The water is coming from underwater or hidden springs. I really can't see any other answer... apart from it coming from a very leaky Southern Water water mains.  But that sounds a bit off the wall.  So I'd say it has to be coming from hidden springs.  But, I could be wrong.  Am I?

I don't think I can fully answer your question but I can maybe add some extra details...

The answer to your question isn't really covered in so many words in the NHS website. However, the NHS website does have a section covering a DNR situation. Reading through that website, it is clear that the decision to issue a DNR request is yours and yours alone to make. You do not need a GP or a lawyer to ratify it.

Unfortunately, from what I've been able to glean, the NHS website does not actually cover your specific question ie Does one wear a bracelet or something? in so many words.

If you google these words NHS Does an advance decision need to be signed and witnessed? you will find that the decision to issue a DNR notice is yours and yours alone. Also, issuing a DNR notice is legal in the UK (whereas full euthanasia is still not).

Once you have issued a DNR request, then your treatment team should respect your wishes - but how do the treatment team learn of your wishes?

The NHS website states that, "...once you have made a DNR request, your family or carers may have to find it quickly if you require emergency treatment - and they need to tell the healthcare professionals your wishes.

You can (also) keep a copy in your medical records."

So, displaying your decision clearly in your medical notes is recommended and should ensure that your wishes are seen and respected by the hospital team treating you.

I should think that your treatment team will be duty-bound to respect your wishes - so I don't think that the hospital can really object if you wear a bracelet stating your wishes to this effect. Nor can I see why they should object if you want to display a poster clearly stating your wishes on the headboard of your hospital bed.

What is clear is that your DNR notice should be as specific as possible - ie naming the specific treatments you no longer want used in resuscitating you (ie CPR, antibiotics etc).


Purely as a personal comment, I really do think that the NHS website ought to add a section clearly aimed at answering your question because it would remove doubt in an end of life situation.

I believe that people need to know 100% clearly what they can and cannot do and (if the answer is you can actually do what you like) then saying this clearly could be a vitally important reassurance in what can be already an already distressing situation.

I'm confused.
I had the understanding that to qualify for full state pension you had to have a certain number of years of National Insurance Contributions (NICs). I believed that it was 30 years.
As we are planning on retiring next year, I've just checked my expected Pension. It says that I have 42 years of NICs but as 4 years were not full (2011-2014) my state pension will be lower than expected.

Is the sum they quoted just an estimate? Do they calculate from your pension age backwards or for your whole working life?

I know, I know - rain falls, some soaks into the ground, and the run-off forms small streams, and when several streams combine, they make small rivers, then they combine and make big rivers.

But at the moment, the rivers near to us are running fine - a little low, but certainly not dried up.  So given that we've had next to no rainfall in Yorkshire for the last month or so, where is the water coming from?  There is a huge amount still in the rivers for it to be coming from groundwater, and we see very clearly the increase when we have a heavy deluge, but don't seen an enormous drop when there is a bit of a drought.

We are not - but the maximum length of hair varies from species to species, and indeed, in various parts of the body.  So, for example, your underarm hair should never get to a length where it needs plaiting.  This is called 'terminal length'.

http://www.howtomakeyourhairgrowfastertips.com/terminal-length-how-long-can-the-average-persons-hair-grow/

   But first, I have to say sorry for not answering your question sooner Duff. My feeble excuse is that I skidded over about a week ago but luckily the very sharp and sturdy arm of a hefty wooden bench broke my fall, and a few ribs. But I am OK-ish now, so long as nobody makes me laugh, or I have to cough, sneeze or get up and go to the loo.

But back to your good answer... So, it is all down to genetics, telogenic phases and terminal length, eh?

And I'd always blithely thought that any of us Humans could grow our hair as long as we liked - down to our waists, way past our bums and trailing along the floor and out the room like the long-haired damsel whose picture sadly I can't seem to add to the attachment below - So if you want to see a dozen or so Victorian ladies with five, six or seven or eight feet long hair, just click on this...

https://www.littlethings.com/long-victorian-hair/

It must have taken those Victorian belles hours and hours of brushing every night - and do it all again in the morning!