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yes....onwards and upwards.....pension bit looks interesting and the tax relief on the bingo wings will go down well at the adelphi......

getting the facts is so much more benficial than sensational headlines designed to grab everyones attention.....this just gives us all another reason to reinforce why we quite or are quitting the UK.....a country riddled with immigrants, greedy over indulgent dignitaries and sexual predators preying on our young.....to now be made aware the NHS, the bedrock of the british healthcare system is also a complete waste of space and nothing more than a waiting room for the diseased, sick and dying is so refreshing.

It should be interesting......tax breaks on the agenda I would have thought.....they will need to start giving back now if they have any hope of staying in power next time round.....lets see what happens.

I took one of those for a test drive recently......not my cup of tea.....the wife really likes them.....they are 2 a penny.....it seems everyone is buying them but I wasnt that impressed with it, the petrol is only a 1.6 and frankly it is gutless....its a quite a big car and I think it needs a bit more under the bonnet.....loaded up with 5 people and luggage you are going to struggle to get it off the drive....I think the diesel is only a 1.5......saying that they have just released a new version so they may have improved on the power output.

My boy has been treated by Tim Goodacre, a very well known plastic surgeon, he had a cpl of ops in Perth and they all new Tim Goodacre and said what a top surgeon he is, we have been lucky because we have seen all the top surgeons and not their consultants. He had his first op at 8 weeks old in the old John Radcliff hospitol which you probably know is a very old delapidated building, we now go to the new super modern John Radcliff which is state of the art and a fantastic building. My mums care in intensive care was second to none, however I touched on her ward care, this was not good, she was bed bound for 6 months and caught MRSA which meant she was isolated and attended to last everyday in attempts to stop the virus spreading.....she often lay in her own s?$t for hours, the staff gave her morphine for too long and she started hallucinating and eventually had to go cold turkey.....all in all a very 2 sided experience. The problem today is money....they have to make decisions on where this money goes and sadly younger people take priority which is wrong.....but when a choice has to be made what can they do. I think my customers care I mentioned earlier with the brain tumour is suffering because of the cuts in finance.....Hopefully your mum will get moved somewhere different and get a better level of care which is what she is entitled too.

That is a real shame and its just not fair on the patient......you paid all your life into something and when you need a return its not up to standard....One of my customers has just been doagnosed with a brain tumour and experienced a similar thing.....they felt nothing was being done....shes been in hospitol now for 3 weeks with little progress although they did have a moan to the dr's and now things seem to be happening (according to her sister).....on the flip side we have had a brilliant experience with the NHS....my youngest boy was born with a facial deformity....hes 10 now and has had probably 8 - 10 ops....most recent was a bone graft from his hip into his top jaw....we have been seen by all the top consultants and have been really well looked after......My mum was run over by a skip lorry 10 years ago.....(its ok you can larf).....went under the front and came out the back.....(at slow speed).....she suffered serious crush injuries, pelvis, leg, arm etc etc (not a lot of height room under one of those).....the prop shaft ripped out the whole muscle in one of her legs.....luckily her head was ok....3 months in intensive care in an induced coma, both lungs punctured, ribs broken.....try resusitating someone with broken ribs!.....anyhow.....she had the best care you could have asked for in intensive care....3 months later she was woken up and was moved to a ward where she spent the next 9 months learning to walk again.....it wasnt such a nice experience there but shes alive and is extremely lucky.....she had about 27 pints of blood transfered through her whilst they were fixing her up on the first day.....so we are very grateful to the NHS and their staff.....even tho we know its not perfect.

May!......are you kidding.....I wouldnt expect an appointment untill at least July/August

more of your "sensationalizing" going on here.....calling your Dr's because you need to discuss malaria tablets for a planned trip overseas is not an emergency so no big deal in waiting a week.....however if you have something that needs medication, an infection or similar they will see you straight away hence the reception staff asking a few basic questions.....I have always seen a Dr on the same day of calling.....normally within 2 - 3 hours.....at weekends we have emergency Dr's available at walk-in-clinics so there is never an excuse not to see one on the same day if you really need too.....however I am sure some of our "want-away" migrants will come up with some outrageous tale of being snubbed by an already busting at the seams NHS.

Simmo.....apart from a few damp days in Dec/Jan we have had a great winter.....my gas bill is about a third of what it normally is due to this mild weather.....and now spring is upon us we are currently experiencing low teen temps expected to rise to 17 - 19 degrees by the weekend with plenty of bright skies and sunshine.....happy days!

If we talk about the other half of the country we are accused of "northern bashing".....you cant win sometiimes

careful....you are about to insult half the male population of POI.......lol

more lovely early spring weather

If you like skin cancer.

:laugh:........classic

I purchased a 4x2 in Kinross in 2005 for 250k......needed some work.....spent about 30k - 40k putting a pool in.....and general renovations....even rendered the outside and painted the roof tiles!.....we loved that house.....sold it in 2007 for 450k.

Just looked back.....:shocked:......it appears Perths isolation is having a weird effect on one or two of its residents.....

Yes it has been amazingly mild.....played football this afternoon in glorious sunshine.....it was like a gorgeous spring day.....there is always a positive to any negative....you just need to be the right sort of person to recognise it.....there are so many negative, downbeat thinkers on here.....its scary.

:laugh:....its funny because its true.....its amazing how many seem to revel in posting these things....it definately is a case of justification....for those trying to reinforce their reasons for moving.....and those that want to move.

"for how much longer" is the question on everyones lips....... http://au.pfinance.yahoo.com/education/investing/article/-/21673006/fears-aussie-dollar-could-hit-new-lows Nothings changed there then......we suffered a similar experience ten years or more ago.....

Saw this on BBC yesterday....... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-25733272

lol....watched 5 mins of this....we know how to do comedy in this country....funny how a cpl of dumb puppets can keep you entertained and make you larf......:wink:

2001.......beat them 5-1 in their own back yard. Also euro's in belgium 2000......1-0 in charleroi.....I was there for this one

Italy last August....Lago Viverone in the fore ground....the Alps in the distance.

here he is in the flesh....butter wouldnt melt in your mouth....for obvious reasons he went by the name of "cliff edge" all holiday

Another from Avoriaz last year....my middle boy....13 at the time and no fear!....both taken with an iphone