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    Greyhound or Sighthound owners.

    Oh she is indeed. Such a character. I'd definitely get another galgo, although they do often take a lot of time to recover from their ordeals in Spain. I lucked out with Ginny, she's very affectionate.
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    Virgin media outages, ST17 area

    Seen lots of engineers about today. Connection is back online. I bet they've had a lot of needless appointments to peoples homes.
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    Virgin media outages, ST17 area

    Anyone else had them? Had a couple last week and two today, connection is now down (using my mobile hotspot). Even had my O2 phone connection go down. Are they accidentally damaging cables down Radford Bank? I have a engineer visit booked in, but Thursday. As I use my internet connection for my...
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    Greyhound or Sighthound owners.

    Sorry about that :) She's unfortunately had some fur loss, a symptom of the leishmaniasis.
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    Greyhound or Sighthound owners.

    Just finished Ginny's latest round of treatment. She's back to her usual energetic moany self :D She also had a cracked nail which had to be cut back, so that was stopping her wanting to go for walks. All better now.
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    Stafford shops closing - Turning into a ghost town?

    That didn't appear on the map when I looked. We've got way too many low quality junk food places as it is.
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    Stafford shops closing - Turning into a ghost town?

    They've strimmed the weed covered land opposite too. Rumours of a McDonalds opening there years ago. Nothing on the planning map though.
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    Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?

    That side of town would do better with free parking. I imagine Sainsburys don't own that car park but it would save them a lot of hassle with refunding parking charges if it was free. The rest of the car park is nearly always completely empty when I visit it. So making it free would not lose...
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    Family days out.

    The Arboretum at Alrewas. Rosliston Forestry Centre. Chasewater. Ironbridge.
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    Jaspers.

    What's going on with this store? It's pretty stupid to have an empty shop which could be being used by some local business to provide service. They can't just be renting it and not using it can they?
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    Greyhound or Sighthound owners.

    Not posted an update here in a long time. Bad news, Ginny's leishmania is back at a level even higher than when she was first diagnosed, she spent a morning at the vets last week for tests, has high blood pressure too but no other conditions. Another round of treatment is required.
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    Election '24.

    Labour created foundation trusts, it was a flagship policy of theirs. A sort of NHS equivalent of their school academies programme which let certain organisations have greater autonomy and opt out of local authority control. Guess how they qualified? showing financial contract and competency...
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    Windscreen Chip Repair.

    I used one in the early 2000s and it worked reasonably well. But when I tried to do one a few years back the kit I used didn't seem to exist any more.
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    Redhill Brewers Fayre to close.

    Pretty sure the Wildwood pub is family friendly. Plus the one on Radford Bank, the Stonehouse.
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    Stafford shops closing - Turning into a ghost town?

    I can do a lot of the route into town on cycle lanes and quiet roads. But when I get into town there's no safe cycle parking. If you want a decent reliable bike or even an electric one which might be valuable then where are you going to safely lock it up? I have really good locks and having...
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    Stafford Traffic.

    Widening the road and then putting the lights in.
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    Stafford Traffic.

    Councillors will just say why weren't you cycling or walking. Seems to be their answer to everything. My reply would be why are the roads still only suitable for the traffic levels of about 20-30 years ago when there's been dozens of new housing estates since then.
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    Stafford shops closing - Turning into a ghost town?

    Some joined up thinking might be nice, what good is pressuring people to ride bikes into town if the roads are too dangerous, there's not enough cycle lanes on main routes and when you do get to down there's no secure lockers for your bike.
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    Stafford shops closing - Turning into a ghost town?

    It's an occasional treat, not a daily meal. The price is in indication of that too. KFC and others do meals that are almost your daily allowance in one go.
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    Stafford shops closing - Turning into a ghost town?

    There used to be. It was the nearest food place to my office in Coventry and we'd often have our quarterly social there. They used to do quite a few veggie mains but it's mostly down to veggie burger, fajita (deconstructed style), salad and mac n cheese. They even took the gumbo off the menu...
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