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Absolutely not. It is quite clear that the vaccines are safe and have helped the world to return to something approaching normal, well ahead of time. I think that this is what saddens me the most. Most pro-jabbers still won't accept the possibility that they were wrong. I do accept that I was wrong to have the jabs. I had the jabs because I am a weak-willed, gullible sheep. Many of the pro-jabbers genuinely believed - and still seem to believe - that the jabs were a good thing. Many were frightened and coerced into having the jabs in order to keep their jobs. In my case, I weakly allowed my own family to persuade me into having the jabs, My family are all pro-jabbers, they ganged up on me and in the end, I feebly gave in - just to get them off my back. Having the jabs has cost me my health and I bitterly regret having them

Thanks for the info everyone. The air fryer I've got my eye at the moment is a Tower XPress Pro 10-in-1. They are quite pricey to buy but I like the idea that they have got shelves to cook on, rather than just a small-ish cooking basket.

Thanks for the info HeHasRisen. We'll give it a try next time. Have you ever tried this chippy? If so - what did you think of it?

Does anyone know of a decent fish & chip shop in, or near, the Sheffield town centre, where you can have a sit down, eat- in fish & chip meal.? My little nephew loves his fish & chips & the last few times I've been to visit, I've taken him to the Market Chippy in the Moor Market. We both like the Market Chippy - maybe not the best I've ever had, but it's perfectly acceptable & the food is always piping hot and freshly fried. It's reasonably priced. the portion sizes are good, the service is quick & friendly. We'd happily go back there. It does sometimes get a bit crowded and rowdy though, in the Moor Market food area, so it might be nice to try somewhere different for a change. Any recommendations?

With electricity prices going through the roof, I'm considering buying an air fryer so that I can hopefully save on the cost of oven cooking. Ideally I would like the sort of air fryer in which it's possible to roast a whole chicken or roast a small-ish joint of meat. There seems to be such a variety of air fryers and prices that I'm getting really bogged down trying to choose one. If anyone out there is already using an air fryer I'd appreciate any advice, information or recommendations you can pass on to me. Thanks

Hi Pete, I'm quite a bit younger than you but I think I might know the Wadsley Bridge scrapyard you remember. My grandad lived On Penistone Rd North - a few doors down from The New Inn pub. There was a scrapyard just behind where he Iived. I think it was called Cox & Danks. My younger brother and I occasionally used to trespass into this scrapyard when we were small kids.....until we got spotted and chased off!

I was in Sheffield yet again last week , visiting my poorly old mum, so I popped into the 4 Seasons Bakery a couple of times to pick up a few bits for her. I continue to praise their cakes and pastries & their sandwiches, but can't say I was impressed by their oatcakes. Neither my mum nor I liked them. They didn't taste like proper oatcakes at all and were horribly salty - in fact, they had no flavour at all, apart from salt! Funk's oatcakes are much nicer - although much smaller and more expensive. I won't be buying 4 Seasons oatcakes again, but will still buy some of their other stuff. Also noticed that the 4 Seasons seems to close in the afternoons, so if you want to try them, go there early.

I like watching cookery programmes. I seldom copy their recipes to the letter, although I do pick up lots of ideas. Amongst my favourite TV cooks are James Martin, Rick Stein, Nigella Lawson & the Hairy Bikers - and from the past I liked Delia Smith, Keith Floyd & The Two Fat Ladies . I particularly like those programmes that involve an element of travel, where the cook travels around the UK or different parts of the world, giving a history of different regional and international foods &people - & showcasing some of their recipes. I also enjoy competetive cookery programmes - like Masterchef & The Great British Menu . I find a few TV cooks to be quite irritating - not because of their culinary skills, but because their personalities and presentation delivery styles get on my nerves. Amongst the cooks that irritate me are Jamie Oliver, Ainsley Harriott, Gordon Ramsay & Heston Blumenthal.

No I haven't read any of her other books yet. I picked this one after I saw her interviewed on telly and was interested in what she had to say about the weaponising of fear

As far as I have been able to ascertain, there are many different mutations of Corona viruses. Common flu is a corona virus and Covid is a corona virus too - but they can all mutate into many different variants. I totally agree that mainstream media have always hyped this up to ridiculous proportions. The only mainstream channel that has ever given an alternative view is GB News - but if you mention that, some people on this thread seem to think you are a right-winger or a Trump supporter - which I am categorically not. I agree that it is very difficult to know who to believe or trust. The most believable analysis I've seen so far is from a book called A State Of Fear by Laura Dodsworth . In this book, the author gives her take on how the UK Government weaponised fear during the Covid 19 pandemic. I found it to be quite convincing & believable - but I'm sure there's plenty of posters on this thread who will disagree with me - even before they've read the book.

I haven't put the heating on yet and I am already facing up to the fact that I won't be able to put it on at all this winter....or heat my water more than once or twice a week. My flat is all-electric I have very old fashioned storage heaters and a very old fashioned hot-and-cold fill immersion water heater. They gobble up electricity and I can't afford to replace them

I too have never met a "Covid denier". I have heard a number of different theories about how and where the virus first started, but I've yet to meet anyone who denies that it actually exists. I do agree though, that the response to Covid was a massive overreaction from the start - and sadly, a lot of us fell for it. We meekly accepted lockdowns that were not necessary and the majority of us meekly allowed ourselves to take vaccines that most of us didn't need to take.

I don't know what this means Steve68. I don't scrabble about on the internet or put my faith in anything that's not related to my own experience. Everything I post on this thread is based only on my personal experiences and the experiences of my own famiIy, friends, colleagues. I have respect for Top4718, TheDaddy, Chekhov & one or two others because what they have to say often reflects what I've experienced and have seen my friends and family have experience too - in our own real lives. These guys seem to be capable of critical thinking - they question the mainstream narrative and are able to back up their arguments. Too many people on this thread just blindly follow the accepted narrative and are in thrall to the authorities.

I agree hackey lad, I know I can't prove that the jab caused the problem, but equally, nobody can prove that it didn't. What about all those vaccinated people who have never caught Covid, or who did catch it mildly, then recovered? Can they prove that it was the jab that stopped them from catching it -or prove that it prevented their symptoms from being more severe?

Yes - I accept that there are loads of nutters & conspiracy theorists on the internet, but I'm not one of them. The posts I put on here are based only on my personal experience and the experiences of people in my immediate circle - ie family, friends and ex-colleagues. From my immediate circle of 35 people, 29 - including myself - are vaccinated and 6 are unvaccinated. All of us - apart from my 85 year old mum - were in previous good health and most are still in good health. Out the 29 vaccinated people, only myself and one friend have had severe reactions to the vaccine. 6 of my vaccinated family and friends have tested positive for Covid, but thankfully, none of them have had anything worse than mild Covid symptoms. Even my 85 year old mum, who is severely disabled and has severe COPD, tested positive once - but she luckily had no symptoms at all. One of my fully vaccinated sisters in law, who works for the NHS, has tested positive 5 times ! She had minor flu-like symptoms once, but had no symptoms on the other occasions None of The other 23 vaccinated people have ever tested positive or had Covid symptoms. I too have never tested positive or had symptoms - I just got a brain bleed and loss of vision after taking a jab that I never needed to take in the first place. Of my 6 unvaccinated friends. 1 has tested positive on one occasion, had minor flu-like symptoms, then recovered. None of the other 5 unvaccinated people have ever tested positive or ever had Covid. All this proves to me is that vaccinated people are just as likely to test positive and catch Covid as the unvaccinated - and just as likely to recover from it. However, even if you are in no real danger from Covid, having the vaccine can cause other serious side effects. I was fit and well before I had the vaccine - then had the brain bleed and loss of vision soon after my 2nd jab. The friend, who was also fit and well before she had the vaccine, almost immediately developed severe joint pains after having the jabs - and now, almost a year later, still has pain and mobility problems. Most of us never needed this vaccine.. It's done nobody any good - and done a few of us great harm

So hackey lad, am I to take it that you think that I - and at least 4 other people on this thread who've had serious bad reactions - are all just making it up? Or deliberately lying?

Good for you top4718! Despite what these deluded Vaccine believers say. nobody really knows, do they? I like your posts -I wish I'd listened more to people like you, theDaddy & Chekhov before I took the vaccines, I know now that it was all a massive con. It's just luck of the draw. The vaccinated are just as likely as the unvaccinated to catch Covid and be seriously ill from it. I don't really blame anyone for falling for the narrative of fear and coercion - after all, I fell for it myself - but I do despair of these delusional people who still continue to believe in the efficacy of these vaccines - despite the ever mounting evidence to the contrary.

Many thanks for the info everyone. I'd probably be travelling from Hillsborough interchange so it looks like the 97/98 routes may be my best options

Can anyone please tell me if there is a bus that goes from Hillsborough to the Northern General Hospital? If so, I'd be grateful if you could let me know the bus number - and the location of the bus stop where I can catch it. Many thanks

Well said Hauxwell! Like me, you had the two jabs and have now decided not to take any more, after realising that the side effects you experienced were worse than the Covid infection itself. I just wish there were more people willing to adopt this stance, but I fear that the pro-vax lobby will continue to line up to take jab after jab - despite the ever mounting evidence that most of us didn't need to take it in the first place.

Bit by bit, inch by inch, more and more people are beginning to wake up to how massively most of us allowed ourselves to be conned/coerced/frightened into following the 'accepted narrative'. As well as Denmark, it now seems that Sweden and Norway have realised that the majority of kids, young people and otherwise fit and healthy people never needed to be jabbed in the first place, I'd also recommend reading a book called The Bodies Of Others' by Naomi Wolf I just wish I'd listened to the anti-vaxxers and/ or read this book before I'd been stupid enough to have the damn jabs!

I am speaking for myself - and I hope I am speaking for many others who had the jabs - and now wishes they hadn't, The biggest "generalisation" of all is that the jabs saved lives or gave protection.

Ok, maybe it wasn't coercion in the sense that nobody was pinned down and forcibly injected, but it was coercion when people were told that they'd lose their job unless they had the jab. It was coercion when people were denied the right to visit relatives in Care Homes, without proof of vaccination. Too many of us fell for the accepted narrative... because we were fools....we were naive, gullible sheep. At least some of us now admit it.

Something like that would be a good start Harvey - but I stress that I think it should only be applied to people who have been properly assessed as being fit and well enough to work.

I would agree that it's unfair to stigmatise all people on benefits. I do believe that most benefits recipients are absolutely genuine and it's right and proper that people who are disabled, caring for disabled relatives etc, should be supported. the only benefits claimants I have problem with are the minority who are perfectly fit and healthy enough to work but choose not to, because living on benefits allows them to live as well as - sometimes better than - people who work in minimum-wage type jobs. I don't really resent the individuals who choose this option. Why work - if you can get an equal lifestyle on benefits? I blame "the system" that allows this to happen. I think the best way to reduce the stigmatisation on genuine claimants would be to properly and fairly assess everyone on JSA/ESA. If they are found to be fit & well enough to work, then find them a job. If they refuse to accept that job - then cut their benefits.