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Steve,
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C497383
This site has a message the seller bit, you could get lucky and find out who he sold it to.
Alan
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A little E319 with breakfast anyone?
Alan
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If using Stanley blades also buy Elastoplast!
Alan
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Like the added random sounds.
Alan
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Not very pretty is it?
Alan
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Isn't there something strange about a system that allows a surgeon to manage his patients lists and waiting times yet offer quick service for private work?
It is obvious that if there was no waiting list then there would be no private work, therefore the waiting list would have to be invented.
I'm not saying anyone is corrupt, just that the system is flawed and offers opportunities for the undesirable business practices
Alan
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Andy,
+1 and a *
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Iain,
Thank you, evenings entertainment sorted.
Alan
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John,
A touch of the old Matthew 13:20-22 there.
You may have guessed from my very subtle (i'm Yorkshire) hints that there are aspects of the NHS that I would gladly throw on the bonfire, but the vaccination effort led by Kate Bingham and the UK Vaccine Taskforce together with the NHS have done a bloody good job of getting what vaccine there is into as many arms as quickly as possible. A quick scan of the falling deaths shows the progress and hopefully now the quick return of the NHS resources to treating other deserving illnesses.
Thanks to all involved in that, yourself included.
Alan
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Murray must have done more to raise the public profile of motor sport in the UK than anyone, a broadcasting giant. A bleak day when he stopped his F1 commentaries he has sadly now taken his personal chequered flag.
..and why no knighthood?
Alan
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Starting with the obvious, have you established that both wheel rims have the same offset?
i.e if front wheels swapped left to right on the car the right side of the car is still the problem.
Alan
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Iain,
I am pleased with the information that you included but the leaflet is dated 22nd February 2021 and I particularly referred to the situation in 2020.
Great to see vaccination is proceeding apace and the published figures for deaths and infections and reducing nicely.
Alan
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Back to Coronavirus.
I realise this might be a little inflammatory but....
Treatment for covid. The way I understand it in the uk, certainly in 2020 if you had covid and ended up in hospital you would be isolated, and given assistance to breathe possibly on a ventilator where additional treatment would be given to compensate for the damage caused by the ventilation. Eventually CPAP machine were brought in as a breathing aid with much less damage to the patient.
But by and large there was no treatment for a coronavirus infection, the patient's treatment was to be stabilised and fed oxygen until their own immune systems won, or lost the battle.
Now I might be incorrect in this and would be happy to be told otherwise. What I read from abroad though is that other countries tried various treatments on their patients from Ivermectin, calcifediol, dexamethasone, hydroxychloroquine, and whatever else at least they were trying.
It occurs to me that if I was laid on my death bed I would prefer experimental treatment, even if it killed me at least the knowledge gained from the experiment would have some benefit to others. Leaving me in my bed to die would not advance medical knowledge one iota and my death would have been in vain. But NHS seemed happy to allow the nature knows best approach and the increasing numbers of patients led to triaging and sending patients to a sure and certain death treatmentless.
Is that by and large correct?
Alan
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Getting way, way off topic here but muntjac often through my fields. Fallow deer we don't see too often though they live in the woods around us and in a hard winter they come down to eat the horses food.
https://www.lymediseaseaction.org.uk/about-lyme/faq/
n the United Kingdom, Lyme disease is known to be carried mainly by small mammals, such as mice and voles, and birds, though larger mammals can also carry it. Ticks feeding on these animals pick up the Lyme disease bacteria and pass them on to the next animal they feed on. Ticks can also feed on deer, cattle and sheep, which appear to kill the bacteria in the tick (9). Ticks cannot stand drying out, so tend to live in long grass, gardens, woods and moorland. People who live, work or have a holiday in places that can harbour ticks are likely to be at greater risk, as are those in urban areas with overgrown gardens or with extensive parks. Anyone can get Lyme disease if a tick that is carrying the infection has bitten them.
and still the medical profession denies it, the ostrich theme rolls.
Alan
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John,
Yes you are absolutely correct sheep, deer, wild boar etc instinctively know and respect county boundaries and never, ever cross them, not once in recorded history and the medical profession would never accept that the possibly of wild animal migration might happen without double blind trials, and of course the well known track-and-trace scheme for muntjac.
Seems to be a theme of ostrich medical policies here.
Alan
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I have a mirror for the refusal to D3 test.
A Labrador of ours developed some odd symptoms, we put it out on the internet dog forums and within 10 minutes two American dog owners came back to us with a probable diagnosis of Lyme Disease and advised to get a particular type of test for Lyme. So off we went to the vets who examined the dog said they didn't know what the problem was and we then suggested Lyme.
The vet scoffed said we don't have Lyme around here and we don't test for it. We said if you don't test for it how do you know whether it is around here? Catch 22.
In the end the dog had the treatment he would have had following a positive Lyme test and after a long period he recovered.
Incidentally deer tics spread Lyme, deer wander everywhere there is woodland and there are not many areas in the UK without Lyme.
Alan
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Don't oil filters have a bypass valve meant for when the filter is blocked but possibly opening? Obviously not an engineering quality valve in a filter.
Alan
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Yup, send 'em round and I'll tell them.
Alan
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Never heard of ctl-alt-del then?
Was a nice looking boat though.
Alan
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Quite a large area on the move.
Alan
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Oh come on Alan stop sitting on the fence.
I have a friend in Shetland who tells me that the islands want to remain with England in the union and would seek independence from Scotland.
Obviously a lot of very strong feelings in Scotland
Alan
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It takes Scotland to make Handforth Parish Council look professionally run.
Alan
Formula 1 is Back!
in Social Scene
Posted · Edited by barkerwilliams
10% Downforce reductions do not seem to have affected laptimes so far in testing. I loved the driving on sand, must have given the engineers nightmares, but a boost for air filter sales. Yuki Tsunoda making a good debut so far but we need racing to sort out the real pecking order of cars and drivers.
Honda engine changes for Red Bull:-
Alan