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  1. Rainmaker
    Thanks Ric. We took legal advice last month, and wheels are in motion. Suffice to say, once the story and evidence we had was laid out, a very pleased sounding chap informed me that (1) the landlord was bang to rights and (2) he'll be helping us find alternative accommodation and will be gladly screwing the landlord over on the way.
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    Surely that's his business? I suffer from osteoarthritis but still manage a bit of ferreting now and again with help setting nets and something to sit down on. Also you can pick and choose when to hunt, if you're not up to it, you don't go, simple. You can't do the same with many jobs. Exactly mate. As I said I'm never one to duck questions about it because, yes it's my business but it's that guy's taxes! I hope that makes sense. I'm not a chancer, I am genuinely sick, and I'm always happy for folks to know exactly why I can't do a 9 to 5 (or even a 9 to 10, usually, in my case lol).
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    Assured shorthold mate, but since the deposit wasn't protected the landlord has lost all "section 21" rights of eviction. So, as you say, he's looking at other ways to force us out.
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    Fair comment, and a fair question. I have ME, kidney disease and various other stuff wrong with me. My intermittently "go directly to hospital, do not pass go" kidneys are basically ticking time bombs inside me that just "go off" every few months and lay me up. I've had 12+ major surgeries and am waiting to hear whether I finally qualify for a transplant. I also have ME (a neurological condition affecting amongst other things, muscles) which means that I have to be very careful about what 'energy' I use. Unlike normal folks I have to plan my routine days in advance, and if, say I go to th
  5. Rainmaker
    I wanted to keep this short because I'm not really asking advice (though if you have some, feel free). I'm just hacked off to the back teeth at the mo, and so stressed out it's making me physically ill (well, more ill ). I figured a rant couldn't hurt, and might get some of it off my chest. If this is too long, click back and on ye way. Brief facts are these: We moved into our private rented house in December 2005. The landlord seemed a decent chap, and was about to move to France for the quiet life. He and his wife moved their daughter into the house next door (which they also own)
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    Same here, my two arrived safe and sound. Well done everyone.
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    LOL Na, if there really was a God, our dogs would live forever......................
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    Sounds like you're in the clear to me! Just run a scan of Avira (the free antivirus) after updating it to be safe. It's fast so you won't have to wait long, plus you can just run it in "normal" windows while you do other things (i.e. you don't need to boot into safe mode this time) now you're pretty certain you're safe. Avira free pops up a single advert for their Professional product once a day whilst updating, but you can disable that if you like (Google will tell you how, it's easy). I recommend you set Heuristics to "high" and enable Secure Start (rather than Normal Start) when insta
  9. Rainmaker
    If you're going to be spending £40 to £50 on commercial food, rather than raw, I'd recommend Orijen. I've mentioned it a fair bit lately, but only because it's basically the best of a bad bunch as it were. It's a dried kibble made of 75% meat, 25% fruit and veg, steamed at 90o for a few minutes (rather than rendered and cooked at 300o for three hours) to help preserve nutrient contents. It's all local (to the family's farm) fresh ingredients, and definitely better than science plan. Raw's still cheaper and better though.
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    hehe Best of luck! If you get stuck just give us a shout.
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    Yep, most of the big AV companies offer this facility. I didn't mention it because dedicated malware scanners like MalwareBytes and/or SuperAntiSpyware are MUCH more effective at detecting and removing rogues and rootkits than standard AV suites. Plus, I didn't want the OP to confuse the two and think she could use them instead of real-time protection.
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    AVG's gone right downhill these days. I'd presume the machine was still infected and go from there... Download THIS and THIS and then install them. Open them one at a time and run their update feature until you get a "no updates available" message. Then: Restart the computer, pressing F8 repeatedly as it boots until you get the Windows startup options page Select "Start in safe mode, With networking" Run a Full Scan (Deep Scan?) in SuperAntiSpyware. Reboot BACK into safe mode with networking, and run MalwareBytes, then reboot You should now have control of your PC back once you're
  13. Rainmaker
    Another 'favourite' topic of Sandy and I! Suffice to say, dogs can't process or digest veggies and so on unless you break them down (liquidise, cook and mash or whatever). Dogs are carnivores, not omnivores. The whole "BARF" thing was started by Dr Ian Billinghurst when he broke away from the Raw Meaty Bones Lobby in the 1990s. The Lobby advocates (as you know) raw carcasses and meaty bones, with no need for fruit and veg. Billinghurst marketed some sloppy minced-up "BARF patties" consisting of a great deal of fruit and veg, and I suppose that was incompatible with the Lobby's (science backed
  14. Rainmaker
    Sandy, I'm keeping this short because, as you said, we're verging on hijacking the thread now. I'll dig out those papers and read with interest, but nothing I saw in the abstracts contraindicates a raw diet - quite the opposite. Raw fed dogs get masses of balanced calcium and phosphorous to support bone growth. They also grow much more slowly, and more lean, than their commercial/heavy carb fed brethren. That's well documented now. They don't tend to suffer these abnormal growth spurts and joint conditions the commercially "fast fed" dogs do. I have a nice paper on exact topic, specifically
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    This is where, with respect, we're in danger of losing sight of the wood for the trees. At the end of the day dogs are designed from tip to tail to eat other animals, not dehydrated pellets consisting primarily of grain by-products. Those commercial foods are proven to cause disease, and since they have only been around 100 years or so there's no way one can argue they're in any way appropriate foodstuffs, nor natural (dogs haven't "evolved" to eat them as some sources claim - without evidence). The fact commercial junk foods are proven to cause so much painful, degenerative disease in vi
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    Unfortunately mate, while I agree with a lot of the stuff the BNP says, I don't feel they're a viable alternative. I've emailed their HQ TWICE about their policies and received no replies. It's all very well emblazoning websites with rhetoric about immigrants and drumming up support by playing on the common man's needs and frustrations; but when you look past that, a lot of their policy is sketchy and ambiguous at best. I emailed to ask about their welfare policy, disability policies, and rural policies. I made clear these were things that affected me personally, that I was a "floating vote" a
  17. Rainmaker
    Nice one topper! There you go Luke, a happy ending.
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    I'm going to add my tuppence in here. I'm never one to join the BNP bandwagon or the so-called racist posts, but here is my real life experience in relation to local councils and ethnic minorities. 1) When mum and dad split up (he was a bit of a nutter to say the least), her and us kids were on the streets. Our 'dad' was waiting back at home with a kitchen knife for us... We presented to the council, only to be told they had nowhere for us to go. Tough titty. Mum said we'd best be sleeping in their offices then, unless they wanted her murder and that of four children on their conscience? T
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    That's very true mate. Years of 'propaganda' has convinced the population at large that they simply aren't clever enough to feed their pets 'properly' at home, and that only a super special scientific recipe produced by a mega-corporation will suffice. The funny thing is, when people who come to me with those concerns my first question is nearly always "Do you have children?". After they get over the blank, confused look, I ask where they buy their children's kibble from. The point being, no matter how much we love our dogs we'd shoot 100 of them before we saw any harm come to our kids...
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    Hi Neil, You can get Orijen from Pet Planet. They do free delivery on orders over £29, so 13.5KG of Orijen Puppy is £48 delivered. As I said I KNOW that sounds hella expensive, but bear in mind that it really is cheaper than any of the 'cheap' foods when you do the maths. For example, a terrier would only need about 50g to 60g of Orijen a day, instead of 250g to 300g of the 'cheap' foods - so over the course of a single bag of Orijen you'd have bought three more more 'cheap' sacks of food... Personally I'd say if you're going to supplement your pup's raw diet with it (< 30% please) d
  21. Rainmaker
    BTW Sandy, I forgot to mention about the above... Do you use Firefox by any chance? There's an incredibly useful free add-on called Lazarus for it... Only five minutes ago I just did the exact same thing as you, when I was replying to another thread in here (supplementing puppy raw diet with kibble). I accidentally hit refresh (F5) just as I was about to post up my musings and of course all that hard work disappeared before my eyes. Thankfully though, Lazarus monitors everything you're typing in boxes (such as reply boxes) online and stores it in case you make a boo-boo. I simply rig
  22. Rainmaker
    As above. Beta and the like are cheap and nasty, even for commercial foods. I don't say that as a raw feeder either, I mean just look at the label. At least they've stopped adding BHA and BHT by the looks of things, so that's something. If you want to supplement with dry food, personally I'd keep it below 30% of the diet and go with something with a decent meat content. Having meat as the first named ingredient doesn't always (often?) mean it's a high meat product. For example: Sounds like it's packed with meat doesn't it? If you combine the "non-meat" ingredients though
  23. Rainmaker
    In interests of my blood pressure I'll let this issue lie. Suffice to say we can agree to disagree? We've both said our pieces above so fair dos? Hear hear. I prefer my dogs periodontal disease, pancreatitis, autoimmune disease, arthritis and diabetes free thanks hehe Seriously though, it was as always a mental challenge and a pleasure. However frustrating such disagreements can be, it is as was said above always refreshing to be able to disagree in the strongest possible terms and yet be entirely civil, rational and actually enjoy the debate. Both sides get an airing, and ma
  24. Rainmaker
    Not many humans alive today eat a 'caveman' diet, whether they're sprinters or couch potatoes. It doesn't mean they shouldn't be! Look at what doctors and scientists tell us about it every day... We (Western society) are suffering from an alarming increase in heart disease (and other organ diseases), cancer, diabetes, arthritis, autoimmune disease, dental disease and so on due to eating a processed and highly unsuitable diet... sounding familiar yet? Humans eating a more 'natural' (read: appropriate) diet tend to live longer healthier lives free from the degenerative diseases afflicted upon th
  25. Rainmaker
    I could have worded it better, yes. But having been up 36 hours straight with pneumonia I thought better to put across the bones of it (pun intended) rather than sit writing more essays for you to rebut. My mission failed. I appreciate your concern about my advice sounding incorrect because of a few words of the entire thing being potentially taken out of context, but fortunately that's not the case and what I said was essentially corect. Feeding a diet high in rubbish carbs, or any other carbs come to that, (eg a food made with predominantly 'cereals and cereal derivatives' and the like)
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