Minky

Yep 100%

I wasn't going to retire but it got a bit silly at work and the wife said " YOU ARE FINISHING " She was right and it did feel a bit odd at first but retirement is brilliant. I don't even think about work now. Loads of people have asked me if I want to work for them but apart from a few favour jobs it's done and I love it. The wife is brilliant and we do as we please. She isn't retired yet but she just said I'm retired also. Get up when I want, do as I/we want it's marvellous. The thing that hacks me is that I worked hard and put money into my pension pot and took the 25% which I reinvested. The downside is that I get wacked tax on the rest. You can take out the difference between the state pension and your allowances tax free up until the age of 75. Now my oldest sister is in a care home after covid and has to pay £4500 a month for the privilege. Her and her husband worked and payed all their working lives only to have it stripped away. If they had blown it on ANYTHING they would have enjoyed it. Retire and live when you have worked for and got before you are a mumbling old person looking at a wall awaiting the end of the conveyor belt to fall into a waiting box. You cant get a single second back. And it doesn't matter what you get paid it isn't enough. Retire. Edit.... I really did enjoy my job and would go back in a flash but NO. Nothing is worth the time working at a job in comparison to being with the wife or helping the kids and being with the grand kids. The shooting time is good also. Holidaying out on Maderia in 5 weeks. I wonder if there are any clay grounds out there.

I've just read that wee Jimmy is under starters orders awaiting a call in to have a chat about hounds and the wind. Sooner or later surely someone is going to have charges thrown at them over this missing money mission. Apparently no one wants anything to do with signing off the accounts. And there's the small detail of the missing 600,000. This was supposed to finance an independence referendum not to spend 170k on a deluxe motorhome which allegedly has been parked up outsideđ Merrill mothers house for two years. So where has the other 430k gone to.? Also considering that Merrill is supposed to have LENT the Snp over 100k. AND why did that blackford fellow suddenly resign his positioñ at Westminster. Rogues the lot of them,, As in the words of Fraser in dad's army........ " they're doomed. Doomed I'll tell eye. DOOMED I SAY". Perhaps that dog blackford reduced the pile of cash and transfomed it into another sort of pile, you know that they say where theres muck there's brass.

Don't turn me off.... I believe. ... I believe. Wasn't there a song believe me by Petula Clark.? Only old folk will know that.

I don't believe that fact is important enough to warrant the government marking you up as a subversive. I don't think that you can. You have to acknowledge receipt before you can use the item. This. I don't see what the problem with this alert is. As soon as you are born you are in the system. You have a national insurance number. A tax record, an NHS number. Umpteen things. If you are connected to the internet in any way you have an identity. A lot of vehicles are connected to the manufacturer and that vehicle can be tracked as to everything about that vehicle. That's how some bloke who shot and killed someone with a crossbow was identified, tracked and convicted. even though he had burnt the vehicle. Unless you don't exist you are known and in the system. If this is happening you need to have a look into your settings and notifications.

Well here you go boys. AND to those who are hermits. live under a rock. wear a tin foil hat, ne'ar-do-wells, general folk who think that they are important enough to merit government time and attention, terrorists and weirdos. Oh and religious menaces, odd balls who come round informing that the end of the world is neigh, Kwis types. Forgive me if I have not encompassed all variants. ANYWAY it's..... A message with a siren at 15:00 BST on 23 April will say "in a real emergency, follow the instructions in the alert to keep yourself and others safe".---------YOU WILL OBEY... OR ELSE ....... EXTERMINATE. Link... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65290166

Last July I had an operation to reconstruct my right Achilles tendon. After this I've had amounts of physio and all of the treatment has been first class. I have had superb treatment. There have been a few minor issues but nothing too bad. I am still recovering back to full repaired condition but it has been fine. I have no probs with getting consultation and action from the GP's.

But ... a - 16 yr old lad was sent to us for work experience and he couldn't tie up his boot laces. I joke you not 16 going on 17 and he couldn't tie up his boot laces. !!! I don't know if he could wash his hands himself or whether mum did it for him.!

Son in law had same problem with these in his Brno auto. After a lot of investigation we found that because the nose shape is longer, the steepness of the round feed causes the tip of the bullet to collide with the top of the chamber entrance which is square. With a std bullet the whole round has space to flip up flat out of the magazine before being rammed into the chamber. The effect was to bend the bullet almost to right angle and end up with the whole bullet + case jammed between the bolt and the chamber, ( as in your picture). we experimented and cut the bullet tips shorter with a Stanley knife blade. All of the shortened rounds chambered and fired. Problem was resolved by me buying them and using them in my bolt. I've found them to be accurate. Why can't you hold them until your son uses some of his ammo and then feed them over. Or find someone to hold them. ....IF.... there were no other rounds available and it was my rifle then I'd alter the top of the chamber a little bit with a dremel to change the feed area. Edit.... a std 22rf bullet is 40 grins these are 42. The extra grn lead WT is achieved by a fuller bull nosed bullet in comparison. It's not much but enough to cause a collision with the chamber edge. 'Re Edit. I've just noticed that in your action isnt ejecting the fired case causing a lock up .? Dirty chamber.?

Is anyone in scotland going to respond to this questionnaire. ?

Why be worried about brands. If they go bang and you put the lead on the target it will do the job. Just get what's available and shoot. Or do what I do and reload. 28 is a fantastic calibre and really surprises in the kills that it will achieve. edit why can't you justify a 28 and why a hushpower.? If your legal why bleed the power off.? Apply full power and let them know your out there.

Thanks for the reply All info gratefully received. The holiday is a std packege jobby so the hotel is in place. I've watched YouTube vids of the landing strip. It looks to be a bit breezy there. The market area and the narrow streets. The cable car and the botanical gardens. I thought that the downhill basket sledge ride looks a bit hairy. I work on the idea of if it can happen at some stage all the parts will converge the inevitable will happen. I dont really fancy having an emotional moment with the front of a car. I see that there are lots of organised trips and things to see and do. I'm not to concerned to get up at silly o'clock to get up through the clouds to watch the sunrise. I'll just dog out in bed and catch the sun later on. I'll probably take two cameras with me be case I take literally hundreds of shots. Many of a very random nature such as twisted clump of street wiring or ornate cast drain covers along with street characters. The time will soon go by and more of a concern is whether there will be rail strikes or flight cancellations. There are more and more situations where people are at the airport ready to go or at home ready to go the the airport only to get a text that the flight has been cancelled. Fingers crossed. Keep the ideas and info coming.

That mouthy Rainer thing. The Sharon Stone movie. AND it was all done in the best possible taste.

Rainer is just one of the iceberg that is showing. I'm sure that it would be relatively easy to wind her up so that she and others make a complete scene out of it. Didn't carrot top start mouthing off about someone looking up her skirt. Imagine. !!! Sorry I posted in the wrong thread.... should have been somewhere else. Brain fog..... dementure creeping in. Is Donald mad. I don't know. What is madness?

According to a statement, the SNP raised a total of £666,953 through referendum-related appeals between 2017 and 2020. The party pledged to spend these funds on the independence campaign. Questions were raised after its accounts showed it had just under £97,000 in the bank at the end of 2019, and total net assets of about £272,000. Last year it emerged Mr Murrell gave a loan of more than £100,000 to the SNP to help it out with a "cash flow" issue after the last election. The then SNP's chief executive loaned the party £107,620 in June 2021. The SNP had repaid about half of the money by October of that year. At the time an SNP spokesman said the loan was a "personal contribution made by the chief executive to assist with cash flow after the Holyrood election". He said it had been reported in the party's 2021 accounts, which were published by the Electoral Commission in August last year. Those numbers just don't add up. AND if the SNP had 92k and assets of 272 k why did matey feel it necessary to loan the SNP over 100k of loose cash that he had floating around ,... as you do. And why had they paid half of it back.? When Salmon was saying about the £600 k that was missing, no one knew anything about this sum of money that had mysteriously vanished. Then suddenly they say that it had been already spent on a referendum.??? See you Jimmy. It's all fandabidozy. Up poop creek without a paddle ! And a flock of political vultures circle ready for a weak link to fall after the tracker dogs come a calling.

Thank, All info gratefully received.

Thanks for that. We are going to be dug in in Fuchal so we have the local options and there are an amount of trips that Tui do but they are a bit pricey in comparison to doing them off of you own. This last year we went into the local tour shops and did a tour up to mount Teide and most of Tenerife island. Another trip was across to the Island of Last Gomera on a hydrofoil and a coach trip around the Island. These were considerably cheaper than the Tui offerings.

From what I've seen of the terrain it is a lot of tall mountains with steep gorges and narrow roads that wind up and down. So far as I've seen, it looks a bit similar to an island called La Gomera which is off of Tenerife where we went last year.

We only booked it yesterday for the end of May so we've got about 55 days before we go. So time to view and plan.

" My Nan flew there".!! ☺ Your nan isn't a very good pilot. Had she been in the dog and duck before the flight? Still they say that if you can walk away, it's a good landing. I hope that our flight/ landing is nicer than that one. The flight out to Rhodes was the most exciting I've ever had. I think that out pilot was ex red arrows. All of the passengers cheered wildly when we eventually landed. I think that some of the passengers had encountered an emotional moment with the toilet.!!! We are generally beach sort of people but we split up the days between sunning, and trips of driving around. I usually ask if there is any clay shooting in the area. When we were out in Turkey they were horrified to start with because they asked if I wanted to shoot someone. 😊😊😊. When we were out on Crete the hotel manager told me about a clay shooting ground and when I eventually managed to find it, I managed to get a round of sporting in.

No, clearly you live in a past era. I grew up when there were only wind up watches but for about the past 50 years digital watches have been out there. Mobile phone became common 30 years ago . If you ask nearly anyone under the age of 40 generally they dont look at a watch. They flip out their mobile phone. I know that there are winders still out there but not so common. I do tend to use my wrist watches. One is a battery powered analogue and the other is an eco drive solar powered jobby. No wiñding, no battery, tottaly acurate to the second.

As above. what's it like, what is there to see and do there. Trips etc.

But how representative of time reading devices are you. I wouldn't have thought about people not being able to tell the time from analog time pieces until a lecturer friend found that the vast majority of his students could only use digital time because of the use of phones and computers where there are no hands. These particular students had no knowledge of hour and minute hands or where the hands were placed in regard to quarter past or half past or quarter to an hour. Even on tv they just say ... the six o'clock news etc.

How many actual mechanical timepieces are in use nowadays.? Either they are smart devices and the rest are battery or solar powered. I haven't seen wind up watches for a long time. Another angle is that most people don't carry a watch at all.. they flip out the phone. Another angle of this is that there are a lot of people who can't read the time off of an analogue watch.

I enjoyed looking at all of the cheap bargain guns that you advertised. I'd like to find a no.4 in good condition which has bad or broken woodwork so that I could transplant my woodwork onto in order to make a good one out of. That shouldn't be to impossible considering that sbs kick like a mule and how they don't have choke tubes and they have 2 triggers and their not long enough in the barrel. Everything about them is wrong and it's a wonder how they hit anything SO no one will ever want one. To shoot with that is.