Latest Moan From You and Me 2025

@Philippa I use a butter knife with a pointy end for helping to break the seal on a jar - if it slips, it's not sharp enough to stab me and I've been there and done that bone headed move!

And yes, the US has too many guns so they are sneaking the excess up over the border to our country. Kinda like sending us "death by gangster" while they try to steal our country.

Now that is worth a moan!

 

I picture you with a machete, trailblazing your way through the bramble

 

NHS resources are certainly stretched very thin, but how much of that is down to recruitment of pen-pushers over medically trained staff? Also, how much of difficulty experienced by doctors is caused by pen-pushers who only have an interest in their stats?

 

I often use a steak knife to open a jar of jam - only cut myself a few times. The day I learn not to, I will go without jam!!
My OH bought one of those gadgets that makes it easier for older people to open jars, but neither of us have succeeded yet.
Another waste of money!! So I continue with the steak knife.

 

In some places that is what it needs the brambles are over 6ft high in summer and send out those long arching shoots with masses of thorns on them.

 

If its just to let the air in I use a spoon under the rim, just a quick twist bends the lid just enough to hear the seal break.

 

The NHS problems can’t be solved, IMV. The proliferation of available procedures, the aging population, growth in overall number of patients, massive (truly massive) increases in children with autism, etc, etc, mean supply can never cope with demand. You can try to fight your way through the system, but you’ll need stamina to do so.

It was started with the best of intentions. It may well still have the best of intentions for the most part. But it cannot do what is being asked of it.

I have a brilliant jar-opening gadget. It is like a very fat rubber band that you hook round the jar rim and then tighten with a plastic torque. Works like a dream!

 

@CanadianLori Glad I'm not the only one with the "how to open this jar " problem
The importation of guns from the US into Canada must be very worrying for the majority there.
Dangerous weaponry freely available in any country not actually involved in a "war" ( and there's plenty of them ) is just not necessary to my way of thinking. We all know about the "shooting for sport " but what else do you need it for ? Many say " for personal protection" and then that leads to others arming themselves to protect themselves against those people who are protecting themselves. Talk about a Round Robin syndrome
I now only have 1 friend in Canada but both she and her partner have a number of serious health issues do we don't always get into politics as such. Suffoce to say she also mentions some of the issues which you have raised on here.

 

Yes they will struggle to get the Irish to toe the line. It will also depend on the wording in the documentation when licenses to extract peat were granted, they will probably be entitled to compensation if they stopped them.

Apparently an MP is trying to bring a new bill to parliament to ban peat to all sectors by the end of 2025. This still will only apply to the compost manufacturers of peat based compost and commercial growers based in England as we will not be allowed to grow and sell to the retail sector in England, but can to other home nations and abroad. As mentioned, the retail sector in England can freely purchase peat based compost and plants grown in peat from outside England to sell to the general public under the "Internal Marketing Act".

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commo...5D92D917/HorticulturalPeat(ProhibitionOfSale)

 

The trouble with things like the NHS, anything at all really, is that if you want it to be good you have to pay for it. That means taxes. We all have teeth and we all need dentists, but how many of us can find and keep an NHS dentist? To do that we would have to pay for them. That would mean a universal rise in taxes. But that brings us up to the next toe bashing into the coffee table problem - what if you personally don’t want to pay for certain things that the NHS provides? What if it sticks in your craw to pay for certain people to get certain things that you feel are not universally needed? That’s the trouble with taxes. They are too general. So how do we fund a national service and keep everybody happy?