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Cheers. We are private through my employer. Thankfully for the wee ones it’s not been tested yet. Mentioning their age always gets you priority with the Surgery. But the speed in the degradation of services offered is an eye opener. I can only assume the other Docs have gone private, they were not retirement age that’s for sure. We’re in a small bit fairly prosperous Scottish market town that is generally trouble free. If we’re seeing this here I can only imagine how it is elsewhere. Thankfully I just use an app that puts me right through to a specialist who basically asks for my insurance number and what I’d like him/her to do. 😁

Both my wee ones down with Strep A symptoms. In and out of serious fever for near on a week now. Put on not the regular 5 day antibiotic course but a seven day course. Our local Surgery used to be 6 full time Doctors. It’s now down to 1 doctor and one nurse, oh, and reception where you you have to tell the lassie on the phone your private details. 😳 And some bright spark stated my daughter won’t get a Mortgage 🤣

Keep in mind you’ve got to look at the fence for the next five years or so. I’d be putting in a picket style fence myself. Or at least posts, rails and 4-6” slats. After 5 years it will be half rotten anyway.

I tip the ash out into a metal bucket and leave out the back door for 24 hours or so. Then bag it up and bin it when I’m sure it’s stone cold. Hardwood ash is supposedly good for flowerbeds but not softwood, so as I burn a mix I never put it in the garden. Not to mention all the other crap I dump in the stove. ☠️

It shouldn’t but to the usual suspects it will. 🙄 So many young adults and now children sacrificing their lives in the name of Save a Grannie. Follow the science, eh? What a crock of shut that turned out to be. 🙄

The 🐓that made this his catchphrase sure looks like a 🏇now.

Those pesky “conspiracy theorists” getting it right again? Say it’s not so?

For every woman in a bikinis you see there’s two crackheads sheeting on the corner. Without a doubt one of the most depressing and fake place I’ve been to in the US.

So we need to get back to Drilling in the U.K. then.

I did not mean to come across as overly factious. I assume from your initial post you question what I wrote based on my stance on not supporting the forced uptake of an experimental vaccine for what was and essentially the common cold. And you’d somewhat have a point. But the rushed through and untested Covid Vaccines could have potentially benefitted the elderly and infirm. With Covid, like the cold, having a higher chance of killing people in these categories the risk/reward for taking the experimental vaccine could put the odds in favour of taking the vaccine. Hindsight has shown that to be a load of bollox as the vaccines and the boosters are all but useless. But at the time we did not know that. What we did know at the time was the vast majority of the population did not need to risk their health and far longer life expectancy taking an experimental vaccine to counter a “pandemic” with a greater than 99% survival chance. So yes, the bloated EU severely hindered the roll out of these vaccines to the vulnerable who at the time looked like they could have done with them asap. The U.K. on the other hand was no longer under such restrictions and could move at a far faster pace and get vaccines out ti the vulnerable in a very swift time frame potentially saving countless lives. What I clearly do not agree with was after all the vulnerable where administrated the vaccine they imposed it on virtually everyone. But say a genuine pandemic comes along like the Spanish Flu with a mortality rate in the 20-40% bracket, or even higher. The risk/reward for someone young, fit and healthy taking an untested and experimental vaccine would make far more sense. I’d most likely be at the front of the line given half a chance. And in line with my initial post regarding being outside of the EU and in the U.K. would mean that I’d most likely get that vaccine long before the EU had finished dithering.

But it’s an important distinction many fall into the trap of not making. Not wishing to have one particular vaccine forced on them does not make someone anti-vaxx. So yes, to answer your question I’m pro-vaccine.

When have I never been pro-vaccine? I have had loads and loads of vaccines, more than most on this forum I’ll assume. My wife and children have had loads of vaccines as well.

It’s all smoke and mirrors. The EU was repeatedly warned they were making a deal with the Devil and told not to rely on Russia for energy and the EU just laughed. Well, they’re not laughing now are they? The EU has blood on its hands, it is literally bankrolling civilian deaths in Ukraine. LPG contracts with Russia worth billions to keep the lights on in the EU? It’s little wonder those that mourn the U.K. leaving the EU turn a blind eye to this. Not to mention the potentially huge loss of life with the EU’s disastrous Covid Vaccine Roll out due to their pathetic bureaucracy. We can add these two points to the significant reasons and benefits of leaving the EU.

Another good reason to be out of the EU? Not being complicit in the direct funding of the death, rape and destruction taking place in Ukraine. The hypocrisy of the EU and those that support them knows no bounds.

It’s far more important to look green than actually be green these days. Anyway, keeping people warm is such a stupendous waste of energy. It’s only been a thing since central heating was invented. Was not an issue before.

Is there an echo in here? 🤣

It’s a nice toy. I never bought it to use it really. I actually made a copy of the handle out of Ash, polished the head and mounted it on that.

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It was such a poor attempt at a wind-up it was not worth responding to. XXL stores are generally out of the way. At least in Stavanger you'd be hard pressed getting to one without a car, they're certainly no where near any tourist hotspots. Øyo not very well made anymore, its as simple as that. There's a whole bunch of generation old brands out there that still trade on the name they made when they represented quality, Stanley and McCulloch spring to mind. Both still going, both peddling pish. Drit og dra! As they say.....

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Ok, have fun.

Its literally at Gutter height.......

I looked at your first picture again. Its blindingly obvious you need to add at least a meter to that stack. Its way below the Ridgeline. 🤪