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Cosmicblue

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  1. £3259 here, 3% rise, expensive when there are just two of us in the house - Band F.
  2. Yes legit and excellent, had some stock work done on a Perazzi there a year or so back.
  3. Maybe our chap was over in South America offering El Presidente advice on using 'economies of the truth' (fibbing), he is an expert in that area after all.
  4. You'd be forgiven for thinking that Royal Mail have a commercial suicide strategy wouldn't you? It just seems a matter of time before the UK follows the German example where Deutsche Bundesposte was taken over by DHL for both mail and parcels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Post
  5. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68513071 Crafty - most likely nothing will happen to him?
  6. I had the exact same problem of Themalite blocks and a gun cabinet fixing requirement - went to a fastener specialist and was recommended to use Excalibur Screw-bolts: https://www.excaliburscrewbolts.com/ One drills a hole to the size of the shaft of the bolt and just screw the bolt in - it cuts it's own thread into the material. The FAO came to do the inspection and was amazed - couldn't rock or budge the cabinet at all - signed it off and went away with the above URL on a bit of paper. They are also used to mount TV wall brackets apparently.
  7. We'd like to downsize - just the two of us (no kids, no one to choose our old people's home), aged mid 60s, nice 4 bed detached house nice area - we'd like a two bed bungalow with a double garage, we have been looking for years....like rocking horse droppings for rarity.
  8. Just scarified mine using one of these (had it for years) https://www.worldofwolf.co.uk/wolf-garten-multi-change-roller-moss-removal-rake-urm3 and it now looks thread-bare When the lawn starts showing signs of life I'll apply weed n feed, that'll kill off the remaining moss and encourage the grass to flourish.
  9. I don't understand golf at all, it seems totally pointless....has to be a social activity like busting clays with a bunch of mates which seems like a good idea to me....😀
  10. Golf pro Georgia Ball on her viral 'mansplaining' TikTok As they say, every day is a school day - 'Mansplaining', had to look it up on Wikipedia - I clearly live a sheltered life. I do wonder if this is really about the unhelpful input delivered by some off camera man or 10m chaps ogling gym-wear?
  11. State pension is funded by our historical NI (National Insurance) contributions, not income tax. In a fifty year working life I have tipped plenty into the pot and now at retirement age it is time to take it back. I was about 30 years of age (66 now), working in a garage when I finally twigged (slow learner😀) that there is no correlation between how hard you work and how much you get paid - there ought to be in a fair world but as most of us have worked out - life isn't fair. Back then in the garage there wasn't even an occupational pension to be had.
  12. Just had a letter from the DWP to say my state pension is rising to £986.52 (paid every 4 weeks) from April - 52weeks/4 = 13 payments so £12,824 - so that will completely wipe out the personal tax allowance of £12,570 in a single pass...oh deep joy.
  13. Having retired last year and started drawing the state pension from September (month following my 66th birthday) I was surprised to find that it is paid in full (i.e. no tax deducted) - every 4 weeks. HMRC, who never miss a trick then deduct the tax for it from other pension income.
  14. Understood. There is this: RONYASOFT CD DVD LABEL MAKER The demo version is unlimited use and will watermark the prints - maybe enough for your needs or buy the full version for the professional end result.
  15. As udderlyoffroad has mentioned - writeable CDs and DVDs have proved to be a poor data storage option - I was holding a pile that had older data-backups on, after 5 years most were unreadable.
  16. New York? Went there is 2012 for 10 days to placate the wife and expected to hate it - and didn't, Its like no other city on the planet that I've ever visited - Stay in the financial district (that's the bottom bit nearest the Statue of Liberty) and discover it goes quiet at night - must visit the Mexican: Mad Dogs and Beans: https://www.maddogandbeans.com/ down there - their Margaritas are lethal, walking back to the hotel was VERY difficult and it was only 2 blocks away. - The have a couple of nights up in Mid-town, just south of central park - nuts, construction sites work 24 hours a day as, its seems, everything else does too.
  17. Cosmicblue

    Dentist

    Dentists are a likely example of the way the whole of the NHS will go eventually as the current arrangement is unaffordable: - Better drugs and technologies mean that people live longer which costs money - Better drugs and technologies cost more money in themselves - our health professionals are underpaid so the NHS needs more money A conversation with my NHS dentist went like this a few years ago..."Under the NHS the treatment is 'X' however that's not really the way it could be done for the best result, current dental techniques in the private sector are 'Y' so if you have a private dental plan this is the way we would approach it". Hello Denplan - costs me about £50/month. UK dentistry is already a two-tier system, the bare minimum vs getting the job done properly, seems only a matter of time before the rest of the NHS follows suit.
  18. Weirdly, the best free convertor is from the author - Adobe: https://www.adobe.com/uk/acrobat/online/pdf-to-word.html
  19. Adblock Plus - Free version: https://accounts.adblockplus.org/en/block-cookie-banners?an=adblockpluschrome&ap=edge&apv=121&av=3.23&p=chromium&pv=121
  20. - Two things you can do. 1) Install a an Advert blocker as an extension to your web browser - I use AdblockPlus: https://adblockplus.org/download, contributing to its development is optional, I do put £5 in from time to time 2) If you are using a PC consider installing a free tool like CCleaner: https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/download/standard Adblock supresses adverts effectively, to the point that some sites will detect it is being used and ask you to turn it off for the site - which you can do. CCleaner's Custom Clean option, left in it's default settings will clear out the cookies that produce annoying pop-ups.
  21. https://czechoslovakgroup.com/en/news/perazzi-acquired-by-czechoslovak-group
  22. Trump reminds Americans of what the USA was like in the late 1980s/early 1990s and offers them the dream of reclaiming it. Back then the US had a strong manufacturing backbone, made good stuff and it was cheap, houses were cheap, cars were cheap, petrol was cheap and stuff in the stores/consumer electronics were cheap, those that wanted jobs had work and it was a genuinely decent place to live. The danger of 'cheap' is that there is always someone, somewhere who will do it for less - as was the case and now, much like the UK their manufacturing base has dwindled away to nothing. Detroit, a once proud automotive city, has almost nothing left, at least here in UK, our equivalent is Coventry and that's faired a bit better. Trump's message gives them hope - it ignores the economic reality of a global economy and that no single prosperous country operates successfully in complete isolation these days - there is huge interdependency. The last presidential run was fairly evenly split so there is a real risk that Trump will get convicted and yet half of the electorate will likely vote for the republicans and see Trump as the President elect. A convicted felon as President, sat in the White House? Of course he'll pardon himself but the possibility of a civil war could be real.
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