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Had a couple of meals in there in last few years, not too bad and cheap enough for pub grub.

Superb stuff JD

With Halloween just around the corner the tv is going to be crammed with some festive horrors. I love a good horror, especially with some humor in it and growing up in the 70's onwards there were always plenty to watch, some great, some not too bad and some bloody awful. My favourites as follows: NIGHT OF THE DEMON (black and white) DR PHIBES ALL THE HAMMER HOUSE OF HORRORS DON'T LOOK NOW THE SHINING THE CREEPSHOW So what are your favourites???

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Hi MM Ate in a pub down south once called 'THE COCK AND SPUR' and the sign had some old style fighting cockerels on it if I recall. What's the chance it called something else now as to stifle 'OUR ENGLISHNESS' LOL! I don't know about a sporting link but surely the oddest named pub I ever did see was whilst I was delivering a freezer in the mid 90's over in Manchester and passed a pub called 'THE PIG AND BALLBEARING'. I still wonder to this day where that name was derived from?

The sad decline of the old English pub CP. Shows how popular following the hounds was back in the day as many 'ale houses' took their names from a social gathering meeting place for a particular passion, or a inn which had sold certain wares at that site among other things such as a local quirk. The pub I have posted about above was on the main carriage way from Liverpool to Southport and stands on the site of a much older inn. I was told many years ago by a local novice historian that it was named the 'hare and greyhound'. As it sits right on the border of the next parish which held 'the' most famous hare coursing meets in the country from the early 1800's, there could be more than a grain of truth in this. The local area also held beagle meets in this parish but the hare coursing was far more popular. This parish which was historically in Lancashire's fertile plains changed to Merseyside in the mid 70's under a border expansion. In the early 80's I joined the local fishing club that used to meet in the function room in the upstairs of that pub. I can still remember it now, the ceiling and walls were so cigarette tar stained that it looked like they were varnished and that smell of stale beer mixed in with it. Wonderful Times!

Also the 'Hare and Hounds' They removed the old sign many years back and replaced it with a new one with a hare sat opposite a hound. Below is an old picture. (no changes as per copyright) Cannot post up a new one as copyright. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. Attribution: Tom Pennington You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

We bought one about 5 months ago, what a wonderful appliance. It has virtually made our gas cooker redundant in terms of cooking for two or three. Does fresh and frozen stuff in a flash, can bake , air fry and max crisp. No preheating your oven, chips perfect and crispy in 10 minutes. They circulate a very even heat. Took me few days to get used to it. Harry, one thing we did buy as an addition were silicone baking trays that are made for the air fryer, these are great for cooking foods in sauces or wet toppings and stop splashes. A few times a year we will still spark up the deep fat fryer for our 'oily chip fix' YUM,YUM,YUM! I am sure we will all look forward to the culinary delights that you will conjure with you ever adept gastronomic skills.

The current rail infrastructure Oop North vs the South in the first few minutes of the clip. Watch at 6.57 seconds is hilarious, the best part.

The grey box will be the Deben ferret finder. Now rare as hens teeth and if you are extremly lucky to get one, the 15ft would be the best job.

Don't get them mixed up.

Thank you gents. Will give it a go. Many thanks for all the replies. 👍

Yes It is leaking from the upper lug adjustable wider nuts in the picture, not the lower nut, nor the thread inserts part into the rad. It not spurting out but enough to produce a constant small weeping. I don't want to overtighten them so have left the valves turned off for now which has stopped the weeping. Many thanks B725 for the info re running the rads if needed. I will make sure it is around 1 bar. And thank you all for you input. No more plumbing for me. 💧

Hi all. Looking for some possible advice from any friendly plumbers on the site. I have attempted to change a bathroom radiator which I thought would be straightforward. I closed off the bottom valves and undone the lugs, drained out the radiator and removed it from the wall. All well and good I thought, until I attached the new one, now leaking from the bottom valves and is a very slight different style wall fittings etc to our old one and appears to require more wall mounting and valve fettling than I envisaged. Anyhow after turning the air blue I have rang a few local plumbers. The response was two who said they do not touch radiators at this time of year and only do boiler fitting and servicing at the present time. One chap who says he should be able to sort it along with having the boiler serviced. Unfortunately he cannot fit it in for a few weeks so I have shut the valves off at present until which time he can fit us in. The question is Mrs sevendays is asking can the boiler still be fired up for the radiators should a cold spell arise before it is sorted? It is a Worcester Bosch combi boiler. Hopefully won't need to at present, however we are unsure if firing the radiators up would be safe or result in damage to the boiler, just not sure? Many thanks for any advice which would be really appreciated. atb 7diaw P.S I should have asked him when he rang me back but I was driving at the time so it was a short conversation.

If I recall correctly didn't France make it illegal to sell plant based foods under the guise of such words as sausage, burger and so on. I read somewhere in the past that studies of brand marketing had shown that labelling the food as a plant based pieces and using non meat words largely impacts sales. Found this though it relates to dairy base products. Vegan brands challenge trading standards on changing wording of vegan dairy products. The cheif exec of the vegan society argues the tem 'not milk' on a product marketed as a cheese replicant is confusing for customers, hardly, I would say that is quite clear what the product represents. It's not made from milk. For sure they be busy lobbying as not to impact sales. https://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2023/07/11/plant-based-brands-hit-back-at-dairy-related-terms This is taken from the article below in relation to guidance from the Advertising Standards Agency for meat free branding. "Advertising should always be clear about what a product is so as not to mislead consumers. The ASA has accepted descriptors such as “meat-free chicken pieces” on the basis that consumers are likely to understand that the claim refers to a meat-free product. This means describing meat-free products as burgers, nuggets or similar is also likely to be acceptable so long as the ad makes clear what the product is." https://www.asa.org.uk/news/advice-on-advertising-vegan-and-vegetarian-products-this-veganuary.html#:~:text=Advertising should always be clear,to a meat-free product.

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Good stuff LB and heres to you still posting at 87. 👍 I will be 65 then and if am not dead will hopefully still be plodding along. I have just gone back to a diesel 2.5 awd auto 4x4 and I am getting better economy to my previous awd petrol 2.0 4x4. I too hope to see out my years in a vehicle that 'i wish to drive' and not a vehicle of choice of some political crony party. NET ZERO GOVERMENT INITIATIVES I go to the supermarket. I buy a packet of pasta (wrapped in plastic) a loaf of bread (wrapped in plastic) a packet of tea (inner coated in plastic) a some chicken (wrapped in plastic) a bottle of milk (wrapped in plastic) when I get to the checkout they ask me do I want a non plastic bag as 'it's good for the enviroment'.

Just bought myself a nice 2.5 auto diesel guzzler this week, tax just short of £700 a year. I am aiming to match china's c02 emissions within the next year and long may I merrily splutter along into my grave.

Love the dry stone wall, my favourite, however all great work. Was in Ambleside today and just got back home. Would have been nice to have seen them in the flesh!

Excellent stuff!

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I live and work in Merseyside and Merseyside records the highest amount of dog bite injuries in the UK at the present time. I would say we see in our unit around 2-3 dog bite injuries every single day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. The last time I asked our medical lead on the numbers of dog bite attendances it was hundreds per month in Merseyside alone because we get the numbers for all presentations to aed, walk in centres, urgent treatment centres and gp's. Just think of the amount of people that get bit and don't present. The bites range from being graded as superficial to severe and depending on where and the extent of the injury the individual sustains depends on how the bite is classified. A complex bite may refers to any bite, eg, head, face, neck, hands, gentital areas and feet as these areas are generally much more vascular and have a lesser degree of tissue/muscle mass. Any puncture bite force or tear can inflitrate vein, nerve, artery, tendon and bone more easily. In such cases the associated risk of blood loss, localised infection, bony infections, fractures, sepsis and both short and long term nerve and disabilty impairment are increased. Deep torso wounds may also be classed as complex if they expose or pull away large areas of the skin and muscle that increase the risk of infection and tetnus infection. Dog bites carry the greatest risk of bite related sepsis in realtion to bites being either human or animal. The reason for this is simply because more people are bitten by dogs than humans or cats. Dogs, cats and humans and many uk mammals have a specific bacteria Capnocytophaga which is mainly responsible for the cause of the sepsis. For virtually all complex bites pictures are taken and once I have sent them across to the plastic surgeons for review I will then ring and discuss the presentation with the palstic surgeon on call. A plan will be formulated and they may wish to see the patient same day or review in plastics trauma assessment unit the following day or so. In such cases I will cleanse out the wounds and cover them with antibiotic/tetanus and red flag them for sepsis, neurovascular and circulatory symptoms and if they develop and symptoms to present rapidly at aed. Patients are always surprised when I inform them that there is a strong likelihood that when they attend to see plastics that they will probably be admitted and put in IV antibitics for a few days. Also there is a likleihood that they will require surgical intervention for a deep cleanse/surgical debridement of the wounds to remove any dead and infected tissue or deep foreign bodies such as broken teeth, soil and debris etc. Any puncture of the skin that results in a fracture to the bone is classed as a open fracture as is a high risk for developing osteomyelitis and is a very seroius bone infection that can be difficult to treat. Post bite/injury complications can be a long road for some requiring multiple operations for reconstructive cosmetic surgery, grafting etc and post bite trauma in children is common. Post sepsis dog bites can be a long recovery and result in long term nerve and dexterity complications and these are the reasons why plastic surgeons are so hot on managing these type of wounds. They don't do it for nothing! For most superficial non complex bites I do not refer and am happy to cleanse out the wound, cover the patient with a oral antibitic, cover with tetanus if required and send them away with advice. Obviously clinical judgment stands and a patient who presents with a superficial bite/bites depending on the amount may require a referral. Sometimes it is in the case of a baby, child or other at risk groups who are also immunocomprimised or have no oversight from a relative such as a frail individual who lives alone. We are obligated to safeguard and rightfully so. I have in the past had to ring the police for them to follow up as a urgent safeguard and vist the home of the child. The reason for this being that the parent/parents left the unit having given an innappropriate history that the mechanism of injury does not fit the presenting injury. For example someone saying that the child has been bitten by their cat when the injury is clearly not from a cat. In my experience most of the deep heavy traumatic injuries are caused by more powerful dogs as this equates to the size of the bite force and sometimes the strength at which the animal can exert a pulling force if they have gripped on. Don't get me wrong I have seen plenty of multiple bites from smaller mutts that result to the legs ,thighs and the gentital groin areas as many smaller dogs can only jump that height and generally cannot drag a person down unless they are frail or are a smaller child. As I have said I can only speak form experience and that the most common dog for heavy inflicted injuries I see are from bull breeds. I have seen some horrendous injuries from them, many occuring when their dog has attacked another dog or another dog has attacked theirs and when they have tried to seperate the bull typre it has clamped down on the owner or other person when trying to seperate them. Other times people are out minding own business such as running, cycling and they just get attacked as they walk past the dog. Bull crosses seem to have that clamp on and don't release temprerament. Speak to any lads who run bull cross lurchers that is the reason they were that popular among the running dog fraternity and still are ,once they get a grip of something it aint going anywhere. Having crossed virtually everything else over greyhounds nothing has come close to the prey drive and sheer will of the bull breeds. From most patients recollections and I have dealt with hundreds upon hundreds of dog bites is that a common theme is for many will have only one or two injuries as the individual typically screams out or boots the dog and it becomes more wary. Face bites are common as people like to pick up there dog or the doggy is asleep and and they put their face up to it and startle it, resulting in a bite. Here in Merseyside as I suspect will be the case in many areas that these powerful breeds are not always bought as a pet or social status. For many I am well informed are used for personal protection when the nefarious are out walking their patches. OFF TO BED NOW! In work in 6 hours and be dealing with woof woof bites.

Very sad indeed. For most the unfortunate risks of vanity due to the ever burgeoning social validation driven by social media. Some of the most common cosmetic health tourism complications I encounter are following surgical eyebrow lifts, breast augmentaion, gastric bypass, gastic sleeving, abdominoplasty also known as a tummy tuck. I can easily say I must have seen patients amounting well into double figures in the last twelve months or so, all with complications and sadly no doubt we are seeing more and more. Every single one of these patients had flown to Turkey for the surgery and I had been the first clinician to see them since arriving home. Most who have presented have had some type of complication be it minor, moderate or severe. Complications can be varied and present as infection, wound breakdown, surgical haematoma (collection of blood at the surgical site or proximal of the site) neurovascular deficit (damage to the blood flow or nerve damage) circulatory compromise such as clots in the blood (dvt/pe) and of course sepsis to name a few. All have required some form of intervention from the NHS in way of an acute consulation presentation, some within short hours of arriving back off the plane, some within the next few days. My intervention has required me to prescribe antibiotics for a few, however for a fair proportion I have end up referring for urgent same day surgical review due to possible life threatening complications. When I have asked patients the reason why they chose to have the surgery abroad mostly the answers have a common theme, accessibility, affordability and quote, "if anything goes wrong the NHS will pick up the peices" Many will report that they experienced very poor pre and post surgical care. On returning home with concerns or complications upon contacting the clinic abroad to be told to go the nhs, furnished with very little information on which surgery they have had carried out, when and where it was done and by whom. There will always be commensurate morbidity and mortality cost in sectors which are largely unregulated. I work in one unit out of a couple of hundred in the country so between all these units, gp practice and people presenting directly to AED the numbers and financial cost must be eye watering. We are more regulated here in the UK but still there are areas of the market that are largely unregulated such as Botox and dermal fillers, Christ, here in Liverpool you can get it done in the hair salons by Sara the beautician. How about this one gents, 'SCROTOX' that is Botox into the ball sack to make it 'tighten up'😬 Cost about £1k and last about 6 months. Zikes!

My adage is trade money for time wherever financially possible. Life is short and can be a fickle thing. atb Bob with whichever decision you come to.