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Oh dear, ah well never mind. Thanks ever so much for your help it's much appreciated. Looks like it might be worth e-mailing the website to see if they can help. Another source of info, I've just suddenly thought of, could be at the collectors fair that's held at Middleton Hall at the Milton Keynes shopping centre. They have all sorts of displays and casts from various TV shows there so maybe we'll be able to pick something up from there. Thanks for the help lads.

My missus has just sat here and said that she would like one of the pin badges as worn by a couple of the carachters on Law and Order, the detective carachter Lenny has a pin badge on his lapel that looks like a letter "D," "Mack" on CSI New York also apperently wears one similar. They both also wear what appears to be the Amercan flag. Which we have found on another website selling commemorative regalia. Do you happen to know what the second badge, the "D" one, is and how you can get hold of one?? In case you hadn't guessed my wife collects these sort of pin badges, she has loads of them and buys them regularly. Finally found a picture of the badge on the carachter "Mack" from CSI New York, here it is..................... Well, Newt or anyone do you know what badge it is and where one may be obtained?? Cheers.

Good one Newt, mind I can understand their dilemma myself.

Nice one Jan, here's to the both of you. I wish you many happy years together. He looks a great dog with lots of character.

I walk my dog out in the country in the village where I grew up. Every day I park in the church car park and walk through the church yard and have noticed this week that there are now patches of snowdrops, crocuses, daisies, and buttercups growing around near the trees. Which are also showing signs of buds on them. Even one of the roses someone has planted on a grave is showing signs of life.

WHAT?!!! their taste buds must be dead!! How can they say that, I admit the best ones come from "proper" butchers, as everything, but even the commercial ones are edible if coked correctly. MMMMm Haggis, must get one tomorrow. I will instruct the female to get one whilst shopping.

A new slant on a good old oldie superb.

That's class!!

Brilliant!!

Cor what an old dog.

For setting up a wormery you'll find THIS LINK very useful, the basics on there I've followed nad had some good sucesses with. As regards the "maggotry" I'd forget it if I were you, cus that road leads to divorce, complaints form neighbours and visits from the local council, and eviromental people. Plus also you could use this website search facility, just type in "wormeries" in the "enter key words" box hit search topic and I'm sure you will find loads of topics covering the subject.

the local radio station Northants 96 has just issed a severe weather warning for this evening, it states we are due heavy rain with severe gales. Ah well glad I'm not going anywhere. Wont improve the Nene any it's already 2-3ft up so may even go over if it does turn out to be heavy rain tonight.

A few years ago I used to take both my lads along with the dog out for a walk after dark in the evenings. A bait box was also taken and on nights when it was still drizzling with, or had stopped, raining we used to check out the pathway on the main road, there are two entrances to our estate, which form a semi loop road and very often as we'd walk down the road we would come across worms of all sorts and sizes, crossing form one side of the path to the other, a quick snatch and in the baitbox it would go. We would keep this up for about an hour or so and at the end of it would have sufficient worms to last three of us for at least a couple of trips out fishing. As we went down the road we would also check out where the road signs and lamp posts went into the ground and frequently there would be a big lobby laying there, and I would show the lads how to fetch it out of the ground. We would get quite a few big ones that way. The only down side to it was you would get some strange looks from people passing you in cars and you would get second looks from passing police patrol vehicles. In fact we were stopped one night by a couple of nosy coppers who wanted to know what we were doing.

Like a few others on here I use two 1 ltr stainless steel flasks, both containing tea, and I take the milk and sugar separate. Always let the flasks stand with freshly boiled water in them before final filling with tea, or on odd occasions coffee, have to take sugar separate cus my lads will only have tea or coffee with milk and sugar, only have milk sooooo. If poss I try to take the old Kelly but not everywhere will allow them to be used, some places class them as open fire and so are banned under the water rules.

An incredable piece of filming, it certainly revealed some of the underwater secrets never before seen. Will most certainly be revisiting that site again to watch it once more at least.

Awww Bless you Jan. I'm sorry to read of your loss, I know what your going through, I've had to lose two lovely Labradors who've spent 16 long and happy years with us. The blow was lessened somewhat as we had a new pup at the time. Thankfully 10 yrs on and we've still got him, now I dread what's to come in the future when it becomes his time. But remember the good times you had with him and time will heal, you won't forget him, and neither should you. Big comforting hug for you

Ken if your on Warfarin you shouldn't drink or eat any cranberry product either, not something they always mention. I found out purely by accident as I also have to take warfarin for life now.

mmmm I always thought Kebab meat was in the shape of a torso mounted on a vertical rotissary.

I'm sat here with my laptop, watching odd bits of the programme on the TV, it's called "Out of Control" and it's on Men and Motors channel 286 on Virgin Media. It's a collection of mistakes and accidents of drivers in motor rallies around the world. Some funny others painfull to watch as prestige models of classic cars are ditched, wrapped around trees and various other incidents that happen to luckless crews. You can find out more on..... http://www.outofcontroltv.co.uk/ Elton your bound to find something in here, even if it is upsetting to see MK1&2 Escorts destroyed.

Autotrader are showing Escort vans from £850/900 to about £1500 depending on mileage condition etc. Just to give you a guide. That's S,T,and up to X reg.

Not only that at the time they were being promoted "they" said they were also of extremely long life an would last a lot longer than ordinary light bulbs. WOT A LOAD OF TOSH!!!! we took advantage of Morrissons BOGOF deals in the summer and fitted them to virtually every room in the house. 6 months later I think there is only one lamp left that is still burning from the initial ones we bought. Humph long life my a*se!!

Fishermans Blues is a weekend radio programme on Talk sport radio, 1089 on the medium wave band. It runs from 06-00 to 08-00 om saturdays and sundays. It is hosted by none other than Keith Arthur, it's basically similar to "Tight Lines" on Sky Sports. Always listen to it on saturdays as I get my lad up and off to work. I usually listen if I'm off around the country to either pick up my daughter from various locations or if I'm off fishing somewhere. http://www2.talksport.net/shows/show.asp?showId=100249 is the website for the show.

I heard this morning on Fishermans Blues that the angling legend Fred J. Taylor had been awarded the M.B.E. for services to angling. Well done Fred and many many congratulations it's well deserved. Kept listening but sadly no sounds of Sir Bob or Sir Alan Perhaps that will come in the birthday honours. Once again many congratulations to Fred on his award.

This little bit reminds me of an incident whilst on holiday, we had taken the MIL with us to take up the second caravan when my son and his wife couldn't make it. Well we were sat in the 'van talking generally and she said, "because of the state of my legs they won't let me fly anymore" and the last thing I remember saying was "so that's why they took your broom away from you" I was kept in overnight for observation.