Vince Green

The Taff is not a big river. An empty canoe should be easy to spot

I had to go into London today to have a meeting with a solicitor (I'm an executor for somebody who died). things seem close to being back to normal. Not that things will ever be completely normal again. Lots of young men and women on the underground not wearing masks and social distancing is just non existent

I would be interested to know how much the sale of alcohol and tobacco products has increased during lockdown because I am sure it has, and by a fair amount too

Can I ask a question? what percentage of people returning from holidays in countries on the list do you believe will self quarantine? I doubt it will be 50%

I would have thought that anybody who had asthma would be highly motivated to wear a mask not claiming to be exempt

Lets look at this from the point of view of numbers. In the past 50 years the population of many very poor countries has trebled or quadrupled. More or less all the countries along the West African Atlantic seaboard, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Senegal, etc have all quadrupled.To the East, Somalia Eritrea, Sudan, Pakistan, Afganistan etc the same. And the same increases are happening in every other country in both those regions as well but I am not going to list them all.The numbers involved are absolutely huge, I am doing this from memory so give me some allowance if I don't get it quite right. Nigeria alone the population is now around 200 million and still growing. Has the economy grown in line with the population? No hardly at all.Collectively these hundreds of millions of people worldwide are surplus mouths. Their home villages cant feed them or provide them with a future. The land has its own limitations.So what are the choices for these people? and remember they are human beings with rights hopes and dreams? More and more they are being encouraged to "follow the yellow brick road" That road leads to CalaisBut we can't take them, and the more we take the more will be encouraged to follow. They don't have the skills to find a future and employment that will give self sufficiency in this country. And what of the hundreds of millions still behind them?Charitable good deeds like mass vaccination programmes and digging wells in villages cuts down infant mortality in desperately poor parts of the world but shifted the problem to what then happens to the children that then survive?World population growth is the problem, the numbers are exploding and not just going to go away because they are people at the end of the day.We need to keep our eyes on the bigger picture because it is hardly reported. What we are seeing at Dover is nothing compared to what we could be seeing in ten, twenty years timeThe reason it is hardly reported is because journalists and politicians have no solutions to offer l

Worldometer is one of the most respected data collection websites going. Possibly the most respected. If they predict it I will believe it is possible Also the substance of the story that anybody who has ever tested positive for covid will be recorded as a covid death when they die irrespective of cause has largely been discredited. They can find no evidence that it was ever a directive or a policy. It may have been a practice adopted by doctors but it never was and never will be official policy. In the news today Matt Hancock has allegedly axed Public Heath England for incompetence

On the Cornwall Live news website last week. As houseplant said there are sightings every year but I don't think one has ever been caught. Been sightings off the East Coast of USA too Apparantly the greatest concentration of great whites might be in the med which is scarey

When I was living in the States years ago the local shop sold a hand turned cam that fitted inside the trigger guard for about $10. It gave pretty close to full auto if you turned the handle quickly enough.. Fun for about an hour then you get bored Oh yes they do, you would be suprised.. More people get killed with .22s than any other calibre. Lots of small cheap .22 pistols available and they leave them lying about in drawers loaded for kids to find.

Great White sharks sighted off Cornwall in the past week . Numerous sightings from fishermen. becoming a yearly event now

Some years ago a copper in our rifle club said that when they went to a lot of burglaries the only things that were stolen was things that would sell at a car boot sale. Yes they would take high value items like jewellery if they found it but a lot of the stuff that went was pots and pans, vaccuum cleaners and clothes. as above

When my work colleague's wife got cancer she refused all treatment from the doctors and totally believed she could cure herself using herbal potions. In every other way she was a rational and intelligent person. Needless to say she died but her belief was absolute. Maybe Trumps got it right, as long as people believe in it, and they are going to be happy to take it, whats the difference? The ones that survive are going to think it worked and the ones that die won't be there to complain

absolutely not, there are a lot of isolated little coves in Cornwall, thats why smuggling was the principal industry for a couple of hundred years. Today there are several "secret" coves south of Mevagissy that would be hard to find if you didn't know where to look. The only thing I find a bit worrying about them is poor phone signal

its only a small cove but the access is across private land. The farmer put up a gate and you can hire a key for £100. It keeps the hoards out. Its like a club a lot of people go there to swim every day and there are quite a few who swim in the buff .

I don't believe that a lot of people will quarantine on their return. During the height of the pandemic the Piccadilly Line which connects Heathrow Airport to the centre of London was full of people with suitcases mixing with commuters

No what did he say?

Any copper worth his pay should have seen he was a saddo rather than a baddo. He had non combatent written all over him, body language, posture, general demeanour. Technically the shooting was probably legal but it was a bad judgement call

Asylum shopping is the practice by asylum seekers of applying for asylum in several states or seeking to apply in a particular state after transiting other states. The phrase is used mostly[dubious – discuss] in the context of the European Union and the Schengen Area, but has been used by the Federal Court of Canada.[1] One of the objectives of Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters is to prevent asylum shopping.[2] The Dublin Convention stipulates that asylum seekers are returned to the country where their entry into the union was first recorded and where they were first fingerprinted. Another objective of this policy is to prevent asylum seekers in orbit, i.e., to prevent the continual transfer of asylum seekers between countries trying to get others to accept them.[3] To avoid abuses, European law, the Dublin Regulation, requires that asylum seekers have their asylum claim registered in the first country they arrive in,[4] and that the decision of the first EU country they apply in, is the final decision in all EU countries. However, among some asylum seekers, the fingerprinting and registration is vehemently resisted in countries that are not considered asylum-seeker friendly, as they often wish to apply for asylum in Germany and Sweden where benefits are more generous.[5] Some asylum seekers report burning their fingers so they can evade the fingerprint record control in Italy and apply for asylum in a country of their choice.[6] The fingerprint record, known as the Eurodac system, is used to intercept false or multiple asylum claims.[7] In Ireland, two-thirds of failed asylum seekers were found to be already known to the British border authorities, a third of the time under a different nationality, such as Tanzanians claiming to be fleeing persecution in Somalia.[8]

But why doesn't France just grab them and turn them around? Why doesn't Germany? Why doesn't Italy? or Spain or Portugal? or Greece? Hungary tried to build a fence and got called every name under the sun. This is is where the EU is a firkin joke. Unified, consistent and tough measures at the point of entry are what's required. If every country patrolled the Med and turned all the boats back to north africa every day it would be job done. And it would be a lot easier because (together) we could intimidate the North African countries into taking them back. It may not be ethical but when you are some of the biggest economies in the world you have to flex your muscles It shouldn't be our job to protect the channel from France's failure to address its problem

Have a look on the box and see if it says where it was made. If it says Europe its S&B If is says Mexico its CBC (Magtech) but they are still S&B cases

Interestingly I spoke to my mate Chris today and he had the same problem with a Howa .223 a few years back. He said they "skimmed" his chamber and it was fine after that.

My nephew is an archeologist and this was the subject of a conversation we had some years ago. He was digging up skeletons of suspected plague victims at the time. Its still around, it never went away, but it responds to antibiotics

No, carriage of somebody else's goods for delivery is haulage. carriage of your own goods for delivery could be covered by business use but most private car insurance policies specifically exclude any sort of delivery.

None, they wouldn't be able to pay for it out of what they earn.

I know exactly what you mean. When my mate left the army he was sent on a two week welding course. My friend in USA, his son joined the US Navy as an unqualified 17 year old. He came out with a degree in Aeronautic Engineering and all his papers qualifying him to work on civilian Boeing passenger jets.. The last two years of his service was spent doing crossover training with Boeing. He was not unusual