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Smoke and mirrors. It's the immigrants fault my state pension is poor, it's the woman down the road with six kids by three different fathers fault my state pension is poor. When the reality is Johnson has lead the UK into spaffing billions on Zelensky and Ukraine and then spaffed an almost equal eye watering sum on PPE equipment from Tory Party cronies. It's just easy though to blame some poor man in a boat or some poor woman in a council house rather than admit that the money actually is there but it can't be had because doing so would make the life of offshore fundholders like Jacob-Rees Mogg and and his cohort uncomfortably enough impoverished to have to have only the the one bottle of wine at dinner.

What they have done is this, no more and no less. They have fulfilled their part of a contract between them and the state that if they paid a weekly "stamp" that they would receive a weekly old age pension I(women at age 60, men at age 65) when they finished work. And rightly they expect that contract to be honoured. There is no hypochecation of taxes in the UK so they will have paid in also in income tax, purchase tax, stamp duty, excise duty, television license, radio licence and VAT. And if instead of paying some of that tax they had paid it in to a private pension they'd have been better off. And had they died before age 60 or 65 their estate would have received those private pension premiums back. But in every case they'd have been better off and received a better return than they have received by the state taking that money from them. And lastly if they do or did pay into a private pension they did not expect Gordon Brown to the rip the backside out of it in 1997. So they complain perhaps with some right to complain.

PM replied to and the "mouli" is all wrapped and packed.

The old big difference was that under French inheritance law you couldn't disinherit your children and there was also an obligation, I think, to provide for a spouse. As JOHN UK said you really really do need current and up to date advice on that. It is very different from the UK. There was a recent case in France as to if a will made in the UK trumped French inheritance law rights of possible beneficiaries that had been ignored by the UK made will.

Some FEOs will think that being up in the loft may mean that you won't use the cabinet if it is less easy to access than, say, a bedroom or other place.

It's hard not to. Because I never realised there were so many guns that I "must have" for my collection. Happily to then discover that by fortunate coincidence the Oxford Gun Company may have that very make, model and variant in stock! Callooh! Callay! Oh frabjous day! Which, Lewis Carroll, I find myself bringing to mind as the lad does remind me somewhat in appearance and manner of one of either Tweedledum or Tweedledee. But, as Alice, I look from one to the other and can never decide...

When I lived in Saint Ouen sur Seine (alas the 93me) I paid no Taxe d'Habitation or as we'd call it Council Tax. The same as in Puteaux in the 92me and the same as far as I recall in Westminster in London as the rates and taxes paid by commercial businesses were sufficient to cover the council's expenditure. Buses and Metro and RER were also cheaper that say the London Underground. A single Metro ticket being 2.50€ for bought from a machine. But during this year's Paris Olympics between July and September that cost will be 4€ from a machine but still the lower price for Paris and Francilien residents. However much of a French councils expenditure is now directly gifted to them by the French national government so typical Daily Mail the article may be true but isn't accurate in that the price is that French national government taxes inhabitants pay such as income tax are higher.

As he said. My late grandfather did bowl turning and made furniture also. Lignum vitae was also used in best quality woods (as in bowling).

Yes absolutely a minefield.

I have something that you may wish to buy? A French style rotating hand operated "Mouli". The pictures here of the one I have surplus to my needs. It can be yours for £10.00 posted 2nd Class Recorded Delivery. The identical thing is on eBay for £8.55 postage free in case that is a better option for you? Not I'd add being sold by me and the seller has poor feedback. So you pays your money and takes your risk. Anyway the seller on eBay's description is thus: Food Mill s/s 14cm DIA 27cm LONG Guaranteed Quality

I have posted this on another forum and perhaps those who are members of such as CA, BASC, SACS, NGO might ask their organisation. I am with the CPSA so I'll only be asking them about clay pigeons. Ah well I'd say that according how the GL is worded it is NOT legal if the stubbles (or roost) are on land owned by a party different from the party that owns the land that has the crop on it that is suffering damage. Unless the person who owns the land on which the crops being damaged asks you to protect them by shooting those birds "at distance" from their land where the damage they are suffering is taking place?So my reading the s27 is that if they are owned by two different parties that you need the authorisation of BOTH the owner of the land where you are shooting the birds and the owner of the land where the birds are causing the damage.So it might be argued that as the "action authorised" is to protect land that the authorisation must also be given by the person on which those crops are situated? As if the person owning that land (the on which those crops are situated) does not agree to you protecting them on their behalf then you have no permission, surely, to claim that you have the lawful right conferred by the GL?Authorised Person has this meaning: ‘Authorised person’ has the same meaning given in section 27(1) of the 1981 Act. It includes the owner or occupier of the land on which action authorised by this licence is to be taken, or any person authorised by the owner or occupier.The scenario I have in mind is this. I am in the woods that form Smith's Covert. Roost shooting pigeons. Smith, after who the covert is named, is a dairy farmer. The police attend and ask what I am doing. I claim the "rights" under GL42. So they asks which crops? I tell them the field of sown or emerging X, Y, Z crop just there adjacent to Smith's Covert.The field is on Jones's land. So the police contact Jones. Jones says first that he has never heard of me, that he doesn't need his crops protecting as he has daylight firing gas guns for that and, finally, that in any case he wouldn't given permission to anyone to shoot on his land on a Saturday afternoon as he objects to the noise disturbing him listening to "Final Score" on the BBC television. So now what happens? It is no different from my (I live in a rural village) shooting pigeons in my back garden and claiming that I am preventing damage to the crops in the field literally just across the road.

This. Many police forces don't like, as far as my experience goes, single lock gunsafes. My own two side by side gunsafes were bespoke made by Leicester Sheet Metal and passed s5 inspection back in the day. If you look in eBay it is almost "awash" with pre-owned gunsafes and as most are collect the seller isn't coming to you house so you can get a third party friend to bid if you want extra anonymity as to your address.

Nicely parkerised is that now. Coca Cola being partly phosphoric acid.

I owned, at one time, Tom Collin's Winchester Model 12. At that time they were, just until the Tory Government 1988 Act moved them to s5, still s1 as it had an under twenty-four inch barrel. I acquired it from the dispersal sale of his estate sale at Weller & Dufty. It was surrendered and of course being on my RFD I received no compensation as the the authors of the 1988 Act decreed that there would be none and that RFDs must bear the loss as part of the normal risks of business.

If that is so then use a "creeping" oil or such like Plusgas? Which when I used to do cars in my youth we used to swear by and, sometimes, swear at! https://www.plusgas.co.uk/en-gb

Yes. Sadly so. Sadly so. Like the old joke about the shepherd defending himself in Magistrates' Court. "So have you anything to say in your defence? This disgusting thing you've done? What say you?" "Just that they didn't seem to mind it much, your Worship. Except when I tried to kiss them as well."

This. And/or but not with the diesel slopping all over try freezing the barrels and then when WELL frozen plunging the muzzle in boiling water. In theory the difference in expansion should "break" any seal.

Oh. Leaks of water. Sorry. I thought it was a sheep got stuck.

They fear as the final point of sequence suffering the fate of Benito Mussolini or of in more recent times Nicolae Ceausescu. In democracies the worst that happens is the furniture van and the removal men turn up. In autocracies it's often somewhat not at all the same.

Yes. I will. I am trying to decide which one of the two 12 gauge A-5 guns I shoot least worst with. The one with the standard stock or the one with the trap stock! Then the added complication that as the 16 gauge has anyway a standard stock do I really want a 12 gauge with a different dimension stock. But, yes, I will keep you in mind. I am n the East Midlands BTW.

Here in the UK the 16 gauge ones that you see most often are the 2 9/16th inch chambered ones. Which have the fixed ejector on the back of the barrel. In theory they are the ones to have here and use standard 2 1/2" 16 gaune loads. But, of course, the 2 3/4" chambered guns which have a rearward moving ejector on the back of the barrel will handle BOTH 65mm and 70mm cases.

Going on it being labelled as "INV PLUS", SCULLY, I am guessing a Browning? As "Invector" is likely a protected marque name? But I hope this helps you? https://trulockchokes.com/choke_identification_tool.html

I don't know in truth. I have a standard stocked A-5 of about the same time and a standard stocked 16 gauge A-5 of about the same time. I am very happy to say that the 16 gauge is a proper, as made 2 3/4" model both barrel and receiver. The three are basically steel shot back up guns. I'll post pictures of them perhaps tomorrow. And, yes, on the gun in the picture it is a correct vent rib barrel.

Here's a 1960 made Browning Auto-5 in it's correct take down case by the Mastra Company. It's the first A-5 I have seen in the UK that appears to have what is a "trap" stock fitted rather than the usual standard stock that has more drop at the heel. Barrel is a genuine ** marked so about modified choke. On s2 so has the usual restricted magazine that became law in the UK under the Tory Government 1988 Act. Sadly the case is a bit knocked about on the ends...which I suppose is the point of these cases I suppose. Here's a picture of the guncase factory. The building still is there and still in use but the Mastra Company aren't.

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