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Physio did an ultrasound and said I have a 6cm Grade 3 tear. It has a lot of blood around it at the moment. Had some acupuncture and light massage so now strapped up with instructions to take it easy and ice for 15 minutes every hour. Interestingly he said not to take ibuprofen or any other ant-inflamatories until after Saturday. Apparently these increase blood supply to the affected area which is not what you want when you have a tear that is still bleeding.
Back to watching cricket after lunch. We are making hard going of it.
The wife just keeps on 'tutting' and 'rolling her eyes'.
Ouch !
Take it easy. Ice on the leg. And in the drinks Mrs AVB will need to keep bringing you
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Although it's a very nice situation to be in, I don't envy you having to make the decision. Naturally your opinion doesn't count, who the hell knows what a woman wants and your boy wants to be doing not sitting.I'd be inclined to take, say, three bites at the apple and possibly regrouping at home for a day or two in between (seen your location). Couple of weeks in the South West based somewhere central-ish and the whole peninsula is in daily striking distance and the opportunities for the lad to get wet, dirty and entertained/educated are legion - plenty for the grown-ups too. Follow this up with the North West of Scotland - impossible for any age group not to be in awe of the grandeur here. Then last, when it's cooler, finish up in London. The good lady can run riot with the plastic and there's lots of blood, guts and thunder historically speaking for you and the lad, not to mention educational with all the various museums, etc, etc.
You're winning from my wife's perspective!
Some places to visit as recommended by a Swiss friend of mine who does not a lot all year round except wander around Europe in a Winnebago with a Fiat 500 Cabrio towed behind -
Timmels Joch
Prato allo Stelvio / Stelvio pass
Stilfers Joch
Sondino
Lago di Como
Lago Maggiore
St. Gotthard
Furka
Gletsch
Handegg
Kaiserstuhl
Obwalden
Sörenberg
Flühli
Langenau
Solothurn
Further into France / or down South to route Napoleon or [/size]Grande Corniche[/size]
Names are mostly in German - but will come up in Google.
Enjoy. Throw away (or at least put away) socks, phones and watches.
Thank you - I would love to visit some of those places - may be using my holidays now to do so
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I'm with yod on this. You got 6 weeks to do something amazing, you can do caravaning in France or Cornwall in a week any time you choose. How about something like touring the Far East (doesn't have to be back packing, loads of decent hotels) or the pan American highway, or Australia and nz, or tour the national parks of the US?
Loads to consider, but if doing anything 'exotic' look into getting all visas in place as early as possible, nothing worse than deciding to go somewhere only for the embassy to say there's a 6 week wait for a visa.
I agree. Whilst a long holiday is attractive, and many of the trips are the sort of thing I actually would enjoy, for me this has to be about using the 6 weeks to do something I simply couldn't do within a 'normal' holiday. Which is why I posted seeking some inspiration. Which a number of you have provided, thank you. I am currently Googling the likely cost of a Scottish sporting estate with a castle, clearly, but am suspecting something else will usurp it. Learning to sail and spending 6 weeks sailing from interesting place to interesting place is appealing to me, but I fear less so to the Mrs.
Great shout too about visas etc - I never plan anything really, so that was another reason for posting to really try and get the maximum value from this once / twice in a career opportunity.
Keep the ideas flowing if you have any more please, and thank you to each and every one of you that has taken the time so far to share your thoughts or ideas - it is really appreciated
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+1. There's time for the children later!
You chaps are clearly onto something...... but I do want to spend the time with him !
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Rent a Scottish Sporting Estate (with castle) to include August. All basis covered.
Slightly tongue in cheek.
Lucky you.
That's my favourite so far!
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+1 I got took to Yellowstone when i was 11, it was one of my best /memorable experiences.
I best look at that too then, thanks both, as wasn't really fancying the US
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I would take a slow drive down to Rome stopping off at lots of places of interest on the way. Over the mountain passes in the Alps Then back across to Northern Spain via St Trop and ferry back. r
I'd love that. As would the Mrs. Will have to Google what could be in it for a 7 year old though I guess he could be interested in Romans by then
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This is bang on, go on line and get Conn Iggulden's dangerous book for boys i have it its great.
You can go to digger land have a google to find your nearest we went to the one near Leeds great day out.
You can stay at Warwick castle and not sure how but have him help to wind the catapult but I mean treb er ja thingy can't spell it??
That's two of the things he wants, then a big *** camper van down and into France stopping as you want sounds great to me.
Am with you on Warwick Castle - am trying to sort that during this years summer holidays. Providing I get to be a knight too !
Digger Land is opening only a few miles from us next year I think so will be there a lot am sure.
Dangerous book for boys is a top shout - I bought that for a colleagues boy years ago so will go order one for mine now as had completely forgotten about it - thank you!
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How about a canal holiday you can make easy or hard it's up to you ,not sure if you can still get the camping ones very basic you just pich you tent at the end of the day
I have taken him on a day trip before- he liked the locks and I guess I could get him into fishing, just not sure currently he would want to sit on the boat for hours each day to get anywhere though
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The last word in your post "memorable" is the most significant but look at this from 2 angles, for him, that mostly means 'fun' but for you, the real value in your memories will be the time you spent getting to know him more.
Make things
Build things
Catch things
Discover things
Camp
Cook
Climb
Explore
Teach
The things we hold dearest are not the things that our parents bought for us but what they gave us.
Regards
GG
Thank you - I think you have the making of something there
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hire a decent top of the range camper van.....and please yourself and the family all over our septered isle......plan your next stop together over the table after supper..............
I am quite fancying a tour of Britain - but not so sure about a camper van. My little boy is quite keen on a tent for the Defender roof. But my wife absolutely isn't!
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Funnily enough I did briefly earlier (so I don't think you sound bad or nasty !). He quite fancies being a knight and living in a castle. Or going to the moon. Both of which seem tricky today but I guess things could change in two years.
His main interests are tractors and diggers !
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Dear All
It looks like I'm going to be offered the chance to take 6 weeks off (as a bloc), paid, on top of my leave entitlement etc to do whatever I like (essentially). But in 18 months time. Despite the obvious attraction to shooting every day during that season, in reality I want to do something as a family. Which means I need to do something that my wife and little boy (who will be 7 by the time I can do this) can also take part in.
My rough plan is to take the entire 6 week summer holiday that my little boy has from school that year and do something in this period. I can use some of my leave entitlement too but don't want my son to miss school so unlikely that is a viable option. Unless you come up with something amazing that needs 8 or 9 weeks.
So my request, please, is for ideas as to what I / we could do ? I'm fortunate to have a healthy budget so money shouldn't be too much of an issue. But as this is likely to be a one off (unless i stay for another 7 years after) then I'm keen to do something memorable......
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It was the algorithm behind their surge pricing that did it. They switched it off once a human being realised what was happening. They have refunded all fares today making the journeys free. They did the same 2 weeks ago in Manchester.It should be noted that London cabbies offered people free rides home after the attack. Whereas I believe Uber put their prices up.
I understand they are going to donate to the Manchester charity tonight a sum equal to all the Uber fares too and from the concert.
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Have a look on moneysavingexpert.co.uk - there is a pretty handy tool on there that will work out the best place / deal for you
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I've been to that arena countless times. Whilst I've since moved away I still think of Manchester as my home town.
One of my sisters best friends went to collect her kids from the concert last night. Her kids have come home but she hasn't. She's 'missing' currently. As is the friend that was with her. There is faint hope that the friend my be seriously ill in intensive care as a nurse called to say she recognised the patient from a photo. There is no news of my sisters friend save for police confirmation that they have pinged her phone and it is still at the arena.
On a more positive note, my parents neighbours were also there. They left via the main exit, but for some inexplicable reason turned left and down some stairs rather than heading into the main foyer. As they reached the bottom of the stairs they heard the explosion. They told my sister 'but for the grace of god....' but as an atheist I struggle with that.
I'm too numb to think about much of the discussion above, but came home from work early to hug my little boy instead
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Oh, sorry to hear that JDog, condolences from Mrs SNS and myself
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Thanks all - I shall have a look at the Bowman too and then get one ordered
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Am considering buying one to shoot a few clays in our paddock. I like the look of the GDK Trading seated one with two arms & 3/4 cocking. Anyone got one/ used one and have a view as to how good ?
I won't use it often I suspect but thought may be a laugh for me and the Mrs to shoot a few clays during the summer whilst waiting for the season to start
Many thanks in anticipation.....
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Some great pictures there !
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The UK sells 44% of its exported goods to the EU....and the UK buys 53% of its imports goods from the EU!........and yes, the EU put money into U.K. Farming, by way of grants and susidies, but it was the UK's own money!........and the EU kept the €7.1 billion surplus out of money the U.K. Paid to the EU in 2016......
Out of interest where are those numbers from ? The Sunday Times had some charts (from 2015 numbers from the ONS) that are quite different - 47% of our exports going to the EU but only 7% of exports of the EU coming to us
Though when you look at it in terms of absolute values we sell a bit over 200 billion to them and they sell almost 300 billion to us.
Conclusion appears to be selling to them is more important than them selling to us given we are 7% of their market and they are 47% of ours.
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I got mine done at Urban Truck in Milton Keynes,along with a touch screen sat nav and tons of other stuff
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Should I point out you could also have got £42 CashBack if you had bought it through topcashback.co.uk or better if I save that for next years renewal??
Panorama and Tax avoidance
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Couldn’t resist adding this
Suppose that once a week, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to £100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this...
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay £1.
The sixth would pay £3.
The seventh would pay £7.
The eighth would pay £12.
The ninth would pay £18.
And the tenth man (the richest) would pay £59.
So, that's what they decided to do.
The ten men drank in the bar every week and seemed quite happy with the arrangement until, one day, the owner caused them a little problem. "Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your weekly beer by £20." Drinks for the ten men would now cost just £80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes. So the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free but what about the other six men? The paying customers? How could they divide the £20windfall so that everyone would get his fair share? They realized that £20 divided by six is £3.33 but if they subtracted that from everybody's share then not only would the first four men still be drinking for free but the fifth and sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer.
So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fairer to reduce each man's bill by a higher percentage. They decided to follow the principle of the tax system they had been using and he proceeded to work out the amounts he suggested that each should now pay.
And so, the fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (a100% saving).
The sixth man now paid £2 instead of £3 (a 33% saving).
The seventh man now paid £5 instead of £7 (a 28% saving).
The eighth man now paid £9 instead of £12 (a 25% saving).
The ninth man now paid £14 instead of £18 (a 22% saving).
And the tenth man now paid £49 instead of £59 (a 16% saving).
Each of the last six was better off than before with the first four continuing to drink for free.
But, once outside the bar, the men began to compare their savings. "I only got £1 out of the £20 saving," declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, "but he got £10!"
"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a £1 too. It's unfair that he got ten times more benefit than me!"
"That's true!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get £10 back, when I only got £2? The wealthy get all the breaks!"
"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison, "we didn't get anything at all. This new tax system exploits the poor!" The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next week the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had their beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important - they didn't have enough money between all of them to pay for even half of the bill!
And that, boys and girls, journalists and government ministers, is how our tax system works. The people who already pay the highest taxes will naturally get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy and they just might not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas, where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
For those who understand, no explanation is needed.
For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.