Today I'm happy about......

[malcd1]

I meant trains when talking about public transport. Buses are crap.

But you miss the point I never and I suspect quite a few use or rarely use the Train, we pay a lot of cash to use the roads but why should we pay to subsidise trains?
If they don't pay there way then like anything else that is non essential they should go bust or if people want to travel on them in style they should pay whatever the going rate is.
Its bad enough all these bloody cyclists getting lanes and priorities without stumping up any tax or insurance but trains and busses take the p*ss.
Society is expected to pay too much for other peoples choices, there is a limit.

As a car driver myself, the more people we get off the road the better. I'm not saying fares should be subsidised but train operators should be forced to provide additional carriages at peak time. No cost.

Additional car parking is also necessary but will obviously cost money from either the government coffers or local councils. I think for the modest costs it will be good for the road network and the environment.

I'll admit many of the cycle lanes are unnecessary and the bus lanes a pain in the arse. I would also add that taxis should never be allowed to use bus lanes. Cheeky feckers.

[Prufrock]

I allowed myself a wry smile on behalf of a few of you today when reading a letter in the London Review of Books arguing for the abolition of the private school system as it prioritises soft-skills and creates an underclass of people on zero-hours contracts propping up the lives of the already-monied. The byline read: John Dooley - Castelnau-Rivière-Basse, France.

I checked, and it's a few hours from the Champagne region.

[bwfcdan94]

Hearing how envious other line managers of my office were of my line manager because he has got a trustworthy assistant(me) to do all his worst jobs for him.

[Bruce Rioja]

Having had a stomach upset since Monday morning I am happy, nay, delighted today at the passing of my first proper stool of the week. A joyous and somewhat relief-filled occasion. I thank you.

[Worthy4England]

Having had a stomach upset since Monday morning I am happy, nay, delighted today at the passing of my first proper stool of the week. A joyous and somewhat relief-filled occasion. I thank you.

Could it stand on its own two feet?

Congrats.

[Lord Kangana]

I allowed myself a wry smile on behalf of a few of you today when reading a letter in the London Review of Books arguing for the abolition of the private school system as it prioritises soft-skills and creates an underclass of people on zero-hours contracts propping up the lives of the already-monied. The byline read: John Dooley - Castelnau-Rivière-Basse, France.

I checked, and it's a few hours from the Champagne region.

Knowing the village quite well, I'd say its a few hours plus a day from Champagne. It being in Gascony.

[Prufrock]

Ah, but how far is it from Billy Bragg's holiday home?

[Lord Kangana]

About as far as Billy Bragg's holiday home is from John Dooley's?

[bobo the clown]

Having had a stomach upset since Monday morning I am happy, nay, delighted today at the passing of my first proper stool of the week. A joyous and somewhat relief-filled occasion. I thank you.

Could it stand on its own two feet?

Congrats.

Mother and Child both well I hope.

If you're looking for a God parent let me know.

[William the White]

I allowed myself a wry smile on behalf of a few of you today when reading a letter in the London Review of Books arguing for the abolition of the private school system as it prioritises soft-skills and creates an underclass of people on zero-hours contracts propping up the lives of the already-monied. The byline read: John Dooley - Castelnau-Rivière-Basse, France.

I checked, and it's a few hours from the Champagne region.

OK - I subscribe to the LRB and the letters page frequently accompanies me to the post-breakfast loo... don't remember that one. What was the date?

[Lord Kangana]

I still don't understand the point.

[Montreal Wanderer]

I allowed myself a wry smile on behalf of a few of you today when reading a letter in the London Review of Books arguing for the abolition of the private school system as it prioritises soft-skills and creates an underclass of people on zero-hours contracts propping up the lives of the already-monied. The byline read: John Dooley - Castelnau-Rivière-Basse, France.

I checked, and it's a few hours from the Champagne region.

OK - I subscribe to the LRB and the letters page frequently accompanies me to the post-breakfast loo... don't remember that one. What was the date?

Ask a librarian!
Wait, that's me. I'll save you the effort. It was just a letter to the editor as follows:

Letters
Vol. 36 No. 14 · 17 July 2014


Like Alan Bennett …

Alan Bennett’s sermon is a welcome comment on the ‘unfairness’ of England’s problematic private school system, but he doesn’t discuss the effect of this unfairness on our ‘democratic’ style of government (LRB, 19 June). For example, 32 per cent of our MPs have been drawn from the privately educated 7 per cent, and 64 per cent of senior posts in the civil service and government administration. Since these MPs – like Tony Blair or the present coalition leaders – can be found in all three major political parties, the public school agenda is always lurking. Hence Blair’s New Labour, with its antipathy to trades, skills and manufacturing, its supplanting of professional diplomas in favour of university degrees, and its doing away with apprenticeships and polytechnics in favour of trumped-up universities. All this in the cause of making money rather than things, which has resulted in one English firm after another being flogged off, or privatised, in a desperate attempt to prop up the UK’s languishing balance of payments. Meanwhile, state education is failing because those who are making the money haven’t the slightest incentive to improve it: the system is perfectly adequate for creating a pool of semi-skilled or unskilled workers for the zero-hour jobs on offer, or for furnishing the army with recruits for its failing projects abroad. Finland got rid of its private education system some years ago. Until England does the same, and makes a clean sweep of it, ours will remain both undemocratic and derelict.

John Dooley
Castelnau-Rivière-Basse, France

[TANGODANCER]

Just had me panicking with that 17th July date Monty. 16th is our wedding anniversary.

[Dujon]

Tis a worry isn't it, TANGO. I know only too well that my memory isn't all that flash these days - but to lose a whole week? I'd best off to check my bank account to see what I've been up to.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Just had me panicking with that 17th July date Monty. 16th is our wedding anniversary.

Yes, magazine dates are usually somewhat ahead of the calendar.

[Bruce Rioja]

Having had a stomach upset since Monday morning I am happy, nay, delighted today at the passing of my first proper stool of the week. A joyous and somewhat relief-filled occasion. I thank you.

Could it stand on its own two feet?

Congrats.

Mother and Child both well I hope.

If you're looking for a God parent let me know.

We're both fine thanks, Bobo. A most impressive birth weight. I'm just struggling to come up with a name.

[Gary the Enfield]

Having had a stomach upset since Monday morning I am happy, nay, delighted today at the passing of my first proper stool of the week. A joyous and somewhat relief-filled occasion. I thank you.

Could it stand on its own two feet?

Congrats.

Mother and Child both well I hope.

If you're looking for a God parent let me know.

We're both fine thanks, Bobo. A most impressive birth weight. I'm just struggling to come up with a name.

I quite like Rupert Poopot.

[Gary the Enfield]

Today I'm happy about my first Full House.

It's the little things..........

[bobo the clown]

Today I'm happy about my first Full House.

It's the little things..........

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[Gary the Enfield]

Today I'm happy about my first Full House.

It's the little things..........

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Having your name down the right hand side of the board index as the last post on all the topics.

Like I said, little things.