Posts by Jacqui Dunn
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Not having read the book, I'm guessing too, but mind's eye said it was a floating barricade - a bit like the "wall of death" driftnets we used to see on the news, complete with dead whales and the like - only one that sat up from sea level and extended down.
But yes, news....hmmm. I don't watch the stuff on TV any more. I see more up-to-date news on this blog, with links to other info points.
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Field Theory: An important message for…, in reply to Yamis,
Why watch the Black Ferns win the WC when I know damn well that my local club senior mens side would beat them by a hundred points?
Oh yeah? The girls - light, bright and very intelligent - would score a try or two while the blokes were still organizing the balls.
Mrs D. Evi. L'sadvocetc
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Oh no! Was that you?
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Gio - you said
"In the end we bought at a time when the balance of our savings, average rents and house prices meant our repayments were on a par with what we would have spent on rent."
So having to pay anything to the bank presumably still meant you were still on a par. That equation seems utterly sensible to me. It's the people who borrow 90% of a house price where their repayments are two or three times what they might have paid in rent, who have bugger-all chance of ever getting it paid off, who are better off renting. (Although my experience of renting put me off that. It's not a choice I would make, but I don't have anyone to suit but myself.)
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to giovanni tiso,
In the end we bought at a time when the balance of our savings, average rents and house prices meant our repayments were on a par with what we would have spent on rent.
It's true that the bank makes a fine profit out of lending you the money, but getting the mortgage paid off is the aim. X years of paying rent: money gone. X years of paying mortgage: money gone, but you own the house. Yay!
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Tom Beard,
Possibly, at least from people I know.
I would suggest that their reaction would be readable - no words necessary. Or, if words, along the lines of "there's only a week between a bad haircut and a good one".
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to giovanni tiso,
serial renovators who flick a single one off every couple of years.
Who don't pay taxes, mind.
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to recordari,
death duties, but for the living.
Um. Death duties are for the living. The recently-dead can be taxed no more.
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Tom Beard,
I’d rather people told me rather than snigger behind my back.
Without actually being asked?
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Up Front: Say When, in reply to Emma Hart,
Like The Mirren, she doesn’t have children. That seems to work quite well as an anti-ageing treatment.
Hasn't worked for me!