Cllr. Gavin Ayling

If you are Scottish then when you say that you may well not be paying. In fact if you’re at school in Scotland you will shortly be receiving free dental check-ups paid for by the English and Welsh tax payers.

If England had a Parliament at all and if Wales had a full Parliament (rather than an impotent Assembly) then the imbalanced treatment of the English and Welsh would be more acceptable as we would have a democratic say in whether we wanted to spend our tax on the same facilities for ourselves. But as we don’t, this is yet more ademocratic tax-theft by Mr Broon.

I’ve been trying to buy some paint recently. Who knew how hard it was to tell what a paint colour looks like without buying testers?

Why don’t big companies like Homebase and Focus provide samples on display in the shop actually painted onto plaster? The big brands that rarely change their colours would be able to charge a little more for their paint because people aren’t having to buy testers… Or would the lighting conditions at home still make you want to test it out? Who knows!

Who knew, too, that I would like DIY when I started doing it…?