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Raining here in Retford, "rain before seven, fine after eleven"? I'll let you know! Had to leave trailer and tracked chipper in Scotland as it had bad brakes on three hubs and 4th was too hot! Monday will be a long day! Samey, Vinyl.

Morning, some rain through the night which will hopefully of put out the rekindled moor fires I saw yesterday outside the village. Bit of a chore day and some pricing for me. Enjoy! IMG_5679.mov

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Deliciously cool here. Bit of maintenance, then not much. Igor is not able for walks more than 400 metres these days. So long afternoon ’promenades’ are a thing of the past.

Morning all, Rain easing off now, bit of thunder. Weather looking ok for the week ahead. Lazy Sunday

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Morning lads Enjoy Sunday

Spoke shave .

Early morning rain just stopped . Still feels warm to me . Happy Sunday .

How I started my track and field career

Nah. It just stole focus from the main point. All the forces and reserves were in the 236 I think. And bear in mind a load of those will be the HR and hairdressing corps. Should do the numbers again. It was at least five years ago. The takeaway will still be that the state could be snuffed out in its entirety with only a small proportion of the population working together though.

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Last year's Hawthorne gin. Nice but could do with some more mellowing and/or tonic.

Don’t think so. I’m late with everything.

The chicks will grow up soon. What you going to do then? If you can do onions you can do garlic. Garlic makes more sense to me, on account of it's cost/potency ratio. Also chillies, they're dead easy and you get lots of bang for your buck. Got any squash fruits yet? Mine are on the cusp I think. They're outside , I have not the luxury of a tunnel. And Toms will be starting to ripen in a week or so I reckon.

The debate about the competence/effectiveness of the NHS vs. Private in the UK. I can vouch for the NHS, based on reliable information and personal experience. I am due for cataract surgery next week. A few months ago when it was first picked up by the opticians, they made me a rapid referral to a private healthcare provider. It was a dream: I got a consultation within a couple of weeks. It all seemed very good on the day, superficially at least, but something didn't quite feel right. I was very much on a fast track to getting surgery asap. (Obviously so they could paid by the NHS asap. It was private, but funded by the NHS. However the fck that works. I wasn't due to pay a penny. The company is clearly parasitising our public money). Due to my misgivings I spoke to a mate of mine, a former opthalmic surgeon. He advised not to touch them with a bargepole, on account of mine not being a standard cataract case. (They'd indeed not picked up on that at all). He said that if anything went wrong, or if there were any kind of complications at all, I'd end up back at the NHS without doubt anyway. For them to pick up the pieces. The real medical expertise is still always within the NHS. The private companies just cherry pick the easy, lucrative, low hanging fruit. That sentiment has been echoed by all the doctoring friends of mine. The kicker. I didn't actually have to wait long at all for a date for the surgery with the bog standard national health service, only a few weeks. The consultant explained that that was due to the fact that they had short waiting lists because the private companies were hoovering up all the run-of-the-mill cases. It's a topsy turvy world old world now.

What do NHS workers say are the biggest problems with the health service? | YouGov YOUGOV.CO.UK 86% of NHS staff see the service as being in a weak state, with just 38% expecting the... various opinions about both labor and Tories, I wonder how reform will fare if or when they have the reins.

Well is this a baby step on the road to honesty and openness 😂that’s at least one question answered Blagger I guess it sort of explains your total ignorance in regard the self employed such as myself and the expectations they have for their vehicles and equipment how jobs are priced, how much preparation is required, profit margins etc etc. you should have just said earlier you were an employee 🤷‍♂️it’s nothing to be ashamed of ffs. Silly boy

Not tonight Bonny lad too many questions as usual with you, anyhow it’s carnival here and I’m hungry so heading out for a bite to eat and catch a bit of the local culture. Enjoy your Saturday night I’ll pick up on your post tomorrow 😂😂

reminds me of something that happened many years back now, 3 of us were having a Jamesons with a dear old friend, reminiscing old tales,as you do, and in the next room absolute mayhem and chaos going on with his two young sons, suddenly,, deathly silence,, "what have you done? you had better not have broken something" says the father Cletus, [yes that's his real name] "nothing da" comes the reply along with a fair amount of giggling and mumbling, "well you broke some thing, I heard the crash and it's gone quiet, show me" "ok" Youngest appears in the doorway holding an electric fire, "It looks alright to me, wheres your brother" "on the other end da" "well come here both of you and sit and be quiet for a while" more mumbling,, and they slowly walk into the room,, the other brother has the fires 3 pin 13 amp plug embedded firmly in his head, !! Cletus gets up, walks over and calmly pulls the offending plug from the boys head,almost lifting him from the sofa, and says "now stop clowning around in the house before someone gets hurt" that was 30 odd years ago, it took a week or more before I could tell the tale without cracking up into hysterical fits of laughter.

I’ve grazed a few peas and there’s lettuce. Onions have all fallen over. Never got round to garlic. Tomatoes and squash in the tunnel are storming though. Still not very interested in plants. I’m in it for the chicks.

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Twelve hours of 500i and 661, twelve litres of mix, picking it from the stack with a telehandler. Spot the dog. Also spot the kid who turned up with his dad as I was finishing. Gave him some mix with a bit of chain oil in to get his campfire going. Gave instructions to not lose his eyebrows. According to his dad when I got back from putting the telehandler away, he still did nearly set himself on fire. No. I’m not a parent. Yes, people occasionally entrust me with their children. Yes, I let them drive the skidsteer and shoot guns. No, I don’t get a lot of repeat business.

You could have sorted that a while back blagger but for some strange reason you struggle with straight answers.

Thought not. That explains "the rather "random use of" marks". Nothing to do with right wing or education btw. You're not the only right wing person on here you know. Anyway. Back, I don't know how many pages, to your assertion that the NHS is being used to care for tens of thousands of illegal immigrants. Have you got any figures for that? What percentage of them access an NHS service, after arriving yesterday? It's just that the vast majority of non-indigenous people, immigrants, that I see in healthcare settings are elderly, male and female gender of equal proportion and quite often obese, to a greater or lesser extent. I.e. not the demographic of your average seafaring, rubber dinghy borne "illegal". (You'd expect fighting age males to be pretty fit and healthy after all). I'd wager that the obesity epidemic, and lesser public health issues, are costing the NHS considerably more than immigrants. What do you think we should do to combat that? Combatting immigration won't help with that at all. Not to mention the fact that the NHS is hugely staffed by immigrants. That's a whole other strand to the conversation. Its complicated. Any thoughts, care to discuss?