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My new small (11' x 7' ) workshop has a 6mm swa supply although the largest thing in it (for power demand) is a 230v welder that runs on 16a. (It also has 12 x double sockets, 2 x 16a sockets, 2 x 110v sockets (a transformer wired to permanent sockets) and compressed air and propane sockets.)...

This is a good start. (Yes, I know faults can be found, but hey ho.)

Aspirin and paracetamol are the same - the hospitals pay up to five or six times the supermarket prices.

My friend, a buyer for a hospital pays £16 for a screwdriver bit that's 99p in town. The only difference is it would need to be sterilised (other items being sterilised at the same time), but it's a single use item. He buys dozens at a time and has to buy from an approved supplier. It stinks...

I expect he's done it by now.

Winter fuel allowance - Works out at a pound per day, which probably means one less bottle of vodka/month for your average pensioner. So the average pensioner is both wealthy and alcoholic. Right .....................

Have you not walked up a highstreet and seen all the boarded up shops ? Ours were derelict before 2010.

No, the reinforcing wires are too hard even for a metal cutting blade.

My grandfather worked years ago for the M.O.D. - he said he was sure the main reason they were under the Official Secrets Act was to to prevent their broadcasting how much money was wasted.

Yes. There's quite a large company locally just gone bust - the directors transfered assets to another company (with the same directors) in the months beforehand. They are also directors of several other interconnected companies.

You appear to be under the illusion that you don't pay for the NHS.

4/- a foot.

I still keep in touch with my consultant surgeon (head of department) from a few years ago (on a personal basis, not for health reasons) - he's retiring on his 60th birthday in December and he's glad to be out of it.

I didn't.

That's what happens when you use stuff with the pith running through it.

In one of the poorest areas of Cornwall £300,000 is a small two bed bungalow.

Cupid stunt!

A penny off draught beer. Why on earth do they do stupid things like this? It costs to do it and is of no benefit even if it actually happens - 20p or 30p off might make a difference, but a penny? Why???

That was then.