It's getting tough out there. Feeling the pinch?

Nelliegrace

Bad news today. The NHS does not pay dentists enough, so our dentist is joining the exodus and will provide only private treatment in future. Denplan will be £30.30 a month and doesn’t cover everything.
There are no NHS dentists in many areas now.

Yet another reason to get over national the tooth-rotting addiction to fizzy pop and sugary snacks. 

euronorris

The severe shortage of nhs dentists is a serious problem. A lot of people struggle to pay the NHS rates, let alone private rates  

mandy47

Coming out of lurkdom to give my teabread recipe. 2cups of dried fruit 1cup of sugar(  any kind of sugar) and 1cup of very strong boiling hot tea. Leave overnight to soak.Add 1whisked egg and 1cup of sr  flour .stir and put it into a round 8 inch cake tin of 2load tins. 170 degrees for about 55 minutes.

Works with strong hot coffee as well.

grunnie

mandy47 said:

Coming out of lurkdom to give my teabread recipe. 2cups of dried fruit 1cup of sugar(  any kind of sugar) and 1cup of very strong boiling hot tea. Leave overnight to soak.Add 1whisked egg and 1cup of sr  flour .stir and put it into a round 8 inch cake tin of 2load tins. 170 degrees for about 55 minutes.

Works with strong hot coffee as well.

Love coffee so will try that next time

ladyholly

Going back to the sustainability subject. Which is better for the environment? A new electric car with all the pollution in the manufacture, using rare earth elements, no real way to recycle the batteries (yet) or using a 20 year diesel car with the pollution they cause. I dont expect a definitive answer but it is a question that has been posed. To come clean we own a 20 year old diesel and do very little mileage as we are retired.

Datchet

We compost non reusable cotton clothes quite successfully. As evidenced by extracting the elastic waistbands from 3 yo compost!

QueenJess

ladyholly said:

Going back to the sustainability subject. Which is better for the environment? A new electric car with all the pollution in the manufacture, using rare earth elements, no real way to recycle the batteries (yet) or using a 20 year diesel car with the pollution they cause. I dont expect a definitive answer but it is a question that has been posed. To come clean we own a 20 year old diesel and do very little mileage as we are retired.

It’s not really comparing like with like (an old existing car with a new one that has to be built). However, as articles always go on about electric cars being better, it does seem to imply you should ditch your car for an electric one.

The majority of the emissions are going to be incurred in manufacture and so I personally think it’s got to be better to keep an old car running and swap only when it’s at the end of life. I don’t have any evidence to back that up though, just my gut feel. 

Not sure why there isn’t any chat in the media etc about tyres as I thought they had some of the worst pollution attached. Hopefully some clever scientists are working on that somewhere.

CKhalvashi

Nelliegrace said:

Bad news today. The NHS does not pay dentists enough, so our dentist is joining the exodus and will provide only into private treatment in future. Denplan will be £30.30 a month and doesn’t cover much. 
There are no NHS dentists in many areas now.

Yet another reason to get over national the tooth-rotting addiction to fizzy pop and sugary snacks. 

I have my dentistry work done in Georgia and have for a number of years.

Even with flights it's cheaper than a private UK dentist. Mom was lucky and managed for the first time in a long time to get an NHS place at a local surgery, I tried a few weeks later and was told the limited places they had were gone.

ladyholly said:

Going back to the sustainability subject. Which is better for the environment? A new electric car with all the pollution in the manufacture, using rare earth elements, no real way to recycle the batteries (yet) or using a 20 year diesel car with the pollution they cause. I dont expect a definitive answer but it is a question that has been posed. To come clean we own a 20 year old diesel and do very little mileage as we are retired.

I have an electric car but do quite high mileage compared to most. We also have a diesel Skoda Yeti. Someone will be able to pluck out the CO2 per kW, but mine is operating at a little less than 5 miles to 1kWh (I generally get give or take 200 miles from a 38kWh battery) on what I'd deem mixed driving.

I'd suggest that you'll be better off overall keeping the diesel a few years and taking something like mine later, so you can reap the benefits on what will probably be a slightly diministed battery, but still fine for most people (say around 150 miles instead of 200).

On a quick Google, studies indicate that battery production is associated with 56 to 494 kilograms of carbon dioxide per kilowatt-hour of battery. At a worst case, that would be 20t of emissions for the battery. OH's car is rated at 164g/km of CO2, so that would be 122,000km on a worst case, or around 75k miles. My Ioniq will probably have that by the end of the year, so the only additional damage at.that point is the emissions created from generating the electricity. I know there will be some despite there being a claim that all my electricity is green, but can't give you a number for that (I'm sure someone can).

Over the 5 to 6 years I'll probably keep the car I'm sure it will become lower emission than a new Mondeo or etc, but I know this period will be a lot longer for most drivers and shorter for others, especially those generating their own solar etc (there are a few on MSE doing just this with an EV).

As an EV and technology enthusiast I do appreciate they're not a one size fits all solution.

tooldle

Not sure why there isn’t any chat in the media etc about tyres as I thought they had some of the worst pollution attached. Hopefully some clever scientists are working on that somewhere.

Tyres and brakes. 
I spotted this project in a number of outlets some time ago. I can't say I've seen any updates on it.
World’s first device to capture harmful tyre particles invented by students | Imperial News | Imperial College London

Comparing cars of different makes and age is difficult as nothing stands still. Modern cars are lighter than older cars as redesigns occur to use less material, helping to reduce costs and impact to the planet. Paint systems evolve, some scrap recycling may be incorporated into the manufacturing process, waste heat may be recovered and reused, new insulation systems cut energy loss, machine learning used to adapt manufacturing processes perhaps making lines more efficient (less reprocessing or scrapping) and so on. And then, the vehicle hits the road and you have a whole other set of factors to consider. 

Datchet

Nelliegrace said:

Bad news today. The NHS does not pay dentists enough, so our dentist is joining the exodus and will provide only into private treatment in future. Denplan will be £30.30 a month and doesn’t cover much. 
There are no NHS dentists in many areas now.

Yet another reason to get over national the tooth-rotting addiction to fizzy pop and sugary snacks. 

Our registered practice is shutting along with 18 others. That’s the teens NHS treatment gone. No other practice locally is taking on more. Nearest one is 43 miles away. Other practices in hometown are now struggling to absorb the private patients