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skyhuck

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  1. Thats very nice, good for them:thumbup: If you can't help your children, who can you help?
  2. I used to do it, but it was for a LA that gave me 3 or 4 days a week, week in, week out and payed good rates, so I felt obliged and grateful. I charged 3X my normal rated and payed lads the same. When I was young, keen and trying to build my business I loved it, but not these days.
  3. Many bottles of booze, various boxes and packets of sweats/fudge, 2 shirts, a jumper, jacket, some socks and more booze :thumbup: As for call outs, the days of me getting excited by an unexpected call are long gone, the LA rang me a few days ago asking if I would respond to call outs, due to the forecast. I said no.
  4. skyhuck

    Nhs

    If we had no NHS we would all pay insurance, just as people in the countries you list do.
  5. I think some may be incompetent, but some I'm sure try to wield more power than they actually posses. One LA near me is regularly stipulating conditions when replying to 211 notices, i.e. replacement tree. I have informed the clients to simply ignore the condition.
  6. You should engage the clutch with it only ticking over and only increase the rev's once its fully engaged.
  7. skyhuck

    Nhs

    And where would it end? Injury playing a sport? Car accident where you are at fault? Skin cancer from too much sun? Thin edge of a very large and unpleasant wedge, IMO. As for people on benefits, what if they have children? Should the innocent suffer because of who their parents are? Unfortunately there are no easy answers.
  8. skyhuck

    Nhs

    I think agency staff is one of the biggest rackets:thumbdown: The NHS should surly run their own agency, but then all the MPs and their cronies who make a packet out of the existing agency would loose out and we can't have that now can we:sneaky2:
  9. I've had a TPO arrive by recorded delivery at the landowner address on the 42 day.
  10. skyhuck

    Nhs

    Too many fat sods with self induced diabetes, etc, etc.
  11. Yes mine is a single belt. I bought two many years ago, still have a spare. I think they were £64 each.
  12. Should it not also be a single belt, IE two belt manufactured as one piece. I would imagine single belts don't last long?
  13. skyhuck

    Nhs

    Thank you My mother was refused CHC (continuing health care) so we had to appeal, I joined the SIA and they produced and excellent appeal letter for us and she does now have CHC, but is not in control of her own budget, so we don't know how much she gets or how its spent. We have an excellent GP who is looking into it for us. The SIA appear very over stretched.
  14. skyhuck

    Nhs

    My experience with NHS has up until 12 months ago been excellent, real could not have faulted it. We have 4 children and the births will all handled very well, the first was very difficult and my son was in intensive care for his first few days, with a life threatening condition that was handed with great skill. I smashed my face up pretty bad a couple of years ago and again the service was outstanding. I expected to be pretty badly scarred, but the surgeon was outstanding and there is pretty much no sign I was ever injured. And the care was so swift I only lost half a day from work. We had a cancer scare with one of my daughters, again outstanding treatment, swift surgery and thankfully it was benign. Now the bad bit, a little over a year ago my mother fell down the stairs breaking her neck. She was taken to Preston Royal. The surgeon was good, but the after care was dreadful, they managed to give her a bedsore in under 2 weeks, which is pretty impressive. She is now pretty much a tetraplegic and has been in various place and the care has been shoddy at best. And the things I've seen in some of the places she has been are pretty scary. Care of the elderly is in need of real reform, something is very wrong in this country and needs fixing, IMHO.
  15. Oh dear!, he murdered that. This is a much better version, IMO [ame] [/ame]
  16. A fellow member (mr treebus) really rates the wood walkers. I have meindl walking boots which are super comfy.
  17. Heat is a valuable and important product.

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