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Oh my. Happy 21st birthday Superman. 😍🎂🎊

Hi Tom, I also think of you and yours often.
We are OK, still got an ongoing case for Stacey  so its all very emotional still and always will he I guess.

I will do my best to get a picture of him when he surfaces from his pit.

Xxx

Hi everyone new and old....hope you are all well. Ive not been active as life has to take priority. .

Just thought I'd let you know that Reece is 21 today

Unreal....xx

O...M...G Maureen, where does the time go?

I'm so glad that you popped in to let us know it's Reece's 21st. Please whish him many happy returns from me.

How is he doing? How are you and Darren doing.

I think of you all often. xx


 

Hi everyone new and old....hope you are all well. Ive not been active as life has to take priority. .

Just thought I'd let you know that Reece is 21 today

Unreal....xx

Language can sometimes be a problem but they get used to the swearing after a while  

 

Prob not heading south this winter, but will def try it out next time.

Yeah, more than easy it's to be expected. Unless you are booking out a 4 ball time for a group obv. I have been doing this quite a few times now just myself and also a Week with my brother in law and we were nearly always paired up into a full 4 ball. sometimes you are joining a 3 ball sometimes a pair and another random. Language can sometimes be a problem but they get used to the swearing after a while   Seriously though even when they haven't got much English which is rare I have enjoyed all the company of people I've met. Its generally a lot of retired couples predominantly from Northern Europe and met some really interesting people and often stopped after the round for a few beers together.

 played with a couple of English guys

Eck, is it easy to join up with ppl at these courses? Particularly when the course is busy.

I don't see the Govt (of every type) doing anything about gambling when it suits them.

Take the National Lottery, for example. Zero safeguards in relation to lottery tickets and scratch cards. Even changed the Law for several years to catch 16 year olds. Shops and Pubs have all sorts of rules top abide by-but pretty much none for scratch card gamblers.

For the vast majority of gamblers, drinkers etc, they are merely choosing to spend some of their own money for enjoyment. And, unless harm is being caused, it should be absolutely no-one else's business.

Here's a simple idea. Not perfect-but a start. Just monitor anyone spending more than £100 a month from a bank account on gambling

Hi enut.

Almost impossible to say the effect of this on crime figures, both in the short and longer-term.

In the short-term, there are clearly effects on certain types of crime. Low level theft and drug dealing are clearly 2 offences where delay causes massive problems. But it is the longer-term that frightens me. Many of the most serious crimes are the result of long-term escalation. A mass murderer may start by hurting animals at a young age. A wife murderer normally has a campaign of escalating abuse, with Police called multiple times.

Most of the Courts have already gone. When I started out in Law, I was (and still am) living in North East Essex. The 2 nearest Criminal Courts were Harwich and Colchester. The nearest Civil Courts were Clacton and Colchester. 3 of those 4 have shut, been sold, and the money not reinvested. The nearest Criminal Court is 20 miles away (Colchester Mags). The nearest Civil Court is Chelmsford-45 miles away. Nearest Crown Court also 45 miles away. No Employment Tribunal in Essex-good luck finding Bury St Edmunds. More Courts in Essex (and England) have shut in the last 40 years than are now open. Same goes for Police Stations.

People struggle to get to Court, particularly witnesses and jurors. Judges have no local knowledge. A friend told me that in Suffolk matters are so bad that Ipswich Crown Court are transferrig hundreds of cases to Cambridge. Delay rewards the Guilty and penalises the Innocent.