To summarise, it says that because France and Germany cooked the books, with Gordon Brown’s help, to get round the Maastrict rules, that it is now acceptable for anybody to overspend.

But why does this computer sometimes call me Jim. No-one does that.  In fact it was my father’s nickname, so I wouldn’t have used it would I?

Does anybody know how to change this American rediculousness?

Incidentally, if anybody calls me Jim on the phone, I immediately put it down, as it is probably a scam.

Note the red liver bird, which gives the ship it’s nickname of Crazy Red Chicken.

The pictures were actually taken through the door window of  a DLR train. as it left Pudding Mill Lane station in the direction of Bow Church station.

I went on Friday to have a look round and took these pictures.

Note the daffodils and the derelict St. Clements Hospital. The War Memorial is still intact and hasn’t suffered from metal thieves.

He is now suing the relatives of those he killed for the mental anguish he went through.

Listen up, you silly McNuggets: start saying ‘no’ to kids, so I think you can get his drift. Or should I say his very caustic drift, as he weaves the story round the life and imminent death of Stacey Irvine, who’s lived on McNuggets since she was two.

I do suspect that the draw might be fixed so that they play each other, as who would fancy a trip to the Deep South.

It’s actually quite a small list of counties that have two League teams outside of the obvious, like Greater London, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne and Wear and a few others, who have two clubs anyway. I can find Bristol, Derbyshire, Devon, Essex and Hampshire.  And of course Sussex.

Currently these services are worked by 4-car Class 458 and Class 450 trains.

For various reasons South West Trains want to go to a 10-car railway, which would mean the simplest solution would be to lengthen the Class 450s to 5-cars and run them in pairs as required. But this would require upwards of about a hundred new carriages and typically these cost about a million pounds each.

But  then Porterbrook’s engineers and managers got involved and suggested using the redundant purpose built fleet of 8-car Gatwick Express Class 460 that were surplus to requirements to lengthen the Class 458′s to 5-car trains. This is possible as both sets of trains were built by Alstom to a common design.

So South West Trains will get what they want at a lesser cost and probably earlier too.

The irony is that Porterbrook, is basically a train leasing company and not an engineering one.

So next time you ask, what have bankers done for us, look at a clever piece of work like this. But then it was probably led by engineers who understood money, rather than bankers who understood engineering.

All of the best engineers I’ve worked with always understood the monetary implications of what they did! Some also understood marketing too!

But it would now appear that by December 2013, it will have its own station! About time too!