sime42

Drop Fido, Drop!

I have a few good friends and family in the Health Service. One, an A&E consultant in one of the big London hospitals told me back in July that they had just gone into Code Purple status, (used to be called Code Black, but that's a whole other story). Something that normally only happens in the depths of winter. My sister in-law is an ICU consultant in a Midlands hospital. She's currently off work with stress, on the edge of a nervous breakdown unfortunately. Due to her department being crazily undermanned and having nowhere to discharge patients to. Neither are paid enough, and indeed have too much integrity of character, to be participating in the mythical "Great Lie". It's no wonder we still have so many excess deaths.

That's not too bad at all, similar temp. to a decent swimming pool. Guessing you won't be swimming quite so much in the winter though. Can you skate?!

Whilst Michael Gove is like old school Coke;- full of cocaine.

What temperature is the water? I mean is it pleasant or "bracing"?

Pozidrive have an extra 4 points/ridges, mini intermediate ones that sit in between the principal 4. That's why they won't fit into Phillips screws. As well as the angles being different.

Brilliant analogy that. Even more applicable to the current PM. (Actually, have we even had one for the last couple of months?)

Were you searching for vegan corn on the cob or a vibrator?

WTF? People really will buy anything. Here's part of the description;- "Suitable for white meats such as turkey, pork, chicken and venison"

Of course. 😜

Thanks. Why not just say a silly or foolish person then? 🤔 I really am inept. Can you help me out again and point me in the direction of this evidence of the alleged misdemeanours of the Finnish PM please? Much obliged.

What's a Simp, anyone? And a Cuck? I'm not very fluent in Trollish yet, despite what we read on here everyday.

Yep, unfortunately so.

I foresee a lot of wet wood being "burnt" this winter, and beyond. As supplied by unscrupulous firewood producers and used by inexperienced consumers. Lots of work for chimney sweeps over the coming years on the positive side!

This is an interesting development;- A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology NEWS.MIT.EDU MIT engineers have developed a method to increase wind farms’ energy output. Whereas individual turbines are typically...

And breath ............and relax! You've either had a few too many beers, or are in need of a few. Anyway, wrong thread bud. However, since you insist; if you actually do think that Banks have suddenly become parasitic and this whole mess is due to the advent of CV-19 then you must be even more than I realised.

First harvest of a new potato variety for us. Manitou. Good yield, very good flavour and texture. They seem to have been more reliable, less adversely effected by this year's challenging climate than lots of other fruit and vegetables.

Parasites.

Talking of lobbying. Obviously £10,000 was not enough. Presumably Liz Truss was given a lot more than that Suella Braverman received £10,000 leadership bid donation from prominent climate denier’s firm | Suella Braverman | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Attorney general declared the donation from company owned by Terence Mordaunt, who chaired the climate...

I'd consider a Euronymous, 'Silver Queen" for example. I'd class it as a well behaved climber as it were. Not too vigorous, not spiky at all. Compared to something like a clematis or wisteria; they grow like stink so would be a nightmare to maintain in a very controlled manner as you desire. Ivy would also get out of hand pretty quickly, I reckon you'd regret it after a year or two. Bloody stuff! Not sure about the shroud idea. It's good but not quite sure how you'd implement it in practice. I don't think you'd ever be able to seal it against the wall for long. Might just have to accept that you'll need to spend an hour or so every quarter snipping off emergents.

Ain't that the truth; there's more than enough money sloshing around in this country. That's not the whole story though, it's also about the distribution of that money. There's always people on good incomes with plenty who claim hardship, or other people with two new cars on the drive of the detached house with children in private school etc etc, who whine about having to pay tax. By contrast there are people at the bottom who genuinely do not have enough money to live properly on. (I'm deliberately not including the feckless and career benefit bums in this category.) At the top of the pyramid sit the big greedy companies, like the utilities, who wantonly rob us all. Meanwhile government just stands aside and lets them do it. We live in one of the wealthiest nations in the world, yet it is also one of the most unequal in terms of weath distribution. We're seeing the fallout from that now. Scandinavian countries are similarly well off, on a national level, but are far more balanced and equal. Just my opinion, but their significantly higher quality of life, for all citizens, must be a consequence of that.

I reckon most people speak English more clearly than the average Devonian too.

Saves on buying ropes and climbing kit I guess.