no i recollect what i said - Dave -its you whats getting euthymol syndrome.   i said i saw some eastern europeans looting a quid shop in Boston , one owned by an old school friend, who could do nowt about it and thought informint the police was pointless. i said i couldn't remember from five years earlier how i knew they were eastern european. but i knew they were. you said i was a racist, i have never pretended a knowledge of what populations of eastern ruropeans get up to in the general way of things.

i really don't know how i know Jim. i'm puzzled myself. but my Grandad was Irish and a member of the British army - though not serving in Ireland. My family were Dubliners. Catholics.

i suppose its common sense. you have to remember that a lot of the families working for the castle would have been protestant, and once the English army had been chucked out, they would hardly have been flavour of the month. i'm sorry - i'm groping round in my memory for stories told me when iwas akid.

today i bought my wife the same necklace for our anniversary that i bought her last year. strike all i have to say from the record as the ravings of 'one whose evidence cannot be trusted'.

as for the labour party... i don't like the look of any of them. they have my vote - but not my confidence. they're just better than the other lot.