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Nice pictures, very stylish.

Agree completely.

Like this https://environment-analyst.com/uk/76665/wirrals-labour-group-denies-green-belt-carve-up

My previous posts on this matter upset the more sensitive souls on this forum and so I will refrain from commenting with regards to badly behaved dogs.

Agree in respect to householder applications, just too small fry. The difference in height of 500mm could well have been regarded as de minimis and subject of a NMA. We specialise in winning planning against previous refusals on high value sites. Our clients always come to us claiming there has been corruption against them. We work to policy or make suitable compromises and justification when policy cannot be adhered to et voila ... permission approved. In commercial applications google ‘Nick Kavanagh LIVERPOOL’. https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/kavanagh-among-five-arrested-by-merseyside-police/ The Council have enough power to sway planners. We have used it when in the overwhelming public interest. Perhaps others use it to line their nests.

I was driving down an A road aged 17. A driver pulled out from a side street onto the rear side of my mum’s car. Both myself and the other driver shared an insurance company. I took photographs and wrote a detailed description of what happened. The company wrote to us to inform me it had settled 50:50 🙈

Hey, I thought the comments here should only to place an order? We need the moderators here pronto 🤣 Enjoy the gun, it looks a cracker and you put in some decent work to track down the owner so deserve to enjoy using your new purchase.

Great gun. Good luck with the sale.

My mum watched The Spiral and recommended it to my wife a few years ago, sadly we do not get time to watch television any more due to work and children. We watched and enjoyed the first series of The Bridge when it was broadcast on BBC, the second series came at a time when we had limited free time and I could not suspend my disbelief for long enough to enjoy it. Getting 5 mins here or there to read PW is my free time now!

Glad they are both back safely.

That was a cracker 🤣

I can’t argue with any of that. I know my sister is happy when her team have to travel. That’s billable time to one client. And working from the train you can do work for another client. So charging 200% of your time. The day is segmented into 6 minute sections. Each one needs to be accounted for and as you say, depending upon staff level not more than 20% can be non-billable. My sister does work ridiculous hours though. She gets taxis from one end of the country to another constantly - London to Manc etc at 3am in the morning. She’ll often come home from work to shower, see her children before school then be back out the door. Feel bad on the children, brought up by the nanny rather than my sister is no good IMO. Anyway, they big four make ridiculous money but have ridiculous costs. My pal works for a big pharmaceutical in London and commutes from Cheshire by plane daily on the company’s dime. Literally insane waste of money. CV-19 will hopefully bring some efficiency.

Well I can only go with what she has told me and as she heads their legal team for an entire division of law I would be inclined to believe her. You must have struck quite the bargain as you were only charged £1066 per hour, against her stated rate of £1150. Actually as that’s only 7% off, maybe it wasn’t that great a discount. Either way there will always be a difference between the standard charge out rate and any agreed deals as it is mainly fixed fee now. Apart from when they act as administrator etc. For comparison I get complaints for charging my architects out at £35/hr+VAT, that includes all overheads. I am sure Foster charges his partners out at similar rates to PWC, but then perhaps not. There is less of a cartel at the top of architecture and much more competition despite the premium on excellence.

My sister is a director at PWC, her charge out rate is something in the region of £1150/hr + VAT. That company must have some serious overheads as whilst she’s a director her salary isn’t crazy.

Just as a opportunity for discussion and debate, of what you have shot what’s every one's favourite sporting quarry? Mine are: 1. Pink footed geese (called in) 2. Canada Geese 3. Woodpigeon 4. Greylag geese 5. Fox 6: Teal 7. Woodcock 8. Hare 9. Pheasant 10. Partridge 11. Widgeon 12. Mallard 13. Squirrel 14. Jay 15. Magpie 16. Rabbit 17. Carrion crow 18. Snipe 19. Jackdaw 20. Collared Dove 21. Rat

That’s a great write up, well done Ted.

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This, everyone in household tested. If you take a day off work as your child is “ill” (cough, temperature, sneeze etc - what every child seems to get in first few weeks of term) then again everyone is getting tested or no work. It was predictable and predicted. The lack of preparation for it is the issue.

The Beretta store didn’t have the correct thicker ones in the right shape for my SV-10 stock and so I bought a cheap adjustable one from Amazon for £17 inc P&P as a temporary fix. It was delivered within 12 hours and I’ve kept it on her for over 2 years now. The SV-10 pad is now mounted on my A300 via a flat-to-concave spacer to replace the thin plastic one and give correct LOP. When I have spare cash I will eventually have a proper pad ground and fitted to the SV-10 so it’s less ugly.

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Old Boggy, I believe he will not be reducing the video but splicing ShotKam footage from the gun mounted camera with overall footage from a static GoPro video camera that shows the wider set up and birds approaching. Which I am excited to see.

OP - Until there is further guidance or a test case in truth no one knows for sure. People have strong opinions both ways but the only thing I know is that someone who is certain on this cannot be right. In a scenario where you are decoying and shoot a pigeon that is flighting over the permission A to B, if it has never caused damage on your permission on your beans and is full of wheat is that now against the law? How would this be policed? Conversely a scenario where you shoot pigeons in your back garden, knowing that they will no doubt be feeding on crops somewhere else, is this now legal under the general license? It is not defined and is not clear, we are all making judgement and interpretation upon it. I would read the license yourself and satisfy yourself whether or not you (not a man on the internet) believe it complies with the law. I’m sorry it is a pointless answer but the legislation is not definitive on this.

This, I always do it. If dogs get too far away (past my invisible line) I will hide in a hedge. You can see on their little faces they think they are lost and bomb. Certainly when working HPRs quartering 100m each side over Moor it is the dog’s responsibility to know where you are and work relative to you. My old boy is very deaf and mostly blind now (he’s over 10) and so you can see him struggle to recognise me in a line if we have turned etc but the recall whistle is just a location beacon to help the dog find you.

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I always do this with my arms holding an imaginary gun when diving or walking. It must look like I have Tourette’s, even during site meetings if i am up on scaffold and see a lovely crosser I will subtly follow it with my eyes to the kill spot. People sometimes notice but never ask questions. I only realised how much I do it as when my youngest son was about 16 months old on our early morning dog walks he would lean out of the sling and follow the wood pigeons with his outstretched arm and the squeak a tiny “pow” then look at me as if to ask ‘Did I hit it daddy?!’, I’m a biased judge but he never missed 🥰