The problem with National Insurance paying for the NHS etc, must be that it's only paid by the relatively young, but the NHS, social care etc are disproportionately used by the old, whose numbers are increasing rapidly. Punkdoc is right, I think - taxes need to be higher for us all, and much more needs doing to make big business pay what they owe.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Beautful picture Pat Chicklet doesn’t come home til July (and only gets back to Australia this weekend, having spent the last 6 weeks travelling round all sorts of exotic places .....apparently Fiji must be added to my list of places to visit . She’s just finshing up in New Zealand at the moment - she’s had an amazing time). I couldn’t bear to miss her 21st birthday though, hence the rather impulsive purchase of a ticket for 14 Sleeps time ....it was a mad moment
Glad Mum was in good spirits Liri - another big birthday ?
Happy for my estate to be taxed when I’m no longer here to need it - hopefully the Chicklets will be able to fend for themselves by then. I’m certainly not expecting anything from my Dad - would much rather he uses as much as he can whilst he’s here to enjoy it
Chicky, I'm so glad chicklet is making the most of her time " down under " to fit some travelling in.
Hubby wants to do something special when I hit 60 in a few years ( I'm only 27 after all ) He fancies Borneo , I fancy NZ but I'm not sure I can be faffed with the flying any more, it's such a soul destroying experience these days.
well done puncdoc for managing to get into a horizontal position! Am sure like me, you have seen the young drunks in the ED, using the ambulances, and facilities, health "touurists", people coming to "visit" relatives, no health insurance, it wouldnt work with us, if we went abroad, and got sick or injured. We should be looking after our "own" first. I feel terribly sad when I see homeless folk, I did loose my house, when I got divorced, got housed at the 11th hour, by local authority, because I hadnt made myself intentionally homeless and had 2 small kids, they gave me a victorian property due for demolition (its now a petrol) station I was greatfull, spent a year there, and YES, started on making the arden nice, while I was there! Have 2 sons with mental health problesms, one was made homeless after being off work, didnt realise he could get some sort of housing benefit (it was a council property) it was March and snowing, his sister took him in, then he lived in a mental health charity hostal before getting his flat. Youngest son also has flat, but there is no outside spac whatsoever, not even a balcony, I believe everyone should have access to air and light outside, my youngest son had a studio before, with a balcony, but his "issues" where made worse by having to sleep and live in the one room, he waited for a few years and was given a 1 bedroom flat.
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It is indeed, Joyce.
The problem with National Insurance paying for the NHS etc, must be that it's only paid by the relatively young, but the NHS, social care etc are disproportionately used by the old, whose numbers are increasing rapidly. Punkdoc is right, I think - taxes need to be higher for us all, and much more needs doing to make big business pay what they owe.
Just trying the photos again.
Hooray! Well done Nora and Daniel.
this was to show the poplars turning on the river last evening.
Morning all.
Wide awake since 4.30 grrr. The birds are starting to wake now.
Beautful picture Pat
Chicklet doesn’t come home til July (and only gets back to Australia this weekend, having spent the last 6 weeks travelling round all sorts of exotic places .....apparently Fiji must be added to my list of places to visit 
. She’s just finshing up in New Zealand at the moment - she’s had an amazing time). I couldn’t bear to miss her 21st birthday though, hence the rather impulsive purchase of a ticket for 14 Sleeps time ....it was a mad moment 
Glad Mum was in good spirits Liri - another big birthday ?
Happy for my estate to be taxed when I’m no longer here to need it - hopefully the Chicklets will be able to fend for themselves by then. I’m certainly not expecting anything from my Dad - would much rather he uses as much as he can whilst he’s here to enjoy it
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Chicky, I'm so glad chicklet is making the most of her time " down under " to fit some travelling in.
Hubby wants to do something special when I hit 60 in a few years ( I'm only 27 after all ) He fancies Borneo , I fancy NZ but I'm not sure I can be faffed with the flying any more, it's such a soul destroying experience these days.
Good morning all
G'day Pat 
Hurrah! Pics are back! Looks like the pizzas worked! Thank you Nora and the team
Lovely photo Pat
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
pizzas worked Dove??? do pizzas work in gardens, if so send them round, please.
well done puncdoc for managing to get into a horizontal position! Am sure like me, you have seen the young drunks in the ED, using the ambulances, and facilities, health "touurists", people coming to "visit" relatives, no health insurance, it wouldnt work with us, if we went abroad, and got sick or injured. We should be looking after our "own" first. I feel terribly sad when I see homeless folk, I did loose my house, when I got divorced, got housed at the 11th hour, by local authority, because I hadnt made myself intentionally homeless and had 2 small kids, they gave me a victorian property due for demolition (its now a petrol) station I was greatfull, spent a year there, and YES, started on making the arden nice, while I was there! Have 2 sons with mental health problesms, one was made homeless after being off work, didnt realise he could get some sort of housing benefit (it was a council property) it was March and snowing, his sister took him in, then he lived in a mental health charity hostal before getting his flat. Youngest son also has flat, but there is no outside spac whatsoever, not even a balcony, I believe everyone should have access to air and light outside, my youngest son had a studio before, with a balcony, but his "issues" where made worse by having to sleep and live in the one room, he waited for a few years and was given a 1 bedroom flat.
On a lighter note.
I asked Hubby to pop into Lidl to see if they had any cheap sweet peas and Morrisons to get some bulbs:
9 packets of sweet peas, 12 Eucomis and 150 gladdies!!! I must send him to buy some Hostas one day.
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That's a good haul, Hosta!
Morning all.
Going visiting this morning and exploring this afternoon. Think I've found another nice pub in a pretty village for a lunch snack.
The day looks a bit grey, but some sun is forecast later.