Canny lass

Pre-edged? Do they still make wallpaper that needs to be trimmed? I haven't seen that for years. I remember it as a child - when papering a room was a real family affair. Everybody had a job to do even if it was just picking up the off-cuts and trimmings. That was usually my job, being the youngest.

Same here, Vic - but no t-shirt. Well, I tell a lie, there is a t-shirt under the other 5-6 layers of clothing!

You can't have too much of a good thing, Maggie!

I can't believe the price of wallpaper these days! I've just wood-panelled a third of all bedroom walls to save future costs.Today I can't paper one wall for what it cost to paper the whole room 10 years ago. What have they done with wallpaper that's making it so expensive? However, no complaints about service here. They even let you take the wallpaper samples home to see if you still like it in the room and once i was allowed - encouraged even - to take a 1½ square metres sample of tiled floor home for the week end to see if I was happy with my choice.

Hope you're having a good day Vic - not too much snow shovelling and plenty of time for celebrating! make it a good one!

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Thanks HPW. He made a good recovery and his face looks as good as new but under the skin there are a lot of metal pieces holding things together. When it's cold, which is very often here, he gets a lot of pain - the type you get when cold ice-cream touches the roof of your mouth. During the winter he has to cover his face as much as possible but he can't cover his eyes and a lot of the metal is holding his eye sockets together. It means that a lot of sporting activities are now 'off the menu' for him. There were plenty of witnesses so the court case was a doddle. The laser was confiscated and the lad got 18 months community service. He was also ordered to hand over his savings, all but 1 000 crowns (75 pounds) to my grandson. His savings were 16 000 crowns so my grandson got the princely sum of one thousand, one hundred pounds. It just about covered the cost of return visits to the facial unit for a year.

Denmark is still supplying plenty of pork to Germany. I wonder what they are doing with it?

That's the way I Heard it too! As you say, pity they don't do real history in school these Days.

Sir Walter Raleigh didn't actually bring pizza back from America! He only brought the concept. The actual pizza would never have survived the journey. I thought everybody knew that.

Maggie, it's difficult to be lighthearted about something that has 349 calories, contains 25 g fat and 1,8mg sodium per roll! I have a Dutch friend who swears that Holland is the homeland of the sausage roll.

Why not, Mercury! There's many a good idea that started out as a bit of a joke.

Don Lynn could probably knock up a 'Gooch Pie'. Greggs might be interested in doing a 'Gooch scone' and the Red Lion might like to serve 'Gooch Hooch. - only in the month of August of course!

I like the way you're thinking Malcolm!

I Think they look good too. I like the way they are sticking to a grren/gold colour scheme for the town.

Not before time, Maggie! It wasn't looking good.

Happy birthday 'youngen'. May there always be lead in your pencil! (not a euphemism).

In thwe wrong hands these lasers can do other sorts of damage. Two years ago, the oldest grandson (19 years) approached some idiot, who was having fun, in a crowded dance hall, playing with an illegal laser purchased while on holiday in Thailand. He politely asked him to put it away as it was dangerous. Did he switch it off or put it away? No way! He was so annoyed at having his fun interrupted that he smashed the laser into the face of my grandson causing a great deal of damage to many of his facial bones. He required extensive surgery, including a zig-zag cut from ear to ear over the top of his head to enable them to peel back all the skin on his face in order to get to the damaged bones in his nose, cheeks and eye sockets. He now has metal plates holding most bits together and at this time of year he's in agony because these metal plates get very old in minus degrees.

Not enough parking outside of Morrisons and the Church. You know how crowded both these places can be!

Thanks from me too Eggy! You do a great job! The research must take hours and every minute is appreciated by me.

Did they get paid?!

I'm sad to say your spot on there, Maggie. Psychopaths are known to show a callous lack of empathi. Psychopathy is, however, no longer classified as a mental illness and is not thought to be treatable because their own emotionai coldness is even directed towards themselves, making any improvement in the condition impossible. It's a Life long condition. But I Believe one or two euphemistic names have crept into the language - ant-social personality disorder is one I've Heard a few times. What's that saying about a rose by any other name would smell as sweet?

I thought it was intesting that WT mentioned this type of experiment as I'd only recently given Vic a clip (Lovely Word clip!), albeit totally undeserved, when I failed to see his subtle sarcasm. Masserman's observations are still used today in psychiatry as he was one of the first, and probably the most widely acknwledged, within the field of empathy research. Up until he started his research it was widely believed that empathy was the main distinguishing factor between animals and humans but his findings proved otherwise while at the same time giving a degree of support to the theory that humans have evolved from primates.

The guy kneeling on the right is the only vaguely familiar face but I can't put a name to him. The photo's taken15-20 years Before my memory would contain anything at all, but even when I try to envisage the younger ones 20 years on it doesn't get me anywhere. Bluebarby. do you recognise anybody?

Jules Masserman did a similar experiment in the 60:s. Using chimps who had to pull a chain to recieve food, onlooking chimps got an Electric shock at the same time as the chain-pulling chimp got his food. The chimps starved themselves to near Death rather than let the other chimps get an Electric shock. A classic demonstration of empathi - putting themselves in other's shoes and making a compassionate decision.