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I suspect many who move abroad do so for lifestyle reasons and would continue to do so even if UK salaries were on a par with their chosen destinations. Ironically experienced doctors are motivated to retire early when their high salaries mean their pension pots reach the £1,073,100 LTA limit. Maybe we could mitigate this by reducing their salaries 🙃 https://www.wesleyan.co.uk/insights/2022/09/doctors-leave-nhs

One little ray of hope: "Our governments should work together..."

The problem there is if the reason "Pay has fallen 30% in real terms in 10 years apparently" is pay rises have not kept pace with inflation over the past 10 years, they might just struggle to find another field of endeavour where that is not also the case. Remember the economy was still trying to recover from the 2008 crash for a good chunk of that time and then there was the Covid response. Of course medics are paid from the public purse so the normal rules of economics shouldn't apply to them...

I'm in central Scotland and it's getting down to -2C at night outside and probably a few degrees above that where he is. So yes, describing it as Baltic is a bit hyperbolic 🙃 Thanks guys for all the comments. And, beautiful looking dogs Dave 👍

My lab sleeps in a room off the kitchen and it gets pretty Baltic in there just now when the heating goes off at night. Was feeling guilty last night all cosy under my duvet so I went down and threw a fluffy blanket over him, but he was lying on top of it this morning. (probably been humping it during the night...) I let him out and he went straight to rolling about on the frosty grass - not something I'd want to do if I was feeling cold. So just wondering about dog's tolerance for cold in general, what can they actually take before they start feeling miserable?

I think the operative word in your question is "happy". An older dog can have physical limitations but still enjoy life, even if that just amounts to going shorter walks with you and lying around watching the world go by. But if she stops eating and refuses to go walks and generally looks miserable, it's probably time. When the time came for my last dog I had the vet come to the house and would recommend that as better for the dog and you. As I recall it was not extravagantly expensive, maybe around £100, and some insurance policies will cover for that - I think mine did.

Webley Junior confiscated by my parents - never found out what happened to that. Honda 400/4 supersport. Tried to sell it to a dealer for £350 and was turned down - too many little things wrong with it, would have to be a scrapper £175. Gave it to my dad who rebuilt it and rode it until he developed MND, at which point he sold it to a workmate. Some now fetching 5k plus on ebay. I find it hard to part with vintage camera stuff, particulary large-format lenses - these have a beauty and mystique in themselves.

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/notes-from-the-sticks-the-rabbit-pandemic/ As a child I always enjoyed spotting rabbits by the roadside when we drove through the countryside at night. I don't recall ever seeing a deer. Now I see deer all the time, even in the park in the middle of my town, but rarely a rabbit. Quite sad really.

Ask Ordnance... "...according to Ordnance" If he agrees posting "simply facts" does not automatically constitute conspiracy nonsense we can have an interesting and meaningful discussion around how vaccine zealots apply their criteria to emerging data.

You assert without evidence that I believe in conspiracy theories - I do not. I do not recall ever posting anything speculating on whether there was a covert group or secret plot behind covid 19 or the vaccine rollout. As the saying goes "never attribute to conspiracy that which can be adequately explained by stupidity". It does not require belief in covert groups or secret plans to recognise there are genuine negative outcomes from the covid jab, and to believe these should be quantified and qualified. You, on the other hand, manifestly believe there is a worldwide movement involving government agencies, research establishments, otherwise reputable doctors and scientists - and even Pfizer - to publish vast amounts of fabricated and misleading information in an attempt to inhibit take-up of the "safe and effective" vaccine. That makes you the actual conspiracy theorist, not me. That's hilarious! A few posts ago you stated a friend of yours suffered a blood clot which his doctor acknowledged was caused by the vaccine. That makes you a spreader of conspiracy nonsense, and this forum part of the twilight zone of the internet according to Ordnance. Yet here you are agreeing with him. It seems critical thinking skills are in short supply all round when it comes to vaccine zealots.

Says you - well known regurgitator of general delusional nonsense. If you actually want to contribute to the conversation, make a reasoned attempt to refute some of the testimonies and data presented in the film. Gordon seems to think you are capable of such a trivial intellectual exercise. Do it for his sake, don't let him down, he'll get so upset. 😭😭😭

OK, now that Ordnance has shut up, back on topic. https://www.oraclefilms.com/safeandeffective

They've been banging the drum about those for ages but are still going to get slaughtered according to the polls. It will have to be more direct than that. Since Dems like mail-in ballots and early voting, whereas Republicans, especially MAGA folks, prefer to vote in person on the day, look out for large scale disruption at Republican leaning precincts. "Oops so many voters have turned up that we seem to have run out of paper and ink for the printers so we can't print any more ballots. We've sent an urgent message to the paper mill to make some more of that special paper for us and we're scouring the country for A5342A printer cartridges but there seems to be a national shortage of those at the moment. Oops, the polls are now closed, so sorry you had to wait all this time for nothing..."

No doubt they have a "plan". Can't see them just handing over the reigns of power and walking away.

As I suspected, you really are a sociopath - you need help. By the way: "the vaccines are safe and effective" == "the world is flat" Let's see you disprove that statement since you're so sure you have a corner on all truth.

Anyone who can dismiss what happened to 12 year old Pfizer Covid Vaccine Trial participant (victim) Maddie De Garay as conspiracy nonsense is morally bankrupt. https://odysee.com/@EvidenceOfTruth:4/maddie:39 https://odysee.com/@EndYourSlavery:8/Rigged-Pfizer-Trial-Hid-Injuries,-Maddie's-Story:6

You need to keep quiet then 🤔

Appearances can be so deceptive 😜😜😜

Strangely enough you've never presented a credible response to anything I've posted. On the rare occasions you tried you just made a fool of yourself, So now you just resort to name-calling which is a tell you've lost the argument, and you know it.

This is a statement of "fact", which implies you think you have superior knowledge about "reality" than the rest of us... Deny it all you like, but by opposing the dissemination of information contrary to your own beliefs you are trying to steer others away from refusing the jab and towards getting it. This is a statement of "fact", which implies you think you have superior knowledge about "reality" than the rest of us...

For the best part of two years whenever anyone suggested there might have been issues with the vaccines, there you were yelling "don't look, don't look - conspiracy theory" Now that the massive harms caused by the covid jab are unequivocal the only response you can come up with is "who cares?". But thanks for giving me permission to keep posting my material; I shall and I don't expect you to respond any more since it appears you have nothing further to add to the conversation.

And here was me thinking that was just a conspiracy theory... 1976 - swine flu vaccine taken off the market after 32 deaths 1989 - food supplement tryptophan taken off the market after 37 deaths 2003 - kava kava taken off the market after 4 deaths covid jab - thousands upon thousands of reported deaths - move along folks, nowt to see here it's all just conspiracy nonsense Pull the other one...

Some conspiracy nonsense from the government of Australia, no less. Can't think why they would go to the trouble of setting up such a scheme when the vaccines are so universally safe and effective... https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/deceased-covid-19-vaccine-recipient-payments-and-funeral-costs-you-can-claim-through-covid-19?context=55953

OK, I'll bite - please post some examples of me posting conspiracy nonsense.

I'll admit - it's tough when folks like you keep posting such vapid nonsense.