>>>Liz, (I'm sure you won't mind me calling you that as you yourself like to address others like theleveller with cutesy names like 'levels' and to object would be just a teeny bit hypocritical wouldn't it?),>>> Actually, I DO mind you calling that. Only one person on Mudcat gets to call me Liz. It is also the name my Dad called me by, so therefore very personal and special. I've been calling 'leveller' 'levels' for many years now...He has never objected to it. I do not call him by his real name, that NOT being 'leveller' unless he's signed himself as such, and he rarely does. In all this time, he has never once asked me NOT to call him 'levels', either here, on years back on the BBC board. And despite our ranting and raging at each other now and then, we like each other and very often read from the same book entirely. He and his good lady are also on my Myspace page, or were, as I no longer use Myspace, due to the way the new owners have fouled it all up. So, may I suggest you stick your patronizing comments where the sun don't shine, be it a Royal Arse or mere Peasant's... Thank you. And tell me, before you start on Prince Charles and his cars etc, do you approve of Beckham and his Mrs. then? You see, despite *their* wealth, and *their* thrones, which they both have, I don't see them doing much to save the planet. I do recall Posh sitting on a rubbish dump somewhere in a very poor country, crying her heart out at the little girl who lived on it, scratched around inside it to find rubbish to sell, to feed her family..Then, Posh went home and was busy deciding which £400 handbag to wear for her next photoshoot... At least Charles is DOING something, running 60 charities, travelling the world to conferences on the Environment, fighting for the Rainforest, for the future of his children and yours, and mine....At least he's damn well speaking out and not sitting on his arse all day preening his latest tattoo, hairstyle, or new dress..... Yes, I'd prefer it if he were a mere peasant like wot I am, if he gave all his money away...but then there'd be one helluva lot of people down in Cornwall with no jobs, no incomes...His organic fields would be bought up by Corporate Bastards who would fit as many tiny little box houses into them as they could, no thought for ANYONE who actually had to live in them, just thoughts of the Profits made... Very few new towns are like Poundbury, because they get banged up as cheaply as possible, to make as much profit as possible and to hell with the future, the future of the town, the buildings, the community, the people who have to live there... ALL that has been thought about in Poundbury and those who live there love it.... It will be there for centuries to come... Most new towns won't...they'll have been razed to the ground and rebuilt..for yet even MORE profit..... Thank you LIZZIE
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