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A friend and his dopey mate (who looked like Marty Feldman) were out in the back garden shooting at sparrows (as boys did in those days)when Marty shot a blue tit with his Gat gun. The blue tit fell off of the washing line landing on the grass lawn like a lead balloon. The woman next door saw this and came straight out shouting that he was a wicked little boy to have shot the blue tit. Marty told her that it was alright and that it was having A REST. 😀. He went over and picked up the bird and was stroking it. The woman was glaring at him when he said look.. He threw the bird up in the air and it flew away. The pellet strike must have stunned it and it had come round. Marty said to the woman " I told you that the bird was just having A REST. I think that the woman later had a word with my mates dad who told the boys not to shoot the birds in the back garden. The boys were told to go down the woods.

I remember someone collecting airline plastic cutlery. It came in thin plastic bags. That sort of thing was dumped which made it a rare collecting item. But what do you do with anything like that. It wouldn't be of much interest to be invited round to view a collection of throw away plastic airline cutlery.

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Robert F Kennedy Jr has joined the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, on stage at a rally in Arizona after dropping out of the race and endorsing the former US president. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy5ekxlwzgo I bet that he won't be welcome at the family table this Christmas.

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I don't shoot these so can't advise. But there must be loads of videos on YouTube. A good shooting coach is Gil ashè. He's a bit odd. But is good Edit.. most shooting blokes are only to willing to help and advise. Ask people who are there shooting

I've read this post and I'm not sure what it is about.

I know that it is frustrating and painful. My brother had both knees replaced. He was on very strong painkillers which took his voice away. He is a strongman who has taken his hand being sewn up without anasthetic but he really struggled with the knees.A word of warning /concerning repeated steroid injections. I had an operation on rotor cuff tendon. And a Dutch woman sports injury consultant who treated me was horrified when she found that a doctor at the practice had given me an amount of steroid injections. Yep they did work and stopped my pain BUT she said that the surgeons went mad when they saw the damage caused by working. Basically it is like issuing a set of ear plugs to someone with a flat tyre on a car. And saying...Take no notice and carry on. The fact that the cars tyre is wrecked and the wheel is wrecked and everything is dragged to destruction along the road needing a major major repair rather than a pun ture repair.

I don't see this much if at all. Most people use the barcode scanner and bag as they shop, so when they get to the self service checkout the goods electronically transfer and just flash the card or phone and away. Occasionally the odd customer gets a few items spot checked. The only people that cause holdups are as stated, scanning and bagging at the checkout, getting caught trying to fiddle or just complete muppets. But they cause the same pro less all along the line. The people that mainly use the self service system are people who want to get on and not use the till area as some sort of social chat club. I did go into a Lidl and the customer profile was generally a load of roughs who only had a bit of money and a full trolley going through the tills where half of the trolley had to be put back on the shelves or didn't really have any sense of getting somewhere else now. I could smell the weed on the wind and I did see one woman recovering fag butt's from the fag stubbed onto of the main doors. That is a real hold up.

I AM with the times. Me personally I don't really ever get cheques. I have on the odd occasion scanned a cheque through the app but the company used to send a driver out to bank which was difficult because so many have been closed down.

Most pe9le are straight but if you go back and read the posts on this thread there are several mentions of clicking one item and putting two in the trolley, clicking one item and putting different more expensive items in the bag, It might be just a case of beating the system. I notice that my local Tesco have now fitted one way barriers to stop people walking out of the input with trolleys loaded up. It's like the people who take kids in and eat stuff as they go round and chuck the wrappers in the shelves. I saw a few lads of the caravan club division walking round having a good old fill up. BUT.. how does this compare to those in business and government on blatant fiddles.

No, you insane. Cash is a pain. I can pay bills online anytime day or night, I can transfer money anywhere instantly. I can't drop and loose my wallet, I can use my a/c card all over the world. I dont have to convert £s to other foreign currencies. I can't be mugged. Where do you get the cash that you always use.... tin box under the bed. If someone gives me cash,,, or a cheque I have to go somewhere to pay it in. And that isn't easy to find a bank nowadays.

I've been told that some panels do have a kind of battery but "not as we know it JIM". Known as an electrolytic. I might just pull it down. Simple job.. only 8 screws holding the front to the back. And have a closer look with a magnifying glass to see if anything looks a bit odd / out of normal. Nothing ventured Nothing gained.

Well we love the self service system in Tesco. the Mrs gets the scanner by showing the club card under the scanner. I get a big trolley and load the tote bags into it.. By the time I get in there she has got the bananas to the scales. using the scanner we soon get round the store. when finished we go straight through the paying area. The transfer is quick and either of us pay using the App on out phone,s. There is no messing about queuing up for ages for people to unload their purchases onto the conveyor belt and THEN having to put these into bags and then loading these bags back into the trolley. THEN waiting for PEOPLE to decide how they want to pay either by having to go through a rack of card or raking through the purse trying to find the right money OR in the odd case having to put stuff back because they haven't go the money. Nowadays they don't run all the operator tills so the ones that ARE operated have a fair old queue. If I were Tesco I would remove the operator tills down to one or two and use the checkout staff on shelf staking or fewer staff. Then put more self service tills in and more shelves for extra products. We hardly ever use cash nowadays. The only place that I use cash is the weekly sub at the the rifle shooting club. every payment is online and I almost see that the only people who use cash are likely to be on some sort of fiddle. it is slowly becoming like the TV advert where the bloke is at a roadside stall and wants to buy a bag of spuds. He's got a fiver BUT it's Crypto only. Even all of the grandkids have bank accounts and when we give them a draw it is via direct transfer or NSI bonds. Even if they want ice creams from the van it's just click it on the phone. It appears as if an amount of people on here are looking to basically steal and fiddle from the shops.

It the same all over. We had a super piece of ground and a really nice farmer but unfortunately he suffered a heart attack and the land was sold off. The new owner had money but no agree experience. A total plnker. Soon he sold the whole farm off in bits. mostly pony paddocks and idiots who let the place go to wrack and ruin. We tried to get the land use back but he just channeled us through his land agent who only saw pound notes. such a bloody shame. This evening Ironically I was communicating with one of the son in laws who is on holiday out in France about going down to the river at this time of evening and year looking for the duck flighting in. I walked out to the front of the house and looked at the sky and a flight of 5 duck came by in a triangle formation. I wondered where they were going , They zig zagged about as if they were looking for a pond somewhere to drop into about half a mile away..

Beastly electronics. It may be a 2p component that is faulty but with no way to know or trace a fault its a bin job.

Yep same as every year. Getting down on the river bank and waiting and watching to see if any are coming in, at what time, which direction, how many, groups, singles. Just concealed in any rushes or weed growth on the Bank with the dog. 8.20 and dusk ishere now. Thinking whether a certain spot along the bank side might benefit from a bag of grain or a few chopped up spuds. Probably won't make any difference at all but it certainly won't make a difference if there is nothing.

I use a monitor to view the cctv camera images, well I did until it was turned off when we went away for a fortnight. On return the system did not display. Luckily I had another monitor and plugged it in basically to find if the problem was the base unit or the monitor. This afternoon I decided to check the failed monitor on another computer. When I fired it up there was an image on the screen which vanshed after a couple of seconds. If I turn the monitor on and off the screen does show image . So all works but is there some sort of internal battery that went flat and now won't accept charge.

BUT WAIT. Comparison sites.. merkats... go compare and all of them don't do it for nothing. It's a elight con. The comparison sites are business and have to mak3 money out of any deal. The add their cut on top. YES USE A SITE TO SEE WHO IS CHEAPEST... FOR THE COVER THAT YOU WANT AND NEED. Then ring that company up direct and tell them what you want. You should be able to get a cheaper deal direct than actually going through Meerkats or other Comparison sites.

A nice gun but I wouldn't be surprised if the gun at Holts doesn't even get anywhere near that.. £100-£150 bid estimate. Thousands of guns are headed off to the States. Either at bargain bucket prices or some dealer will make a good profit out there.

OK. I just came in out of the heat @16.15 approx, and thought about looking on flight radar 24 about what might be happening out in the channel. And there is a coastguard plane with a BIG camera flying up and down the UK side of the mid Chanel line. IT has now landed at Lydd and the track has gone. SO the track shows WHEN it's in the air and you click on the plane. the track shows where the plane has been BUT when it lands and the EQPT is turned off the plane and track disapear. BUT what they are looking for is anyones guess. it could be shipping movements or looking for drug boats etc, etc.

As little as that.? how much is a cup of tea there.? and do they charge £20 for the car park in a field somewhere.?

So sad that a person gets into a state like this.! AND this is when its returning from Turkey after having repair surgery to plastic surgery. I remember watching a TV programme about her and I think that what came over was that her mother appeared to be very controlling.

Hi where are you situated.?