SpringTime

Shark

School

Kills

I agree. They are annoying but if you do kill them they'll only be replaced by others so no point in these methods unless you're protecting livestock from their tendencies to surplus kill. They don't like the smell of other species' urine however, so if you have a couple of beers in the evening a quick wizz on your garden at night should help. bcam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'd recommend the same techniques for animal > abusers. > > SpringTime Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > You can shoot them, gas them, use poison, trap > > them or hound them down. They always come back.

You can shoot them, gas them, use poison, trap them or hound them down. They always come back.

Wraps

Plank

In response to the last three posts: With a decline in foreign investment in property throughout London (not just in new flats on the river, and in high end commodity purchases in the priciest postcodes) of course things will change. The stamp surcharge from Osborne & co. caused the last spike pre April 2016. Since then things have crawled back. Hopefully less agents as a result and with less agents we should have more consistency in pricing. Joe Public still hasn't completely cottoned on to the fact that the reins have come in, and too many properties are still coming to market at the wrong price. But that won't last forever. This price drop is all very annoying for those trying to sell up and leave the capital, but since many of those practically won the pools simply by buying in London when the time was right I don't really care! For those buying and selling locally it's definitely a better market than it was a few years ago. As someone with an interest in the business it can be said that transaction volumes are indeed down, though it depends which agents are involved. Only a few on the high street are doing any meaningful business. I think that the dynamic still favours the seller. There are less houses than buyers around. Problem for sellers is that too many buyers ~think~ that it's a buyers' market so they continue to shop around for bargains, and then when they do offer they offer low. This will carry on for a while. Probably for three years or so. Still, it's currently a better market than it was in boom time when transactions volumes were relatively low and every other property was subject to multiple bids (i.e. little supply to meet demand). That was a sad situation of many buyers failing to purchase and the only lucky vendors being those not needing a local onward purchase.

Crash

Cup

DovertheRoad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And why not make it old school? Ferry from > Portsmouth to St Malo. Then drive on to Brittany > (Carnac) for some Eurocamp camping, beach and > frites by a massive communal swimming pool. Buy > some bangers, a flick knife and one of those pens > with a stripper on it. We might have been on the same bus. Whatever happened I am sorry!

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A horse died at Aintree three days ago. The Grand > National was always designed to be a testing > curcuit with more regard for spectacle than the > safety of horses. Even though today, more focus is > on safety, a horse stil dies jumping Becher's > Brook, and for what? So someone somewhere can make > a few quid. To me, horse racing is no different to > fox hunting. It pushes horses to their limits and > opens them up to completely preventable stress and > injury just so that someone can get a jolly > somewhere. The saddest thing is how those horses > that do manage to survive a life of racing end up > when their trainers no longer want them. Wild horses die too.

In 1983 we stayed near Castillonnes on a farm, south of Bergerac and it was beautiful. I remember being about 3 in another place near quarries close to Brossac somewhere North West of Bergerac. Somewhere by a lake in a chalet. Lots of good caves in this area. That was in 1981 I think. More recently I stayed overnight in Chateauroux on a trip down to Girona. There's a good square in the town for a nice evening of food and drink. You could stop off at Oradour-sur-Glane to see the site of the massacre. I went as a boy and it's still quite harrowing now although the bones in the church have been cleared. I think the roof fell in in the end. There's a good hotel in Carcassonne though probably better to be in town when it's colder as it gets busy and a little trippery. We also stopped at a quiet village called Nancay between Bourges and Orleans. Grand Fougeray is a good (quiet) stop off in Britanny.... More fun driving than train or plane if you ask me, and there are thousands of good places really, where are you planning on going?

I don't follow horse racing really, but I do like the National. It's the only occasion in the year I visit the bookies. No fatalities in the main race I understand - and none since 2012 which is a good thing. And this year I won, hurrah!

Well I love Russian people. Never had any issues with any I've met, nor any I've worked with. Am I just lucky?

Thaws

Golden

Tiger

Builder

Smirk

Sorry - I'm not a lawyer, obviously. As less than an amateur I mean "the law" in a broader sense to include police, judge and jury, the lot - and hope that the result of the legal process falls in favour of the victim (not a deceased burglar). It's too much for people to have to worry about murder charges when someone's burgling their homes, and if that mentality persists violent intruders have the upper hand. DaveR Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "People should have every right to defend > themselves and theirs. I hope that the law sides > with the gentleman and acts as a precedent that > favours victims of crime as opposed to lending > further licence to criminals" > > Crikey, it really is amateur hour round here. > > The law doesn't side with anyone - it's applied by > judges who (in criminal trials) give directions on > law to juries. But before it gets to a trial > someone has to be charged, a decision made by a > prosecutor. > > Legal precedents, put simply, are cases that > decide issue of law and are then applied in future > cases. What happens in this case will only set a > precedent if (at some future stage) it ends up in > the Court of Appeal, say. > > I don't know what you mean by 'further licence to > criminals" - do you?

So the old boy appears to be made the victim twice. People should have every right to defend themselves and theirs. I hope that the law sides with the gentleman and acts as a precedent that favours victims of crime as opposed to lending further licence to criminals.

Thong

No to CPZ and no to survey. Thanks! :-)