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Well funeral of my wife yesterday. So life now must move on.

In the life insurance policy saga ... Phoneix Life ...

Did their website death notification on 10 April. No reply from them by 15th so called them up and they said they would call back in 48 hours. Never did. Called them on 23 and they ...

Yr Alban wrote: Sat Apr 19, 2025 2:37 pm Well, after the Sharks winning with the clock red last night, today Hearts lost the cup SF v Aberdeen after the referee decided Aberdeen needed a 2-man advantage to avoid penalties. The perfect Easter weekend.

Yip .... same feeling for me.

Thanks for the advice and help chaps.
No offence taken at any of the posts.

Legal advice started. Using a company that sponsors our rugby team so expecting mates rates. But since it lawyers, perhaps not much chance of that.
The rugby club has been superb in helping me and my son (me secretary and ...

My wife died after a sudden illness last week. We had no will.
In Scotland her assets mean that it is not categorised as a small estate so need some legal help.
Awaiting discussions with lawyer as to what this will mean. Hopefully just a letter (type of thing) which will cost me something which ...

Thoughts on going from 6/2 to a 5/3 split?

Great to see Darcy Graham back. He will want to score tries for sure.

... or just to cope with flying Ryan Air !!

From purely a state school basis, there was a teacher's strike in Scotland in I think mid 80's. It stopped most of the extra rugby training being done as the teachers did it in their own time and I think that started to show about 5 years later in the poor Scotland performances. The kids only got 1 ...

Tichtheid wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 10:20 pm Peter Brown, RIP

https://www.theoffsideline.com/pc-brown ... fjBC0amuWQ

A great man.and a great player. Sorry to hear this news.

Just drove from Edinburgh up to Inverness.
Roads clear but the windscreen washers kept freezing so needed to stop to spray some de icer on windscreen.
Arrived home and parked car on drive way.-6.5 at 3pm.

Better get coal on the stove and if it gets much colder, my have resort to lighting it.

I also have a mate that does canoe trips around the Kyle of Sutherland. Also some overnight camping on the small islands there.

Gowildhighlands.co.uk

Yip Clachtol or Achmelvic.
You camping?

Oh a little bit outside Inverness but it is winter time so nothing to write home about.

I gather the "starters pack" gives you some idea of how to read the label so here goes .....

The name = A thinking dram
Tasting Note = Driving a Trabant on the island of Madeira before visiting a fruit, vegetable, flower and fish market in Funchal, and drinking a sercial madeira.
Society Cask ...

The kids bought me SMWS membership for Christmas. The bottle has arrived but remains unopened.
I will down in Edinburgh next week so will pop in and see what it is all about.
I see they even have a new members night on Thursday 9th. Might take the lad along as he bought the present (well his sister ...

Aw ra best folks from Inverness

May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
May the warm rays of sun fall upon your home
And may the hand of a friend always be near

As a non practicing Christian, can I wish all a happy yuletide.

I am an avid Mastershout watch and have seen Grace Dent on it many times. There is something about her that makes me, let's say, rather hot under the collar.
Probably just me.

Well had a long chat with the doctor.
So blood results have shown an improvement.
Coming off the other drugs has not shown a reduction in what they were meant to do - Blood Pressure and Cholesterol OK.
So to stay off those.

As for the booze, the pervious doctor said to cut it out. What do you ...

In answer to previous question I have not felt any difference in mood, weight, etc

OK no hangovers but very rarely drank any more than a couple of glasses per day in last 5 years anyway.

I assume I am with many on here who have had a few drinks over the years. The last few years I have decreased my booze intake dramatically and was sitting within UK drinking guidelines - really just sharing a bottle of wine with the wife for Sunday dinner.
However annual health check sent out some ...

Cannot find Edinburgh match on Premier TV. Must be in streaming only.

Just back from Kalahari and Okavango Delta. Out of this world. Animal sightings were superb with right up close to young lions, cheetahs, heyenas, aardwolves and lots of buck type things. Did nit even need the big lens.

Really wanted to get red lechwe running through water but wrong time of ...

On a recent photographic safari, we were told if we took photos of rhinos, not to post on social media and certainly not to tag where they were. These were even dehorned ones. We did not even asked our guide to find them.
We were lucky enough to see them horned some time ago but did not want to see ...

Just back from Kalahari and Okavango Delta. Out of this world. Animal sightings were superb with right up close to young lions, cheetahs, heyenas, aardwolves and lots of buck type things. Did nit even need the big lens.

Really wanted to get red lechwe running through water but wrong time of year ...

Cheers folks .. got my days muddled up. Easier to do now I am retired !!

Is the A game on TV tonight or a streaming service of some sort?

Having just been made redundant at the age of retirement, we are going to invest the redundancy as a nest egg, and will give us about 5% return (inshallah) to supplement our pension. Or should I say my pension as my wife has very little. We have been told that we can "move/transfer/allocate ...

Having just been made redundant at the age of retirement, we are going to invest the redundancy as a nest egg, and will give us about 5% return (inshallah) to supplement our pension. Or should I say my pension as my wife has very little. We have been told that we can "move/transfer/allocate" some of ...

Tichtheid wrote: Thu Oct 24, 2024 8:36 pm Slaters

Is the correct answer, Now move along.Nothing more to see here.

How does Mosese Tuipulotu qualify to play for Scotland? I thought his brother only qualified through residency (years not days). Seen him twice and he was a lot better this weekend so happy to look at him for future.

They do not need a movie about them .... everybody knows they are evil.

From Shaun of the Dead comes ...... The Midges!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZcJBAxu6hE

Dobie not getting much protection at the breakdown.

So Starmer and Trump had a 2 hour dinner. You can get through a lot of sausages in that time. Or dogs as they say in certain pet eating areas of the USA.

I would suggest the left-wing, liberal woe is me, is as much fact less, as the right-wing tribal chanting.

Unless you are there and have a good understanding of what is going on, you need somebody else to interpret and report it.

Currently read the Torygraph and Gruniard.
Used to read Economist, Time and Newsweek.
Also watch BBC and Channel 4 news.
So might give it a go. Just another side of the news.

I am retiring in 2 weeks and have taken on pension advice from financial company.
They advise to take the lump sum as it is tax free.
We have a fair bit under the mattress and that, along with lump sum, will supplement the pension in returns.
If you do not take lump sum, you will get taxed on the ...

I am staggered at this. This really is like science fiction ... all pagers either were manufactured with a battery/device capable of exploding and then all updated with some code to be run remotely. And then boom.

Yip the Ladies game was good. The change at scrum half helped. Still some basic type errors but they grew into the game. Scrums looked pretty good and well organised.
And less talk back to the ref.

They're setting the country up for a brutal (and necessary) new Budget. You say you dislike Labour - as a Tory-voting pensioner with a bit of money behind you, you're going to fucking hate them in October. :wave:

The wife and I were talking about this earlier today. She is 60, taking on ...

They're setting the country up for a brutal (and necessary) new Budget. You say you dislike Labour - as a Tory-voting pensioner with a bit of money behind you, you're going to fucking hate them in October. :wave:

The wife and I were talking about this earlier today. She is 60, taking on part ...

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