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You were right. At 78 years and at the end of 14 years of suffering from a slowly failing heart despite interventions, my mother was finally slipping away peacefully in hospital, fully aware that it was the end and perfectly contented. Suddenly all hell was let loose as the crash trolley...

Good choice and mine too. Your last line quote of Harold Macmillan's famous words reminds me of Kenneth Horne in one of his radio comedies back then. Speaking to a crowd Macmillan fashion, he boomed out "You've never had it so good", only to have a elderly man in the audience plaintively call...

Opening up more time for illness is a sad fact though. The medics have been good at extending life and curing illness, but not very good at stopping illness occurring in the first place My brother's is the most recent example. His heart was failing with repeated attacks, so open heart...

Not necessarily, all too often we are kept alive to suffer more diseases and illness in consequence. Happened to both of my parents and my brother. .

Both Scottish and Irish translators came out with the same meaning for me: Lar the right. Maybe wrong as they were online translators .

Yes, you must aim for one with a certificate of conformity for the DVLA to accept it. After we leave the EU on the 29th March or whenever, even that might no longer be valid, but that's a legal technicality and no doubt the DfT and DVLA will just carrying on accepting them since we won't have...

True, and in this respect age is a concept rather than being fixed. Traditionally children have worked as soon as they were capable of tasks, irrespective of their chronical age. This was even true for me as recently as the 1940s, the first occasions from 8 years old and at 11 years old on...

For them all to be like that you need to emigrate, Gibraltar or the Falkland Islands. .

Same almost everywhere, except London, where with our house prices people live in them. .

Cream coloured. That's because they were sensible enough back in 1904 to establish their own telephone company and kept to it, rather than suffering Post Office Telephones and later BT: Information Link .

Better a bout of gloat than a bloat of gout. ;) .

Yes, a Speed pedelec known as the S -Class is the type of e-bike you need. Allowed a double power rating of up to 500 watts and with assistance to 28 mph, they are otherwise normal bicycles except having to be registered. This webpage explains the difference There are many makes with all the...

But surely the fact that the UK is leaving proves there is no prison. It's only difficult to leave because we made it so by sheer foolishness, there were better ways to leave. I made the case in this thread years ago. Observing how successful that Germany and some other EU members have been...

They have ideas? When does that happen? Is it when the smartphone needs charging? .

Very far from the truth, but I can understand you thinking that since you've only recently joined this long thread and I can't expect you to read the whole of it. Previously however I've posted acknowledgements of all of the EU perceived faults, and explained the reasons for some of them. My...

They didn't choose to walk away, their governments that they voted in chose to stay. Their electorates could have kicked them out subsequently but they didn't. Remember what happened when the people of EU and NATO country Spain didn't like their government having their troops fighting in...

No it's not, detention cannot exist when the so called captives hold the keys. Not difficult at all to leave, any country can just walk away, and indeed that we are threatening at present. It only becomes more difficult when trying to leave with advantages from staying, so that's a choice. .

Agreed, though I think there is a crucial difference where the Ukraine is concerned. I don't think that the Russians want that poverty stricken and backward country back at present, they have more than enough economic problems already. I'm sure their tactics are to sufficiently destabilise the...

It applies throughout much of Europe. The distinction is simple. A pedelec is a bicycle with some limited motor assistance, so it can enjoy the same bureaucracy free existence as an unpowered bicycle. A powered scooter is a motor vehicle in law, not dependent on assisting a rider. That means...

I would of course back that, but Theresa May would never accept it. Her deal has been so publically maligned that the public probably wouldn't vote for it and the vote could easily end up as remain in the EU. So I can't see leavers being happy with the idea and the associated risk, and they'd...