El Capitan

Well, I am sure you know the progression bil :

there is lies
then there is damn lies
and then there are statistics
and then there is the sh1te you read on internet forums

You have to be selective how you use statistics and even more so when reading internet forums.

bil

Yeah,
there is lies
then there is damn lies
and then there are statistics
and then there is the sh1te you read on internet forums,
(SNIP)

brisca

Sorry I just "disappeared" earlier bil

I had to go and see some friends in the village, but got waylaid by several of my neighbours en route (as so often happens!)

My friends weren't in after all, but I ended up spending an hour with their Mum and all her neighbours instead!
Then it was on to the bar in the Plaza, where I've been sitting ever since, with the family that run the bar...............and I've only just got in
It's one of the many reasons that I love life here!

Anyway, I just wanted to say that where you live sounds idyllic - a really lovely spot.
You painted a very romantic vision of nightfall too; I could just imagine it.

It sounds like you've got some positive changes ahead - so I hope that everything works out well for you both, and that you will be able to spend as much time as possible here with Jan.

Off to bed now, so goodnight................and enjoy thoughts of that wonderfully poetic vision that you described.

abbytuttut

sooooooooooooooooo ........... this happy No Doom only positive comments thread ??? lol
disintegrated !!
and here was I hoping to find something reallly reaaaaaaaallly positive from ppl in sunny spain

actually I enjoyed the majority of the thread, I've checked in a couple of times just to read what is going on and I was getting pretty fed up of all the moaning and negativity regarding spain to be honest.......... was making me re-think about whether I want to move over there or not
I love my island but I realise I am ready for a change and hence moving over there in March next yr. (was going in June this yr but a major health problem cropped up and so it is on hold for now, least till the doc says YES! lol )

anyway thats my first post go gentle with me ppl, I am off to create my profile.

abby

appreciate me now and avoid the rush

Mitzyboy

The bickering stops now
Last warning

Back on topic please as per OP

Abbytuttut, welcome to the forum

toyboy23

So they didn’t fix it then?

bil

Very good.

I tell you what, if you had had one, you would wince at that. In the week after, to cough was agony, and even to think of sneezing just made me feel faint.

Mine was an inguinal, but not too bad. Someone I know had one which was so bad that a positive loop of intestine used to protrude into his scrotum, which made him look as tho he was hung like King Kong.

It's made me be a lot more careful. I never, ever want to go thru that again.

bigglesworth

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle4699475.ece

With any luck, Kaletsky is right and this is at least the beginning of the end for the global credit crunch.

The UK economy is in its own particular mess, but at any rate there should be limited contagion from the rest of the world. So as the dollar continues to hold and even strengthen a bit more, we might see a bit of a recovery in Sterling against the Euro. The pound should hold anyway, (barring any more stupidities from nos 10 and 11, which is as always very far from a foregone conmclusion).

toyboy23

Would Fannie Mae go down well in the UK? We like rather more solid sounding institutions really, don’t we, like Northern Rock?

poshnbucks

george43

[QUOTE=El Capitan;6639788]Well, I am sure you know the progression bil :

there is lies
then there is damn lies
and then there are statistics
and then there is the tripe fed to us by politicians and business men with hidden agendas.

IMO

But if you live in Spain at least you have the sunshine :-)

george43

Now here is a tale of mixed emotions.
Sunday night I won a lovely big bar of whole nut chocolate in a raffle.
Decided to eat the last square this morning after breakfast .
Opened the wrapper and it is empty
How depressing is that !

abbytuttut

EXTREMELY!!! tuttut!!
............... sooooooooooooo? do u have a chocolate thief ?
or did u just have a choccy midnight munch that u forgot about?
lol

Justlookin

I liked the comment that appeared by one of the people who had read the article. It was pointed out that in effect his predictions were not that reliable as he said inflation was/would be 5% but on the very same day the Times announced a 15% increase in the cost of the paper

SaritaBarcelona

Craiginspain, where do you live? You say the people in your area are particularly racist etc. I am thinking of moving to another area from Barcelona and don't want to go from the frying pan into the fire. (not to be interpreted as a negative comment, honestly!)