I didn't save the rather nice poster about bees that someone posted - and not sure which group it was in - I'd be grateful if someone could find it again for me.
Anything !
An open Group where anything can be discussed by anybody, as long as you are polite, respect others opinions, and behave !!!
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Why it's the end of the road for petrol stations
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Can I just say Happy Fathers Day to all of the Dads on here! May you be blessed with food and drink and love today!!
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Mobile network to avoid like the plague
They are called ID Mobile.
My sister wanted a cheap smartphone and the salesperson in Carphone Warehouse sold her one with an ID Mobile sim card. Monthly line rental contract of £25. This includes some minutes and some data.
She only wanted the handset and soon as she was home , took out the ID Mobile sim and replaced it with her O2 sim that was previously in her broken phone. So the ID Mobile sim has never been used, and she accepts she still has to pay the £25 a month line rental for the duration of the contract.
Now the bad news. Over the last year there have been at least 3 times when her monthly bill has been around £75. Looking at the itemised bills , which should just say monthly line rental £25, they were showing her Data Allowance of 500mb fully used and a list of costs of data used over her allowance, totalling around £50.
The thing is there should be ZERO data usage as there is no ID Mobile sim card in the handset.
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Global Warming !! (Edited)
We had several days of warm weather a few days ago, but now it is cold !!
I set my heating at 20C when June came along, but now the temperature is only 13C my heating has been on.
In all my life I cannot remember it being as cold as this and never remember the heating being on in June. Over the next week the forecast says it will climb to 20C - HUH, big deal, "Flaming June" has almost gone !! -
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My daughter is house hunting and couldn’t understand why this lovely house had been reduced in price and already an offer put in. She then read elsewhere a newspaper article that the drunken wife had fallen down the stairs, and ended up in a nasty way at the bottom on the wooden flooring (won’t go into gory detail) and sadly died. She was divorcing her husband, hmm...?? Her sister is now selling the house, why not the husband I don’t know. There were no children at home thank goodness.
So my daughter can’t get her head around this especially as has same flooring and every time she went up/down the stairs, and her children, she would think of this tragedy. Her husband says not to be so silly but she’s declined to view. Estate agents say many people die in their houses, of course that happens, but usually in bed? In my first house the elderly lady died and I did ask was it in the bedroom, agent said no, well he would of course, but sometimes I felt I could smell an old fashioned perfume in the night... sorry now I’m getting eerie.
So anyway my question is, knowing that history, “could you live in a house like that”...??This discussion is now closed.
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A dogs intelligence...just can’t beat it.❤️ (Edited)
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UK's longest known Covid sufferer dies after withdrawing from treatment
This made me very sad reading it.49 year old Jason decide he couldn't live anymore with his condition after another setback. This brings home to me the fact we are still going to be losing people and that long covid is a problem that won't go away.Thoughts and prayers with his family xx
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We heard a lot about the American chicken deal now it is -- copied
A UK trade deal with Australia could have terrible consequences for our food standards, British farmers' livelihoods and the environment. Under plans announced today, cheap hormone injected beef and fruit and veg treated with harmful bee-killing chemicals could be imported to the UK.
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Well the news are reporting what they think will happen, I am looking forward to Boris statement for a number of reasons. The main one is that I am trying to support my staff in planning the re opening of their face to face services. Timelines were made presuming that 21st June would be the easing of restrictions, but of course we have to figure in contingency plans. I feel for all the other organisations and sectors who have been planning on resuming services but now face uncertain times. It must be difficult to keep their staff happy. Good luck to all !
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Not seen much in the news about this today. Thoughts are with the families who lost xx
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The story of this gentleman’s life, his accident and the tiny memories he has recently got back are incredible.
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6 points on your licence and £200 fixed penalty notice if you hold and use your phone while driving.
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My council has just announced that from Wednesday they will be doing surge testing in my postcode as the delta variant is rife. How is everyone feeling about the latest cases? And the news that’s saying Boris will postpone the unlocking? Right, wrong or just fed up with the whole thing?
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Israel is now the first country in the world to ban the sale of fur for frivolous fashion. This victory comes after last week's news of Estonia banning fur farming.
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Take note -- it could be in your area.
Thousands of small pharmacies are at risk of closure because of long term underfunding combined with crippling extra costs of delivering NHS healthcare during the pandemic.
We need people power to persuade Boris Johnson to keep his promise to cover these extra costs and reduce the risk of widespread closures.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-o...
We've got nearly 100,000 signatures now and it would be great to push it over that line, in order to get more national media coverage and make the government sit up and listen.
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A sweet small tale of marital devotion
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I wasn’t aware that someone had given birth to nine children in May but now it is claimed ten children have been born to one Mother.
Could you cope?
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Have you seen this?
bit.ly/33vKrY7
The pandemic isn’t over but the government has already launched a radical plan to overhaul our NHS. It would be the biggest shake up of the NHS in almost a decade, and could affect everything from wait times to how much privatisation is in our health service.
We all want to see an NHS that puts patients and its incredible staff first. And some elements of the proposed NHS reforms could be great - like plans for care services to be properly joined up. But others are more worrying, and could see further privatisation, or where you live having an impact on the quality of care you receive. That’s why these reforms need to be properly scrutinised - not rushed out in the middle of a crisis.
These reforms could be our chance to help shape the kind of NHS we want - but only if we can get the government to hit pause, and give everyone a say.
Will you join me and sign the petition today?
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Well, I was going to write a letter today to a prisoner and rang the prison to confirm their prison number. The lady said “Oh, you don’t need to write a letter, we now have the email a prisoner app” !! For 40p per message I can email a message that is printed off and gets to the prisoner the next day!! Amazing! I can remember back in the day when you had to wait like two weeks for a reply to a letter and now bam! 🙄
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Support your fellow workers and sign
I just signed the petition "Allow all people to work flexibly if they want to" and wanted to ask if you could add your name too.
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Another article from RAC on smart motorways
Police chief admits he’d rather his family didn’t use smart motorways
Police chief admits he’d rather his family didn’t use smart motorways
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21st May 2021
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A high-ranking police officer is among a group of motoring experts to tell MPs they’d rather see their loved ones drive on roads with hard shoulders than so-called smart motorways.
The Transport Select Committee asked a group of industry leaders – including a representative from the RAC – whether they’d feel more comfortable with relatives using a ‘controlled’ motorway with a hard shoulder or an 'all lane running' smart motorway with no hard shoulder and all the promised safety improvements.
Chris Todd, assistant chief constable at West Midlands Police, said 'if pushed', he would choose for his relatives to have the 'additional' safety of a continuous hard shoulder.
The chief constable said: “In the way it was described, the all-lanes running (motorway) with ERAs (emergency refuge areas) and with the SVD (stopped vehicle detection) system in place, I would have a high level of confidence.
“But if I was pushed for an overall or binary decision, I would probably opt for the controlled motorway in terms of the additional facilities that it provides from a policing perspective.”
This means that although he'd be confident on a smart motorway without a hard shoulder if it had all the planned safety improvements active, he'd still prefer a motorway with a full hard shoulder.
RAC head of policy Nicholas Lyes said he would also favour the controlled motorway with a hard shoulder option, but with 'additional technology'.
Speaking on the removal of the hard shoulder, Mr Lyes added: “We fundamentally changed what was needed to be done in the event of a breakdown because for decades we have had a hard shoulder.
“Then suddenly you take the hard shoulder out and there is a completely different way of having to deal with an emergency breakdown. It is a bit like changing the emergency landing procedures of an aeroplane and not telling the pilot what to do.”
On stretches of smart motorway the hard shoulder is either permanently or temporarily used as a live running lane to improve traffic flow. But drivers run the risk of being left stranded if they break down or have an accident too far from a junction or an SOS area.
Here, their safety is dependent on both the ‘red X’ being activated to close the lane, and also on drivers obeying the warning signs by changing lanes.
The Government has been under pressure to either scrap 'all lane running' smart motorways or drastically improve their safety following a number of deaths that have occurred on them. South Yorkshire Police is currently assessing whether Highways England is criminally responsible for the deaths of two men on the M1.
Last year, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps responded to a rise in smart motorway safety concerns with an 18-point action plan.
In April, the Government announced no new 'all lane running' smart motorways will be opened without radar camera technology to detect stopped or broken-down vehicles quickly. It promised plans for all existing smart motorways to have the technology installed will be brought forward by six months to September next year.
Smart motorways – what are they and how do you use them?
What to do if your car breaks down?
The Highway Code – Common UK road signs and what they mean
Answering the committee, Mr Todd, who also oversees the force’s motorway response patrols, said: “In the way it was described, the all-lanes running (motorway) with ERAs (emergency refuge areas) and with the SVD (stopped vehicle detection) system in place, I would have a high level of confidence.
“But if I was pushed for an overall or binary decision, I would probably opt for the controlled motorway in terms of the additional facilities that it provides from a policing perspective.”
He also stated on record that it’s harder for police to reach crash victims when all smart motorway lanes are in use.
In his response to the committee’s key question, RAC head of policy Nicholas Lyes said: “I think to answer the question it would be a controlled motorway with a hard shoulder and with additional safety technology."
In March, Highways England launched a new campaign ‘Go Left’ to enhance drivers’ confidence about what to do in the event of a breakdown on a motorway or major A-road, with or without a hard shoulder.
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Interesting facts ( and photos!) about D-Day
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Over Your Live Body? Did You Know?
Critics have voiced concerns over the NHS Digital plans, which would put the medical histories of more than 55 million patients into a database available to academic and commercial third parties for research and planning purposes.
Privacy campaigners have already spoken out against the proposals, which include sharing anonymised mental and sexual health data, criminal records, and more sensitive information. The records would be scraped from every patient in England registered to a GP clinic by NHS Digital, which runs the country’s healthcare IT systems.
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I have only just switched my heating off owing to the low temperatures in May.
The beginning of the Meteorological Summer will always begin on 1 June; ending on 31 August.
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Not literally but the BBC’s newsreader was filmed on Tuesday evening , showing his legs
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I love this idea... the “books” in this library are humans- they can be checked out for a few hours and you can ask whatever questions you want to. Each “book” is labelled with a subject. It could be cancer, diabetes, an architect, each book has experience of the subject to share!
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Should ALL foreign holidays be banned?
I’ve been reading this morning about people who are having to fly home early after Portugal was taken off the green list. I do feel sorry for them but I wonder if it is a good idea for anyone to book anywhere abroad at the moment as this could happen to any destination? Should all holidays abroad be banned? Or is it enough that people are aware this could happen and that insurances cover cancellations due to covid restrictions? I’m torn on this one guysThis discussion is now closed.
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Guess who sent me this via PM?
Gutless & frustrated of Iver Heath, you really are a pathetic little man lololololThis discussion is now closed.
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BBC News - The California girl who 'pushed a bear' to protect her dogs
BBC News - The California girl who 'pushed a bear' to protect her dogs
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What's the matter with these scammers?
So far, in the last 24 hours I have had 6 calls from telephone numbers using the first 7 digits of my mobile number.
Do these people seriously believe that creating a number similar to mine is going to get me to answer?
They need to think again.
Firstly, my phone is on silent 24 x 7. If someone needs to speak to me they can leave a message and I'll (maybe) get back to them, but only if I recognise the number.
Secondly, if I don't recognise the number I won't answer. They will have to leave a message. No message, no response from me.
Thirdly, if they leave a message and I'm not sure that I'm happy with things, they don't get called back.
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Today only - over 18's Covid jabs
Up until 19:30 today only.
My daughter had hers.
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I understand that there is another Covid variant being investigated, it's been found in Vietnam and is apparently a cross between the Indian variant and the Kent variant.
With luck, as those two appear to be controlled with our current vaccines, we won't have to worry too much about it. But we must, as ever, stay safe and get vaccinated when we are due to be.
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A man had just finished a putt and reached in the hole to get his ball, but pulled out a leprechaun!
"Sure, and ye have me." Cried the leprechaun. "And if ye let me go, for yer tribble, I'll give ye three wishes!"
"Thank you." Said the man. "I don't really need anything, so I'll pass on the wishes." He let the leprechaun go, and went off to finish his game.
The leprechaun was dumbfounded. Who had ever heard of such a thing? He sat on a pebble and thought to himself. "Such a man as that deserves three wishes! I'll give 'em to 'im in spite of 'imself! Now what!!! Why money,of course! Everyone wants money. So, for his first wish he wants to be a Millionaire! And second-let's make him a great golfer! And last-ah! Let him have a wonderful sex life."
A month went by and the leprechaun spotted the man playing on the course again. He jumped out of a hole and yelled up to the man: "How ye be doing?"
The man smiled and said. "Hello, little friend. I be doing just fine."
The leprechaun smiled back and said. "And how's yer money situation, if ye don't mind my asking?"
"It's funny you should ask." Replied the man.
"An uncle of mine passed away and left me a fortune!"
"Hah! Is that so? And how's ya golf game now?"
"It's an amazing thing." Said the man. "For the past few weeks I can't do worse than two under par!"
"Sure and that's wonderful!" With a sly look, the leprechaun asked. "And how's yer sex life?"
The man, obviously embarrassed, looked away and coughed. "Well, it's fine. Two or three times a month."
The leprechaun was aghast. "Two or three times a month? That's horrible!"
The man looked up and said. "Actually, it's not bad for a priest in a small parish."
