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To fool the gullible I presume.

I'd happily put the cnuts through a woodchipper.

Six hens and the two chicks (genders unknown). Six eggs incubating. 50% success rate last time. Three this time would be excellent and take the flock to eleven, one more than I started with in December. Would be my most successful business venture to date.

Ditto.

I love that bike - am annoyed with myself for not bidding on this the other day (it apparently sold for less than £700…)

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We could do bamboo!

Cheers Spud. Yeah it's a big bore, i bouhht it from a guy that had it ported, its been running for years....checked the obvious stuff like the inlet and impulse and can't see anything. What would you advise to buy for pressurre/vac?

I used JB weld and a small sheet of aluminum to seal the oil tank on a 372 once . Picked up a stone and punched a hole in the front below the muffler .

I had this crap with my building plot. The neighbour parked a car on part of the boundary which she was adamant she was entitlement to do even though she had to drive over my ground to park. We tried the legal route which failed so i promptly dragged the car from there and build a big retaining wall which did the job.

Probably the greatest visionary politician ever - it was like he had a crystal ball!

Try to hear this through. Rudyard Lake at 'unprecedented' low level after dry spring - BBC News WWW.BBC.CO.UK The reservoir falls to about 30% of its capacity following one of the driest springs on record.

Sorry to hear that. Hope you're well.

200L over six months works out as a litre a day. A couple of big saws would easily gobble that up. My previous 25L Rotatech oil, with still a couple litres left, was opened Jan '24.

No clue but someone should be able to help! Well help with the ident, there isnt usually anything you can do to help the tree or stop the fungi.

I have the Record No.6 fore plane I queued for in the fifties, It was a Saturday morning in a dedicated tool shop, Skeet and Jeffes, and one took a plastic number from a caddy and waited to be called, the service was terrible. It's under my bed to keep it rust free. We have a cluster of asbestos related disease locally, associated with the local gasket factory, the medical officer, my GP in 1972, was in denial about it then, when I left the practice (after 71 years) I noticed his name was not in the practice history.

Yes, it's a very long time since I was involved in conifer plantation forestry and I cannot remember it causing significant damage to douglas but things have moved on and its hotter and drier plus you are a few hundred miles south and further from the coast, so hotter still.

amazing what you can hide with a couple of passes with the mulcher

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Sorry, yet another senior moment, this is what retirement has done to me.