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I was surprised as the coin is a decent but not top grade farthing type coin, from Jersey - not the most collected country for coins in the world. I've just been slowly collecting a date run of all pre-decimal Jersey coins, and this one would have filled a gap. I'm not bothered about missing it, but I did think that £25 was about right for it - maybe go to £30, but that's it. I would have thought the seller might have liked to see it gone, as these coins are not easy to sell. As I type this, I've just had a message from ebay suggesting I might like to mak an offer on it!!!

My granny was a lousy cook. (A great engineer - could make almost anything in wood or steel, but dreadful with a frying pan!) If we ever complained about her latest efforts she would always say: "Eat it up - what doesn't fatten will help to fill up!" The result, I suspect, of bringing up a young family on rationing during the war. I still dread omelettes as she cremated so many of them.

But its fun going round the wrekin is it not .... Love shropshire

There's not much about - not in Quarmby etc. Have a look at the Isle of Man section of the Withers' "Token Book 2" for illustrations of the Douglas bazaar fantasises.

I agree that on the surface it would appear pretty selfish, but when you factor in the instability of the "innocent" party - it is one of those grey areas where you leave well enough alone and not endeavour to stir a nests of angry bees.

Stuart it does not take too long before you get back to a tree with many branches. The odds are then stacked in your favour that you will find something out of the ordinary. It is also quite bizarre how some branches can be easily traced and others are a complete nightmare. I am still chasing a John Smith from Chester le Street and as you can imagine it is a bit of a nightmare, but I am getting there!! Nick I can understand and agree with the principles behind your statement, but would agree with SM that really it is for the directly involved parties to determine how and when that information is divulged.

No WAY is that a Rolls Royce!

A man goes to the doc and says doc its taken me years to pluck up the courage and come along here, ive a problem that i aint normal and im embarressed that ive 3 testicles. ok says doc, trying to build up the patients confidence, lets take a look. he examines the man and says reassuringly, theyre all seem to be ok and you should count yourself both lucky and very special to have 3 testicles, indeed very privelaged. on the bus ride home the man proudly says to a fellow passenger, "do you realise between us we have 5 testicles" the other passenger replies with "why have you only got the one"

"Of course I won't laugh," said the Nurse to the patient, "I'm a professional. In over twenty years I've never laughed at a patient." "Okay then," said Bob, and he proceeded to drop his trousers, revealing the smallest adult male organ the Nurse had ever seen in her life. In length and width it was almost identical to a AAA battery. Unable to control herself, the Nurse tried to stop a giggle, but it just came out. And then she started laughing at the fact that she was laughing. Feeling very badly that she had laughed at the man's private part, she composed herself as well as she could. "I am so sorry," she said, "I don't know what came over me. On my honor as a Nurse and a lady, I promise that it won't happen again. Now, tell me, what seems to be the problem?" "It's swollen," Bob replied. . . She ran out of the room.