Gladys

How very dare you!

100%, but not re the incinerator, so 97%.

There is a documentary on assisted suicide (that is how is billed) tonight at 9 on BBC1. Will be worth a watch.

What about, say, refugees? If any are medically qualified, do we tell them to go back home and not employ them?

Chuck in some sprinkles and a Flake?

"...... an imaginative threat that we have decided not to repeat here." LOL

Whatever happened to that relationship? Surely when restrictions were lifted they tied the knot?

As it is implying it is the restaurant belonging to Leonardo rather than implying multiple Leonardos, but if it was the restaurant belonging to multiple Leonardos, it would be Leonardos'. Though I cannot comment how the apostrophe should be placed, if at all, in Italian.

Indeed.

To be pedantic, no we, the taxpayers, do not own the Steam Packet, Treasury does. Yes, taxpayers' money has been used to fund the purchase and loans. But, in a way, that is no different to a bank taking deposits and those deposits being used to make loans. The depositors do not own the loans. I do get your point, but the real point is that Treasury should act as a shareholder and lender bearing in mind its obligations to the taxpayer to safeguard public funds. As for how much the government is into the company, if you are including the Liverpool landing stage, that cost is nothing to do with the Steam Packet. It is an overall cost of shipping links to the island, and was not asked for by the Steam Packet but user costs are for it to meet. That's pedantry!

Quite. If there was a conspiracy, it would never have gone to trial.

Quite the reverse, we would end up with something that would block the sun.

They don't do well in a microwave.

That may be true, but a slow cooker is ideal for cooking these cuts and is quite a time saver for the evening meal. Takes a bit of forethought and planning though!

Thanks. I have used them, and they are very good on price too. Just a shame that these cuts are not more widely available. I did chat to someone on the Manx Meat stall at the food fair last year, or the year before. They said that there was no demand from butchers, which was a bit of a cop out I thought. Presumably marketing isn't within their remit.

I suppose not, really. ETA, probably close because my parents were children during the war, and the habits were passed on from their direct experience.

What is a napper?

Not really. The sad thing is that what appears to be the justice machine working, even though we don't like the outcome, it suddenly becomes a conspiracy. The Deemster did indicate it was a difficult case, but was in the interests of fairness.

The case has not been dismissed, just aborted. He is still on bail. So it looks like there will be a return match, with all the additional cost to him that will involve.

Because perhaps that was when he, or his advocate, advised the court that he no longer had representation.

We don't know how long he was on the stand before the court being told he no longer had representation.

Why would it be over? There have been several days of prosecution evidence, so you could expect more that a couple of hours from the defence then possibly cross examination and so on. The conspiracy theories are rife, when the truth is that this is probably the result of real justice. Each side should be given adequate opportunity to put their case, under advice.

But it would not be brief. How long do you think it would take for a new advocate to go through the evidence, consult, advise and then prepare a defence? Aborting the case was probably the only option. The report refers to having considered in Chambers which possibly means the deemster took time out to consider and discuss with the representing counsel. It is also fair to the jury to release them and to the defence to allow a different advocate to advise on the defence.

Had the same diet as a kid and it was not wartime!

Well yes, or the case would have continued guessing that without advice it was a slam dunk.