THE BRITISH THREAD II

Are you trying to avoid all the interesting things happening in Britland Mac?

I'm not very pleased this morning.

And what next, netting surrounding the crowd at football matches?

Rum do about Pat Finucane LlB.

His son was very impressive on the radio today, and his widow on TV this evening.

I don't know anything about such things Mac.



Bob Dylan in that stupendous song Black Diamond Bay.

Really hard luck, you might say, to be gunned down during a family meal by agents of the British forces.
Mr Cameron has apologised though, he's really sorry about it.

I would guess Mac that there was no hard luck involved in this case. I think he must have exasperated the patience of certain people beyond the limits of their tolerance. And he knew he was doing so.

So what about the lawyers who prolonged the extradition of Abu Hamza, to take but one other example. They fall into that category, do they not.
So should they fear the knock on the door?

The two cases are not comparable imo.

Oh really?

So was there something particular about the Finucane case, where he perhaps (if that is your opinion) deserved to be shot although exercising his function within the law?

Not at all. I said what the difference was. The testing of the tolerance of others beyond its breaking point. The other lawyers have not done that.

There is nothing there that justifies the murder and I hope the ones who organised it are brought to justice.

So it's true about the Border Agency.

Sprout farmers are in one of their busiest periods of the year as they rush to supply the vegetable for millions of Christmas dinners in the UK.

Farmer Martin Tate said weather conditions in 2012 had been unfavourable and he explained the pressure of having to harvest millions of kilos of Brussels sprouts.

I like sprouts, me.

That's where you all spend your money on:Source

Saw Fontella Bass's obituary in the paper yesterday.

Strange names she gave to her children: Neuka, Ju'Lene, Larry, Bahnamous, Bowie and Peaston.

The weather looks spiffy this morning!
Blue skies in tones of flowing lighter hope!
No clouds, quite the pleasant day.

Bing bong!

No time for squawking!

Hogmanay (Scots: [ˌhʌɡməˈneː], HUG-mə-NAY, Scottish English: [ˌhɔɡməˈneː] HOG-mə-NAY) is the Scots word for the last day of the year and is synonymous with the celebration of the New Year (Gregorian calendar) in the Scottish manner. It is, however, normally only the start of a celebration which lasts through the night until the morning of New Year's Day (1 January) or, in some cases, 2 January which is a Scottish Bank Holiday.

The etymology of the word is obscure. The three main theories derive it either from a French, Norse or a Goidelic root. The word is first recorded in 1604 in the Elgin Records as hagmonay (delatit to haue been singand hagmonayis on Satirday) and again in 1692 in an entry of the Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence It is ordinary among some plebeians in the South of Scotland to go about from door to door upon New-years Eve, crying Hagmane.[1]

Hey seen this?

I liked it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVrJ8DxECbg

I did too.

I see that the ladies have put their foot down.

The big game on ITV was delayed 6 minutes so that Coronation Street fans could see David's wife tell him that she had decided, after all, to not abort the baby he might or might not have fathered. David's brother being a possibility although David doesn't know that.

Another demonstration of Bernard Shaw's remark that if women are given the vote we would all end up talking about ovaries.

Don't you watch Coronation Street? Btw, the big game last night wasn't on ITV.