne and asks if he and his wife can join us. No problem says I. We small talk and I say “I don’t know where my Mrs has got to” then in she walks with Diana Ross. Arne turns out to be Mr Ross – a shipping magnate – .

As I look round the club I notice that there are no more than fifty guests – the highlight of the night after midnight was a solo performance by Ms Ross then we spent the wee hours just chit chatting about nothing champagne and canapes flowing all night.

On checking out dreading to think what my bill was going to be for room service and the champs the night before, I was pleasantly informed that management had taken care of it and there was a car waiting to take us home.

Or maybe it was just Elevenerifeism

If you ordered online you should have been sent the terms and conditions along with the booking order if you did not get the terms and conditions you have an out. If you did get the terms and conditions you have no out.

If you have no out your best bet is to speak with the hospitality manager, explain the situation and ask him/her if they could resell the package on your behalf obviously taking a fee and if necessarily at a discount. Your probably then find that he/she will buy the package back at a 50% discount so at least you only lose half your money.

I will kick it off with this one.

Flying back from Mexico the plane catches fire, we emergency land in Boston, USA at about 2.00am the airport is closed down apart from a few security and emergency crews.

Happy days for a few Mexicans who drifted off into the land of the free.

Anyway my mate says don’t worry I have sorted out a plane to take us to JFK but it won’t arrive until 6.00am, anyway plane arrives off to JFK, plane has a technical problem so we divert to La Guardia. The pilot has sent a message ahead so when we arrive there are cars waiting to take us to JFK.

Arrive at JFK – I said to my mate I need to take a shower and get something to eat before we fly back to blighty, off I disappear and come back 2 hours later, only for my mate to be acting very agitated, asked him what the problem was and he said you will see.

Anyway get on plane and people are looking at us very peculiarly, it turns out that they have been sat in the plane for 3 hours waiting for two passengers to embark.

Joan Collins was not happy we she found out that we were just regular Joes, but it does help when your mate is the mate of the CEO of the airline who happened to be flying back with us.

Don’t you just love Concorde or maybe it was just a dream.

I am not saying murder is justified for stealing a van - I am saying that murder is justified for stealing my van on my property. If you come onto my property with the intent to steal anything then you risk if you get caught a good is a good kicking if this leads to your demise so be it.

If you break into my house then your in big trouble if I catch you.

I do not condone murder but if you kill someone through protecting your goods or family so be it. Whether its a bit of scrap lead or a car.

There is no need to thieve - you can always make an honest living if you try.

I was raised in a caravan until I was seven travelling the country my family were thespians and put on plays at different venues. I left school at ten and went to work for Showground people who owned arcades on piers - calling out the bingo - fixing machines, that kind stuff. It was good really nice genuine people - then mysteriously the piers caught fire.

People often get confused between Gypsies, travelers and showground people and bunch them together but though there is a link they are different. This has been explained to me by a good mate who comes from the showground fraternity.

Hope this answers your question -

Letting old people die with dignity.

We are currently overrun with old people; they are costing the tax payer a fortune. They get put in care homes and visited once in a while. In general their quality of life is quite poor – if you do the maths care homes and the staff numbers they employ – generally mean that the person been cared for gets less than 20 minutes a day of any form of personal care.

People are over staying there welcome mainly due the influx of drugs they are given which keeps them alive – on average you will die in less than two years when you are placed in a care home.

There surely comes a time when it is kinder to put them down than keep them in a vegetated state.

Would it not also be kinder to let people chose when they want to go –

Now before some liberals start banging on about how outrageous this seems and what a cold hearted bastard I must be – we put my aunt in a care home at 10k a month within three months she was going downhill (95 years old) so we brought her to live with us – one year on and she is thriving and enjoys her life – though it has curtailed ours somewhat.

I have also had this discussion with my own Mum who is 84 and fit and active but as she says – please don’t put me in a care home when I am older I would just rather die with dignity.

Some people will have to look that up - some people live a far more interesting life.

Albert Pierrepoint played by Timothy Spall if I remember was he sorry for hanging 400 people – as he said he didn’t sleep badly.

Okay Red Dog – what you’re maybe really asking is what value I put on life and what punishment fits the crime.

On my own life zero – death comes to us all. On others it really depends.

On small children and teenagers and women – I would not carry out any form of violence you will be pleased to know – in fact the opposite – some thirty years ago when I lived in Bethnal Green some young lads stole my car, they didn’t get far as it had no fuel in it and they were unfortunately for them caught by the police – when I went to the police station they informed me that the little tykes were from the travelling family up the road.

The next day I walked onto site and had a word with the main man we had a bit of banter never friendly when there on their own territory – when I informed him I was born and raised in a caravan things lightened up – no trouble afterwards.

If it had kicked off so be it.

If I caught the blokes stealing my van and I know they were adults I would have had no hesitation in taking the biggest one down first and then laying into the rest with as much vigour as a bloke with a partial missing lung could muster aiming to do as much damage as possible – I really liked my van.

It is not the value of the object – they have no right to be on my land full stop.

If I killed the guy so be it – I would face the courts like everybody else and plead my case – but one thing would come out of it – don’t fuck about on my land.

It must me my persona – when I told two of my blokes who use to work for me that I had been diagnosed with cancer and had two weeks to live – they both said thank god – we thought you killed someone.

Life is not complicated it is people that make life complicated – bad things happen and good things happen but not necessarily to the right people.

Now can I get on with playing poker tonight.