Jim Roper

I'm only across the harbour (office). I'll have to put the rings back on my beach rod. The one the burglars left behind because it's in one piece, 14 feet long. The bottom half of an Edgar Sealey Sea Serpent (10-12 oz) glued into a 10 foot odd Davenport and Fordham Surflite (6-10 oz) blank. Never did find a bag for it!! I'll have to get around to making myself another. Does anyone sell good one-piece blanks?? Jim Roper

That is what you want from a firewall, isn't it?? Jim Roper

From BBC News Website "A couple say their baby boy was left injured after a fox crept into their house while they slept. Fourteen-week-old Louis Day suffered bite marks on his head after the animal darted into the sitting room of the house in Dartford, Kent. His parents say the fox tried to drag the baby out before Louis' father Peter chased it away". People have approached the RSPCA in an attempt to get rid of the urban foxes. Meanwhile, Louis' family have called on the local council to tackle the problem of foxes in the area. But Trevor Williams, director of the Fox Project based in nearby Tunbridge, said this was the first case of its kind that he had heard of. He said: "I'm absolutely convinced we are looking at a concussed or brain damaged animal to act in this way.... I would not consider this an attack at all. That indicates something vicious and wild and ferocious." " Familiar theme??? Jim Roper

If you want to know how secure your computer is, http://grc.com/intro.htm will carry out a test for you (Shields Up). Of course they might only be promoting http://www.zonelabs.com, but it seems to be authentic and bares out all the tests that I have been able to do. Jim Roper

I remember coming home from fishing in the early hours and finding a still-hot fruit cake in the larder. I cut a big chunk out of it and went to bed on a full stomach. I didn't get a lay-in that morning. All hell was let loose soon after dawn. It was the Christmas cake. Jim Roper

Careful Chesters1, you're being British again. Me? I,m one sixteenth German. Great Great Grandma 'would not be amused'. Jim Roper

Careful Chesters1, you're being British again. Me? I,m one sixteenth German. Great Great Grandma 'would not be amused'. Jim Roper

Just got in from night shift!!!I suppose it would have been different if I wanted to preserve Irish or Islamic culture. Sounds to me as if Hollinz might be one of those people from one of our colonies!!! Jim Roper

The Mail on Sunday did print one of my letters once, but BBC Ceefax seem to like them better!! I don't think I'm a 'mate' of yours, John. Jim Roper

As a keen cyclist Leon has a chip on his shoulder about motorists. As someone who chose to sign on as available for work and walk everywhere for about 4 years until the Inland Revenue decided that I never owed them a penny after all, I have a chip on my shoulder about cyclists. They tear along unlit country lanes at night without lights or reflectors, not to mention no mudguards with a reflective portion as the law requires. They ride along footpaths expecting everyone else to get out of their way. They travel along one-way streets the wrong way. They exceed the urban speed limit whenever they can and they appear to be exempt from prosecution. I suspect most social workers are cyclists. Keep your knees dry!!! Jim Roper

A modern 'Good Samaritan' story. An old lady lies in the gutter, blood coming from a head wound, after being mugged for her pension. A police patrol car drives by and does not notice. The driver is talking on the radio. A priest comes down the road and crosses to the other side to pass by. At last a thoughtfull person, seeing what has happened, goes to get a social worker. The social worker eyes up the situation and says "Whoever did that needs help". Jim roper

That's because they shoot them instead of arresting them, thus saving the taxpayer having to fund all those leftie lawyers with their legal aid fees. Jim Roper

I'm told that if you run a registered fishing boat with a petrol engine, you can claim all the duty back and bring it down to the price of red diesel.Now there's a thing to concentrate the brain on. Jim Roper

I'm told that if you run a registered fishing boat with a petrol engine, you can claim all the duty back and bring it down to the price of red diesel.Now there's a thing to concentrate the brain on. Jim Roper

If you want to store it within 3 miles of Weymouth Harbour, give me a shout, but you'll have to arrange your own insurance!! Jim Roper

After having all our handguns confiscated by De Facto Prime Minister Ms Blair & Co, the chances of being killed by a legally held handgun have gone up. The person who pulls the trigger, however, will now be a police officer. Jim Roper

Remember this face: See www.bbc.co.uk/news A man detained indefinitely after attacking 11 churchgoers with a samurai sword has been released after just over two years, it has emerged. Glasgow-born Eden Strang, 27, attacked worshippers in Thornton Heath, south London, in November 1999, because he believed they were demons. A psychiatrist at his trial said of him he was a full-blown paranoid schizophrenic: "You can't get much madder than this." Inspector Glen Smyth, chairman of the Metropolitan branch of the Police Federation, told The Sun newspaper: "It is as if the lunatics have taken over the asylum." Jim Roper

He could try http://www.fwag.org.uk/ My experience of grants is that in order to get them, you have to go about the job in the most expencive way possible. The common practice with most grants seems to be to get an inflated estimate and receipt from a contractor and either do the job yourself or get the contractor to do it on the cheap for cash. If you take the risk of a fraud case into account, I do not expect there will be very much nett gain over doing it on his own without a grant. The main expence is not the digger work, but carting the spoil away. If the spoil cannot be spread and levelled on site, the whole job might not be worth thinking about. Jim Roper

He could try http://www.fwag.org.uk/ My experience of grants is that in order to get them, you have to go about the job in the most expencive way possible. The common practice with most grants seems to be to get an inflated estimate and receipt from a contractor and either do the job yourself or get the contractor to do it on the cheap for cash. If you take the risk of a fraud case into account, I do not expect there will be very much nett gain over doing it on his own without a grant. The main expence is not the digger work, but carting the spoil away. If the spoil cannot be spread and levelled on site, the whole job might not be worth thinking about. Jim Roper

Generally speaking, I have always found that the further you are prepared to walk from where you or anybody else can park a car, the more likely you are to catch fish. This applies to the areas all along the Dorset coast e.g. Between Eype and Seatown, Whitenose, the middle stretches of Chesil Beach, Gabriel's Beach, Portland etc. etc. etc. I have never fished off the pier at Lyme but I imagine there is always the chance of a bass at daybreak using a live prawn or small local fish as livebait. Jim Roper [ 28 June 2002, 04:41 PM: Message edited by: Jim Roper ]

'salterm@parliament.uk' seems to work for me.In most cases, it's worth trying putting the MP's initial after their surname and putting '@parliament.uk' after it for their Email address at the House of Commons. Otherwise, follow these links: Go to http://www.parliament.uk Click on the first item ' House of Commons '. Click on ' Information about the House of Commons and Members of Parliament '. Click on ' Lists of Members and Ministers '. Click on 'Alphabetical List of Members of Parliament'. Click on ' S 'for Salter. Click on 'Email' to get a message form to contact him direct at Westminster or click on 'Website' where you will find his personal site. On this site is a 'Contact' tab that will take you to a page where you will find an Email link. When you hold you mouse pointer over this link, your status bar at the base of your screen should show the Email address to which you can post a message. Low and behold it is salterm@parliament.uk. NOW ALL OF YOU GET POSTING!!!!!!! Jim Roper

'salterm@parliament.uk' seems to work for me.In most cases, it's worth trying putting the MP's initial after their surname and putting '@parliament.uk' after it for their Email address at the House of Commons. Otherwise, follow these links: Go to http://www.parliament.uk Click on the first item ' House of Commons '. Click on ' Information about the House of Commons and Members of Parliament '. Click on ' Lists of Members and Ministers '. Click on 'Alphabetical List of Members of Parliament'. Click on ' S 'for Salter. Click on 'Email' to get a message form to contact him direct at Westminster or click on 'Website' where you will find his personal site. On this site is a 'Contact' tab that will take you to a page where you will find an Email link. When you hold you mouse pointer over this link, your status bar at the base of your screen should show the Email address to which you can post a message. Low and behold it is salterm@parliament.uk. NOW ALL OF YOU GET POSTING!!!!!!! Jim Roper

The correct way to walk or pass on the pavement (SORRY!! Sidewalk) is for the gent to go on the outside allowing the lady to pass close to the building where she will be protected should someone above shout 'garde lou' (hope that's how you spell it).Not a lot of people know that!!! Jim Roper

The correct way to walk or pass on the pavement (SORRY!! Sidewalk) is for the gent to go on the outside allowing the lady to pass close to the building where she will be protected should someone above shout 'garde lou' (hope that's how you spell it).Not a lot of people know that!!! Jim Roper

We Brits (and a few more) drive on the Left side. The rest drive on the WRONG side. Jim Roper