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What's the most popular Christmas wine? 'But I don't like Brussels sprouts!' What's green, covered in tinsel and goes ribbet ribbet? A mistle-toad! Why did Santa's helper see the doctor? Because he had a low "elf" esteem! Who hides in the bakery at Christmas? A mince spy! When is a boat just like snow? When it’s adrift! Who delivers presents to cats? Santa Paws! Why did the turkey cross the road? Because it was the chicken’s day off! What do you get if you cross Santa with a detective? Santa Clues!

There's a road here called "Anker Street " - you can imagine the number of times over the years that various bods have written a W in front. They've now installed the street name with absolutely no space in front of the W 😉

Plus it's got "photobucket" scrawled across often meaningful parts of the photo.

NGC reckon this:- Might be a slight underestimate.

Indeed. Many are wealthier than us.

Tough call Blake. I sincerely hope you can find a way through it all. We have advanced so much, technologically. But still we can't find a cure for some of these dreadful illnesses.

Indeed. Although of course, we don't know exactly what happened on the day. It could have fallen on the floor and he picked it up and put it in his pocket intending to throw it in with the melt, forgot about it. Then decided to keep it for posterity. Maybe later gave it to a young relative as an example of a silver threepence. Of course, in 1945, he'd have had no idea of its future worth. I bet it will fetch many orders of magnitude more than £4k this time.

Blake, you could always get a mifi. They are a secure network you can use anywhere, without having to try and use the often weak and insecure local wifi's. Sorry to hear your sister is unwell.

Ah, that might explain a lot.

Deal !

Then we must agree to disagree, Chris. Trouble is these political threads are started, and people inevitably post their opinions on them, which they are free to do. We all think differently. Maybe we should make a joint agreement between the two of us to avoid them in future - what say you? I mean, I can't say I'd be especially bothered about avoiding politics on here.

Somebody will take an early bath.....

Bit of a put down for those of us who contribute a lot, day in and day out, to this forum, Michael. Sorry you feel that way.

Really interesting article about your Dad, Jerry, and I will try and catch that programme when broadcast. Wildlife and animal welfare are also of great concern to me as well.

That's the one, Chris.

That's what I do - then save them in my pics, and upload to this site on a post.

Paddy's above is uncirculated. Ozjohn's is about GEF. But with the coin in question, I can't see any hair detail at all. Also there's some flattening of the lions - especially the rampant lion's mane. No evidence of even residual lustre. Sorry, but it's not even VF for me. Maybe it might look different out of the slab, but on current evidence......

Ah yes, I see. Thanks.

The way it looks through the slab is no more than F/GF, rather than UNC. Maybe the grader was very inexperienced.

To be fair, it's a difficult one to get out of, legally. The companies running those schemes are caught between a rock and a hard place. From a wider perspective, equality is equality. You can't cherry pick the best bits and reject the rest.

Can't see it now.

The problem arising from allowing concessions to waspi women is that there will obviously then be a further knock on effect to men who reach 66 when the ages are supposed to be equalised - from next year I believe, only to find that their age has gone up, but women of exactly the same age are getting a financial concession. Nothing then to stop those men taking action under sex equality legislation and demanding they get a concession back to 65. Where does it stop? I appreciate the process was accelerated for those women born between 1952 and 1954, but it was for men too, to bring forward equalisation at 66 for both sexes from 2020.

£495 as per Jerry's post above. Not unreasonable given the rarity.

Well done Blake - I'm still trying to get a F24. Difficult one.

And yet it's been reported that in traditionally Labour areas, many householders have said to activists who were doorstepping, that they couldn't vote for a party with Corbyn as the leader.