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Morning gents, wee bit of rain yesterday and through the night, we are certainly needing it. Another day of potterchoresery for me.

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Hes not going to wait till next year! Get on with it.

Sometimes "good" just doesn't cut it! :-)

Morning Everyone.

Spiffing word what ?

Splendid. What a good word, even has a excited ring to it! Nice one.

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I seem to remember some very expensive Ducati bikes had to change from fiberglass tanks to steel or aluminum because of that . The " wide line " featherbed frame was very popular in my day for housing Triumph and BSA engines . Thing is there was not much wrong with the Norton Atlas engine I thought.

Good Morning An adventure to Richmond upon Thames beckons Hope we don't get too much rain. Have a splendid day.

Oi oi then troops . Cool and clear so far . Rain later .

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Slept through. Aided by a fair bit of local Raki! Windy here, will be hunting a spot for her to get laid out without getting sandblasted! Backed, Eerier.

There’s a member on here utterly obsessed with “ rape” maybe he will feel some sympathy for the child on this occasion. Another rape by another bogus asylum seeker. The attack sent shockwaves across Scotland and prompted the country’s first angry protests against asylum hotels. Extraordinary images suggest Nikzad’s trip through Italy, Germany and France before arriving on British soil was more of a luxury tourist adventure rather than a fight to flee persecution or danger. The social media images show the migrant posing gleefully outside some of the world’s most famous landmarks, including Rome’s Colosseum, Cologne Cathedral, as he made his way to the UK to claim ‘refuge’. One picture shows him sporting a North Face puffa jacket, worth more than £300, and smiling in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris as the sun sets. TRENDING

Hello. I have a Mountain Ash tree (I think) growing out of my patio. It has for the last couple of years seemed to have less foliage than before and some of the leaves show brown edges. I have had to cut off a number of smaller dead branches. It is a bit better this year but overall doesn’t look very healthy especially on one side. I have also noticed a few points where the bark seems to be missing but only small patches. If anyone has any insights or advice it would be appreciated. It has been there for a long time so I would rather keep it! Thank you.

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Hi, I can't comment on the hedge trimmer but my experience of Honda 4 stroke garden stuff is with the UMK450 e brushcutter which I'm very unimpressed with. It's heavy, slugish and and uses more fuel than my previous Tanaka and Kawasaki 2T 45cc strimmers... but the main problem with it is that it has zero ability for carb adjustment which any engine needs imo. Don't get me wrong, I have many things that run Honda GX engines but these latest garden machinery engines that can't be adjusted or tweaked are a complete pita and as well as that because of relative rarity there's very little advice or alternative spares available online. I've repaired engines for a living all my life, but " Honda power of dreams " would seem now to be feckin BS when it comes to their 4 stroke garden hand tools. Ok rant over, but as a quick search gives a price of around £650 for the HHH25 while you can get a Stihl HS45 for around £250 which will cut a bit more than 3/8" { I'm imperial 😁 }, why would you even consider it. Just my disappointed opinion, but if it doesn't have H and L adjustment screws on the carb... Don't buy it. Cheers

Prunus cerasifera If you've got free time and he accepts why not do it next week? It's not going to make much noise so could be a weekend job even. I would say to him - if the general advice is June, July August, then doing it after the first week in September not ideal.

Follow up. I've identified it as Prunus cerasifera. General prunus advice is prune in mid summer, until the end of August. We're very nearly there. I think the seasons are late and now would be fine but I could instead tell him to wait until next June. That hits the perfect middle of the pruning season and shows him I'll put his tree's health above my desire for the job now. Or would it make me look like a fanny and he'll just get someone else to do it next week?

This will be a big disappointment for some on here who had him tried and convicted already.

I found this, so I got it apart, the o rings look fine, and it's exactly the problem shown in the video, I'll modify it tomorrow and see how it goes.

Just in case anyone might be interested, I've got a spotless used makita duc150 for sale. It's 18 months old with It's box, manual etc and has a 4Ah battery and charger with it. I'm in Ches/Mancs -and open to reasonable offers.

It won't make me any money will it.

After doing a fairly happy and nondescript decade without one, a mate recently gave me a Stihl can. I bought the Stihl spouts for it. Thirty quid!