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*DURHAMGEN FOR PM ??*

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gangy5 Wed 06-Apr-16 11:07:09

I come and go on Gransnet and have just returned after a break to find some really interesting topics. durhamjen is so up there with all the facts and must do such a lot of reading. She knows just how to put her finger on relevant information which is very useful to us all on here. She's evidently a driven woman - ideal for the above post. whitewave would make an admirable deputy.

wot Sat 09-Apr-16 23:06:43

Ha ha yes! I do wish there was a way to keep floors pristine though.grin

wot Sat 09-Apr-16 23:05:31

Yes, okay! She has got a sense of humour thank gaud. She,s 82 but a whirlwind of activity and an inspiration. I hope I didn't come a cross as racist. I am mostly German myself so I can't be racist.

WilmaKnickersfit Sat 09-Apr-16 23:03:00

You do get it's the factory workers coming into the offices who wear the slippers, not the office workers? grin

WilmaKnickersfit Sat 09-Apr-16 23:00:53

This was less than 10 years ago wot, so it will be interesting to hear what she says - let me know. wink

wot Sat 09-Apr-16 22:02:28

Gott im Himmel! Shocked and amused about the slippers used in offices, Wilma. I,'ll have to ask my cousin__she does get annoyed whenever I suggest that they're slightly fanatical!!

WilmaKnickersfit Sat 09-Apr-16 21:55:18

Better practice your spelling! grin

NTO we'll take turns on QT, so we'll all need to look smart. Nobody will see your leggings though because you'll be sitting down all the time. I have enough cleavage for two (or three blush) so you can borrow some of mine to dazzle the men who think with their wotsits. wink

wot they have those giant slippers in German factories too for workers coming into the posh bits of the offices. I thought they were quaint ornaments until someone explained. It always reminded me of fairy tales for some reason! grin

NotTooOld Sat 09-Apr-16 21:31:47

Secretary!

NotTooOld Sat 09-Apr-16 21:31:32

Wilma - sorry but I've already bagged QT as I'm the Business Secretar. I'll need to look business like and now dj's banned the stylist I'll have to dress myself so I'm sorting out my best pair of leggings to go with the posh shoes. I may have a suit somewhere from pre-retirement days, too. Must I have a cleavage as I'll be on TV, do you think?

wot Sat 09-Apr-16 21:01:13

I went round a stately home in Germany and we had to wear big sloppy felt slippers over our shoes. So we were polishing their floors as we proceeded.!

Jalima Sat 09-Apr-16 17:02:26

I thought of getting some for visitors - we have a new carpet grin

durhamjen Sat 09-Apr-16 16:28:17

I went with my grandchildren to a swimming pool yesterday, and they had to wear those blue plastic things there, Jalima.

Jalima Sat 09-Apr-16 16:14:22

Very expensive stockings (expenses?) Lots of pairs
They could get snagged on the barbed wire.

whitewave Sat 09-Apr-16 15:41:45

I do not have a budget for such fripperies. You will have to provide them out of your expenses, better still come in your stockinged feet.

Jalima Sat 09-Apr-16 15:38:40

No, no no, I will stomp in with the smell of the countryside on my boots.
I want everyone to know that I will be doing a Proper Job, not just pretending to know what a cow or sheep is.

You will have to provide those horrible blue plastic overshoes, you know, the ones they give you in some NT houses.

whitewave Sat 09-Apr-16 15:28:53

I am the minister for art and culture don't you know. I have to care for the expensive and artistic carpets.

whitewave Sat 09-Apr-16 15:27:19

I trust you won't be wearing them in the house. Or at least wash them before you do.

Jalima Sat 09-Apr-16 15:17:17

Just heard that the woman who won £43,000 for being the best dressed woman at Aintree bought her dress for £7
It's not money you need, it's a sense of style

Which rules me out, so I still want some designer wellies.
On expenses.

durhamjen Sat 09-Apr-16 14:56:37

Of course in our parliament, we are going to sort things out so well in the beginning, that we will even have the agreement of an admiring opposition.
Most of them don't really want to be Tories anyway. They didn't expect things to get this bad, and will be glad of an excuse to change direction.

durhamjen Sat 09-Apr-16 14:48:23

Some u-turns are bad, of course. U-turns made on not fracking under national parks and SSIs, and on renewable energy come to mind.
Those are in this parliament, without the restraint of the Libdems.

WilmaKnickersfit Sat 09-Apr-16 14:46:03

Thanks PM, will fill in a form for you to sign as my line manager! wink

durhamjen Sat 09-Apr-16 14:43:27

Okay, Wilma, just for that.
How many suits do you think Cameron and Osborne have got for the front row?

www.google.com/url?q=http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/28/coalition-u-turn-list-full&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwi7x-XB1oHMAhUHng4KHezXDToQFggFMAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNGyz0pd9A_QTVHeGbD_8pYwIoFsgA

U-turns up to 2013, Whitewave.

WilmaKnickersfit Sat 09-Apr-16 14:12:47

Sorry DJ but if I'm going to be on QT and sit in the front row during PMQT, I at least want an advance on my salary to buy a couple of new suits. I promise to buy something that I can mix and match and not choose designer labels (won't fit me anyway). grin

durhamjen Sat 09-Apr-16 14:10:10

My father in law built them.
He was in the engineers and had to go in front of all the tanks building bailey bridges across the rivers before they got there.
He met Montgomerie once when he was left to guard a bridge that they had just built in record time. All the other troops went into the town to relax, and he was just left there, when Monty appeared with his entourage.

whitewave Sat 09-Apr-16 13:29:13

No dj I would worry very much indeed about anyone wanting to be worse than the present shower.

Just looking on the news about the temporary bridges used in D Day - wonder if Millibands dad used it? What a brave lot they all were. I find this part of our history fascinating.

By the way how can I get a list of all the u turns this shower have done?

durhamjen Sat 09-Apr-16 12:07:58

Just heard that the woman who won £43,000 for being the best dressed woman at Aintree bought her dress for £7.

So no dress allowances or advisers, sorry.
No I am not sorry. Daft word in these straitened times.

Do we all need to read Orwell's 1984 again, so we can gen up on what newspeak is, or rather what we should not say?
After all, we do wish to be an improvement on the present shower - or am I taking this too seriously?