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My IP at the moment is a shared address.

A couple of months ago, after being involved in a thread where my posts contributed to the involvement of a mod, I made the decision not to be involved in any more 'banter' on this forum.....check my posts.... as guys with whom I'd traded insults were, like yourself, folk who in another time would have been posting poison pen letters. Around this time one of your posts on here led me to believe that rather than just being a wee oddity who liked to march at homosexual parades, you were probably a pretty unwholesome individual ( your post suggested that another poster's attendance at a kids' swimming pool may have given him material for a 'danger w**k') and certainly someone with whom I didn't want to interact. Which is why I've let all your recent arrogant shite pass without comment. However, I really can't let this latest flight of fantasy go unanswered ( strange, but it doesn't seem so long ago that your wee buddy was accusing me of being SS Missile boy). I am not the poster you named, or anyone other than the name I'm posting this under. As your young pal might say, unlucky.

It's Robert Redford in the excellent 'Jeremiah Johnson'

Nice clip from Auntie Beeb who told us that during her time in office 'she became almost regal', then let us hear Maggie announce,' We have become a grandmother'. Yeah,'regal'...that's the word I was looking for.

I'm sure Michelangelo said much the same a few years ago bud.

Don't take too many ! I started a new exercise routine a couple of weeks ago, took a break for last weekend (turned out to be a long weekend !) then really struggled to get going again yesterday.

After seeing the guy who had been accused of murdering their daughter, Amanda ,walk free on a 'not proven' verdict, the Duffy family from Hamilton led a campaign ( from 1992) to have both the not proven verdict, and the Double Jeopardy law scrapped. However, since at the moment none of the criteria required by the new ruling for a re-trial ( tainted first trial, admission of guilt, new evidence) seem to be met in this instance, the person who was controversially aquitted still enjoys his freedom The details surrounding the verdict in this case make for interesting reading. http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/news/local-news/hamilton-news/2009/12/17/man-cleared-of-killing-hamilton-student-amanda-duffy-could-be-retried-51525-25407317/

Lofarl, I've lived with tinnitus for years so I understand how you feel bud.If you want to discuss it PM me.

Just finished the third book of the Stieg Larsson Millennium trilogy.....The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl who Played with Fire, and The Girl who Kicked The Hornet's Nest. Recommended. 9/10.

This is a fair comment. I recently decided to re-read( first read them quite some time ago) the Sherlock Holmes stories, and I was genuinely surprised at just how bad some of them were.

Rather than do the same run, why not do the Strathclyde - Chatelherault run which can be accessed from the bridge near the boat house in the park. At the least this will give you over 5K, but once at Chatelherault there are a number of routes with the distances well signed, which you might want to try.

If you're enjoying A Scots Quair...and who wouldn't ?....put The Land of the Leal ,by James Barke on your books to read list. It's an epic and highly regarded story that's certainly comparable to the Gibbon's classic. Incidentally, although this is the only Barke book listed by Kindle ( if that's your thing), he wrote a quintet of books about Robert Burns...the first two volumes are, The Wind that shakes the Barley and The Song in the Green Thorn Tree...that.for me are a must read for anyone interested in an in-depth and realistic portrayal of Rabbie.

And of course, without positive thoughts there is no positive action. Anyway, Happy Christmas M...I've got some Belgian chocs to eat and the latest Bourne to watch so I'm off for now. Btw. tell Adam to wrap up warm when he reads Ivan Denisovich.

You thought (' I'm not going to slip into this again, I'm going to do something about it')positively, then put your thoughts into action. You got off your bum, shared with someone ,and felt better. That's how it works M.

Like you stan, I've known two people who have killed themselves because of this illness. But depression isn't something like the 'flu that suddenly appears without warning. Invariably there are signs, if we care to look, that the sufferer is becoming more unwell.....folk on here have spoken of feeling progressively worse. I happen to believe that during this progression, positive thinking ( and that has nothing to do with being told to 'snap out of it') can go a long way to helping in a recovery.