Rookandrabbit

Sorry Aldivalloch we probably heard the same report. As you know just stopping alcohol intake can cause seizures electrolyte imbalance and lead to death not a pleasant way to die. I am sure a lot of these people were fully functioning valued members of society who through circumstance or trauma ended up in this lifestyle. as a child I recalled my friends parents speaking about a highly decorated polish war hero, a fighter pilot in the RAF, who was an alcoholic and found dead in a derelict house with a bottle of meths next to his body. I didn’t know what meths was……. Very sad lots of people have the ability to cope but some don’t. Many ex forces personnel are living on the streets…very sad.

Radio 4 also did a piece on this project. It was given the slant of being cost effective in reducing the demand on police, social services, ambulance / paramedics, hospital attendance, treatment etc. when you consider the cost of just one alcoholic being arrested placed under constant observation cell cleansing upon release or medical intervention for collapsed male/ female alcoholic intoxicated in the street tying up overstretched hospital resources… I suppose it is cost effective to house the people in a hostel and give them alcohol as they need a certain amount in their system to just function. It all comes down to finances

What an amazing offer! Well done Plink all day.

Well I’ll bet using the 12 bore saves you picking them up, just be red splats!

Excellent write up could almost hear the birds calling as I read it. Good shooting and thanks for sharing your adventure with us. Your dog Ben looks ready for more action.

Excellent video throughly enjoyed man and his best friend working in unison. Hearing Jacks teeth made me laugh! Excellent shooting as always. Thanks for sharing.

So very sad. What a freak accident. Thoughts go especially to the family. As has been said to have one dog die through natural causes/ illness but so many is very difficult to comprehend.

He played great roles in some fabulous action films,

I know my eyes are bad but I think the date is marked as 1894 and the wording on the front of the disc is VICTORIA DEI GRATIA. Victoria by the grace of God it resembles the young head of queen Victoria However by 1894 the old veiled head was on gold coins and St George and the dragon was on the back. I think Ditchy had it right it’s either a gaming token or a forgery, Regards Rookandrabbit.

What size is it as coins have standard sizes. I think it may be a gaming token or a forgery as gold does not tarnish corrode. The date appears to be 1894 I think by that time Victoria was portrayed as having her OLD HEAD portrait on the front of the coins. The back shows the shield Which on sovereigns was replaced by George and the dragon. I think there was a silver sixpence which was forged by gold plating it and was passed off as a half sovereign but weights are different ,………but my eyes are quite bad and maybe someone on here with more knowledge may be able to give you more information….. but a good find !

NO NO DEFINITELY NO 😂they are Unnaturally green 🧪🤢🤮conjured up from the very bowels of Hades by Beelzebub himself 👹smelly green mush!

Thanks Rewulf for such an illuminating video as I said NATO has been playing in his backyard encouraging the former soviet bloc countries to join despite treaties to the contrary. I still don’t think Mr Putin will invade I think he will be invited in by the Russian sympathisers and his fifth column who are already there in the East of Ukraine on the pretext of protecting Russians who have settled there. As for Russia being seen historically as the aggressor this was a story put about to enhance mistrust during the Cold War and was further enhanced by a former German General now employed by the CIA who was supposed to have a spy network in what was the Soviet Union…….. WHY because it kept this German General out of war crimes investigation, It suited the CIA mantra at the time and thirdly after WW11 it kept the armament companies in business to keep up with the enemy spending millions of $ and pounds on now obsolete missiles tanks ships etc. As you are probably aware the UK built installations underground the size of small cities here just for the great and the good at a time when the UK was on the bones 🦴 of its bottom after the war. Don’t please misunderstand me Mr Putin is an amazing tactician and as Ruthless as the next leader, the allegations of Salisbury and any other opponents of the regime who mysteriously die and those of the conspiracy theorists who give other reasons as to why the MS Estonia sank are indications as to why the Cold War exists but only time will tell and as Mr Chamberlain did I think appeasement will be the result of any action by Russian forces.

I think I will be too busy trying to avoid all the people who enjoy mushy peas. I will say it again They have a Horrible smell they are unnaturally green and they have been conjured up by Beelzebub himself for people who have NO tastebuds I am sure!😂🤣😂🤣 Garden peas everyday if the week especially with battered cod and chips BUT must have brown vinegar and salt.

Take care in protecting your bad knee! You will soon be back fighting the good fight. But while you are laid up it will give you time to check out all of the new shooting goodies that seem to have suddenly appeared on the internet just in time for Christmas and are now in the January sales. Kind regards Rookandrabbit.

Well Ditchman I think that Mr Putin is an amazing military tactician. While the west is looking at Ukraine he walks right into Kazakhstan unopposed by invitation. Kazakhstan has amazing mineral wealth and resources including gas and oil and most importantly Uranium. fuel prices in the west are rocketing, we can not afford to go to war, and what does Mr Putin do….. he secures his own supplies for many years to come and who does he sell it to….. the west and the Uk. Perfect storm our nuclear power stations are coming to be decommissioned our coal fired plants are being pulled down and not just here in the UK, I would say he has us over a barrel both for fuel and financially. Nato has snapped up I think it’s 13-14 former soviet bloc countries and allowed them to join NATO including Estonia Latvia Poland etc right on his borders. Makes NATO look aggressive playing in his back yard! So I think he will bide his time and place his people in Ukraine and stage demonstrations and a period of further unrest and wait for the invite learning from his annexation of Crimea and from history with the Sudetenland. Mr Putin sees this as reclaiming and rejoining the bits of the former Soviet Block as well as expansion Into the cauldron of the Middle East I.e. Syria as peacekeeping duties…. Second leg of a pincer movement. as for China they have been building man made Island in the South China Sea they will not be opposed when they enter Taiwan I would be surprised if Mr Johnson or Mr Biden or their successors want to get into a shooting war with Mr Jinping. I don’t know who is pushing and who is pulling? Well beyond my pay grade. As for tea I can not abide the smell of mushy peas they are an unnatural green and have been conjured up by Beelzebub himself.