Rants, Ventings and General Ramblings
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Tory Economics, Death by A Thousand Cuts.
So In the last 12 months we have seen even more tory tax increases on middle and lower income families, via their so called national insurance tax cut, but then again freezing the thresholds for income tax dragging more and more people into either at the low end of the scale paying income tax for…
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Downward Spirals – What Does My Mental Health and WWI Pilots Have In Common.
No Parachutes…… WWI Pilots would fly without parachutes, feeling it better to go down with the plane than jump out, so once the plane was hit and sufficiently damaged it meant it would be on a forever downwards trajectory from there on in. In a similar vain once dark thoughts, start to manifest and your…
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Its all going horribly wrong
Well it’s been one of those weeks, i have managed to break my walking stick, resulting in me plunging headlong into the road, I have managed to lose my Blue Badge, within the confines of my own home and then to top it off i have a raft of hospital appointments coming up this week…
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Facebook Marketplace – A Scammers Paradise.
If like me you have tried selling on Facebook Marketplace, then I am pretty sure you are going to be sick to death of “Is This Still Available?” and then radio silence, or “I will send GLS with cash, but I need you to pay the insurance upfront”, etc, etc. Like much of Facebook the…
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More Oil and Gas, It’s like throwing Petrol on a fire and Hoping it will go out.
The latest Tory Green policies, which include a go-ahead for fracking, more North Sea oil and gas exploration, a general thumbs up to more fossil fuels being burnt in the UK. With a whole raft of new Oil and Gas fired power stations being built to bridge the gap whist new Nuclear Power stations are…
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Keeping Chickens at Home – Cut Waste and Get Free Eggs
If you want to reduce your household waste, and save yourself some money on eggs (with 6 free range eggs now running at £2.50) then take a look at keeping chickens at home in your garden. You don’t need a lot of space to keep a few chickens at home, and you don’t need too…
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Starlink Satelite Internet – Long Term UK Test / Review
I originally installed Starlink in June of 2022 after losing my BT business fibre connection (over £300 per month) and deciding I didntl particularly like the offerings of either BT (2Mbps – 4Mbps) on so called fibre to the door, and I just could not bring myself to sign up to Virgin and their constantly…
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Depression isn’t Contagious, You Can’t Catch It!
I have found that one of the worst parts of mental illness especially depression is the loneliness and despair you can feel, if like me you feel alone in a room full of people, imagine spending the last 4 or 5 years essentially in isolation. When my illness really started to show, it was around…
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The Real Price of “Green” Vehicles
Ok, I admit it, I drive a Hybrid Electric Vehicle, not a full on plugin electric but still a self charging EV which shares much of its components with full on EV’s, and don’t get me wrong I absolutely love my EV, and wouldn’t give it up for all the tea in china, but what…
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“The British Miracle Meat”, A Most Thought Provoking Hoax
I watched Gregg Wallace touring the “Good Harvest” human meat factory with a certain unease, throw away comments from the owners of GooD Harvest like “Now thanks to Brexit we can do this..” etc made it feel even more real. And then as the realisation they were not growing this “Miracle Meat” from cells but…
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