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Happy secure young pensioner, love having no responsibilities and the health wealth and time to travel cruising a speciality, ocean and canal, all over the world, whilst we still have it, ...I have see glacier erosion in Canada first hand, or this should be foot, since I stepped through it! If you want to chat, do please type something...I always reply, as a matter of honour. I live in Hampshire UK , not that this remotely interesting.
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19th Mar 2021
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Would you support the introduction of immunity certificates?Needed for proof that an individual has taken the care to protect others, and to have verification other people have done so as well. Vaccination does not give immunity. People will still get infected and infect others. In enclosed spaces, even with face masks infection will happen, but the vaccination can limit the pneumonia effect, to contemplate having a holiday with people not protecting themselves from a killer virus is impossible. But watch the ignorant hoards on the beaches this summer. SHUT all freedom access to collectively ignorant people...beaches, parks, forests, The young will spread it,ViewDate:
7th Mar 2021 ElainePeony commented on:
Will you watch the Sussexes' Oprah interview?I am reminded of that marvellous remark by Anne Robinson when commentating, no doubt in jest, on a the population of a small nation, She said “What are they for?” Likewise the vapid self serving ( everyone can do service ) HRHs H + M people having a nice time talking about themselves, and enjoying luxury, when Yemen is crippled, little blind boys operating as teachers in bombed out buildings, Burma is killing its civilians by shooting them , and the world population is dying through a rampant viral infection, without the possibility of vaccination, with all the devastation the killing of the rain forests and, for example the orangutan species in Borneo to grow Palm oil... It’s just disgusting...like HRH Duke of York...” I remember going to Woking, it’s very unusual for me to go to Woking” The pompous prat...ducking the enormous issue of the implication of associating with a sex offender....ViewDate:
10th Jun 2020 ElainePeony commented on:
Should controversial statues around the country be removed?How about covering statues linked to the horrific deeds relating to slavery. This would mean that they would become a better part of educating the curious, children and tourists. Possibly a much better use for them rather than melting them down or putting them in museums. Regarding Cecil Rhodes, perhaps all the living Rhodes Scholars who benefited from an Oxford education could vote on what should happen to the statue?ViewDate:
21st Feb 2020 ElainePeony commented on:
Would you consider downsizing when you retire or have you already done so?Oh, yes, I should have said I employ a gardener, a window cleaner, people to service my car, and a gas boiler engineer, a plumber, a gutter clearer, a taxi driver, hairdresser and lots of people who help me when I need it, I pay them at least £20.00 an hour, for their services, which is the right rate for any one who is self employed, paying NI, supporting a family, with their Insurances, overheads, travel, vehicle costs and maintenances...any one who complains about paying less than this needs a reality check! I am proud to employ people who help me, and to pay them for their time, reliability and expertise...my Gas Engineer ( self employed) paid £7.000 to get his CorGi gas safe qualifications and more to get the Worcester Boiler ones.... The one service I can’t seem to get is a house cleaning company who understands what a deep clean means in a domestic situation. Sadly, the language competence demanded by me can’t explain that I need strong workers who can lift furniture, vacuum underneath, remove cobwebs, dust and wipe skirting boards etc, beds, mattresses turned over and vacuumed.then replace everything where it was ..and so on...and so forth. A friend suggested I ask if the local fire station could lend me a couple of helpful people, in return for a substantial donation to the Fire station of course.ViewDate:
21st Feb 2020 ElainePeony commented on:
Would you consider downsizing when you retire or have you already done so?I like my large space & it has been valued as to what residential care it will eventually buy me if and when I need this. Alternatively I have room for a live in Nurse/ Carer which I’ve told my Solicitor I want, as my preferred care provision . Medical decisions over riding this, or course. The Solicitor has my 2 Enduring Powers of Attorney. Health & Welfare, and Wealth registered and in place, with two Solicitor Executors for these and my Will named on the documents. I have always believed in people providing for themselves in old age thoughout their working lives, hence my wish to pay professional people, like Solicitors to provide a paid for service to be remunerated in their charges for fees to arrange what I need. No family responsibility to execute and monitor my needs and wishes is necessary nor inconvenience for them incurred. Hence, I keep my house as a financial asset, which will pay for me as needed..equity release? Possibly?ViewDate:
27th Nov 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Which is better for the environment - a real fir or a plastic spruce?Neither! Both are environmentally damaging as we know now... Prince Albert who introduced the habit from Germany of bringing trees into homes meshed with the Nordic and U.K. green man legend with holly and ivy being brought into large homes to deck the halls. A Christmas Carol promoted the custom, and with cold homes they lasted longer... Plastic trees were the height of chic in the 1960s. We know how detrimental the manufacturing of plastic goods is, the sea miles these plastic goods make, and the difficulties of disposal of plastic items. But the impoverished people who make this stuff at our demand deserve compensation if their livelihoods is taken away due to the West not buying such stuff as plastic Xmas trees. Real trees were a nuisance as the needle drop was a daily chore to sweep up.. In the olden days, I bought Xmas trees with roots, and planted them out and dug them up the next year to bring in...the little blue spruce was the best. So, neither plastic or real tree is best, except if people can plant out and dig it up and pot for another year, then plant out and so on.ViewDate:
20th Nov 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Did Prince Andrew's Newsnight interview make his predicament better or worse?I just wonder if that’s been done, he’s been shown the evidence and the squirming started and the spin with attendant lies created. He’s got his big fat £income and now he’s got the rationale to be a full blown nonentity on a flesh pot Caribbean Island..just like his louch Aunt Margaret..who believed her “Royalty “ made her special and deserving of everything free if charge, that other people had to work 12 hour days just to survive. Andrew is a Royal Prat, with an inflated sense of his own importance..now he has been teathered to a lifetime of selfish boring indulgence..watch out for the reclusive, fat, bald Prince! The Paparazzi will be doing so.ViewDate:
20th Nov 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Did Prince Andrew's Newsnight interview make his predicament better or worse?The P. Andy has been given permission to withdraw from public life by his mummy! He can hide away and pretend, but we know what a flyboy he is....fluttering eyes, stern stares ..they were SO telling about his knowing of his alleged immoral involvement in the life of his friend, the abuser of young females. Yay! He can do what he wants now with his loadsamoney. Revolting thought, that now he can just have a lifetime holiday...a bit like his Aunt?ViewDate:
17th Nov 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Did Prince Andrew's Newsnight interview make his predicament better or worse?The Duke of York receives a £249,000 annuity from the Queen.[75] The Sunday Times reported in July 2008 that for "the Duke of York's public role,... he last year received £436,000 to cover his expenses."[76] On 8 March 2011, The Daily Telegraph reported: "In 2010, the Prince spent £620,000 as a trade envoy, including £154,000 on hotels, food and hospitality and £465,000 on travel."[77]ViewDate:
17th Nov 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Did Prince Andrew's Newsnight interview make his predicament better or worse?The Duke of York receives a £249,000 annuity from the Queen.[75] The Sunday Times reported in July 2008 that for "the Duke of York's public role,... he last year received £436,000 to cover his expenses."[76] On 8 March 2011, The Daily Telegraph reported: "In 2010, the Prince spent £620,000 as a trade envoy, including £154,000 on hotels, food and hospitality and £465,000 on travel."[77]ViewDate:
17th Nov 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Did Prince Andrew's Newsnight interview make his predicament better or worse?I doubt his penchant was for Ladies. His reputation for being Randy Andy wasn’t without foundation. His girlfriends were many and various, do you recall Koo Stark? His attitude of Rank Has It’s Privilege fuelled his sense of right to take what he wanted....he expected women to be his by “virtue” of his position. ..Queen Mary did the same...but only material goods from wherever she visited. If she liked it, it was hers, and she took it, as she owned the kingdom and all in it, so by right, everything was hers. The upperclass dreaded her visiting...they used to hide anything they wanted to keep away from her, otherwise it would be claimed for Royalty.ViewDate:
17th Nov 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Did Prince Andrew's Newsnight interview make his predicament better or worse?What an arrogant, self important person he continues to be. He has been always flaunting his “Royalty “ to be given money and privileges....why should WE the Taxpayers, GIVE him £300.000 per year from the Privy Purse, to ponce about on jets flying to a made up “job”? WE paid for his trips to New York, to alleged orgy island parties, he didn’t .totally disgusting. He is simply a Playboy, like his relative Edward, .....another man who considered himself to be too important to do anything except be a “Royal”. we all knew Andrew was an Officer in the Armed Forces, hence him using the expression “it was unbecoming”. He was using the Courts Marshal expression, “Conduct Unbecoming to an Officer” about an American CIVIlLIAN...Shame on him. In addition, his ridiculous denial about his conduct is a tissues of lies..he should stop squirming, stand up to the scrutiny of the law, and relinquish his claim for money from the TaxpayerViewDate:
28th Oct 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Would you like a ‘standing’ GP appointment?Perhaps we and the Doctors could do running on the spot during the 7 minutes the average appointment takes? That would be fun for their respiration, heart rate, and blood pressure? The Drs would enjoy typing on their computers and running at the same time, and it could also eliminate a lot of ill people who will just keel over in the process... Here’s another novel idea, just fit Drs consulting rooms with body bags. We’d just step on X marks the spot, and if we survive we are let out, if not the bag collects and disposal is immediate.. Oh jolly japes folks!ViewDate:
19th Sep 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Speakers Corner CommentsShould people be barred from dressing up as characters from children’s stories? Arabian nights, with character make up...should this be banned? Cinderella, with always blonde wig and white mice...should this be disallowed? How dreadfully politically correct we have become, when a public figure dressed up as a fairy tale figure in 2001, and is now being castigated for doing so! Ridiculous.ViewDate:
19th Sep 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Speakers Corner CommentsShould dressing up parties ban costumes that depict characters from stories with an ethnic minority, for example, the Arabian Nights, with Arabs, the Mikado with Japanese Geisha, the South Pacific musical with the “natives” dancing? How ridiculous, is this in this day and age, to condemn someone for just dressing up in pantomime costume, for a party! If I was asked to a party where Eastern Promise was the theme, I’d dress for the event. So why condemn someone who did this in 2001?ViewDate:
30th Aug 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Do you support Boris's decision to suspend Parliament?Go dig, people. Grow your own and eschew animal protein. The lentil will be in short supply, and Soya impossible to purchase as Trump has penalised its export.ViewDate:
31st Jul 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Do you have a Good Neighbour Scheme in your area?It’s really useful to get to medical appointments, I’m so grateful for Community Transport where I live.The Parking is impossible here at the Hospital and Surgeries, and the bus is impossible to get to both, so paying a volunteer driver some £s to cover their expenses is a boon. The other alternative is to hire a Taxi at a rate many can’t afford... BUT BEWARE, there is a franchise where people are offering “Befriending” Services, these are a franchise, and the people doing this charge £15.00 per hour, plus 45p per mile, for example take someone to a Medical appointment or Shopping. ....a real scam to lure in the vulnerable, and / or their careers, scam...who can decide if they can afford the costs when the Befriending Buddies leaflet pushed through letter boxes does not give the Terms and Conditions and Charges? Do not get involved ...no DBS checks, no Insurances, no contracts, no way you will not be protected from being robbed through allowing an unverified person into your home. Think SCAM when getting a kind leaflet offering you help! It IS..a way to get into your home, and rob you. Use Social Services vetted people...do not let random people into your home...you could be robbed, attacked or worse. BE CAUTIOUS BE CAREFUL..ViewDate:
7th Jun 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Does the person in the middle seat on a plane have the right to use both armrests?How daft! Have an elbow fight like 11 year olds!ViewDate:
19th May 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Will you be voting in the European Elections this month?I worry about the Spanish vegetable growers and the inability to buy my red peppers. This, you will recognise is ironic. The consequence of the CO2 air miles to import such goods is horrific. I have asked my useless Conservative MP about my vegan and vegetarian concerns. He has chosen not to reply..what a surprise!ViewDate:
15th May 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Will you be voting in the European Elections this month?Of course! My tiny hand up in the mess will be a tiny weak thought to keep us in a friendship group we could influence within, out, we are a lonely little island and Donald Trump has his economic designs on us!ViewDate:
11th May 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Will you be voting in the European Elections this month?I welcome another chance to get a British EU representative into the “Club” although they just jaw, jaw, yawn yawn, and have no powers of Legislation, at least they are our friends, and we can avoid punitive Taxes, Tariffs, and all the horrid business with getting essentials into the Country...Pharmaceuticals, and Red Peppers are rather important! Good luck everyone, I have my Postal Vote Papers, and with a choice of 9 parties, with 10 candidates each and 3 Independents...I’ll do my best for the unborn generation. Love to you all xxViewDate:
18th Mar 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Struggling to sleep? 6 ways to relieve insomnia naturallyRelax...if your pattern is 2 sleeps a night read about biphasic and polyphasic sleep. Mediaeval sleeps were 2 a night and the gap used creatively...read the research by EkirchViewDate:
10th Feb 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Charity calls for free TV licences to remain for over-75sDreadful proposal, how mean to take away money like the TV license, the bus passes, the £200 fuel allowance and the £10 Xmas bonus. Just join up all these pathetic payments and means test...anyone who pays HMRC Tax does not get the money, those who don't get enough income to pay Income Tax get double money given to them, about £450.00 X 2= circa £900.00 added to their pensions monthly, so they can buy the TV license...or not...or buy their phone lines, etc, or eat or heat... MEANS TEST these silly bitty payments that cost too much to administer, give to non Taxpaying pensioners in receipt of the State Pension instead.ViewDate:
24th Jan 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Should there be a specified age to retake your practical driving test?Dear complacent people who believe that after decades of driving they know everything! Try taking the Driving Theory practice tests on line, and see if you can get above the pass mark! If you manage to frighten yourselfs with how scary your lack of knowledge is you can sign up for one test a day to be sent to you by email...a bit of revision on the Highway Code .....at least reading it, helps. Also sign up and pay £38.00 for an assessment of your driving competence...own car, familiar roads, it'll reassure you and others, or not..ViewDate:
19th Jan 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Should there be a specified age to retake your practical driving test?£38.00 to take the Pactical test given by The Drivers Skills scheme, in your own car on your familiar streets. Do the online Highway Code Theory Test...do you know the difference between a Pelican, Puffin, Zebra, ....these are crossings by the way, and one other I've forgotten...'cos I'm old! Have some fun looking up the Theory practice tests, doing them online and see if you can score 86% plus + which is the pass necessary for aspiring 17 year olds to take their practical driving tests, and they have to go to a designated centre to take the test...£s plus £travel, plus £repeatedly if not passed. Give your road driving knowledge a workout and decide .......ViewDate:
18th Jan 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Should there be a specified age to retake your practical driving test?My GPs call me in annually, regardless of my contact or otherwise in the last year. I get weighed, measured, blood pressured, stuck with needles to take blood samples, stuck with needles to give me the flu jab, and off I go, never, thankfully, to see them for another year. I have no idea about the blood test results! I have an annual eye test, and my over cautious optician refers me to the hospital (twice...since he is covering his liability) and the Consultant dismisses me...it's a day out, and the coffee is good! So I don't mind. So, a few more tests, e.g. driving competence perhaps a virtual one at the opticians, would be very welcome, since I could offset the cost of the test when passed against my car insurance. No one gets anything for free..so I regard the fee for an assessment of competence as an investment.ViewDate:
18th Jan 2019 ElainePeony commented on:
Should there be a specified age to retake your practical driving test?Stubborn, selfish, arrogant old men, behaviour of which is indicative of their own, or perceived by society,status..."No one is going to tell me what to do, and what I can't do" it's a male characteristic to still achieve domance ..Think a Shakespeare King... Everyone needs their driving competence regularly. 10 years intervals? tested, annually by medics and through a virtual or on road test...although that could be lethal..e.g...when an old man with 3 passengers drove down a dual carriageway TOWARDS me! Get old dangerous drivers to relinquish their licences, even if they have to do it kicking and screaming, it's better than them killing someone.ViewDate:
17th Sep 2018 ElainePeony commented on:
5 Advantages of Cruise Holidays for Older TravellersThanks....I am a devotee of Saga little ships. I went off them when they stopped doing Adventure cruising as I enjoyed exploring such unusual and normally inaccessible places. Now, I'm going on everything I can that is a new place. I'm booked on the new ships already, sod the expense, I am going to be a long time dead, and the reduced calorie diets on my return are cheap! The price for a single person is still grand larceny, but the space is worth it...no two people can get into the bathrooms on the older ships together! BUT the new ships might have listened to travellers who are not built like stick insects! So, I hope you all enjoy your next jaunts....all the best.ViewDate:
16th Sep 2018 ElainePeony commented on:
5 Advantages of Cruise Holidays for Older TravellersWhere do you live? If you are in the UK I can recommend some marvellous cruise companies if out side the UK, sorry...I haven't ever travelled on any of the enormous ships...I like little cruise intimate care ones! You as a couple would really enjoy the Saga cruises... 3 ships, and lots of choice.ViewDate:
14th Sep 2018 ElainePeony commented on:
5 Advantages of Cruise Holidays for Older TravellersTerrific fun! Look at travel companies that do an all in package...collection from home and return, insurance included, no tipping on board, drinks included with meals, etc etc...if you are out if by the single person charges, find a thin travelling companion...no way can 2 people share the bathroom at the same time! Recommend up grade to suite, well worth it...we are a long time dead!ViewDate:
16th Jul 2018 ElainePeony commented on:
Should we have a second EU referendum?No worries people...we will have to endure another General Election ...MPs shipping out, perhaps they all got too hot and want to go on their 6 week holidays? Likewise that lot in Brussels...they need a rest too ...don't they? New Term in September, new school uniforms and new opportunities being offered... Including all the " larfs" Mr D Trump trumpets daily, what pleasure to enjoy his magnificent ego in charge of his importance! The joy of his ineptitude as a Politician and even less competence as a Diplomat is marvellous to witness...this makes the EU and GB as the Biscuite..yes, M.Garnier we know you want to dunk us in your cafe au lait.. Blessed Theresa, End of school report She voted to remain in the EU, now she is so confused, as we are. It would be helpful if she could abstain...and have a good rest with her feet above her head, and enjoy a cold flannel. We'll talk about it later, and then later, and after that....ViewDate:
9th Jul 2018 ElainePeony commented on:
How confident do you feel that the Government can deliver Brexit to the benefit of the country?I voted not to leave the EU. No man , or Country is an Island . The best deal with staying in the EU is to get what we as a Country pay down to an acceptable level, and if necessary plead for this so that EU citizens can pay for their treatment, operations and care, here..lots of lovely € coming in to Nuffield, and similar what's not to iike? The whole thing is a. Expensive rubbish mess..it was always going to be "jobs for boys" and charming and smiley David Davis is, he's a patsy..a no man man. Did nothing apart from being oily. Dear daft scatolgical Boris, has stuffed his career ( temporarily into the long grass, bless him.."Is Boris still Foreign Secectary? " Quote from his dear beloved blond father Joe Johnson , Quite recently! Well dear Silvers...a lot to ponder..and much to consider, but in the final analysis no one gives a stuff about us, the little people. My fridge stopped working, I have medicine that needs to be cold.i can't get any help! Hot sweaty and fed up..I hope you are better than me.ViewDate:
5th Jul 2018 ElainePeony commented on:
Would you support the MPs call for over 40s to pay a social care premium?Too right! I paid for my medicines through the prepaid certificate for 40 + years...asthma, etc..this was abou £100 ish a year and only when I got to Pensionable age I got the stuff free of charge, however, when working in my last years I paid NI Contributions of c. £656 PER MONTH!, so i am really pleased that my payments into the NHS and the State Pension fund then are coming back to me in little bits of worry free joy, like the mammogram I had today, and the asthma meds that were delivered to me at home this morning! How wonderful is that! Marvellous! BUT how are we going to educate the public who believe their NI Contributions will pay for their Social Care? I am appalled by the ignorance of people who genuinely believe that their NI Contributions pay for their Social Care...which is NOT a medical need, and therefore not funded by the NHS...answers need to be requested from Clive Betts MP and his Committee who have not addressed the Public ignorance in this matter.ViewDate:
5th Jul 2018 ElainePeony commented on:
Would you support the MPs call for over 40s to pay a social care premium?I have been an educator all my 36 years of working life. I have 2 University Degrees, hard won, through poverty, and sheer determination. The nice one was my MA (Ed) I loved doing this over 3 years, part time, with a full time job in Local Government. My passion is to inform, and I am appalled by the ignorance of the great British Public regarding how Social Care is paid for...how, can anyone believe that Social Care ( which no one understands) is paid for by the NHS? I want to shout through a loud hailer..your NI payments do not pay for you to be looked after ! Do something about it! I despair...ViewDate:
5th Jul 2018 ElainePeony commented on:
Would you support the MPs call for over 40s to pay a social care premium?Dead right...you have got the plot...tell your friends. No one will pay for you to be looked after except yourself...oh they might...after a means tested assessment of all your assets, savings and income from your hard one pension, but so what, if we have got the money for goodness sake spend it on being looked after, using Taxis, and going on great holidays...physical capacity needs to be capitalised upon...use it or lose it! Have fun, and sod the expense!ViewDate:
5th Jul 2018 ElainePeony commented on:
Would you support the MPs call for over 40s to pay a social care premium?Sadly, you seem to not understand that we as a country need live births for people to be educated and be employed, pay Taxes, and fund the NHS and State Pensions, until us alive now die, and then the next wave get if an age when they die. It's a big circle...if there are not enough people working, like in Japan then there is no money for people in extreme old age...with respect, I suggest some research into demographic social funding would be useful kind regards.ViewDate:
5th Jul 2018 ElainePeony commented on:
Would you support the MPs call for over 40s to pay a social care premium?Hooray Cath65, someone who understands that your Tax deductions do not pay for your Social Care, should you need it! Of course we will be stripped of assets when dead...fine, but at least I can pay now, since I have the means through self imposed deprivation for 35 years as a public servant, paying 12% p.m. into my pension and NI of £596 p.m. AND Taxed at 33% , I was so poor! I had to get lodgers in! They were hard work ....but, they paid my food and utilities???so I want to pay for the best hotel style care.for me....in terms of facilities, outings, meals and workers who understand my language...i do hope all people of our age use their incomes for themselves. Age UK has marvellous information...please tell your friends! Kind regards, best wishes.ViewDate:
3rd Jul 2018 ElainePeony commented on:
Would you support the MPs call for over 40s to pay a social care premium?Please read Age UK ...excellent information about what entitlements are and how to go through the process.ViewDate:
3rd Jul 2018 ElainePeony commented on:
Would you support the MPs call for over 40s to pay a social care premium?Dead right...No pun intended! Capitalise on assets. EVERYONE of retirement Age needs to read, and inwardly digest all the EXCELLENT information provided by Age UK. Allow your selves at least 2 hours people, but there is a great source of how to get old, get your dues and pay for your care. It's a need to read. -
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