CI - unless you work for the BBC, as an actor or a teacher, in which case you are suspended straight away!!

You only need to see the Mason Greenwood debacle to see how much of a shitshow it is to get rid of people

I suspect you are in trouble if you suspend someone during an investigation. After charging you have stronger grounds but of course the individual is still presumed innocent. Given the backlog in the courts I wonder when the case will actually be heard.

I can see why Arsenal didn’t suspend him given the Mendy victory over City.

It did and I've replied

Hope that one got through, Alan?

Nervo - Arsenal will probably say that as he's not their player any longer it has nothing to do with them

JJ speaks - [Link]

So Partey was behind the super injunction as rumoured. I wonder how they will justify granting it now he’s been charged? [Link]

Sonay Kartal giving the lesson of playing in the moment the beans. What's done is done and what's coming up depends on being in the present and dealing with it. Well done girl.

Done Pete

Alan IoW - Having probs with your email. Can you ping me papzbaker at gmail dot com please.

I love his fish.

6M - and people laugh when we still try to teach kids in school to be able to read OS maps and Atlases correctly…. 🗺🤪

Thanks, Meadow. Interestink, vessy vessy interestink. Love a bit of talent like that.

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Jason Heppenstall. I've just found his website and his work is stunning. Avast AV thinks it's a dodgy website..

Regarding Cornwall and using the satnav to find places to visit, I totally agree it is unhelpful. It thinks all A roads are the same and makes no distinction between the equivalent of a bridleway and something akin to the A3. I went to Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens near Penzance and squeezing past cars to get there having to literally drive into hedges and verges to do so is not something I would want to repeat. Even going to the Cornwall Seal Sanctuary in Gweek was an ordeal. I found myself trying to drive a lot further to avoid these narrow lanes but there is not much you can do if that is the only road to get to them. I've driven a lot in the Lake District and Cornwall was much worse. At least the lakes it was just the end point where you had to negotiate tricky lanes. In Cornwall it is most of the county other than the A30, when it is not closed after another accident.

Alan - no, they don’t retire, they just die… My dad worked right up until his condition was too bad for him to be able to draw (or attend theatres), and produced his final drawing just a few weeks before his death at 76. I have no doubt whatsoever that he’d have continued working well into his 80s if he had survived his illness.

nick - Understood.

Pete I have loads of pictures but not allowed to share until after it’s unveiled as they don’t want the same thing that happened with the carving

J.Happenstall. Thanks nick. Won't be able to get there for the event, so hoping someone will post a pic or two.

For the possible hatrick. Did you know that when woodcarving something like the one at PL, there is a right and wrong way up before you start? If you get it wrong you halve the life of the carving. The trunk has to be inverted.

Do artist retire?

J Happenstall is the man who built the speedway bike Pete. It’s built from recycled metal including the fence from the speedway track I think it is very clever