jimmydean

Lock isnt where I thought it was so need to look through some boxes - we are in the middle of a move. I'll get back to you when I find it. Cheers

Lewis's did a guaranteed price match when I bought mine and their 5 years guarantee can be relied on. P.S. I dont work for them !

I may have a spare trigger guard lock - bought it ages ago and never used it - I'll check and PM you. If I can find it you are welcome to have it - better used than thrown away. Have a chat with your FEO and see if he'd accept it and then you are away with the mixer ! PM tomorrow.

Why cant people generally keep quiet about these things ? We have all done things we aren't proud of but ..... putting it on face **** seems a little counter productive and so it proved !

It worked in the last house and since it cost £1500 (much cheaper now) of a tax rebate, I will watch it even if I have to sit on it ! Will use your formula to check in the next house - thanks.

Excellent - that made me smile.

I have a panasonic 52" and its a bit too large for the house that we are in at the moment - are you sure 54" is not too large? That said, we have a smaller 24" smart tv and its excellent Samsung - in the next house I think I will go for a 30-40" Good hunting.

To read all these stories is quite heartbreaking - I have been lucky, I've not buried my children and my parents died at a good age. Just as well really as I dont think I would cope as well as most of you have.

So true. When my Dad and I used to go shooting we'd get maybe 12 in a couple of hours, they were prepared, bagged and taken to the local pub (small village) where anyone who fancied one could take one - others brought in different stuff - we got a lot of good veg that way.

I think the way in which you remember those who have died is a very personal thing and there are no rules. Whatever happens, has to be part of the unique bond between you and the person you have lost. Sometimes (as all have said) an intense memory just happens -catching you by surprise but its a reflection of what has happened in life and how much it meant and (as also been said) we should be grateful for that, as it would be so sad and final not to remember. I tend to hold on to memories of those who arent alive any more - who have just touched my life - I feel its a bit of an obligation which keeps them alive in a small way. It would (OP) be perhaps the way you might wish to be remembered after 5 years - you will know best what your friend would have done. I liken it to the 'finger-touch' depiction on the roof of the Cistine Chapel in Rome, which is meant to represent the creation of life. At these moments it may be that the distance between you and them is least, wherever they may now be ?

CZ again - an american. Excellent rifle, scope and mod supplied by Valley Arms Ruthin. A friend uses an Anschutz for target shooting but, make a tripod you shouldn't miss much.

Not strictly true for anyone who enjoys the taste of fish - I buy wild salmon from Canada the farmed stuff is fatty and very 'manufactured'.

Above average drivers are statistically a fact, since, if you have an average, there must be be those below average and those above. I think the point is we do not have enough information on what makes an above average driver, apart from reaction time (maybe) and our own personal arraogance. I would also say that often casualties are caused by the least able or mistakenly overconfident drivers. I am sure we have all seen the recent story where a guy was caught speeding and attended a speed awareness course and was killed on the way back from the course whilst texting on his phone. Sad for his family - but the whole point was clearly lost on him.

The police have suggested that there is a process by which the victims can obtain justice and that appears to be to go through an enquiry under oath where the outcome can be a guilty verdict. My cynicism suggests that to do so would open a legal challenge to compensation and potentially expose a bit more of the truth. IF there is nothing to hide why allow situations where you can be interpreted by many as hiding the truth ? The depth and breadth of this apparent cover -up is beginning to worry me, as what else may be seen to be in the establishments interests and is at best unknown and, at worst illegal ? Although I have say that pedophilia is about as low as it can ever get.

Just a few thoughts based on the comments read. Whilst everyone has an 'opinion', reducing road casualties has been a very successful 'profession' and is a DUTY on local Council's - they cant not do it. There used to be a separation between professional officers in Council's who did their professional best to advise what would work and what would not - like you employ a pilot to fly your aircraft, but control where he flies to. There was always a professional view that general speed limits should be understood as reasonable and would therefore be respected - this translated into what was called the 85%ile speed i.e. 85% of motorists chose to be driving at, based on site measurements. Speed limits therefore used to be set on 85%ile speeds or a method which was related to that. Where casualties started occurring, a detailed analysis would be carried out by specialist Acc Invest staff (trained) to eliminate the potential factors which made this particular place especially dangerous, (lack of conspicuity, accidents during wet situation etc); speed was often found to be a contributory factor. Things changed, two factors were responsible - the first was that local politicians expected and insisted that officers of a Council do as they were told by the elected representatives of the people. So professional independence, a brake on thoughtless action was removed. Best practice for such things as this in Britain were exported all over the world because of the results they achieved. Second was financial. Money became tight and two factors came in to play - first the need to MAKE money (parking charges etc) Money generated by speed cameras either went to the Exchequer or was committed to casualty reduction engineering - a 'virtuous circle'. Second was the relatively small percentage highway spending is of local Council budgets. Close to 80% of Council spending is on Education and Social services and yet a lot of Council's spread the pain of cuts across all Departments on a percentage basis, highways for example is mainly works oriented - stuff you build (resurface, reconstruct, some to save casualties); Education is very much more, salary based (teachers,and so forth) so, cut the budget on percentages and the bigger budgets can find some 'fat', smaller budgets get to the bone quicker. Now we have speed limits set by politicians who 'know' what the local public want because they voted for them on other issues and budget cuts which are very much more regressive on small but important budgets. Cuts were needed and the state should reduce further IMHO but I was once made aware that an Education budget holder hastily spent up his construction budget ( a number of millions) when the budget for resurfacing was being cut by 50%. Rather perhaps than voice our opinions we should look at the facts. Caualty reduction is vitally important work. Making cars safer is vitally important work - as we travel faster these are the improvements directly linked to facts of casualty reduction. Money from speed cameras has altered the way we see the role of inappropriate speed management, as politicisation has altered what trained people can do to ensure and maintain the trust of the driving public that what is done to them is fair and based on facts and outcomes.