Vince Green

Well lets start with the obvious, once everyone is vaccinated the number of cases and deaths in the UK should drop to virtually zero, theoretically. Vaccinating the world is not a viable option. Mutations like the one in Brazil, if its contained in Brazil, should eventually burn themselves out naturally. Only problem is we will have to remain isolated from them. Before I was sent to West Africa I had to go to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London and get jabs , for Cholera Typhoid, yellow fever and something else. while I was away I had to take malaria tablets every day

I would agree with that. The trouble with reloading is that you have to test and develop your loads. When you start doing that its easy to find yourself chasing the end of the rainbow.. Benchrest is different, in America the long range benchrest competitions shoot for the smallest group size. They really do get down to the nitty gritty last detail in preparing their ammo.

And its left hand drive on an Island thats supposed to be a British Protectorate

A good friend of mine died from a heart condition a couple of years back. His life could have been saved by a heart transplant and he was on the waiting list at Harefield to receive one. But he was realistic, he soon realised that available hearts go to the younger or youngest compatible candidates on the waiting list and he was proved right in the end.

Yep

Just Eat deliver from our local Chippy. Just Eat is only a delivery service they don't cook the food themself.

Well thats the question isn't it? My critiria says being able to produce a group smaller than the diameter of the bull at what ever range you are shooting at That would be more than enough to bring down a fox every time out to 200yds at least but PPU is not budget, Hornady is budget at 50p or Federal at 55p

PPU is much the same, I think its just gone up to £12 a box since Christmas. Never found a rifle yet in our circle of friends that doesn't shoot well with it

There is a lot of disinformation going round about the vaccine on the internet. Most of it pure lies like 1) it contains animal products, its grown in pigs etc this is doing the rounds in various Asian communities. 2) its extracted from the bodies of people who have died from the virus 3) people have died after receiving the vaccine but its being supressed 4) all the usual rubbish about 5G etc

Its marginal whether its worth reloading if you want to save money to be honest, particularly when you are starting out. You are going to need some cases to reload anyway. In the longer term it is more rewarding to shoot your own ammunition but don't think about it as a cost saving.

The boss of Wizz Air was on TV this morning said it has to come because its the only way the countries will allow flights to resume.

From the Telegraph today Almost a third of recovered Covid patients will end up back in hospital within five months and one in eight will die, alarming new figures have shown. Research by Leicester University and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found there is a devastating long-term toll on survivors of severe coronavirus, with many people developing heart problems, diabetes and chronic liver and kidney conditions. Out of 47,780 people who were discharged from hospital in the first wave, 29.4 per cent were readmitted to hospital within 140 days, and 12.3 per cent of the total died. The current cut-off point for recording Covid deaths is 28 days after a positive test, so it may mean thousands more people should be included in the coronavirus death statistics. Researchers have called for urgent monitoring of people who have been discharged from hospital.

My brother's accountant (50s) is on a ventilator and has been for a worrying length of time.

That is so not true it almost ought to be nominated for quote of the year. You clean the barrel because steel rusts if it is not protected by oiling it. I have seen so many good rifles ruined by not cleaning and oiling. Similarly I have seen rifles ruined and ring bulged by not wiping the oil out of the barrel before firing. When I helped out in the gun shop years ago a man brought a rifle in to sell it. It was a Parker Hale Safari in .270. It had only had one outing from new, and then sat in a cabinet for about seven years. When the shop put the bore scope on it the barrel was full of rust, externally it was perfect

I have an answer, industrial levels of disinformation

Parking is not a police matter any more, not in London anyway. But this raises a bigger question about electric cars. Soon we are going to see wires trailing across pavements etc

Lining paper is usually the cheapest

I've never met my GP, always see a locum. But if I was suffering from, say, depression I would be very unlikely to go to a doctor with it because I know what the likely outcome would be. Surely thats counterproductive?.

or nobody keeping count? Earlier on in the pandemic people were saying how come Africa wasn't affected like Europe? Then it emerged they were but most people were dying unrecorded

All his plumbers are self employed sub contractors so actually he can do pretty much what he wants. They don't have jobs, they are not employed. therefore there is no law he has to abide by, welcome to the gig economy

Pimlico Plumbers don't employ anybody, its a franchise. His company, his rules

Er, I don't think so. The system should be fully automated, the paperwork is essencially no different now to what it was before. Except there may be a charge. Go to Rotterdam and watch them unload massive container ships in a matter of hours from all over the world. All done with no human intervention except the man driving the gantry. Nobody standing there with a clip board checking the containers The French are just playing silly boogers, trying to make a point

When have the French ever missed an opportunity to be difficult?

Lots of shots on the old westerns of the hero galloping on his horse between the wheel tracks of the truck from which they were filming him.

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