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  1. trigger_andy
    Nonsense. Supposedly all jobs are essential, Covid told us that. Nurses go into their chosen profession eyes wide open. They know the wages for the work involved and it pays a bit better than being a cleaner which is what they’d most likely do if the opportunity of being a nurse did not rear its ugly head. Let’s face it, the qualifications required are guttural at best. The days of a Nurse being an actual vocational qualification went out the door when window cleaners started describing themselves as Vision Technicians.
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    Why would young folk slog their guys out for a £250k property that a generation ago was bought for £20k? Inflation does not remotely account for the disparity. The latest budget is an eye opener for me. The U.K. will want £15k over what I already pay in Norway. I have two options; stay out of the U.K. for more than 90 days or reduce my working time so I stay under the £125k. The easiest solution is to work less and spend more time with the family. Get my earning down to £100k and I don’t pay the U.K. a penny. Anecdotally I know many who are planning on cutting their hours to get under the £100k threshold and be Scot free. HMRC shooting themselves in the foot to appease the idiot masses. The proposal to raise the 45p threshold to £150k had legs. I’d still be paying in £5-8000 a year if that was the case. Now I plan on paying in nothing. Such is the politics of greed and envy.
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    The conditions they where offering for for £40k. Signing your life over.
  4. trigger_andy
    What about migrant robots?
  5. trigger_andy
    That’s a total piss take.
  6. trigger_andy
    £25k a year and you’ll never retire.
  7. trigger_andy
    It’s all a very Eggy hyperbole. To be taken with a scoop of salt. We’re constantly hearing about a skilled labour shortage due the Brexit (🙄) yet you’ve an anecdotal tail of a few retirees gassing about how on earth they could possibly be replaced. 🤷‍♂️ Same as it ever was.
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    I am so glad my State and my main private pension will come from Norway. The U.K. state pension will be worth beer tokens and nothing more.
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    I think this is an entirely empirical observation. Certainly not one I’m seeing up here where Trade Jobs have literally dozens of not hundreds of Applicants. But of what you’re saying is true, (and I’m not sure I believe it is) then the answer lies in the wages. Up the wages til earning them and putting the time into getting a trade is worth it. We’re out of the EU. Employers have to lose the mentality that they can pay a fraction above minimum wage for skilled labour. Why work when the benefits pay more? End result? Wages simply have to reflect the skill and shortage of a skilled workforce. Supply and demand. Hence why Arb pays less than minimum wage.
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    I slumber all hardwoods and just make sure to have 30 minutes to an hour hard fire in the morning with softwood. Never had an issue and Ive recently swept my liner after 12 months and it was clean as a whistle. Maybe a couple of pint glasses worth of soot. In fact we're heading out now for the afternoon and the kitchen Stove is banked right up with Oak and Beech and slumbered down. Will be cosy when we get home in a few hours.
  11. trigger_andy
    How do you get on with the Logosol drying Kiln? I really should buy one as well.
  12. trigger_andy
    Gave me a chuckle. Gave me a bloody double take to be honest 🤣🤣🤣
  13. trigger_andy
    Another euphemism for your nightly Gay Cruising?
  14. trigger_andy
    Well all righty then.
  15. trigger_andy
    What wood fired oven do you have? Ive got the Esse Ironheart and love it. Since I do all the cooking when Im home its not really an issue for the missus til Im away but she's more than happy to use it. We do have an induction Hob for when the Oven is not up to temp but its barely used.
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    Thats my thinking as well. I'm not putting anything in that Im not prepared to lose. I dont go to the pubs much these days so whatever I used to piss up against the wall I'll happily drop into Crypto and piss it up the wall in a virtual environment.
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    Im still dabbling and have been buying CRO on its nose dive to oblivion. I still think the best store of wealth is metals. I'll go back to buying Gold Coins I think.
  18. trigger_andy
    How on earth do you spend so much on Electricity? I'm also on Oil but only use that this time of year first thing in the morning then its over to logs. Our Old Farmhouse is 200 square meters of living space and we use £150 a month and it seems like the Dishwasher, Washing machine and Tumble Dryer are never off.
  19. trigger_andy
    Had your arse handed to you so you quickly change tack. 🤣🙄
  20. trigger_andy
    Even after he's measured the MC at 17%?
  21. trigger_andy
    Do you have an issue with the smoke filling the room?
  22. trigger_andy
    Will most likely warp. Nice and chunky, maybe 1/2” thick? Just a rectangle plate covering 70-90% of the grate area will be enough. Nothing fancy or expensive.
  23. trigger_andy
    Or steel plate. I don’t have an issue though.
  24. trigger_andy
    Don’t clean the ash out from underneath then. Let it fall through and build up til it can’t fall through anymore. Both my Stoves are multi-fuel and I can’t say I have an issue with the ash falling through even when fully cleaned out.
  25. trigger_andy
    I’ve found the exact opposite with oak. Pops open like a dream when wet and going like iron when dry. I’ve found this for both splitting for firewood and milling.

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