Photo-a-Day  (Wednesday, 11th December, 2024)

Yes,Dennis i hope so too.Just read on BBC news that Lisa Nandy authorised £1200 to be spent on 2 folders,you couldn't make it up !

What do you expect jean when we have a set off retards running this country everything what comes out of there mouths they talk rubbish everybody thought that they knew it all voting for them dafties.

Dennis, you did your best with this photo, tried to get a good shot from various directions but you can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear.
Jean I saw that report on TV, apparently those two folders at £600 each could be bought in the gift shop for £35.

It's already got light fitted, that's all it needs.

ex wiganer.. " a set of".. "that comes out of their mouth,"

Be like me..... keep sane.....don't watch the news! I haven't watched it for forty years. Has the tree only just been put there, Dennis? We were there on Monday and I don't recall seeing it.

I saw that comment about the folders. Even £35 is way too much. They don’t care how much is spent of public money because it’s not their own. She should be made to give that money back. A bunch of clueless grifters the lot of them all out to line their own pockets.
Sorry Dennis. That is a beautiful tree perhaps the lights will be placed later on.

When I first saw the photo this morning I thought one of those lads was my grandson. He is doing an apprentice course to learn building. He works three weeks and then goes to college one week. Last week he was at college. They look like they are heading to the railway station. His mum isn’t convinced it is him but I think it is. When he came to tea last week he still had cement on his trousers! I can’t wait to show him this photo. I’m sure he’ll know. Thanks Dennis

Jean,.That's a very interesting Lisa Nandy update and comes as no surprise.

Shame owd folk have been left to freeze and that twelve hundred quid wasted.

Pity Lisa Nandy didn't get fixed up with reasonably priced folders at somewhere like 'Grace's Accessories' ?
Politicians speak with forked tounge, the current government stinks as bad as the last, and some former lifetime labour voters won't forget next time around... that's for sure.

Meanwhile tighten your belts, it favours Christmas in the workhouse, with not a tranklement in sight on Wigan market place.

Good photo Dennis.




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Oh how lovely Veronica, if it's your grandson. Please let us know if it's him and tell us which one he is. The son of an old friend of mine was on p-a-d many years ago, quite by accident.

Irene thinks Harold Wilson is still the Prime Minister. Lol.

I've come on a LITTLE bit further than that, Peter.....I remember Maggie Thatcher! People think I'm joking when I say I don't know who the Prime Minister is now, but I'm not.....I neither know nor care who it is. I believe it is a question people are asked to determine whether they have dementia....I'm afraid I would fail miserably!

I agree that most...not all councillors & politicians are there for their own good. Wonder if ever a Wigan councillor ever reads what people write on WW ?
Everytime a certain party gets the chance to govern..they mess it up with their ideology....they havent a clue.
Like Irene I never watch or listen to the news...it is to depressing & as for Ms Nandy...I give up !

You might (or might not) be pleased to know that there are lights on the tree but not much else. I took a photo Monday evening, it might appear on PAD.

Irene I am so pleased you've taken my comment in good spirits, this new Labour is absolutely idiotic. They said they want change and they have done that. The idiots have made it so difficult for pensioners, cost of living and Winter heating allowance stopped.
I'll never vote Labour ever again.
Everything is wrong with Labour, not to be trusted.

Good photo of the tree Dennis, it'll be just grand for the Pigeons to roost in and they'll also be able to shelter under it whilst they're waiting for their Mince Pies and Seed Loaves from the Pound Bakery to peck at, and whilst in the tree they can all be dressed up seasonally, with one as a Partridge, two as Turtle Doves, three as French Hens, four as Colly Birds, six as Geese a Laying, and seven as Swans a Swimming.

Here's Frank Kelly with his popular version of the seasonal song: https://youtu.be/GDQtOyMP2oQ?si=5h3ds3q23hzcfRqL

I find the Lisa Nancy folders story difficult to believe. Probably a Daily Mail "exclusive " which people just consume and circulate without thought.

Freddie and Td both well said i hope that all of the people who voted them retards in have been taught a lesson for voting them in the first place especially when the pensioners are loosing there winter fuel allowance i have no sympathy wat so ever.

Peter, it made me laugh, and I DO remember Harold Wilson with his mac and his pipe. I have no interest whatsoever in politics and just completely ignore it all! I would rather watch The Muppets, (which, come to think of it, are not that far removed from the politicians from what you say! ). Cyril, you have put back my faith in human nature with " Four Colly Birds".....so many people sing "Calling Birds" and look at me as if I am loopy if I correct them.

They’ll have to keep an eye on that tree or it’ll finish up in Ozy’s Aga, Pigeons and all.

Council Christmas trees only need lights on, nowt else. I mean, they are not going to put crackers and chocolate father christmases on are they.

It does my heart good to see all these Tories whining and moaning like they are. The Tory rags are positively wetting themselves.
What did they call all the people who voted against Brexit, remoaners? Well as far as moaners go they had nothing on this lot of whingers.

I see the farmers have had another gathering in London. Parading around in £120,000 tractors and crying poverty. What a joke.
You lost the Election! Get over it.
P.S why are the Tory rags not whining about all those tractors blocking the roads and stopping the Ambulances like they did when other people protested?

Usual lefty response,couldn't possibly be that Nandy's 'halo' has slipped

WN2, 'consume and circulate without thought' ?
Here's a thought. Try checking the transparency data for Ms Nandy's department on the government website. Consume the truth and give thi yed o wobble.

Well DTease it's not going to have chocolate novelties and candy sweets on the branches. Just colour lights that's already on, clearly.
Merry Christmas to all.

Couldn't agree more T.D.

Well said TD. As regards the farmers it’s people like Jeremy Clarkson who invested in land to avoid taxes. Not the ordinary farmers.
One of the best journalists for my money is Andrew Neil who does write for the Mail ..sound common sense.

Its hardly £29 million of dodgy PPE contacts awarded to a certain tory peer, or trying to close down parliament illegally, or a PM being charged by police for breaking COVID restrictions. The list goes on and on... People voted to get those lot out and, as with Brexit, we just have to accept the result.

D tease the farmers by the way on there£120.000 tractors have worked all there lives thats how they afforded those tractors and no they are not crying poverty they are fighting for there rights =====

Can you spare some Christmas lights off that tree for me please? We're on the 5th night of a power cut. Never fully appreciated heat,light and phones until the last few days. In a b & b tonight - splendid! Hope you all escaped the dreaded Darragh!

Peter you are a star!
Wigin Council could do with you...on that Christmas tree job.

Irene, I'm sure it starts disagreements every year, but it is Colly Birds as Blackbirds were once called. Birdwatcher from Cape Cod explains:
https://www.birdwatchersgeneralstore.com/the-twelve-days-of-christmas-explained-is-it-calling-collie-or-colly-birds/

I've been told that the tree is lit up beautifully at night, with those very bright LED lights.

DTease, that tree might last Ozy a few days and have a give out a good heat, not sure of the Pigeons though, they're probably saturated with Pigeon Paramyxovirus also Salmonella and Verrucas.

T.D., Have you heard the one about Lisa Nandy eating babies? Don't believe everything you read in the papers mate. On the subject of M.P.s I have a tory one. You could do a lot worse.

Does Irene know that the Beatles have split up? Lol

I am sorry to hear about darkness in the land of my fore father’s Pat. I-hope you are soon back home looking after the sheep and chickens. I think the valleys certainly took the brunt.

That’s right ex Wigginer
those farmers worked all their lives to earn their millions .
A bit like myself in a way really , the only difference being … I was never given any government subsidies enabling me to purchase a six figure sum tractor .

Oh ! … and I also have to pay top whack for the diesel to run my three figure scrap van on , as the customs and excise take a dim view of me running around on rebated fuel .

Ex Wiganer, they get grants from the government to buy those machines. Have you any idea how much taxpayers money these farmers have had since the war?

It’s not my grandson after all! I wouldn’t be any use in an identity parade!

Veronica, I can just see them three lads looking at one another and saying “ is it your grandma, no it’s not my grandma is it your grandma jack? I don’t think so. What do you mean you don’t think so you must know if she’s your grandma or not. Well she says she belongs to one of us. Come to think of it she might be my grandma.

I see what you mean Dtease they think I’m spying on ‘um. I’m still not convinced! It’s the tan boots and traces of cement on the trousers. Next time he comes I’ll have a magnifying glass and I’ll look closer..;o))