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So , so sorry Mel Goodnight, God Bless sweet Foodog Thinking of you all :GroupHug:

Oooh. I thought we may have all ended up in Nidd after the Chinese incident, but luckily we seemed to have escaped..... So I think we should we able to trouser up to Tottenham Court Road now?

I humbly disagree with our esteemed fellow player to say - Wow Marion that was a blinder And shows how rigorous study before play can indeed produce excellent results......... Examination of the Wade victory in 1977, particularly the analysis by Davis, leads me - if I have interpreted correctly-, to Southfields

Wow! Some impressive moves here.......... so, after much consideration, and invoking that little used rule of Jenkin's Ear, it'll have to be Cutty Sark I think

Just may have to trip us over to Beckton before I go to bed

Ooooh I may have to seize the diagonal, and go for Drayton Park! Are we allowing huffing?

I think your GP should be able to do tests which will show if you're beginning the menopause. Another thing to get checked out for is an ovarian cyst. I've had 2 and both times my symptoms were just like yours. Good luck

Happy Gotcha Day gorgeous Timmy

Wishing you a very Happy Birthday Mel

Frinton beach is meant to be nice http://www.tendringdc.gov.uk/TendringDC/Le...nonSeaBeach.htm Or there's Mersea Island, http://www.mersea-island.com/vital-information.cfm Shoeburyness /Thorpe Bay / Southend http://www.southend.gov.uk/services/content.asp?content=2432 In Suffolk Dunwich is quite a nice walk http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-dun...ndminsmerebeach , or there's Southwold http://www.visit-suffolkcoast.co.uk/beache...old-beach-guide or Aldeburgh http://www.visit-suffolkcoast.co.uk/beache...ess-beach-guide Hope this helps

Alex :GroupHug: I would second trying EFT - you can download info for free from here http://www.emofree.com/ I've found it really useful , although I went and had a one off session with a practitioner to learn 'how to' as I couldn't concentrate enough to follow the site. Take care

I went to school with a Teresa Green, and a colleague at work had a brother called Wayne King. Someone else with I knew with a surname of West nearly called their daughter Natalie

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Thank you I think I may have to stop having any more birthdays - getting too old

The 'story' locally is that she had 3 lots of treatment for abnormal cells, was recalled a 4th time, but didn't go back Maybe we'll never know the exact truth - this is a local hospital to me and while it's not perfect it does seem to have a good track record on these issues. I sincerely hope that the new husband will have no access to her estate, and that the boys will have guardians who will have their interests at heart and keep their mum alive in their memories

I'm no fan of hers, but I can understand why she's doing what she's doing - does make for uncomfortable viewing / reading though . I wonder how her boys will feel in the future if they see all the footage from now. That said she has raised awareness of how important it is to go for that smear test. I haven't met her, but friends of ours have and they think she is a lovely person. She lives fairly close by and her beauty salons are just down the road. The local paper ran a piece last summer about her viewing a local private school and the feelings of some of the 'anonymous' parents were unpleasant, so I hope that the boys don't get a hard time if that is the way they are educated. As to the fiance, she obviously loves him, but he is a waste of space. He is a friend of my nephew and he did once actually work for a living. Having heard the circumstances of how they met, and his behaviour at the beginning I have no doubt that the only reason he has stayed around has been financial

Another great example of why people shouldn't buy pups from pet shops / superstores, dealers masquerading as breeders, and should also boycott places which sell them (even if they sell other goods). But people like us (on rescue forums) know this don't we? Hopefully this will make others aware too......poor pups And their parents Smudge (ex puppy farmed girl) is going to get some fuss ( I would cuddle her, only her past experience means she is still wary / partly scared of humans 3 years on and finds close contact stressful )

I think at age 9 they bump the premium and change the excess to add a % as well- they doubled when Boysie hit 9. It stayed more or less the same last year, but it has nearly doubled again this year. Axa (if they would insure him without exclusions, which I doubt) would be £560, but Greenbee (John Lewis's insurance arm and underwritten by Axa) quoted over £800 and a £100 excess

You have my sympathy - imagine our shock when Boysie's renewal came through yesterday at nearly £800 Double last years. He is an 11 year old cocker spaniel, no ongoing conditions but has had plenty of 'one offs' which would no doubt mean lots of exclusions if we moved. At his age we feel no option but to continue cover, just in case he develops something that needs lots of treatment Unless anyone knows of an insurance co that isn't so rigid......

I would have gone along with your assumption too, had it not been for this quote 'Scottish SPCA chief executive Stuart Earley said: "The RSPCA previously said it did not raise money in Scotland, but by its own admission this is clearly not the case'. Which suggests to me that it doesn't want any 'Scottish' money to be donated outside Scotland, regardless of the donor's intentions. I have previously donated to the SSPCA, but as it now seems they want to draw firm borders and ring fences, then I won't offend their morals by donating again.

But you can't blame the RSPCA if people send them donations because the SSPCA hasn't raised their profile enough to make it clear they aren't the same organisation. As I said earlier, having a similar logo for years will have promoted confusion. As you say, some of the donations received may well be because people chose to donate to the RSPCA, in full knowledge of who / what they are. How are they to know the donor was 'confused' when the donation was made? It seems like the SSPCA want people who live in Scotland to donate solely to them - and if that's the case, they must make sure they won't accept donations from people who don't live there either - they can't have it both ways.

Not necessarily, but then I also don't expect the RSPCA to operate in Scotland either,because I knew that there was a separate scottish org. So I am bemused as to why it was 'invisible' to so many. Who's job was it to make sure that they were more well known? Both organisations should change their online donation systems if there is any chance of 'confusion',and the SSPCA want to make sure that only people who reside in Scotland can make donations to a Scottish org.

It didn't deny accepting donations - it denied direct fundraising (which is different and shouldn't happen). The amount quoted is an estimate, so we will never know how many people 'mistakenly' donated without contacting them all and asking - a huge exercise. You have to ask who is responsible for people being confused and not knowing enough about the SSPCA in Scotland though - having a near identical logo for donkeys years wouldn't have helped. Re the online donation bit - the SSPCA's is the same - put in a non Scottish postcode and it won't warn you that you are about to donate to an org that only operates in Scotland.

You're not alone - we're the same.