Escadrille Ecosse

Obviously you need to get yourself an electric cat

Waitrose car parks now have a space specifically for charging your cat

That's an epic level of filling Pete. Even more than some of the stuff I was slapping in making moulds for the Spitfire panels. Brindisi looks very pleasant. Hopefully minus the bodies floating by... Went through to Stirling this evening to meet up with some of my pals from school for one of our semi-regular meals. On the motorway just past Denny I spotted what I thought was a familiar shape about three cars ahead of me. Sure enough when the traffic cleared it was a rather nice Escort RS Turbo. I waved at the young lad (young-ish at least, certainly not old enough to have been driven when they were current!). He gave it a wee blast past just before he turned off. Made me 'all nostaligic' it did. I had the slime green fiesta tonight as the Scimitar is trapped in the driveway by the skip full of old slates still. And on the was back to Glasgow something on the dash caught my eye. It was the odometer reading 12 12 12. Took me a seconds to register that it wasn't the car telling me it was 12 December 2012 but the mileage with the spacing caused by the LED display.

Good...

Nice to know it is being driven... Looking in from the outside Speeduino seems to present 'challenges'.

See Michael, thrust in 'The Librarian'.

Unfortunately the King's Trust report missed the obvious conclusion from those numbers. The NHS budget for 2025 is £192 billion, or approximately £75.5 million each day of the year. That is 18% of government spending. Which is already pretty much unsustainable with our present economy and population. And even at that level is clearly inadequate. That was with 3.7% year on year for the last 70 years If NHS spending had increased at 5.24% year on year the the Budget would now be £538 billion. Or more than 50% of government spending. Which is utterly infeasible and we would have had to abandon the current model many years ago as being completely unaffordable.

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Glad to know they have been of use Michael. Especially getting that car doing it's thing .

Mattius. Too true. In creating the NHS Bevan assumed that its formation would actually reduce health care costs over time. Completely failing to consider the consequences of better health care on longevity. Mind you his assumptions about national insurance and pensions were equally wide of the mark. And the funding model which assumed current pensions would be paid for by those actually in work through the Government current account rather than an investment fund was probably even more flawed. Not really the hero he is made out to be.

Bannockburn was one of those spectacularly decisive battles, like Agincourt or Crecy. 100 years later Flodden was the return match score draw, except that in this case James IV didn't get to go homeward as the last reigning monarch killed in battle on British soil. And of course 100 years after that it was James VI who gained the final 2 out of 3 when he took the English crown. But 1314 is truly ancient history and the Scots if today are most certainly not those who won victory at Bannockburn, and we certainly don't have leaders if the calibre of Bruce (who was incidentally of Norman English decent rather than actual Scottish like Wallace).

And notice how generally shiite, on average the Scots are. In many places it's a lot worse and sadly not getting much better. And that is with an NHS spend per person being significantly higher than anywhere else in the UK. I guess our government has more important priorities to focus on. Historic witchery conviction pardons being one of them! But I digress....

Excellent Hamish. Both video and the drives. Almost makes me want to do it again myself! Hadn't really appeciated it before until I watched the Auto Shennanigans video, but now that drain cover on the inside of the right hander is a bit of a monster. Really notice it on your video when you clip it. I did see that the big single seater shown on Auto Shennanigans actively dodged it with his much stiffer suspension setup.

Nice Hamish. A bit special.

Thanks Pete. The problem with that though John, is that while general biological health may provide better long term outcomes, if accompanied by continued relative inctivity sarcopena will eventually mean that you are consigned to a chair watching daytime TV because ther is unsufficient muscle strength to stand, let alone carry out basic funtions requring movement. There is no magic bullet but it would suggest that the best mix of probabilities comes from being a woman (actual woman) and remaining active.