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Our local Caribbean place does curried goat and it’s absolutely lovely!

Stock up on lead carts now 👍🏻 price of carts never seems to go down anyways.

For £5 you could order 2 order and still be a good price for a Tenna

Sounds like a combination of issue. Kids allowed to wind the dog up, not clear if the kids were left alone with the dog. Also the breed. Not a breed I would be leaving around kids regardless, they’re high energy powerful dogs that can and do kill big game by themselves. Yes I understand yours is just a pup but we can only hope it’s not now learned that when there’s an issue / in pain etc biting out is the way to way. Didn’t a GWP kill a child in the UK last year or so? The breeder came out and said they should never be kept as family pets 😬 You don’t get second chances with kids and dog bites.

Go to war and get blown to pieces so some British billionaire who owns a gas and oil firm doesn’t get his assets stolen by a Russian billionaire who owns an oil and gas firm. No thanks.

Makes you wonder why your mother appointed her the executor in that case instead of a solicitor etc.

Yes there’s a newer model with 4k sensor / screen or something and in built LRF.

The quality looks decent, although the weight is off putting as is that big stick out on top LRF. Considering lots of thermal spotters now have LRF in built seems a bit pointless, would be more tempted if they did one without the LRF.

He’s that’s it, we stayed in the Panmure, the food was good there and they were great hosts, we are there 2 nights just fancied a chance on the final night. We also shot with Ian, he was good crack and we thought he worked to get us onto birds. We shot that potato field day 1, it was frozen solid. We ducked down under the river bank and watched as loads of mallard flew up and down the river behind us as we waited for geese.

I agree we have seen wages forced down / held down by the ability to employ cheap foreign workers who will put up with living in poor quality / overcrowded properties because they can eventually save some cash and move back home where that money buys them a much higher quality of life. If they couldn’t get the staff for such low wages many businesses would either be deemed unviable or pay higher wages to staff and not make as much profit. Considering CEO wages are now 344 times more than the average worker (in 1965 they were only 21 times great than the average worker) I hazard a guess that the businesses would likely still be viable if they paid staff more, but the CEO’s and shareholders wouldn’t be happy about losing the huge bonuses and profits I reckon. I don’t agree that immigrants are driving the housing crisis, they may contribute to it but the biggest driver is population growth of our own citizens, people’s kids looking to move out into their own homes but not enough homes being build. Immigrants, second homes / buy to lets / Air B&B / holiday lets, land banking of empty properties are all issues that impact on our housing stock but you can’t singularly lay the blame on migrants. Who needs eyebrows anyway? 😭

All decoyed 👍🏻

Yes we kept all the birds 👍🏻 and yes we all put £20 tip each into a separate envelope as we felt the guide and his mate really did try to get up onto some sport 👍🏻

Day three, we hit the road early and headed down towards Dundee, hitting some fields where the snow had thankfully melted. We saw incredibly numbers of geese, skeins of several hundred birds filling the sky. We setup along an old stone wall and had some great birds come in to us. They come in in big groups instead of tricking in so we didn’t get as many foes shooting at them but the sheer number of geese was immense and a sight to behold and be appreciated. Very glad I was able to witness it first person. I took out a box of gamebore 3 1/2 BB steel carts I had with me, and saw a noticeable difference, dropped several birds on the first shot and one shot dropped two birds for one shot, brilliant! We managed to take 11 more geese, taking out total up to 41 geese and 15 duck. 3 of the lads hadn’t ever shot any ducks / geese before (one in fact only having shot clays before) and everyone was over the moon! Next time however I will be taking up 42g 1’s or bigger as the BB steel knocked them down hard even with body shots. No one of the lads who’s new to shooting picked it up SH before the trip. I shot my MAXUS

That night we hit the posh hotel up the road for a Scottish dinner, all sourced from local producers and estates etc. Also checked out the award winning whisky 🥃 bar with the mind blowing selection.

Lucky I took my coat 😝😭 That night we hit the posh hotel up the road for a Scottish dinner, all sourced from local producers and estates etc. Also checked out the award winning whisky 🥃 bar with the mind blowing selection.

Day two and we heading out to some fields further outside town. We hit a swirling wind and half way through setting up packed down and moved the location as the wind changed. This day was proper snow and -5c, the guide had to wangle a bit white sheet to use as a hide and we had to tuck in behind as our green camo stood out. One of the lads had bought a white over suit which actually worked really well, he was able to sit outside the hide and watch them coming in as we all hid under the sheet 🤣. This day was a lot better, with geese trickling on steadily in groups of 2-3’s. A few missed but we managed to drop 14 geese with some good shooting and we really pleased. Some of the lads who hadn’t shot much before also pulled off some cracking shots and were over the moon. Another good day, and back to the hotel for the breakfast! It was cold and snowy that day, and after discussion with the guide we decided to leave the ducks alone that night. Many of the ponds were frozen and they were not having it easy so evening duck flight cancelled. I think the lads were happy to stay in the warm bar and watch the football myself 🤣.

Just driving back from our first trip on geese in Scotland. 6 of us went up Monday and stayed in Edzell in Montrose. We stayed in a lovely little family run hotel, home cooked meals and a bar for the lads who drink. We started off Tuesday morning out for the geese, dropping behind a river bank we were able to decoy a few birds in and saw lots of birds flighting over, our shooting on day one was atrocious, missing plenty of birds. We were using the 42g 4’s (Lyalvale Express) but I’ve got to be honest, I don’t rate them. You could see some of the geese take full body hits and still fly off. I know we should be going for the head, and several birds were stone dead with a good head shot, but If going again I would definitely take a cartridge with more punch. Day one we ended up with 6 geese picked and were glad when the flight ended at a brisk -3c, we heading back to the hotel for the full Scottish breakfast! A break that day and the snow started coming down hard 🥶 it was cold but quite beautiful and a great experience. We headed out that night to shoot a duck pond where our shooting was better than on the geese (not that it could not been much worse). We managed 15 teal which were proper sporting birds, as the snow made us stick out a bit and they weren’t dropping in low, plenty of long crossers taken and everyone got some good shooting. Day one down and back to the hotel for dinner and a few proper Scottish drinks before an early night!

That’s not the entirely of what you said. You said suggestively and quite blatantly that staff are intentionally doing a bad job or doing minimal work in some sort of crazy conspiracy to undermine and bring down the Government. I also predict that there will be an improvement when Labour gets in. However I don’t think that improvement will be because all the staff have been sat around avoiding work. Most likely it will come from manipulating figures and statistics and the media being less critical of the stats coming out. Who’s they? They who shut cancer wards? It certainly wasn’t the individual doctors, nurses, staff on the ground etc who decided which services stayed open and which were closed. It was the Government (and most likely senior NHS officials working with the Government) that decided about lockdowns and what was classed as essential. Matt Hancock as Health Secretary and Boris Johnson were in charge and making decisions on that level. It is a joke and disgrace that such services were deemed non essential, and such a big reduction in screening took place. Despite that. Individual NHS on the frontline were absolutely not involved in making those decisions and blaming them for those failings is ludicrous.

If the staff had been working at full speed he could have had it by 9am and been home in time for lunch (apparently anyways). On a serious note, I hope your brother is ok and gets better soon. Best wishes

That’s the real difference. No comparison if you can’t buy carts with the same speed etc.

Magically start doing there jobs?! Ah right, there’s no staff shortages in the NHS. There’s plenty of doctors and nurses and staff, they’re not having to sit people in corridors for days on end due to lack of people to see and treat them. They’re all just on a jolly. When someone turns up after a major car crash with life threatening injuries, or someone turns up in the middle of a stroke or heart attack, clearly the current staff are saying to one another “don’t get to them too quickly, have another cuppa before we start CPR… we wouldn’t make the Tories to look good, would we?” When Labour are in power, nurses and doctors won’t take 5 minutes out of their 12+ hour shifts to record a silly video to boost a bit of morale in a grim job that deals with misery 24/7… they’re be busy treating people at double speed, saying “Labours in now, time to actually work and stop taking it easy!”. They’ll no longer be waiting lists despite there being no additional resources, the shear idea that Labour are in power will have nurses and doctors floating down corridors powered solely by their sense of being valued, healing and discharging people double quick.

I work alongside the NHS, I see the staff daily, the vast vast vast majority of them are just getting on with the job. There are some radical activists, as there are in lots of jobs. In other walks of life in private companies you may get reprimanded, but staff criticising a public company aren’t in that position. Staff making false and slanderous claims will undoubtedly be talked to by their hospital / trust HR department or media team (you know, one of those people who works in one of those jobs that we supposedly don’t need). My point is, the idea that the majority of NHS staff are intentionally doing a bad job to undermine the Government is far from the truth. In 12-18 months time; those same staff will be working under a different Government, most likely labour. They will continue working just as hard as they are now. Many of the issues will continue and be the exact same. They will moan about a different Government, but as they are now, the vast vast majority of them will be getting on with their jobs doing their best to help and support people. I think we all agree however that the current system has many flaws and needs some sort of major reform.

If it’s just an Omega seamaster 300 which is the model James Bond wore then that’s massively overpriced. If it’s some special edition limited make etc then it could be worth a bit more but seems quite high price for a seamaster. You’d need the exact model (and model number / serial number) to check it properly.

I don’t believe the Uk government has come anywhere near offering 1/2 of the 35% so unless that offers on the table how can it be accepted? Re the second statement. Just utter nonsense. You genuinely think doctors, nurses and other NHS are going to work day in and day out and intentionally not working or intentionally doing less than they can just because we have a Tory Government? I’d bet you 90% of NHS staff (and the general public) couldn’t tell you their local MP. People like to moan about the government but get on with their lives. There’s no conspiracy of health care assistants plotting to bring down the Tories!

They have a way of measuring their pay within the current free market / supply & demand system. They offer a certain amount of pay the the market decides if that offer means people who have the skills and potential to train to be Doctors are incentivised into the profession. If they get it right, we have enough doctors. If the jobs was so well paid and still attractive they could even cut the pay and still sufficiently staff the number of posts. We see this in lots of other professions. Out sourcing the work and “cutting costs/production costs”. On the flip side, if the pay / incentive is not sufficient then people will leave, not enter training, re-train etc. and we will struggle to fill posts. This seems to be the system we have embraced … we seem to want a free market like above when it suits those making massive profits and pushing down workers wages. But when the opposite happens and they can’t push down wages anymore whilst easily filling posts people want to make it illegal for the current staff to go on strike? What next? Will you make it illegal for them to quit the NHS and go to work abroad? Or make it illegal for them to retrain into another profession?