My friend Nadine 'phones, and tells me she is off to New York City for Christmas. In light of my present condition, I admit to feeling pangs of jealousy. After 30 minutes, I remind the nice City Link lady of her promise, ... my righteous anger for the letters of complaint, safe to say that I'll be putting in a claim for compensation, and suggesting that they make a sizable donation to the charity that I work for to compensate for me not being there on the busiest days of. ...

I do not associate Xmas with politicians - The town is too dangerous, park one's car, one cannot be sure it will be there 'intact'. Towns are debarred for decent folk. When parking our car, albeit I had a small dog in the back, and saw three youths, .... "Cllr Smith said that “world class” shopping not fairy lights was the city's main Christmas attraction" What? Really? Does the Councillor truly believe that Southampton City Centre rivals Oxford St, New York or Dubai? ...

Last year we looked at the way that the pricing structure of no-change-given ticket machines is often – apparently – designed to lead to overpayment, and I posed the question of whether councils/car park operators actually draw up their budget based ... …in New York, like most major cities in the US, parking meters are priced way below their market value – so “the house always wins” claim wouldn't apply here. Anyone able to find a metered spot is getting a real bargain, ...

The story of Mormon: A somewhat failed circus huckster from upstate New York comes up with a scam & convinces a crowd to believe that in his hat are magic stones and only he can read them. .... There has been a Temple in St. Louis for many years and the church announced a new one in the Kansas City area...not in one of the areas mentioned in our history. There are over 66000 LDS people living in Missouri these days and all the govenors who have been in office for the 30 ...