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originallambrettaman said:
So far just at a street music festival in France, but France and Spain are both looking at bans at some events when temperatures are at 40-45 degrees..
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Makes sense

Alcohol massively dehydrates you but also it makes it more likely youll sit in the sun all day and/or jump in a river or other water
 
bradymk2 said:
Makes sense

Alcohol massively dehydrates you but also it makes it more likely youll sit in the sun all day and/or jump in a river or other water
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I don't think the promoters and organisers will see it that way somehow.Big bucks to be made on the sale of flat pints of pisswater at events.!
 
Mass Hysteria

Some of you on social media will of seen the thing about the Dartmoor ponies, Natural England are correct in there approach, over grazing causes a immense amount of damage to wildlife habitats, it is correct that all livestock should be included in grazing numbers if people want to claim subsidies but the amount of people saying Natural England should be disbanded is absurd.

I met with a Natural England adviser on Friday for a on site meeting on a local nature conservation site i am involved with and without them they would be very little nature conservation at all.

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Newlandcasual2 said:
Mass Hysteria

Some of you on social media will of seen the thing about the Dartmoor ponies, Natural England are correct in there approach, over grazing causes a immense amount of damage to wildlife habitats, it is correct that all livestock should be included in grazing numbers if people want to claim subsidies but the amount of people saying Natural England should be disbanded is absurd.

I met with a Natural England adviser on Friday for a on site meeting on a local nature conservation site i am involved with and without them they would be very little nature conservation at all.

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Could these ponies not be coraled and not taken to somewhere where there is a benefit to their grazing..?
 
Newlandcasual2 said:
Mass Hysteria

Some of you on social media will of seen the thing about the Dartmoor ponies, Natural England are correct in there approach, over grazing causes a immense amount of damage to wildlife habitats, it is correct that all livestock should be included in grazing numbers if people want to claim subsidies but the amount of people saying Natural England should be disbanded is absurd.

I met with a Natural England adviser on Friday for a on site meeting on a local nature conservation site i am involved with and without them they would be very little nature conservation at all.

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I live in the New Forest which has ponies, cattle and pigs freely roaming.
Not many realise that the adult ponies/cattle that you see are all mares/cows.
The stallions are let out for their 6 week jolly once a year.
Every year there is a round up, the male foals and some of the mares are sold off, generally for their meat (pet food etc).
The bullocks are put into the food chain. The cattle are not dairy breeds and are happy roaming and as they only have one calf a year, the numbers are fairly constant.
We lose around one pony a week to cars!

Sitting in the forest on Sunday, with ponies sharing the shade under the trees is one of the pleasures of living here. The ponies are attracted to visitors because some stupidly feed them. This along with the thermal cooling property of tarmac roads, means that ponies see cars as potential sources of food.
It is a £1000 fine to feed or touch the ponies and yet on Sunday I had to stop idiot parents encouraging their young children to feed the ponies and one stupid **** put his infant on the floor within five metres of a pony with very young foal.
I also reported another family for setting up a disposable BBQ on the forest floor.
The rangers came out and educated the parents in reading the signs that say BBQs are banned through the National Park.

In short, the pony and cattle numbers are controlled and actually, without them the New Forest would not exist as it is.

There is a problem with deer numbers. They are constantly culled, but their numbers are a problem as they are not managed. The commoners own the grazing rights and manage their herds.
 
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Gone For A Walk said:
and if a pensioner, having lived 65+ years, doesn't already know to drink fluid during a heatwave then there's not much hope for them
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My next door neighbour died this morning. Her partner said that she couldn’t manage the heat yesterday.

So I find your post a little distasteful. Some over 65’s with dementia struggle at the best of times. It is those that cannot manage the heat that struggle. Not those that should know better.
 
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The Omega Man said:
My next door neighbour died this morning. Her partner said that she couldn’t manage the heat yesterday.

So I find your post a little distasteful. Some over 65’s with dementia struggle at the best of times. It is those that cannot manage the heat that struggle. Not those that should know better.
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Thats the thing
Its alot easier than people think to fall ill due to heat
(Or cold)
The extreme sides
especially when a lot of medication affects how the body deals with heat
And its not cooling down at night which is even worse
 
The Omega Man said:
My next door neighbour died this morning. Her partner said that she couldn’t manage the heat yesterday.

So I find your post a little distasteful. Some over 65’s with dementia struggle at the best of times. It is those that cannot manage the heat that struggle. Not those that should know better.
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Sorry to hear about your neighbour, but come on, the comment clearly isn't related to someone with dementia, they need appropriate support, a reminder in 6 o'clock news or wherever isn't going to cut it.
 
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Gone For A Walk said:
Sorry to hear about your neighbour, but come on, the comment clearly isn't related to someone with dementia, they need appropriate support, a reminder in 6 o'clock news or wherever isn't going to cut it.
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Yep,appropriate support is the key word.

I used to make my old man up a big freezing cold jug of Orange squash or lemon barley water with ice in it during the summer months and sat it on his side table next to him so he'd drink plenty :emoticon-0148-yes:
 
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Gone For A Walk said:
Sorry to hear about your neighbour, but come on, the comment clearly isn't related to someone with dementia, they need appropriate support, a reminder in 6 o'clock news or wherever isn't going to cut it.
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I wasn’t picking a fight, but you responded to a post about the elderly dying and I found it too broad a comment.
The numbers increase not because of ignorance but because many elderly cannot cope with extremes, hot or cold.
It didn’t challenge your post because you posted it, I simply responded to how I a felt on reading it.
 
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My dad doesn’t have dementia but he will be wearing jeans today , probably a jumper and only drinking coffee , takes a lot more then 35 degrees for him to change , my mum was the same would sit on holiday in Spain drinking tea all day, I’ve inherited it to an extent I can’t bring myself to drink cold drinks before 12, I’ve only had coffee so far today and I’m sweating . Does make us sound weird to be fair <laugh>
 
The Omega Man said:
I live in the New Forest which has ponies, cattle and pigs freely roaming.
Not many realise that the adult ponies/cattle that you see are all mares/cows.
The stallions are let out for their 6 week jolly once a year.
Every year there is a round up, the male foals and some of the mares are sold off, generally for their meat (pet food etc).
The bullocks are put into the food chain. The cattle are not dairy breeds and are happy roaming and as they only have one calf a year, the numbers are fairly constant.
We lose around one pony a week to cars!

Sitting in the forest on Sunday, with ponies sharing the shade under the trees is one of the pleasures of living here. The ponies are attracted to visitors because some stupidly feed them. This along with the thermal cooling property of tarmac roads, means that ponies see cars as potential sources of food.
It is a £1000 fine to feed or touch the ponies and yet on Sunday I had to stop idiot parents encouraging their young children to feed the ponies and one stupid **** put his infant on the floor within five metres of a pony with very young foal.
I also reported another family for setting up a disposable BBQ on the forest floor.
The rangers came out and educated the parents in reading the signs that say BBQs are banned through the National Park.

In short, the pony and cattle numbers are controlled and actually, without them the New Forest would not exist as it is.

There is a problem with deer numbers. They are constantly culled, but their numbers are a problem as they are not managed. The commoners own the grazing rights and manage their herds.
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You would presume that the twat with the BBQ was a yuppie and arrived in his 4 x 4
 
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