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Dave Ball, who has died aged 66, was the keyboards man in Soft Cell.

Never heard of them. Assume a dead thing? Would be proud to posthumously proceed over it.

I want to try some kind of sliced then baked thing but my oven is rubbish. Spills loads of heat out the door. Wasteful. Maybe some kind of posh tater tot. Some blokes that run some restaurants in London (Fallow, Roe, Fowl) have pushed the recipe in front of me on facebook a few times.

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Gotta watch those industrious buggers

It was a coffin bridge so hopefully not.

Since we're all learning gay compliance bullshit tonight: Those cheeky Chinese chappies.

It's a lovely bridge. Would like to see traffic over it again.

Good on him for posting. I snapped the points out of an oak a few years ago. I doubt I told the world that evening. Similar cause to mine. Trusting just the strength of a union when you should be trusting triangles. Haven't made that mistake since.

What would the rough day rate of a contract climber be in Ireland?

Does that ring have a CE mark or EN number on the other side?

This is great. You're thinking about it. Have another look at the 16mm rope section of your deliberations. It has a minimum breaking strain of 40kN. How might you arrive at a working load limit or safe working load for it? Walk me through it like I know nothing. And you were talking about a 100kg top. Remember that if you've got a 100kg load hanging on one side of a ring, you've also got 100kg the other side of the ring too, on your portawrap or whatever. So you're not putting 100kg on the ring and deadeye (and rigging point). You're putting 200kg on it. And that's only statically. It's more force if snatched (do you know how much more force potentially btw?). And that's on both sides of the ring still. A 100kg top is a huge top btw. We can do the sum later. Get your ring and deadeye capacity worked out first.

Started to experiment with a couple of trees this year, will see if it worked next year.

Stoneybridge!

"Nine thousand cases of child sexual exploitation are being reviewed by the Metropolitan Police, the force has confirmed. In a statement, the Met said it was reinvestigating the cases which involve "intra-familial, peer-on-peer and in institutional settings, along with those which do not fit the common understanding of a 'grooming gang'". From another news source. Conservative estimates state that there are at least 500 000 cse cases per year.

That's at Carrbridge isn't it? Not far from Tomatin, a little drop of which I shall enjoy before bed tonight.

clue in second to last photo

What bridge is that? (For googling purposes)

Result indeed. How are you going to cook them the first time? Suitably ceremonially hopefully.

Fridays job. Keeping our old Bridge safe.

Lucky AF. My youngest son even sat next to me when I did it. He go a 5 and challenged me.

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MEWP as not easy to assess condition under ivy before climb.

Just dug these up from 4’x4’ in the tunnel. Leaves spent most of the time swamped by collapsed tomato plants. No earthing up. Can’t even remember what I put in to start them but it won’t have been much. What a result.