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Morning gents, autumn is here, leaves are turning and falling. Blue sky with some clouds and shaping up to be 19 degrees. Heading to the coast today so the dog can get a swim in the sea to help his sore ears, it always helps plus he loves chasing seagulls. Have a good 1.

How I fell for jailed amputee surgeon Neil Hopper's sepsis lie BBC.COM Neil Hopper told me losing his legs had made him rethink his life - but all was not as it seemed. What an extraordinary story.

Morning all . Thin high patchy cloud . Happy Saturday . 🙂

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They won’t last two tanks of fuel before dying.

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Couple of hours horizontal in the sun, then a rush across Crete to Chania airport! Epic drive up the mountains and done it so often, we don't need sat nav! Back in Retford for evening so might get a couple of beers in the Brewshed! Tom is trying to get the live feed ofvwhat he is up to in America sorted so may get a watch of it. Pike's Peak was mentioned at some point! Enjoy your Saturday all, Buoy, Earn, Mew.

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Yellow ones are particularly good.

@Welshfred Excellent book! Thanks for the recommendation.

I agree but not with the idiot part, as I would be an idiot with the scars to prove it! Its more to do with home owners having accidents cutting up firewood that caused the issue IIRC and yes they did lump all the accidents together hence the requirement to ask for certs. A customer came in yesterday with one, I wasnt around but he was asking if we could get replacement bars and chains. He said they were selling like hot cakes and it was all the old dears diving in to get one. Hopefully there wont be another HSE or whichever body tried to ban the sales investigation in 6 months time.

Please drop outside house or on driveway if possible

Faithfull Nail Puller 60cm (24in) | Power Tools Direct WWW.POWERTOOLSDIRECT.COM The Faithfull nail puller is the perfect tool for removing nails from most materials, lifting floorboards, opening wooden crates and... A modern version of an antique nail puller my father in law had. I never really tried it as it was designed to work. You use the slide hammer to bury the claw under the nail head then as you lever it the claw grabs the nail and pulls it. I see no reason it wouldn't pull a staple. I quite fancy one for reclaiming pallet boards but I so rarely have the need now.

Or personally I'd just replace them with clipex and let nature eat the rest of the posts. Don't think I'm ever going to use wooden posts again looking at my not so old fencing with rotten posts with the guarantee that's not worth the fag paper it was written on.

It’s 120 posts in at 1.7km long fence- not sure if re build is worth it. staple pullers would be good idea if the staples weren’t driven into the wood. angle grinder might be the answer- especially if I can cut just one bit and twist it to release the wire, saving the hassle of picking up the bits.

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Brilliant Stephen, congratulations.

not quite as good as Insomnia by Faithless, but good effort Reform UK's Andrea Jenkyns sings own song at party conference WWW.BBC.CO.UK Jenkyns appeared on stage at the NEC in Birmingham, singing her self-written song Insomniac.

Woody Paul was right. We did go back to insurers, who refused to fund more treatment. We shd have stuck to our guns, but we are committed now. I think it's important to make it clear to both insurers and possible future buyers that the subsidence problem has been dealt with and the mitigation works carried out exactly as prescribed. Tree-fancier123, many thanks for that very detailed advice - really helpful to have precise measurements to follow. The problem with letting it grow is that we would be continually having to cut back - not a simple weekend job with a 3m stump. We might let a sideshoot regrow as part of the hedge (if it survives the treatment) and see how we get on. Now that there is more space and light I'd rather embrace the change and plant on either side of trunk with hazel and hawthorn seedlings, more interesting than the leggy privet we inherited.