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Wb123

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  1. We were quoted 1600 for ours.
  2. I'd buy that in a heartbeat if i was that close. Enjoy it a little more for me.
  3. Could be ours by the sounds of it. Get someone one who knows a thing or two about horses (not a mad woman) to have a look. Just like with labradors the ribs should be just visible in work if suitably fit. Ours is on field rest and a tight diet, and as out of work and unclipped has no need for a rug (jacket). He churns up the ground but the alternative is box rest which given no exercise won’t do. I hate to admit it but I am slightly impressed with how the rspca handled the call.
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    Help To Buy ISA

    We haven’t recently looked but last time we did the limits on use meant we wouldn’t get the extra contribution. Depending on their circumstances though it might be worthwhile.
  5. Not my bag and I would be very hesitant to put someone with visible tattoos in my team at work. We we have more than enough complaints about a girl with too many piercings and blue hair at the moment.
  6. I’ve had that before with rapeseed oil when they had it at 45p a litre. I wanted to buy their whole stock but again they insisted six bottles max so between me and a mate we came out with just twelve.
  7. Way back when I did my gcse DT I got a good third of the project work done over the summer holiday before starting back for final year. We effectively designed our own projects with a little guidance at the end of the spring term of the penultimate year then were expected to start final year with the bulk of the non workshop stuff completed. Im not elderly and have never had issues with stiles.
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    Droppings

    Many years ago at a cub camp I went for a **** in the woods then a few hours later found thirty people stood around my stool discussing what kind of beast did it. On that note I’m calling this a ditchy ****.
  9. Having spent a reasonable amount of professional time with the police I am in no way whatsoever keen on them all being armed. I have known a select handful who have repeatedly not got into firearms training who were clear that their life’s ambition was to shoot a criminal, entirely the wrong starting point for carrying firearms. A select few appropriately chosen is absolutely a good idea, what proportion of the overall workforce is probably best left to those who make such decisions for a living.
  10. Is this vitality or bupa per chance? If so hit the ombudsman.
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    Sinn Fein

    I do them but charge unless it’s a friend/acquaintance, the problem is people get upset at the amount one needs to charge to replace normal work. It’s not like it’s extra work, it tends to end up displacing more profitable work. Colleagues who who have tried doing them for free in the hope it gets lots of people coming back for other work have found they get inundated once word gets round, but they don’t see any increase in paid work.
  12. We budget all in £800 a month. Livery is only £220 of that and when we looked at keeping at home maintaining an arena, jumps, stables, cross country course access etc wasn’t going to break even for a very very long time. It does vary month by month but we keep detailed records and it has averaged £710 a month over the last three years. That includes every last drop of fuel used, maintaining the trailer, competition fees and expenses, coaching, insurance, feed, tack maintenance and replacement, farrier, vet, immunisations, a portion of the Landrover running costs, everything that were it not for the horse would not have been spent. That’s for one horse and a showjumping habit. I have occasionally ally had one on loan for a couple of days a week. That is much more cost effective and generally worked out at £12 a day three days a week.
  13. The implication of all I had heard is that they were going to Dublin where they have a much bigger issue with criminals shooting each other. If so hand him over to the guarda and let the Irish fund his prison stay rather than you and I.
  14. Makes an almighty mess, the Phillips one with the vacuum is a slower trim but faster overall once you consider clean up.
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    robot mower

    Some people near us have one and it never looks great. Not sure what kind they have.
  16. Fair point, all my haggling has been over fairly short contracts and directly with bean counters rather than those I directly work with. If in a long term post it may be worth holding off the negotiation till annual appraisal time.
  17. Never heard of it. What snake oil is it?
  18. It’s well worth looking around at what he might get elsewhere. I have rarely done badly from negotiating on price, either by taking cheaper work in exchange for other perks or where I have turned down work for being priced too low. ‘that’s our standard rate’ can be met with ‘I will go elsewhere then’. You do need to be able to walk though and they need to know you can.
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    Tilley lamp

    If you don’t want to use meths try using one of those small jet lighters to warm the vaporiser. Works very well for my whisperlite.
  20. Unless asleep, in the shower, or doing something at work that needs to be seriously clean I wear a watch. Always mechanical, never quartz. I don’t like the way the second hands move.
  21. When coming off nights I use 6mg melatonin before a normal bed time to reset the body clock. I sleep like a log for one night with slightly weird dreams then it’s all back to normal.
  22. The PM can expect a cracking book deal and speaking work after their term which has to be considered as part of the package and worth very considerably more than their state pay.
  23. They were trucking the stuff in from Spain last year. We had a terrible harvest locally but I think things were much better in England.
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    Investments

    Mine is almost all in shares, but I finally got a relatively stable job so will be looking to liquidate a chunk of it for a house deposit.
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