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This really isn't the place for politics but my feeling with Trump is that rather like a few other people who have been in the news recently, they seem to think that being incredibly rich allows them to ignore the normal social rules - accepting that you can lose elections as well as win them, not sharing confidential state papers with other very rich people, that sort of thing. And leaders from other civilised countries, such as our own, fear the consequences of telling him the truth about his attitude and behaviour because he will just resort to tariffs and the threat of military action against our allies.

Trump is changing tariffs almost weekly - be nice to him, give him prizes and adulation and you get off lightly. Stand up to him and you get hit with 100% on everything you sell to our former colonies. It's a pathetic way to run any country and just creates instability and doubt. Make America Great Again? Hardly.

Tariffs now up to 15%. He's being manipulated like a puppet as the frontotemporal dementia progresses. It's really time the principal officers invoked the 25th

Trump will do ANYTHING to defy logic. He is like a toddler in a sweetshop. Greedy and with almost no common sense at all, and total lack of experience of the real world. Needs his nappy changing and early bed with no supper !!

Um, did I read that right? TRUMP said that about others???

If I'm not mistaken, he isn't defying the ruling, but he's using another power open to him to impose the 10% worldwide tariffs. If I understood it correctly, this alternative option is limited to 10%, so he's using the full extent of it - in the meantime, he'll be seeking legal approval for higher tariffs on an individual country-by-country basis.

I think today's ruling was based on the fact that he didn't have carte blanche to apply tariffs as he saw fit - to apply tariffs higher than he's able to apply under whatever alternative power he's using in the meantime, he would need to gain approval on a case-by-case basis.

Watched the live broadcast to the end. Got the impression he's defying the ruling and adding a worldwide 10% tariff to the existing ones.

"But these people are obnoxious, ignorant and loud," Trump added.

Er, doesn't he mean 99% of Americans?

Sounds like it!!😜

@Kenny b - My hearing is declining and I was offered an earing egg.

Is that the same thing?

Thought you might be interested in this story about the Dialoge Express Cafe in London where you order your choices in sign language - great idea - they should be all over the country. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zs9ymbk

Send three & fourpence we're going to a dance?

The oldies will get that one!

csikijanos, I try to be positive about hearing loss, the same as tinnitus - it can be fun trying to work out what stepson just said to me, as I walk back to my kitchen from his lounge. Did he say he was going to be in for tea or not? What day did he say he would be working? Why can't people have subtitles!

Buy sausage meat and make scotch eggs, but don't try sticking them in your ear.

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I am training myself to work out the consonants that fit between the vowel sounds I hear in order to make sense. It can be fun or frustrating.

"Whisper, whisper, whisper"...... "Speak up, I can't hear you".

"I SAID YOUR HEARING AID BATTERY IS FLAT !"

@ Kat, your first sentence tickled me 😂😂

Beth, was it deliberate to let Indie breed or did you take your eye off the ball? If you aren't in the business of puppy breeding then I think you really must have Indie spayed. It's not just the financial side but thinking of the difficulty in homing puppies if you can't guarantee their pedigree. I think Indie deserves to be spared motherhood too, it takes a huge toll on your friend.🤔

Unfortunately I think I will have to have Indi spayed, or she may not be able to go out with the same group of dogs on her dog-walk again. Much as I am enjoying these little monsters, I really can't go through it all again - nor can my bank balance! The pack of 24 tins of food is finished and I am into the second pack - the first should have lasted until Sunday evening, which was when I started it. I am also well into the next pack of training sheets (not doing much in the way of training though), which is the fourth pack of 100. I will send over some more pics tomorrow (today now).

You'll soon be a one dog woman again Beth. Are you going to have Indie spayed now or....?

Yes, more pics please Beth before they move out so that I can show my granddaughter.

I hope that all of those local homes come through. I'm sure that you will have no problem finding homes for them all, they are so adorable.

Hope they all go to good homes, any more pics ??...

👏What FluffyLiz said.👏

@KB 🤣

When it's raining in France, the motorway speed limit is reduced. ...

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Living near a village is a great advantage. Our nearest is about 1.75 miles away, and has a great pharmacist, cafe, butcher (been there since the village started in 1960s), hardware shop that also sells decorating/ furnishings/window replacement..., a newsagent/confectioner, two hairdressers, two or three charity shops, a kitchen designer, surfboard shop (don't think there is much call for that in the New Forest, but with the rain we have had I could be wrong). Also a Tesco convenience store and petrol station and car servicing garage. And, most important, a fish and chip shop that sells really good food, and has also been there for donkeys years, a GP & Dentist, and a Chinese takeaway. Vets is about another mile further on, and brand new hospital. I really can't think of any reason to move away, as the village is right on the edge of the forest and there is now a block of retirement flats which look really good from the outside, so when I get too decrepit to live here, I shouldn't need to go far.

I used Asda, the prices are clear, there are different prices for fancy frames but I wouldn't have paid £300+ for a couple of pairs of specs. I have lightweight varifocals, the coatings are about a tenner, or were. Don't know what my new ones will cost but my reading glasses were £33 last year. A local independent optician had a metal frame welded for me, £10. Asda wouldn't do it. When the other side broke the local shop were willing to send them away again but I found a similar though smaller frame I liked & the old chap said my lenses were suitable to reshape to fit. Result, 'new' specs. £38. Which was the cost of the frame, no charge for reshaping. New specs for Mr Tom last week were £115. Single vision from the new people at the local village opticians. Most people wouldn't have an optician, a dentist & three supermarkets all in a village less than a mile away. Only thing missing is the bank now & two of the post offices have closed. Ten hairdressers! Two dog groomers & there's a new PUB just opened.

I popped into Vision Express today and happened to see some notice they had up regarding breakdown of receipts. I didn't read it but did notice they have at least three different things, one of which is 'Service'. They couldn't fit me in so I'll either phone or pop in again and will check it then, but 'service'? Maybe they'll just throw all the bits at you and you put them all together so you don't have to pay it.

I've used Specsavers, and I must say I was never under any illusions about the prices being only for the frames... Perhaps your branch has less clear labelling than the one I used, but the stands where I went were always labelled to make it clear that the price was for the frame.

Lol 63: After questioning the total I was told that the £90 label is for the frame. If you want lenses in it will cost extra! Varifocals madam, that will be extra. thinner lenses, extra. anti-scratch coating, extra. anti-reflective, extra. But we do give discounts; 25% off if over 60; or buy 2 frames for price of 1; or free light lenses, or 50% off varifocals. It is all just too complicated for me.

@anng -2 x £90 after various deductions = £333 ?

Okaaaaayyy....

anng, I have struggled to understand Specsavers' price structure too. Last time I took my prescription to a fairly local lens manufacturer. The lenses were custom made so not restricted to Specsavers' options list, and turned out cheaper than the closest offering from Sp.

Bought a new ironing board. I was very particular as to required features, so was pleased to find it in Argos' 'Red Sale' at 20% off. They had it listed but it was unavailable (out of stock), so we nearly bought a different make via Amazon. Popped into Sainsbury's for something and looked at the in-store Argos. There was the ironing board, now reduced by 1/3, in stock for instant pickup. I left smiling, ironing board under one arm, box of cereal in the other hand.

The most complicated receipts are from Specsavers. My last receipt was 37cm long. There were 25 entries of which 8 were deductions. They say they have 'clear pricing' but I chose 2pr glasses priced at £90 each but total came to £508. Various deductions brought it down to £333.

I actually find the farm foods receipts quite easy & seeing how much I've 'saved' on the price I'd never have paid if I was called Rothschild 🤣 is nice! The Co-op receipts are the most confusing for me, just now I'm resorting to asking 'Has it taken my offers off?' Whilst squinting through one eye & dark glasses. The cashier noticed £1 credit on my card & was puzzled. The offers hadn't been taken off the week before even though my card had scanned. As it's free phone I rang & they put the £1 on my card. Upshot was I used it & got my Milk a cauliflower & some liberated green beans for 29p. Happy days!

Enver, i wish Tesco would do it that way when I buy online. If I have any vouchers they seem to allocate part of the voucher to each item, making it impossible to work out how much the original price should be. It shows ‘price before saving’ but if I am getting a clubcard rate, and a voucher discount, i need to know the original so I can allocate to neighbour’s items. (i pay the delivery saver subs so I get the vouchers and coupons, unless he is the one buying that item.

Well Done Kat, your eyes must have really improved! ...I've been to Co-Op just now where I liberated a wholemeal loaf (for my bacon sarnies) reduced to 26p, 2x snack pepperoni pizzas 24p each, & 9 easy-peelers for 66p, got to the cashier & their wee card machine was being temperamental, it said "Card Declined" at first, but then decided to accept it as I had more than enough in the account. To err is human, to really mess things up you need technology.

Over to Farmfoods on way back where they had some reduced stuff I wasn't even interested in, & are also stacking up the Cadbury's creme eggs - they work out at 50p each at the moment, think we'll wait till later (when Waitrose sell them cheapest, unfortunately my nearest branch is 30 miles away in Edinburgh).

900g block of cheddar has gone up again (from £3.50p?) to £4.99p, & they had some more of the orange 30 pack own brand economy fish fingers (after saying they were discontinued 2 months ago) at £2.49p so I got 2 packs, & my usual cream biscuits 3 packs of 12 for £1. Hate the way they print reciepts, full price & after it a deduction for "multibuy savings"., makes it much harder to mentally add up or spot errors.

Enver, they have had their first checkups and wormer, and I shall be doing the second lot this week - should be at 4 weeks, but I was nearly a week late with the first lot, so pushing this one on too. It's a sharp learning curve!

It’s great to hear that they are getting on well Beth8it! , loved all the photographs . Beautiful puppies and Indi looks like she is being a good mum . She’s a beautiful lady too ❤️

Thanks for the reply Beth sounds like they had a good time. x

Aww sounds like they had great fun and I’m sure you also needed a rest for an hour or two after that.

Got your hands full. 🤣 Dare I mention S-H-O-T 💉and W-U-R-M 🐍, (I'm spelling these things so the pups 🐕 can't hear), cos that would make them S-Q-U-I-R-M squirm.

Mad, have you been peering in my window again? Puppies are great fun now - I bought 2 packs x 24 cans of puppy food, delivered Sunday pm. I now have two cans left of the first pack. Today they left the house for the first time - I carried two out to the left-hand side of the stable, with blankets over the railings to keep them in that side. Ran back in for two more - first ones and Indi had disappeared through the blankets, in with all the tools. They came back ok when called, so I rushed back for the last two. They had fun running up and down the piles of old bedding shavings, running round the wheelbarrows, widdling for England… after about 15 mins I opened the stable door and called them , and after a few false starts, with Indi imitating a sheepdog on steroids, we managed to trail across the lawn in a fairly (dis)organised rabble. Getting them back in the compound took just as long, but at least they slept for a good hour.

Some of you have filthy minds, but i see what you mean.. ;-)

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Is he allowed to say that?

What is the world coming to? The police have taken over from the media and the public in deciding if he's guilty? I have no opinion at all of him, but I do have an opinion of British justice, which is getting further and further away from what it should be. It's now a case of who can shout loudest and longest.

Well if the police are now involved and charges are made at least no one can say Royals are treated differently.

As many of the royals lead comparatively separate lives I can believe they were unaware of the things he is accused of and remember these events happened under the reign of the late Queen who if you believe the stories was very indulgent towards Andrew.

Maybe this will stop all the speculation.

To you too.

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It was one of three lots of cash, totalling €3 million, which Prince Charles personally received from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, the former prime minister of Qatar who is nicknamed “HBJ”, between 2011 and 2015.

Each payment was deposited into the accounts of the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund (PWCF), a low-profile grant-making entity which bankrolls the prince’s pet projects and his country estate in Scotland.

Would that be the same King (then Prince) who accepted a million Euros in cash in a carrier bag from that dodgy bloke from Qatar?

I mean we have all done that haven't we?

Nothing to see here Officer, move along.

I listened, too, Titchy - think I might get thrown out if I let rip. Kat certainly would!

Hey Beth, I'm just listening to Question Time and wondering if you're in the audience. If not, why?

We'd love to hear your opinions, wouldn't we Peeps? Even better if Kat was sitting along side you :-)

3rd March is SWMBO's birthday - no wonder the moon wants to hide!

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FORGIVE CAPS PMP.

BETH8IT,

YES, A BLOOD MOON ECLIPSE - MARCH 3RD.

DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THE A RING OF FIRE ECLIPSE WHICH HAPPENED ON FEB 17TH? (THE 1ST OF 3 IN THE NEXT 3 YEARS)

THERE’S A PLANETARY ALIGNMENT INC. VENUS, MARS, JUPITER, SATURN, URANUS & NEPTUNE APPEARING ALONG THE SAME ARC - FEB 28TH.

THERE’S ANOTHER ALIGNMENT OF JUPITER, MERCURY, MARS, URANUS, SATURN & NEPTUNE - AUG 12TH.

COINCIDING WITH THE ALIGNMENT IS A TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE - AUG 12TH (1ST OF 3 IN THE NEXT 3 YEARS)

I LOVE THE STARS HENCE RECOMMENDING THE NAMES OF CONSTELLATIONS FOR THE PUPS 🙂

No, it won't be visible here; in the UK, it will be mid-morning.

There's a terrific website - www.timeanddate.com - that has all the info anyone could need on eclipses, moon phases, time zones, calendars etc. I use it all the time.

And slipped up on it...

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I walked straight into that! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

🤭 Kat, I wasn’t really wondering what you wanted spreadable butter for, honest!

Sainsbury's are offering Nectar card holders 500g of Butterlicious for 91p, I noticed Farmfoods are selling 1kg Just Like Butter for much less (99p).! I know where I'm buying my next tub then.

@Beth. Not sure but I think the original spreadables were just butter & water! As I've just had a successful swoop at Farm foods where Country life butter is 10x200g blocks for £10 it's an ideal time to try it out. 💡I've got a gadget for everything.

! Beth, get your mind out of the gutter! Naughty girl! 🤣🤣🤣

Same thing happened with Olive oil spreads. They all went down from 21% Olive oil to 10% in the small print when the price of Olive oil rocketed, but nothing to alert the consumer to this change.

Lurpak spreadable comes in so many sizes now it's easy to be hoodwinked.

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avisk, you missed the point. The point isn't a whine because a company has changed a formula whatever the reason, and, like everyone else I'm fully aware of rising costs of production, it's because they did it with no warning. Other companies haven't done it, yet. Asda now charge £2.18, same as Aldi & Lidl for a cheaper product. They aren't price matching like for like at all. They haven't just reduced the price to match as they imply, they've reduced production costs to maintain profit margins. I'm waiting to see what the next Which report says about it. As for the insidious carb creep in mayonnaise etc, diabetics can't use the new formulas like we could the original stuff.

I only like Lurpak butter and buy it in the original block form, but it is also smaller than it used to be.

Got a mixer, Kat? Buy some milk and make it. I haven’t tried but might have a go at some point. Neighbour’s son made some in a jamjar, just turning it end to end for about half an hour. I think there is a fitting for Kenwood mixers that might do it, if it’s still made.

The term "shrinkflation" was created for when you received less/ less weight for the same price. I'm assuming that this butter situation isn't a lighter weight so maybe we should create the term "swopflation" for this type of thing. Or "swapflation" since a Google tells me swop/swap can be spelt both ways.

FORGIVE CAPS PMP.

KAT,

YES, MORE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN REALISING THE INJUSTICE OF THIS MORE SO THESE PAST FEW YEARS.

IF YOU DO FURTHER RESEARCH INTO CURRENT FOOD REGULATIONS YOU WILL FIND CERTAIN ADDITIVES COLOURINGS PREVIOUSLY RESTRICTED/PROHIBITED IN UK WHEN PART OF THE EU ARE NOW PERMITTED.

FOODS CONTAINING THESE NOW HAVE ADVISORY ‘WARNING’ LABELS ON OUTLINING POTENTIAL ADVERSE EFFECTS WHICH MANY DON’T SEE BECAUSE AS YOU POINTED OUT THE PRINTED LABELS ARE SO SMALL!

I HAVE MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY TO CHECK WHAT’S IN YOUR FOOD, UNFORTUNATELY IT’S WORSE IN USA.

SAME APPLIES WITH RESTRICTIONS ON INSECTICIDES/PESTICIDES/PFAS THEY’RE ALSO LESS STRINGENT & THESE SUBSTANCES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH A RANGE OF ADVERSE HEALTH OUTCOMES.

The cost of butter has been rising by quite significant amounts over the last few years, as has the cost of many other things that we take for granted.

The manufacturers can raise the price, change the recipe, reduce the size of the package, or reduce their profits. Whatever they do, someone will complain.

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Pisces be with you all! 🙏

Are you taking the Pisces?

Don’t be daft, it’s a Pisces

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Anng- careful, you’ll get charged extra council tax (do you have it in Ireland?) for having a swimming pool.

samandi - Saturday morning we will be passing eastbound on the A55. Will toot if I see you.

anng - Can't see you for the wind farm, but waving back anyway.

Malc H: I'm waving to you across the Irish Sea. Much too wet here to do any gardening, dig a hole and it fills up with water.

@Kat - Best Time to Buy (Spring Planting): February, March, and April. Many online retailers offer them during this period usually sold as dormant "pips" or bare-root rhizomes, often in packs of 10-20.

Many suppliers take pre-orders for pips starting in early February for delivery in spring. Alternative: You can buy them "in the green" (already growing) in pots in spring if you miss the dormant bulb/pip season.

Please can I send you some of mine? Blighters spread their roots like the ground elder, taking over the little patch I have them in. I also have labrador violets which are really hardy and spread well, but bigger leaves and not scented as far as I know. They grow in any stony soil, gaps in concrete… I do have ordinary violets too, but don’t think they would go through the post very well.

Any gardeners out there can tell me when I might find Lily of the Valley pips to buy? I know it spreads like billio but I've got somewhere I want to plant & leave forever! Never to be bothered with again, or at least not dug, planted & weeded. I want to plant violets in another shadyish bit which looks as if it would be ok but would welcome advice.

I took Lola for her last walk at 7.30 . Very wet and a really cold wind.

@Malc_H I'll look out for you if you're going east on the A55 on your homeward journey.

Been a dry but very cold day here in Llandudno where we are spending a few days.

I have done too much in the garden - first dry day for ages - and now my back is really cold. The wind chill makes it seem like minus 3 at the moment.

Don't stake it too high, Shyboy. Trees need to move a bit in the wind, it stimulates them to put out more roots.

Same here I managed to finish off weeding and put bark down yesterday but today it’s dreadful weather.

The wind is also cold. It's disgusting weather, but we were incredibly low on milk, so I had to go out in it. I wished I didn't have to though, but I can stay inside for the evening now.

Thank you Jaffa. I utilise Maggie's cancer charity, but it's just a daytime building in the hospital grounds which has a kitchen, sofas and other seating and a couple of bookable side rooms which is where I meet a Psychiatrist once a month. I'll look into Penny Brohn and if we have anything similar.

Congratulations on your win, Howard - and it just goes to show that you can check PMP even if you’re out of the country on holiday✈️!

LLAP 🖖!

Great news and well-deserved after Howard had such a bad time.

Not often enough, by the look of it.

Kat/Beth, I get discombobulated @ times does that count. ;-)

And a gruntled diss!

Another one with a dissed gruntle! 🤣

Petagqn, I’m confused about your comment. Do you mean your pages aren’t refreshing so you’re seeing the same postcodes? Is it just the Stackpots or other draws too?

If you go to the Winners Results pages (tab on every page) you can check across all the draws and see all the winning codes for nearly 15 years.

And it is the unique ID numbers that are chosen, not the postcodes, so there's no geographical bias.

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/14-how-are-winning-postcode-selected

All postcodes start by showing the first two digits.

I can check from Australia, though the time difference makes it awkward. I always dread my PC coming up while I'm flying, though. It would be ironic if it did, after being a winless member since the beginning. Off again at Easter, to visit the family, so fingers crossed. 🤞🏻

Hi all.. I’ve always been able to access PMP when I’ve been out of the country, including when I’ve been in Italy, Turkey, Holland and the USA, so I would guess it’s the IP address of whatever computer you’re using that determines whether you can connect or not - I’ve always used the same iPad and I’ve had no problems…🤔!

LLAP 🖖!

If you can access the site you can check and claim.

The rules say you have to be a U.K. resident to join. If you’re out of the country it’s often difficult to access the site so members put their accounts into holiday mode.

It depends if the system can see that the IP address is a non-UK one. If it can, it blocks the visit.

It said he was in South Africa at the time, I didn't think you could check in if you were abroad??

🥳@Mad, I hope you enjoyed your win. Good luck for the next one🤞

Stop press, hold the front page!

Person in random draw lottery doesn't win!

Doug & Digger 😁

Christmas Cracker time already !

It's not your postcode in the draw, it's your individual membership number. That's linked to whatever postcode you registered. So, you can claim even if it was somebody else's personal number which was drawn but they happen to have registered the same postcode. It's really very simple.

@Grandma Jo, posted on the wrong thread!

Did you know that Doug [in the comment about the man with the spade] has a dog? His name is Digger.

Trurorules, I have also been a member for years too, my neighbours missed out the same time I won the stackpot, because they stopped checking, please just enjoy the site, I never expected to win, on either occasion, however it was a nice surprise when I did.

If you have kept your account active, you're definitely in all 9 draws a day. Only if you don't check for a fortnight does your account go dormant, becoming active again when you next log in.

Hi V & Poppy, only just noticed your comments, I was surprised to realise I had won, however I appreciate others haven't as yet! Don't give up, if you look on the bright side, the longer you wait, the bigger your prize, as your bonus grows daily, albeit not the bonus or flash draws, Good luck to all, who have yet to win, you could be next!

Congratulations to you, Mad. What fun it must be to win. 🥳

Thank you all for your comments, my flash draw was at the bottom of the main draw page, so don't forget to scroll on each page lol! Good luck!

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What a great positive post!

Congrats Mad. Spend unwisely, it's more fun! 😁🥳

Congratulations and well spotted, Mad - those flashdraws are elusive little bu@@ers…👍!

LLAP 🖖!

Maddadof & Barrie thank you both. Was Grandma Jo correct, is dog called Digger?

Congratz.

Well done you, from one Mad to another Mad. What do you call a man with a shovel?... Doug...

Congratulations 🥳

Thank you, Anonymous, this site always makes me smile, regardless of any win, good luck to you too.

That was a very nice positive post. 😀 Congrats Mad and good luck for your next win.

Thank you AJR & Chocolate Spaniel, I love reading the comments on here, they brighten my day.

🎉 Congrats 🎉

Well said Mad and congratulations on your second win.