Martyn Pitt

We have it in our house ... every time I look in one I recognise the face ... we call them mirrors I read a story years ago about how scientists said the ability to recognise your own image in a mirror was a sign of intelligence, apparently Dolphins are able to recognise their own image, they are considered extremely intelligent animals. Steve next time you see a mirror, stand there and say 'that's me Steve Smith that is' ... people may start to think you are intelligent

It sure was Ed, I would have bought this around 1976, Stay Here With Me was the side being played

Is it a case of miss heard lyrics ... if so can I offer Ray Pollard The Drifter (male singer slow / mid tempo) seeing as the Clown options are diminishing

They need to qualify if they mean 5 a side or full size, meaningless otherwise

I have a few of his on Vee Jay and Exodus, I used to buy them blind for a few quid back in the 90's, the flip sides are always good

Here you go Tim

I spent many hours on a dance floor with Simon, he was one of the funniest guys I knew, his humour would have me in tears at times. When I learnt of his stroke the other day I could not believe it, he was only 57, far too young to be taken from us, he had so much more to give. To say he will be missed is doing him an injustice, he will leave a void on this scene that will be hard to fill. This is how I will remember him ... in shorts, in the zone, dancing R.I.P Simon ... condolences to Carol, Zac, and Bev All our love Martyn & Carol x .

Exactly the problem Tim, not helped by a high interest rate.

My parents did this 25 years ago ... worst decision they ever made in their life. My Father passed last year, and we were looking to get Mum into care voluntarily , the problem was the equity release sharks (Aviva in this instance). The 25K my parents had "released" was now looking at a repayment of £135000, but as Mum was still alive there was an early settlement penalty of a further £20000. This made it difficult to achieve what we wanted for mum. Moving forward 12 months, Mum has now had to go into care as she has gone off her legs, so the early settlement figure is waived, it's not that I had any interest in the money, but it would have made things so much easier twelve months ago to get mum into care then, when she would have benefited from it. Personally if you need money there must be better ways of getting a loan secured against your property, I would sell and downsize.

Leucistic birds are not as rare as you would think Steve, quite often get partial ones. About 15 years ago we had a golden coloured house sparrow in the garden ... guess what we called it

Cheers chaps ... and it was good to catch up with you on Saturday Steve

Pretty sure my copy is the same

You don't have to put on the red light ........ Sorry ...