It's good to have friends, to know you're all out there. Reminds me of the old Carol King song "You got a friend" -----me, ------I got lots of 'em, THANK YOU ALL.
Take each day as it comes, I'm lucky, I have a release valve with the shop, still have to switch on, machinery can bite if you get sloppy.

The Main Street in my village is called MAPLE STREET, this time of the year the trees have every colour under the sun in them, you could be in the Lake District, Maine or New England, the sheer beauty and spectacle of Autumn is here for all to see, make the most of it, it don't last long!


England has fallen into the same trap the USA did, we let the Chinese get a foot in the door, then they kicked it wide open. They sink fifty billion into a nuclear electric plant and now control the whole of the UKs electricity.
The buggers flood the world with cheap (state subsidised) steel until we can't compete on price and the steel industry is no more.
Five will get you ten that they wind up with the VW car empire.

Look out, look out, there's a Chinky about----we've all got our eyes wide shut?

Forget the Russkies, next super power is coming from the East, let's hope they never stop fighting each other and form a union or the rest of mankind could be in deep Sh-t. Gengis Khan all over again. Get back to you later with more wafflings .J.