Today's Posts

Euan Blair ,that is Tony Blairs son ,is part of Britcard ,worth to him 375 million alone ,it's been in making for many years. Basically, as soon as cash is removed from mainstream use,you will be at the mercy of Britcard ,designed by Euan Blair ,therefore it is possible to debank you completely, you will have nothing How many government / civil service / public sector data leaks have there been in the last 5 years 2025 MoD Afghan Relocations Data Breach (2022 leak revealed in 2025) A spreadsheet in 2022 containing the personal information of ~18,700 Afghans who applied under the ARAP (Afghan Relocations & Assistance Policy) was accidentally sent by MoD outside secure system. The leak affected names, contact details, and some family info. Estimated 80,000-100,000 people (including family members) possibly at risk. There was a superinjunction to block reporting until 2025. 2024 PSNI Data Breach (Police Service of Northern Ireland) A spreadsheet released as part of a Freedom of Information request included a “hidden” tab with surnames, initials, rank, role, and other details of all 9,483 PSNI officers and staff. The ICO fined PSNI £750,000 for this breach. This was called an “egregious breach” because of exposure risk to dissident republicans etc. 2023-2024 Information Security Review by the Government After multiple accidental data breaches in the public sector, including the Afghan leak and others, the Cabinet Office published a review in 2023 to try to improve procedures. 2021-2022 Electoral Commission cyber-attack & data breach In 2021-22 the Electoral Commission was hacked; reference copies of the electoral registers (names and addresses of 40 million UK voters) were accessed. 2021 MoD ARAP email error (smaller leak) An earlier breach where a mass email was sent to 245 people under the ARAP scheme, exposing details of interpreters fleeing Afghanistan. A smaller but serious breach.

Its probably recovered to where it would have been had he not done that . Its just at the time it was a bit of a blow 🙂

+1 for a hitchclimber. Some people even prefer it to a zigzag! Also a good affordable stepping stone to SRT when you're ready with the addition of a rope wrench or similar. Watch the Hitchclimbers Guide to the Canopy

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Enough, Herr Bolam. For you, ze war is over.

Morning All. Good evening at the rugby yesterday and will seem if i can get to watch Tigers match on tv but. She got some DIY jobs that need doing! Having a lie-in so will have a late start to the day. Might treat her a beer or two before supper too! Enjoy your weekend folks. Mitt, Sea, Gaye, Gnawed.

Harnesses are a really personal fit and I always recommend try before you buy if you can. The tree Austria is a very well constructed and thought out harness. I have been using mine for about 18 months and cannot fault it. Supportive enough for a day on spikes and still has the range of movement required to work the canopy pruning. I added the shoulder straps which are a real game changer with a big saw and gives an attachment point to tend an srt device.

I charged $4800 cad.

I've already put up ' The bluest blues ' on here at least twice, so maybe I shouldn't post it again. 👍👍

Perceived wisdom is that having a super abundance of seeds one year and then a dearth of seed for a few years is so that species that feed on the seeds die down in the years of famine and then cannot expand their populations in the mast year fast enough to consume all of the glut, so some seeds are left to germinate as the next generation. If you have more frequent mast years as the climate conditions change then the predator populations increase. Having avoided the death bed by not smoking I wonder what cravings are left. I seem to have lost the ability to intersperse a reply into the original text.

Is this the point at which I tell him he needs a 251, and I just happen to have a lovingly cared for immaculate example, one careful owner? 🤔 If your pockets are deep enough, you can't go wrong with a 261, cracking saw. List price of that is within £10 of a 391, and I know which one I'd rather have.

There's an official guidance document, in the past I've emailed that back, quoted the example wording on the planning portal, and asked them to show me what guidance they are working to so I can submit something acceptable if what I put in is wrong. Application validated.

Good bit of kit, petrol power option. Zero hands on the return, better than one hand, stop height set on rod at the back.

@Iain Hickinbottom Also in the context future safety. I'd be wary of advertising your mobile number on a public forum like this. You never know who's looking, and there's ways of tracing numbers to addresses in some cases I think. Better to just get people to PM you instead. Best of luck with the recovery.

I was in Canada in 1995 watching the Ryder cup on American TV. Europe won, and what I remember was how terrible the American commentators were about Europe's win.

Patricia Crowther, aged 97. The UK's oldest witch. 'UK's oldest witch' Patricia Crowther dies aged 97 WWW.BBC.CO.UK She created the BBC Radio Sheffield show "A Spell of Witchcraft" about Wicca paganism in the 1950s.

one I planted as an acorn

Does anyone know if there's a way of setting up the Sthil Pro-Com units, if you won't (or rather, refuse to have ) a Google/Apple account, on your phone or computer ? I really want to buy some sets, for over a year now, but just don't want my data 'shared' with all those anonymous tech 'partners'.. 🙄

I'd put money on it being Sorbus or one of those newfangled Aria/Torminalis efforts. No way it's Acer, Tilia or Betula

Check with Lantra or NPTC providers, sometimes they include crane work as part of their specialist courses.

Blunt spikes are dangerous and hard work. Sharpen them your self with a flat file on Buckinghams I just file two edges and remove the burr from the third edge.

Quality as always mate.

I dont think it has become a political hate forum at all. Yes some of the lounge threads can get a bit OTT at times but so what, Its the lounge section, ignore it if you must. The only way the forum can get back to the 'old days' of Arb/forestry/gear/woodwork talk if us as members move it in that direction by posting up new threads or resurrecting old ones. Forget the threads that annoy you, you wouldnt sit in a pub wasting your time listening to some shite on the next table if it didnt interest you. There are loads of members in here that are really helpful with vast amounts of knowledge, dont let a few posts/threads put you off.