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We are not all Labour Tony. Some of us ride a Red Dragon waving a yellow poppy.

Welcome back to politics, although strangely enough, I am quietly retiring myself and by September of 2019 I plan to have no public life at all. As I remind people, I chaired my first meeting when I was 23 and in September next year I will be 72½. Feet up time.

Until I read Ken's excellent post, I had never heard the expression and certainly would not have had a clue as to what it meant.

Any chance of a magic wand? The picture is not showing here.

A couple of supermarkets over here are inviting customers to take their own containers.

I would call it a blow torch.
That one isn't very good. I have been watching for 5 minutes and it hasn't melted that ice-cream yet!

We call Styrofoam "Expanded polystyrene" (rightly or wrongly). It is appalling stuff that has been rightly banned in some countries. To see a single doughnut being offered for sale packaged like that is nothing short of disgraceful. It is not recyclable and takes several hundred years to degrade. So...

Here is a story that starts with a terrible confession. When I was a young man I worked in shipping on Swansea Docks. Although my job was largely office-bound, there were times when I had to go out. On one occasion I went to see a case of personal effects that had been damaged. The lid had been smas...

A sad story indeed, but just remember how much pleasure you will be giving to so many people all of whom will silently thank you.

We don't have them, they wouldn't last a fortnight in our climate, but if we did I think we would probably call one a blind.

But if you said. "It was in 1997 that I recalled an incident". Or "I recalled an incident that happened in 1997", we would know what you were on about.

I have no problem with that.
In fact if you want to be in London you would say, "I am in London and want to write about Tom and his family"
Or even, "I am in London and want to write about Tom and his family when the were here". Or "...when they were in London".

A friend of mine is a television sound engineer, so I asked him.
They are called MICROPHONE FLAGS

Welcome Friends of the Gerund. But please tell us why you are shouting.