I don't blame you - but no matter where you buy from, the methods and systems used by Amazon will increasingly be emulated.
Brexit, for once some facts.
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I don't blame you - but no matter where you buy from, the methods and systems used by Amazon will increasingly be emulated.
Never had a real problem finding profitable activities... The barges particularly so... Love setting stuff up, whilst I, m in control... But after a while the activity must dominate and before you know it you are back at meetings, making commitments and have bosses. (customers?)... I hate operating to a timetable, commitments... So then the activity slides (because I went sailing) then I have to look for something else.
Whilst setting stuff up its entirely to your timetable... Then something else takes over...
But I'll be dead before that happens everywhere so they will be the losers!
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Amazon has a massive facility a few miles north of the Forth at Dunfermline. I live about 15 miles north of there. When I track items they go from Dunfermline south over the Forth to Edinburgh then come north over the Forth to me. A recent item ordered at 11:15am was delivered by car over the same route at 6:45 that same evening.
One of the two things in my order came from Dunfermline. They seem to have married now - both have the same nearest depot departure times and ETAs.
I could understand Dunfermline to serve the north of Scotland but relying on back and forth across the Forth (sorry...
) always seemed mad. As so many commercial things, the costs of the bridge are looked on as externalities.
At 85 now it will be a medical miracle if I make 90.
How I was on Monday at one point I had little confidence of making next week.
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Nah, you'll live forever because once Amazon has all UK NHS data, they'll mine it and discover two people who have never died, living in Liverpool and Dundee - they'll then extract their immortality genes and sell a cheap gene splicing combined immortality and rejuvination pill: You'll live forever, with a perm wearing a kilt.
How the heck does this guy compete in Iron Man competitions at 90?
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What medical issues do you have? Maybe as someone who knows nothing whatsoever about the medical sciences, I can freely offer completely inaccurate speculation and quackery.
Hire competent managers so you can go sailing, also a PA... grow the biz till you can sell it, then do the fun starting up stuff again etc?
I know people who, after not being able to buy a house, bought and renovated barges to live in with their deposit instead... Is there a limit to how many residential barges there can be on the canals and waterways? Surely they'd run out of marinas, or indeed waterways, unless there's a limit?
Beansprouts also contain Omega 3:
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It's one of the many reasons I eat beansprouts - plus they're easier to digest than beans soaked and boiled(less farty):
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I've avoided statins by losing weight - 2 stones 9lbs so far. I don't get horrible pains in my chest anymore, except when I indulge in cheese and masses of roast meat like I used to. Beans are good for human beings.
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I avoided statins by having very low cholesterol.Beansprouts also contain Omega 3:
4 Alternative Sources of Omega-3 Fatty Acids - Washingtonian
A new study suggests that a lack of omega-3 fatty acids in our diets may cause our brains to age faster, impeding our ability to remember things.The study, published in Neurology, found that people who had low levels of omega-3...
It's one of the many reasons I eat beansprouts - plus they're easier to digest than beans soaked and boiled(less farty):
Sprouting - Wikipedia
Fatty acid ratio in food - Wikipedia
I've avoided statins by losing weight - 2 stones 9lbs so far. I don't get horrible pains in my chest anymore, except when I indulge in cheese and masses of roast meat like I used to. Beans are good for human beings.
Despite that lowness, I did indeed have a doctor telling me I should take them. I declined (the medicine, not my health).
There are very strict limits and the shortage of moorings is big problem, especially residential ones. Barges that come with a residential mooring often sell at grossly inflated prices.
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When I gave up sugar, that reduced my chest pains a lot - apparently sugar raises cholesterol. I don't use sugar at all now, I'm even very frugal with fruit and carbs, even wholemeal carbs. Heart used to race after too much bread or rice.
This is a good way to wean oneself off sugar, but it may alter gut bacteria (tastes good):
Having lots of small meals - 5 or 6, instead of the normal 3, helped - blood pressure monitor gave me less worrying readings after small meals. Also my heart didn't race. My BMI seemed healthy after I lost much excess weight, but it was only after I became lighter still, that I really felt the health benefits of being more lean. I toggle back and forth between 22 to 18 now, but I should stick to 18.
Dietary fat has much less impact on cholesterol than many think. And sugars have much more.
I do consume carbohydrates - but relatively little as sugar. More often rice, wholemeal bread, potatoers and cake (which is also often at least partly wholemeal).
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No point, the great majority of the stuff about foods good for health etc is complete bunkum. There's just a few basic facts for the avoidance of disease, but that's all.
Once one is living healthily the determinant of one's lifespan is purely one's genetic inheritance. I'm fortunate in having had an Italian father from a long lived family, the Italians notably having a very low rate of heart disease, but his family having a high rate of cancer in old age ending their lives. But I'm unfortunate in having had an Anglo-Scottish mother from relatively short lived family, also with the occasional old age cancer problem and the high rate of heart disease that Scotland is notorious for.
True to form my father lived to the old age of 88 but bladder cancer was his cause of death.
True to form my mother's heart was about to kill her at 64 when she was saved by one of the experimental at the time mechanical heart valves, which with lots of medical support and a day at hospital every month extended her life to 78.
So that is the inheritance of we four children, an amalgam of pluses and minuses.
My older brother true to that form had his heart failing at 78. That was rectified with a new heart valve, but five years later suffered colon cancer. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy followed by only partially successful operations kept him going, but he died at 87.
My two years younger sister suffered repeated cancerous polyps in her seventies and now at 83 is in a home with very advanced dementia and probably won't live much longer now.
My very much younger sister is 72 now and has suffered cancer which was cured, but at her age it's too early to know an outcome to her life.
Meanwhile at 85 I'm doing the best of all with no cancer and just one potentially dodgy but removed polyp, but I do have the heart disease which had increasingly caused some problems since 2007 when I was 72. The medics were useless in those earlier years, often making matters worse by over prescribing statins, but I've gradually taken over complete control.
Matters with my heart came to a head in late 2019 and especially through 2020, suffering 26 minor heart attacks of one sort or another. Currently I have the issue almost completely under control with no attacks since 28th January, the longest period without attacks since 2017 and near perfect blood pressures. But it's a knife edge situation of two carefully timed statins each day coupled with carefully measured amounts of exercise related to my moment to moment physical ability. It's all too easy for me to make a mistake with those and trigger a possibly fatal heart attack.
Ideally I'd have received a heart valve replacement in 2019 but due to local circumstances that wasn't possible then, and of course the arrival of Covid has completely ruled out that possibility since. And I'm now in the age zone when with damaged heart muscle I may no longer be suitable for such open heart surgery anyway.
Not bothered though, I actually don't want to live into a frail and dependent old age, so going around now is just fine by me.
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Are you certain that you can't now have a heart valve replacement? And I totally disagree about genetics being the main factor:
Whatever does that mean, if diet isn't included? I certainly hope you are not consuming sugar or eating big meals! Smaller meals and often, cut out the sugar, at the very least (I think).
Living into a frail and dependent old age is a sign of success! And wanting to go now (or not minding) could be a symptom of heart disease, which might even be rectified with a new valve and the resulting rush of healthy blood to parts that it currently can't reach.