Alan Zoff

Has someone already mentioned "brought" instead of "bought" or "of" - as a verb - instead of "have"? Facebook selling pages are a real eye-opener if you want to see how people can murder the English language. "I would of brought that but I was broke."

There was a time when not being able to vote would have troubled me. But, Hell's teeth, when you consider the choices on offer today....

And how can "Yeah" be a suitable response to "How are you?". I mean, that's sortov not like right, innit?

Good advice on the subject here: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/vitamin-d/

Pampers might be a little more forgiving than Pampas. Good, though, that Norman is doing his bit for the environment.

When the US stock market was rising, Chump claimed personal responsibility. Funny how he is not making a similar claim after the Dow has suffered its worst week for 10 years.

The stupidity is that he has denied it - i.e. lied. Any person (woman/people) who is hard of hearing and used to lip reading will have seen immediately that he said "woman" rather than "people". If Labour had just about anyone other than Corbyn as "leader", we wouldn't be discussing Brexit at all now.

Unless we are quick and recognise the name on caller display, we let everything go to answerphone. Funnily enough, we find very few messages have been left - which could just mean we are not very popular.

Saying that we should decide the matter in a second referendum would be just as irresponsible as was Cameron's stupid promise to abide by the first one. In common with other constitutional democracies, Britain's laws are made by Parliament. As the late Stephen Hawking pointed out, some matters are far too complex to leave to the man in the street to decide, whether a Remainer or a Leaver. (Even Dominic Raab, the former Brexit Secretary, admitted that he had not understood the implications for the Port of Dover!) The democratic way to proceed is for the elected representatives of the people (MPs) to take note of the feeling expressed by the electorate but to make the decision themselves after careful analysis of expert advice. That's how a modern democracy works. So rather than agonise over another referendum - and then what to do in response to that result - the government should have the balls to let Parliament decide what a majority of MPs think is best for the country. If that means withdrawing Article 50 and remaining in the EU, so be it. A lot of people would be upset but a lot of people are always upset by government decisions. The duty of Parliament is to use its best endeavours to look after the interests of the whole country, not pass the buck to the electorate.

Boris and his supporters not quite ready to pounce.

It doesn't seem to matter how disgusting these thugs are nowadays. It's the voters that count and, despite (or because of) all the informed evidence against them, the media-led people will vote for colourful characters, whether Trump, Putin or Boris. The world has changed.

Yes, we have one too. Never seems to have worked because of some mysterious illness - confirmed by his doctor brother-in-law who apparently supplies the sick notes. Strange that he can walk 5 miles to the nearest town with a PMU cafe if no one has stopped to give him a lift. He annoys our local bar owner as, when he has finished walking his dog, he goes in day and night only to buy loads of instant prize tickets which bar owner objects to paying for out of his taxes. Must be the fittest sick person I have met. But the bar occupants prefer even him to the government, which illustrates what Macron is up against with the French voters.

I see Chancellor Hammond is looking to hedge his bets. Another one trying to protect his backside: "Well, if you remember, I did say...."

What's the betting that Boris and Farage had something to do with Trump's intervention? Boris looked positively sheepish after TM stood up to him - and all the others who weighed into her quite mercilessly - in the Commons yesterday. I hadn't expected to be, but must admit that I was impressed by her poise, whether or not her answers held much water. It takes guts to stand up to a barrage like that.

Laura Kuenssberg has I think summed things up quite well with regard to May's stance against seemingly impossible odds: "It may work. It may well not. But Theresa May will not fail because she didn't try." No one has a clue now what's best for the country so she is going to stick with what she set out to do, come Hell or High Water, and regardless of the consequences.

Frankly, Richard, the British public are an embarrassment when it comes to democracy. A few weeks ago I watched a very intelligent Brexit debate on French TV. One of the panellists thought Brexit must be all people in Britain talked about. In response, another who said he spent a large part of the year in England and had gone round pubs and restaurants trying to gain an insight into public opinion on the subject, said he had reached the conclusion that all Brits really cared and talked about were Top Gear, X-Factor and Strictly Come Dancing. British politicians and their constituents lived on different planets.

The public are so fed up - uninterested - in the whole affair that I reckon both Leavers and Remainers would vote for the May deal now, just to get it over and done with. Which makes me suspicious from her reluctance to entertain another vote that - as ALBF was it? - suggested earlier, she doesn't really want it to happen. She just doesn't want to be the one blamed for the outcome, which will be bad for almost everyone now, whatever happens. And she is still a Remainer at heart.

ALBF. As my old Dad would have said: So sharp you will cut yourself

It's a sure sign that people fear they are losing the argument when they conjure up a popular enemy. Just as Trump before the mid-terms got the US spooked over the "migrant army attacking the country", we now have European "bullies" trying to take advantage of the UK. All together now: "Rule Britannia".

As I feared from the outset, it will mean crashing out without a deal with Boris as PM. Every dodgy regime looking for a desperate trading partner must be rubbing their hands with glee.

I'm going to leave it for a day or two....

I certainly wouldn't have metal shutters again. As Idun says, you get the worst of all worlds - hot in summer; cold in winter. As what was supposed to have been a temporary measure, I have lined ours to improve insulation.

Reminds me of the response from a French friend when I asked him how New World wines compared with French wine. "How would I know?"

Not sure why someone who has gone to the trouble of finding a helpful source of information should then have to go to the further trouble of translating it. After all, we are all owners of property in France and almost every piece of advice on how best to succeed in France suggests learning the language.

They must have been genuine tourists. They knew the exact height of the cathedral.