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No, Guaranteed Next Day is a special delivery channel which almost certainly guarantees it'll arrive, before 13:00 if you pay extra.

That sounds like Guaranteed Next Day which is a special delivery channel and more of less guarantees it'll get there.

Can your wife not contribute a load of her salary to a private pension? This avoids tax and she'll get 20% + added by the government. Maybe too late now and I might be completely wrong but it could be worth talking to a financial advisor.

Labour are a massive threat to the SNP, current polling shows the SNP aren't quite going to be wiped out but they will lose control, thank God. This is a cynical ploy to try to drive a wedge in the labour ranks.

"To say I am not confident in the NHS , would be an understatement" I had an abdominal aneurysm last summer that required a 6 hour op to fix. Luckily we live about 4 miles away from Scotland's centre of excellence for this sort of thing. I've a few doctor friends who said that you couldn't get this done privately in the UK, all the staff I encountered were very impressive. At it's best, in cases like this, the NHS is very hard to beat. Good luck.

If you read the article it's the 3rd.

How is the Australian system run that it allows them to offer these salaries? It's a public/ private mix AIUI.

At a slight tangent..... My wife said I needed to get in touch with my feminine side, so I crashed the car.

The Japanese meterological society think we're OK.... https://notrickszone.com/2023/03/01/warming-globe-then-why-havent-winters-in-tokyo-been-warming-since-the-1980s/ I'd also point out that "records" began at the end of the Dickensian Little Ice Age in ~ 1850 so if we've rebounded slightly since then, that's a good thing.

Thanks for the input everyone, there are a few good candidates there.

Aye I can take the buckle off no problem, it's recommendarions for "a half decent strap" I'm looking for. 😁

I've got a 90's era Omega Dynamic watch my wife bought me as an engagement present, I wouldn't buy one again but it has a lot of sentimental value. The original leather strap wore out fairly quickly so I bought two new Omega replacements, they weren't cheap but not _madly_ expensive. On the Omega store thay are now £470 for the strap and buckle, this is more than half what the watch cost (25 years ago). https://www.omegawatches.com/en-gb/omega-watch-straps-brown-leather-strap-032cuz006728w I'm looking for an alternative, does anyone have any good recommendations? The watch itself is 13mm deep so the strap needs to be reasonably well padded. Thanks for any pointers.

This is a post from the middle of a very interesting thread I read earlier. The conclusion is that any further funding should go to the care system to stop the bed blocking that's paralyzing hospitals.

It might be worth giving Sky a call, it looks like this is now available.... https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sky-stream-new-service-newsupdate/

Information that might or might not be pertinent to the debate, I think it is. England is the most densely populated 'normal' country in Europe according to this .... https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries Click on Density to sort by that. I was surprised, I thought the Netherlands and Belgium had a higher figure. Surprisingly Germany has only 53% the population density of England, Italy 44%, France 25% and Spain 20%. Click 'Show Source' in the top right for the link to the UN source.