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Ted.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gv457vreeo

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I'm happy for you to name them, we know you're not spamming/selling, just providing a recommendation....

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Ordered some stuff from my local garden equipment supplier and was £3 short of free deliver, so I looked at their sale section and saw they had Stihl gloves on offer at £3.50, so I ordered a pair.
They came with 11 pages of documentation/test certification.

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As a new poster you won't have PM rights yet, but I'll refer you to this post from a couple of days ago:...

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Oh yes, MIRAS, that went in the 1990s. All those "lazy" people who can't benefit from it....

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Validoom is a genuine user on here, I have no reason to be suspicious of their background or intentions....

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Morning all
CBS, etc with no breeze this morning, which made for a very pleasant walk earlier.

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So, you were paid well below the average salary at the time and bought a house off the government, and consider yourself “average”.
When Maggie started selling off council houses in 1980, the UK average salary was £6k. By 1988, the UK average salary was £12,130. In 1980 the UK average hose...

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That's probably because the number of "retirees" is greater than the number of under 30s of working age, and the income of the under 30s is nowhere near as high as the income of retirees. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/pr...ousing-wealth/...

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And back then you could get an averaged size house for 3 times the average wage.
What about today? Average salary £32k, Average house price £290k.
And that's not including the student loan (in your day, university was free, and you might even have been given a grant to study)...

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Yes, and it's worse if you are using induction with someone who believes in "must heat the pan before putting anything in it" or "it needs to be turned up to full power to cook"
My induction hob can boil water in a pan faster than a kettle can. New tech is great as long as...

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Or, children & education cost a lot of money, having immigrants come in when they are already educated, reduces the early years costs, but gets them at earning & tax paying age. That doesn't appeal to xenophobes, because they don't like people who want to work and pay taxes.

It's...

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The three things that seem to trash some of the non-stick coatings based on my unscientific observation:
1. Using metal utensils - even on the non-stick ones that say they can cope
2. Putting the pan under a grill - heat from above = bad, heat from below = OK.
3. Putting water in them...

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Morning all
CBS but very windy overnight and still windy now. It's a cold wind from the north.

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If England didn't have a word for chocolate until around 1605, what was the War of the Roses all about?...

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Morning all
Overcast, with the chance of drizzle at 9am.
Early dog walk due to 8am meeting.

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Yes....

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Jo Kibble didn't just look at planning that sort of journey, he did one quite similar...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSQapm0UyWU...

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Monring all
CBS etc.
Phil Collins walk today, although I wish I'd taken a pair of gloves as the old Reynauds flared up.

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Morning all
CBS, etc.
A very pleasant walk has been had, now watching the robins flying in and out feeding their young in the sparrow box, while the great tit is still sitting on her 7 eggs.