Teapot1
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We bought over all sorts of food from the UK to France as we were also on an ectended stay, if we got stopped and they confiscated them so be it as we would have needed to bin them anyway.
No one cared, they were only interested on passport stamping and covid paperwork.
Obviously we didnt mention the food because that would have been daft, I say just go for it, 3 different families all did the same in our group no one stopped or questioned.
How are you travelling? If you are shielding it must be the tunnel as we did.
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14 hours ago, Gluestick said:
And then, of course, there was Greenpeace; which as its impact and membership struggled, re-invented itself as an ecological protection movement, which, as with so many, then segued into global warming and when the fallacious science was de-bunked, this became Climate Change.
Interesting now, how the meme has shifted again and many of the hot air merchants at the COP26 jolly have been banging on about Global Warming, again!
This is a bit I am struggling with, having followed Greenpeace during the 70's and listening to Dr Patrick Moore now it seems a dichotomy has arisen. We must prevent the polution of our oceans and lands but this seems to be a convenient wrap around of climate change which is more down to nature, the sun and our solar system than man. Yes not a climate denyer but confused the farther along we get.
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15 hours ago, ssomon said:
Does the filter also remove human waste, bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other nasty things which can get into communally used water?
The filter removes the dirt and human waste down to what filter obviously so some would not catch bacteria, viruses or fungi but these are treated with a bactericide which kills most things and oxidises them up.
Some also have a UV stage to breakdown any nasties that chlorine has a tough time with.
Yes the weakest part is often the numpties that just buy a tub and have no knowledge, fortunately accidents are few and far between.
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20 minutes ago, anotherbanana said:
Rolls Royce already has a plan ready apparently.
Didn't Lady Penelope have one of those back in the 60's ?
@Gluestick Hot tubs filter the water, only a tiny part of which could be classed as actually dirt. I would therefore say a well set up hot tub is probably better than a used once bath. The water being retained for some time, at least a week in rental properties snd a couple of months on privately houses.
The filtration electricity bill is miniscule in well designed tubs but cheap imports are something different. I worked on one in a hotel and removed most of the Chinese plumbing replacing it with an eco setup that simply works far better. Not much cost and that was recouped quickly in energy saving, it also complied with the commercial regulations.
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Nice one Cajal!
Completely agree of course, that is why I set out to look at the whole pool issue.
The stupid pool industry is just a bunch of ignorant builders who found ways to tap into customers bank balances.
Me, I re engineered the issue as you would have seen over the years. 90% saving in electricity over a std pool setup. That is around a lightbulbs worth of electricity. Using the best recycled filter media from an energy neutral source (Drydens factory is energy neutral ) minimal water loss through pool covers and because of the fine filtration from AFM ng, much less chemical use. I said it before its not financially viable in my case to run it 100% solar but I am doing it anyway to demonstrate how easy it is and filling any top ups from rain water. Decent, not cheap, hot tubs can keep the water hot through copious insulation and the water easily heated via a solar panel.
The fact the industry doesnt want to listen is down to them.
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Hahaha, ive a bit more idea than some. Not having children I shouldn't have a dog in this fight and shouldn't give a whatsit about polution and the global crisis but I do care. The mega rich built their empires by using the cheapest availble resources and not caring about the polution they cause.
The young, are saddled with this huge problem and change needs to happen, stopping more pollution entering our oceans should be a primary step, dog knows in the UK we haven't got beyond dumping raw sewage and all it contains (priority chemicals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals ) on our shores.
Yes Chucky is tedious, doesn't spell out a solution, a pathway forward or anything but blah blah blah but we have plenty of scientists who havent had their science bought and silenced. The evidence is there for all to see.
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Sounds like a bunch of sad old men sitting around discussing a subject they have no concept of. Thats COP26 and you lot.
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There will be good technical pensions people at L&G as there was at Royal&Sun but they seldom sit on the front line so push for a pension expert higher up the food chain.
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On 02/11/2021 at 06:20, Woodrup said:
I have a small private pension pot with a well known UK company, beginning with P who had a lot of red brick buildings back in the day.
They have farmed out my annuity, which includes a 'guaranteed minimum pension' to L&G. Filling out my application form to start drawing it, they want my doctor to verify my cholesterol test in English and accept payment in Sterling. They sent me an 'inconvenience' payment cheque of £150 recently (because of their incompetence in dealing with my pot, I couldn't cash it at my bank and had to send it back. Also they can forward the payments to my French bank via Citibank transfer, but with a £2.85 charge for each monthly transaction. When you consider the number of Brits living abroad, this seems to me to be discriminatory.
Rant over ?.
Eat lots of meat and your cholesterol will go up so you look worse. That would give you a slightly bigger annuity, oh and put down you smoke 30 per day and drink a bottle of wine, the worse you look and therefore shorter you live, the larger the annuity.
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Good wooly, basically save a bit of the planet and dont use any plastic film or plastic thats used once.
Through away all aluminum pans.
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Yuk! Well the tide goes out a mile so that must give them time to work on it
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We lived in Wimbourne Road for many years, went back and visited that 2 times. The first about 10-12 years ago and I couldn't believe the house still had the awful louvred glass windows, permanent draught and a burglar's delight. Second visit about 3 years ago they had changed the awful windows to double glazed at last. There was a huge concrete jungle of flats and shopping centre built in the 60's when I was there.
Yes shocking dump and £10 to go to the end of the pier! I used to catch cod from there as a kid.
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Never seen a spiv with such bad hair
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France is going to Rack and Rouen!?
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Defribrillated more like ?
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I used expert medical £28 and no problems, need to book the test for day 2 about 5 days before you arrive in the UK excluding weekends.
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Wall hung toilet on a metal support frame as most are?
Unless its a Geberit then there will be alternative parts that could be used but it sounds like you have a fitter rather than a plumber.
Worst case would be to buy a suitable replacement cistern, the flush valves all work on the same sizes of pipe, two actually so most are produced to convert.
If yours has a remote push button flush the these are also available as universal replacements for €25-35. Fitting is straight forward in most cases as they all work the same way, except Geberit.
Without photos it is tricky to see what the problem is but it certainly isnt the kind of money you are being quoted. I am back in the UK now but otherwise I would have fixed it for half what you were quoted including the long journey cost!
New Car Petrol or Diesel ?
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You don't know, so why comment? That just adds an illogical bias based on absolutely nothing factual.
Capital outlay cant be recovered unless you are around 20? You really have no clue on the subject at all.