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Pipe has been shortened but a 12oz does not fit well in 38mm pipe, it really wants to be the less common 42mm pipe. Instead I'm 3d printing the tube. Looking at a tree tomorrow and hopefully suitable to test it out. hmm?

Just like an unusually healthy, well-grown, dense, hawthorn hedge should do ! AND even better for nesting birds, small mamals and invertebrates. ALSO, highly resistant to straying livestock, humans and out-of-control cars, etc -I can report a Land-rover Discovery was impaled up on my (layed) roadside hedge, and was unable to get out, until my neighbour arrived with his chainsaw and massacred the hedge ! 🤨

Bastards got it wrong and had me second guessing myself all day.

Hmm.. I'm thinking more Staffordshire style -though I suppose that's as good as a Midland style to most. Thought Midlands tends to be much more thick or 'bushy' cow-proof style of laying ? Anyway, it's a -very- well laid hedge; I'd be proud to my name to the second length/photo. 👍

A bastardisation of a 50 cent hip hop album called get rich or die trying. Ran through an AI song generator in a 50/60’soul style. Sounds amazing and makes you realise that 50 cent was actually quite the wordsmith.

Probably not actually a good thing, AI replicating art and doing it better than a human. BUT I feel bad liking this. AI was used to create an album from 50 cent in a 50’s soul style. Same lyrics and songs. Apparently it took about a minute to create and another minute to produce the video. Holy smokes, it sounds fantastic until you realise it’s AI.

Here, they will give you a clean beer glass, but soft drinks from a can or bottle you can keep it - suspect it is the danger of everyone getting monkey pox

Same the world over though, young and keen can get the job done through energy alone, age and slowing down but years of experience can get the job done just as quick - all physical professions really - but there is a point in them all where the body has slowed down too much to make you - was going to say 'profitable' for want of a better word... but that point is different for us all.

Interesting conversation today: A dad to son: "we can just AI to write that" Son to dad: "No I want to do that all myself" But relevant here that that was the first thought he had had was to go to the computer to ask it!

Well, having run timbercub 150s for a few years I would like to move on to something newer for a few reasons, my chipper engine is sweet but the under carriage is a little crusty, the ability for the machine to pull in material is less capable than say the 230 and the forst and Jensen's I have used. Furthermore the bearing arrangement on the flywheel I find very tedious to change and the bearings imo are to small form the application. The 150 does the job good enough but 230 or a forst will do the trick but I have seen a greenmech arbtrak for sale. I have no experience of green mechs, are they in the same league as the other machines ?

Yes very true. He even seems an elder statesman of politics now. Apparently he has quite a strong influence over the current Labour Party.

Yup Tony Blair never did any time, all the while knowing WMD's were a hoax.

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It's a stupid hobby when you think about it. "I know. I'll get a barely domesticated wolf that can do 20 mph over any terrain and kill anything up to a small horse if it wants to. P.S. It wants to."

Kira was always a pretty sweet dog but for the last year or so she has become more reactive. Tried everything. Here in Norway they are very much positive reinforcement training. Whilst that is good for learning g new commands it isn’t any good for behavioural changes. My old man had gun dogs and I was around lots of gun dogs as a kid as my uncle bred them. Old school methods and old school results. I changed before summer and ditched the harness and treat and went back to what I knew. Had a bit of help with a guy from the Uk who trains protection dogs for the police and military. Been at it nearly 5 weeks now with the new regime. He changed my thinking about training. His ethos is to have a completely neutral dog and then you call in their drive when you them to work. So for the first 10 minutes of a walk, she gets a lead correction if she looks at another dog, looks around, lunges, pulls or anything other than being neutral. Then she has 40 minutes of being a dog doing what she wants and we switch collars or onto the harness if we are in the woods tracking. Then the last 10 minutes same as the 1st 10. She ia walking past dogs and ignoring them even when they are growling and barking at her. In the past she would have tried to rip them to shreds. By breed they are pretty dominant and can be aggressive unless trained not to. She seems to be doing fine and walks much better in leash. As opposed to positive reinforcement and treats all the time. Basically you are keeping their emotions at a high levels rather than neutral then a strange dog comes round the corner and bang, she explodes.

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Experts warn AI is making your brain work less WWW.BBC.CO.UK Generative AI tools have become hugely popular but some experts worry about the effect they have on the brain.

I haven’t seen the recent series about it but I have followed this for over thirty years. It is still not over; a suspect will be coming to trial next year in the US I believe. Incredible that the UK and US governments have known from day one the truth, and still the farce of investigation continues. It is the most incredible waste of public money. Can you imagine any other person found guilty of murdering 270 people being released after just 8 years?

Sailor's nearly four and has got way better with other dogs. He's easy at the shoot now. Mingles fine. Walking round the edge of town earlier and he charged up to an Airedale terrier like he always wants to but came off beautifully easily. Chatted with the bloke for twenty minutes and he laid down, came over gently, went back away etc. Encouraging stuff. He also just ate half a bag of pheasant guts and wings and threw up next to my guitar pedals. Cheers.

Mick, frequently torn between cancelling a day and having this on a t-shirt.

Family walk up the woods to pick an cut a chrimbo tree. They have a tradition of Porridge and coffee at on the the open huts, then you choose and cut your tree and donate to charity. Pretty chilled and she didn’t react or act like a toaster with the other dogs.

Are you talking about my mum there?

Dirty glass please. The hygiene thing is a joke. You're going to be kissing the same people later in the evening.