JetSet

Canada has never worked for me, i'm just as bad over there, except in the winter at -20c

 

Sat at the Dr's now crossing my fingers he'll take mercy and offer me something better than fexofenadine!

Canada (and The U.S.A) has a lot of Ragweed which releases copious amounts of pollen in the autumn. Caroline had a really bad reaction went we passed a tractor cutting ragweed in Utah. It was bad enough for us to go to a pharmacy for advice. Chemist took one look and , said "Rabbit Brush (a type of ragweed) allergy, very common around here". Gave her some tablets, forget the name, but it didn't clear up till we'd been home for a few weeks

Pete

The older I get the less sleep I seem to need, around 6 hours a night is average. I worked shifts for over 30 years and my hours of sleep would vary from 8 hours when I was on days to 4 hours when on nights and 9-10 hours on my days off. Once I retired in 2003 it took 12 months to settle into the new pattern but I guess it was 7-8 hours gradually falling away to the 6 hours I'm getting now.

Pete

It would seem that the number of people suffering from allergies, hay fever being the most common, is on a rapid upward incline. Caroline gets not only hay fever but also has allergies to certain foods. My mum also had a serious allergy to pollen and like Caroline sometimes came up in whelps. Benedryl one a day tablets seem to help but are not always 100% effective unfortunately.

I would seem to be immune to hay fever and other allergies, I put some of this down to not being wrapped in a plastic bubble as a child

Pete

I've got a pair of standard lights you can have for a small sum . PM me if you're interested.

Pete

How do you know what most brexiters wanted...I admire youre poltical knowledge, but you really do make a lot of assumptions about what people have or havent voted for, I totally accept opinion and respect yours, but rash claims are another thing entirely, we have no idea what we are getting yet, so lets just wait and see what we get and whether we like it

You forget that 48% of voters didn't want any sort of Brexit and I very much doubt that the entire remaining 52% actually wanted a hard Brexit. Even if 80% of them wanted a hard Brexit then well over 50% wanted either a soft Brexit or no Brexit at all. I believe that this election was to some extent the revenge of the remainers and a good result for democracy. Also, it's very clear another General Election will have to happen sooner rather than later, as it stands a few rebel conservatives will be able to block any legislation they don't like and what the DUP will do is anyone's guess....interesting times ahead I think.

Pete

I've never seen why a u-turn is a bad thing in politics.

Absolutely, the thing I have an issue with is when they won't admit to making a U-Turn. I respect politicians when they say sorry I was wrong rather than trying to put a spin on it.

Pete

Paid. sorry for the delay.

Pete

Very interesting and unexpected exit poll. It's going to be a long night.

Pete

I voted yesterday!!

I enjoy actually voting in person on the day. I've done this in every general election since 1970, that's 12 in all if I've counted correctly. Of course, I'm usually there for a while as my house is the last house in the constituency of Alyn and Deeside while my neighbours are in Delyn and they have the same postcode as me . It can take 10 minutes to locate me on the voters list and issue me with a voting slip (because I can never find my polling card)

Pete

I'm going over part of The Evo tomorrow on my way down to Whistling Sands. Should be fun in a Nissan Juke

 

Pete

Heading over to the LlÅ·n are you Pete, to that squeaky beach?

I was over at Aberdaron myself a few weeks ago in the zed.

You should have some great weather there this week.

Yeah, it was a glorious day. It took a bit longer than I thought to get there due to heavy traffic and actually finding the beach. It's very poorly signposted and you have to drive several miles down twisty narrow lanes. Next time we'll go to Penllech Beach which is a few miles north of Whistling Sands. It's a better beach with free parking and the walk down to it is less taxing.

Pete

I'm going over part of The Evo tomorrow on my way down to Whistling Sands. Should be fun in a Nissan Juke

Pete

I would take arrogance over incompetence any day

 

But fair play for switching based on policies, it's the smart and sensible thing to do.

I would have respected May if she'd had said "I've made a mistake, sorry" instead of trying to worm out of it but then again its not often you see any politician saying sorry or admitting they were wrong. Apparently Theresa May has a close team around her, only 3 or 4 of her closest allies actually knew what was in the manifesto and many senior Conservatives including Ministers were actually quite angry about her so called "Dementia Tax" I actually liked David Cameron and his sidekick, 5 Jobs Osbourne,he made promises and in general kept them I think for a Tory he was a pretty good PM.I must say though that I'm not at all keen on Corbyn, he's certainly a man of conviction but some of his individual beliefs are beyond the pale TBH. However, apart from the policies, I've taken 2 further things into consideration, Number 1, Corbyn doesn't make the policies, ie Trident and Number 2, I think a big Conservative win would be bad for democracy and for the country in general. Add to that, I live in a marginal Labour held seat, majority around 3,300 with a decently moderate sitting MP. BTW, Labour have held this seat since 1951 (once with a tiny majority of 75) and since then has had just 3 MP's

Pete

After looking through the main parties manifesto's I've now decided to switch my vote. Just can't take May's arrogance which also swayed me quite a bit.

Pete

 

I like the pulling back fuel payments for all but the poorest pensioners, both of my parents could claim this but dont as they dot feel it reasonable when they have solid pensions and own their own homes.

Very few people refuse the heating allowance. My heating bill comes to around £1,000 per annum but seeing as I don't have a mortgage and have a company pension I'm most likely going to lose the £200 I get at the moment. This would also probably mean that 10 million pensioners would have to be means tested, more expense and red tape. However, before I pass judgement I need to see what the earnings threshold is before you lose your entitlement.

But figures obtained by the BBC found just 29 pensioners decided to decline their fuel allowance in 2014-5.

Nearly a million 350Zs have been manufactured I believe, so it's never going to be a classic

Nothing like a million actually, somewhere around 300k I believe. In any case, production numbers don't equate to cars becoming classics for example 6 million minis were made and millions of Morris Minors and VW Beetles (both terrible cars BTW) and yet they have become classics. Even cars that were an absolute disaster have become classics, the Ford Edsel is a good example of this.

Pete

I just did some research and basic maths to work out just how much the NHS spends. According to the NHS Confederation, budget for this FY is just over £120Bn. Break that down per day and you get to a total of over £300M. Per day. Every day. as we are

Yeah a lot of money but if you take the original 15 member states we are ranked 13th on health spending by GDP, makes you wonder as we are reportedly the 5th or 6th richest country in the World .

Pete .

Thanks guys. Had a great day, my daughter came up from Cardiff and took us both out for a meal and before that I spent the day watching sport on The TV . On Thursday we're going to Caernarfon for my birthday present........a trip on the revived Welsh Highland Railway, something that I've wanted to do ever since I walked along the old trackbed some 50+ years ago.

BTW, Caroline has now completed her course of radiotherapy. It's left her a bit sore and tired but this was to be expected. The doctor is very pleased with her progress and has signed her back to work for the 8th May.

Thanks again,

Pete

In the late 80's my ex Brother in Law got pulled on The M6 in Cumbria for doing 105 in his Golf GTi. Just as the copper started to take down his details a rubbernecker crashed into the back of another car about 100 yards in front of where he had been stopped. Policeman had to abandon taking details to attend to the crash, how lucky can you get?

Pete

Oops, forgot I got pulled in a place called Grand Junction in Colorado back in 2001, my offense, going the wrong way down a one way street . Kinda disconcerting seeing an armed policeman flagging you down . Luckily, he let me off.

Pete

Don't see many Red 350Z's but this one looked really nice, this afternoon around 4:00.

Pete

May 1991 on my way back from running The St. Neots half marathon, I was in a rush to get home to watch The Indy 500 and was doing 80 in a 60 limit in Shropshire. Got pulled twice in the 1970's for random checks and in the 60's countless times on my Lambretta scooter.

Pete

At a guess I would say that it's the base plate for some type of modern snow chains, if you google spike spider snow chains you'll see they click onto a plate just like

Why on Earth would anyone living in that area need snow chains ?

Pete

I too believe it will be interesting in Scotland,will Queen Nicola lose a few seats? I think she might.

Looking at the marginals in Scotland I think the Lib Dems will take 3 or 4 seats and the Cons possibly a couple. Labour I don't know, I haven't looked at their marginals but they may gain a couple in their previous strongholds.

Pete

You would think that if Labour get as badly slaughtered in the election as the polls predict, even the most devout of Corbynistas would run out of patience and bin the guy off.

The Labour party has been hijacked by the left and hard left idealists and those to the centre left have been pushed to one side. If Corbyn doesn't resign then I don't see how the moderate wing of the Labour party can be rid of him. Of course its entirely their own fault, changing the way the party elects its leader then throwing open membership for a fiver may raise a lot of money but has left them wide open to infiltration.

Pete

So if Labour crash and loose more seats, what then, another leadership battle with JC standing "again" and being voted in "again"?

Yes, JC is very popular with labour party members/activists and getting slammed in a general election won't change this. The voting public, like me for example see him in a different light, weak,especially on defence and leading a disunited party. This isn't going to end well for the labour party.

Pete