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  1. I was waiting a few more weeks here to be sure the does had stopped suckling when they all vanished overnight.
  2. Wb123

    Moving house

    Last time i moved the guns were locked in the safe in the car under a huge pile of stuff the night before leaving to allow time to make the wall good. 0530 got moving, arrived at new address 2300, put locked safe in hallway and bolted in the next day. The problem we encountered was the customs lot not being able to find the cabinet on the way through customs.
  3. I thought you could still get dummy dpf casings to get a system with the filter removed through the mot. http://www.darksidedevelopments.co.uk/blog/fake-dpf-pipes-now-available/ Failing that save your money and get something old enough not to need one.
  4. I would also be interested to know for my 452. Honing the contact sufaces of the safety mechanism helped that a lot, operating it was a two hand job before.
  5. Turn it around, why should anyone not have to pay if we say state provision should be a safety net for those in dire straits who are entirely unable to contribute? I think an Australian model should be where we head. A state contribution but the individual tops up, either with cash or via insurance.
  6. I have had stuff milled from ebay before. Search and you will find people advertising there. Get a few quotes and away you go. I got a firing pin made up when i couldnt get one off the shelf.
  7. Chased up my fac today as it was in to remove a sold shotgun. Posted it six weeks ago and was running low on ammunition, sent an email last night and got a reply this morning saying they had dug it out, sorted it out, and put it in the post back. They also had sorted out my better halfs one at the same time. Seems a shame to have had to chase it but every time i have had reason to contact them they have been fantastic and got things done in hours. I wonder why they are so helpful here relative to what people report from the mainland.
  8. Absolutely, finding private GP is tricky around here though. Private gp with access to nhs prescriptions and secondary care could be a great way to sort out the gp recruitment and retention crisis without needing a full rehash of the system.
  9. A bit if context is important, i fear you are assuming there is any serious interest in addressing the issue. In finance the whole buisness model requires information security, in monopolised healthcare for the most part people dont take buisness elsewhere (though there are examples where encouraging just that can be highly beneficial). We are frequently told not to do x,y,z for risk of patient records being leaked. X,y, and z are unavoidable parts of the job, the fines to the trust should information leak are not enough to make changing the system a financially viable option, and not doing x,y,z would mean no job.
  10. I have a box that seem ok. Struggling to get some cci subs to group at all though.
  11. Some of the systems where I work are on DOS. New software is expensive and disruptive, when the frontline work cant be delivered adequately on the available funding why spend on IT? I have worked in health settings with very secure and functional IT arrangements but things werent being done at the very cheapest possible price.
  12. Whilst a smaller gauge would be fun to try i fail to see what else it would bring for my shooting (mostly clays with the odd walked up bit of game). Over the last two years i have averaged only 4-5000 cartridges a year so cartridges are not a huge expense, but it is the most frequent major outlay which feels painful to the wallet. Even if doubling in price .410 would not actually be a huge difference in expenditure, the £25 for clays each time i go out is easilly forgotten in a way that the 2000-3000 cartridge stockup roughly every six months isnt.
  13. Was using hull compx 21g or Eley 21g but cant get them here. Currently on lyvale express 21g.
  14. I heard the really expensive leather lined ones are made in france but the rest in morroco. Aigle I understand still make everything in France.
  15. I dont object to paying for quotes and suspect it would be a better way to do things. Most of the people i send privatewards will phone secretaries for rough estimates of costs before choosing who to see for a serious paid consultation with a view to quoting for the full job. Do you really want to pay the extra it takes to cover your man going out and quoting five more jobs to get his next bit of work? If you pay for the quote or pay for the job it is included each way but you dont pay for the other four quotes he spent the time on and didnt get.
  16. Even as a conservative voter i do feel a credible opposition is important.
  17. I aleays buy my cartridges from places i want to keep in buisness for when i need an rfd nearby...
  18. I have some dents leather and wool ones i rather like.
  19. I quite like wind turbines in a strange way, less keen on the solar panels.
  20. Eat less do more. Very tricky to do. I find if i cycle to work, always take the stairs, walk briskly, and walk to the supermarket for every shop i can eat like a pig and stay a 32 inch waist (just). A few years ago i got fat and had to really watch what i ate, it was bloody miserable. Fortunately throwing out every item of clothing as i could fit into a smaller size meant there was no way back, and the habits gained have held up. Stopping eating when you no longer feel hungry rather than eating everything infront of you for the sheer pleasure of it also helps (it halved the amount i was cooking).
  21. I always used to give the cylinder a quick hone to deglaze till just rough to the thumbnail when changing rings. Never worried about running in after that and seemed to get away with it. Is it definitely blowing past the rings? Could you have cooked or unseated your valve stem seals?
  22. The problem is that they arent a government body. Your local health board is, they contract out to your gp. The firearms work is not in the contract and thus not paid. Other good examples of chargeable work which you might also think are one government body instructing another are fostering or adoption related medicals, driving licence medicals, medicolegal work where the police want reports or any professional opinion (witness statements are slightly different on paper, in practice not really different), cremation forms, school letters. As any other buisness some will do some work for free or as a good will guesture, others will run a tighter ship. If you dont like it you can vote with your feet and take your registration elsewhere. Depending on how profitable you are on the work that is actually paid you may find they are keen to keep you, or alternatively very glad to see you go.
  23. We have all done such things. It hurts a bit less when you can at least share the blame but in this case i would just take it on the chin, repair and crack on. If feeling charitable id put some marker on the sleepers for the next chap, it sounds like you wont have been the first or the last to hit them.
  24. Met in a nice relatively busy rural pub. Explained the situation on arrival to the landlord who set us at a nice big table by the fire and asked anyone else entering the oub where they were planning to sit. If up our way he explained what was going on. No trouble, good chat with the locals, all on cctv, decent beer, what more could you want.
  25. I have the chris batha book. The youtube videos i find much more useful than the book.
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