Ironically, my neighbour’s new drone arrived in one of those really big Amazon vans.
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Always fun until someone loses an eye… or a head.
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Spoken like a man who has (possibly) never cycled it 
If they’re right, and sourced & transported deliberately, it was quite an amazing feat indeed! (And amazing anyway!)
Clearly the Salisbury area was known for attention to detail long before Naim!
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Not really. For the £65 we get a daily paper newspaper, which would cost a lot more without a subscription. Then we pay £10 for membership, which also gives full ad free access to the website. It seems good value to me.
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I was an early Guardian iOS subscriber so I am paying a shocking £3.99 for 6 months access. I use the money saved to contribute to my local democracy reporter. Brilliantly she has broken several very serious stories the Guardian would not otherwise have known about.
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I pay for the premium level of access to the online Guardian and it’s £94 a year (up from about £50 last year). A friend of mine decided to cancel because he thought that was too much and they offered him the same subscription for the coming year at £50 instead of £94.
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Ah, but I travelled the other way, uphill you see…
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Hi @Ian2001
I have heard of many schools of philosophy but the Cash On Delivery school passed me by.
What is the central belief of the members of this school of philosophy?
Kind regards
Roger.
It’s the COD Philosophy thread , full of useful guidance
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That is the same in the C household David. It went up quite a jump this year but I agree it keeps the paper going which is important. I always buy a print copy on Saturday and maybe Sunday depending on how busy the Saturday has been! I also pay for a web access to the New York Times but many stories are repeated on both now. I am still one of those who refuse/d to pay for a Murdoch paper even though he is a little distanced from them now. Aside, I was listening to the BBC and they were talking about papers and David Yelland, I think, said that the M empire had valued the Sun at zero simply because printed newspaper were not expected to have any future. not a loss I fear but still an interesting perspective.
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An idea that doesn’t meet the expeced standards. Codswallop perhaps?
In the local dialect here in Spain, rubbish music is called ‘musica de bacalao’ (cod fish music) 
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Excellent! I will using that from now on.
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Yes, I suppose it’s fair value if you have the time to read the paper most days plus online access.
I get the occasional newspaper in Waitrose as I still get the ‘free paper’ vouchers, but often don’t sit down to read them much beyond the headline or interesting magazine content. I keep picking them up occasionally simply as I think they’ll stop them otherwise. I never use the free coffee offer as I rarely carry a re-usable cup or if I do I’ve made some tea at home in one.
Although the US findings were conducted in California, where there’s much more probability of increased aging due to the Sun.
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Well I certainly went downhill when I hit 60……I couldn’t possible comment on my Dearly Beloved…
….well, not if I hope to live!
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Relatively small sample size of 108, but interesting nonetheless.
