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On 2025/11/22 12:43:46, John Finlay wrote:
On 22/11/2025 01:03, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
I've been wondering what it might be. Doesn't help of course us not
knowing what part of Scotland the castle (stables) is in; for the taxi
option to be _possible_, I _presume_ somewhere in the south-west of
Scotland.
(I also have no idea what taxi fares are like these days. I think fuel
alone works out at about 15-20p a mile, but of course taking tax,
insurance, and maintenance into account, even break-even is likely to be
a lot more than that, before time and profit are considered. [I doubt it
would be an electric vehicle.])
No problem - Jacob is a vet, he could pay it 10 times over with his
small change.
I suppose that's true. (Although the coverage of vet's charges that's
been in the media in the last few years has been mostly small-animal
practices, whereas I think Jacob's is at least half large animals rather
than pets, but he's still probably fairly OK.) I was just wondering, on
a curiosity level, what sort of figure we _are_ talking about. (And for
that matter, what distance - "Scotland" to Blackpool.) Not sure how long
it took: I _think_ they were talking as if it was morning at the castle, possibly even still dark; not sure when Kate go to the hospital, though.
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