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but it isn't the highest tax regime since WW2, if you read that Wiki history of taxation Mark J posted above it says the basic rate was up around 33% for a while. The government of Margaret Thatcher, who favoured taxation on consumption, reduced personal income tax rates during the 1980s in favour of indirect taxation.[19] In the first budget after her election victory in 1979, the top rate was reduced from 83% to 60% and the basic rate from 33% to 30%.[20] The basic rate was also cut for three successive budgets – to 29% in the 1986 budget, 27% in 1987 and to 25% in 1988; The top rate of income tax was cut to 40%.[21] The investment income surcharge was abolished in 1985. Under the government of John Major the basic rate was reduced in stages to 23% by 1997. 21st century Under Labour chancellor Gordon Brown, the basic rate of income tax was further reduced in stages to 20% by 2007. As the basic rate stood at 35% in 1976, it has been reduced by 43% since then. However, this reduction has been largely offset by increases in other regressive taxes such as National Insurance contributions and Value Added Tax (VAT).

Ok, I know I know bbbbut Back on the farm and in the Woods I cannot move for fear of violating some ‘elf and safety rule. Most of which are fair but a lot are bleeding’ obvious. Caution on working on slippery surfaces, caution on ladders and working from heights, caution when using teleporters when reversing etc Now staying in London at the second hotel and there is again a faucet on both the sink and shower with no indication whatsoever of which direction to turn it for hot or cold. In the old days of separate taps you would have a red dot on the hot tap and a blue one in the cold. Years before that it would by experiment I discovered one changed the direction from shower to bath but not before I had received a blast of red hot water to my head from the shower. I have like all of you learned that turning the faucet to the left would mean hot and to the right cold. But this faucet was mounted vertically to confuse further and there was no indication of which faucet controlled the shower/bath and which the hot cold.. It seems that there is no standard as each hotel I stay in is different You would have thought that things would improve over time especially where very hot water is concerned. Rrrrrrrrrrrr

I'm not a fan on unnecessary barbed wire, I've found a dead roe buck that probably died from an infected stomach gash that I think was probably due to barbed wire. In the two pieces of woodland I own I've not had problems with the public. The land around our house does suffer a bit from stray livestock as many farmers down here don't seem to believe in fencing. Personally I find it amusing to have a small heard of horned cattle including a bull, cows and calves in our woodland but not everyone does. It will depend greatly on where the woodland is and what you want to do with it. I tend to like a more natural feel, so blackthorn, hawthorne or gorse along with a mix of bramble would be my choice to keep people out. If you want the woodland to look like a carpark or suburbia go with pyracantha etc.

Me too, partner

Buffalo has recently been bought by Ben Fogle.. I'm hoping there may be some eagerness to expand into new Industries. So hopefully asking now won't fall on death ears.. Perhaps also send another email of a few of us do they may take it on board

The Council can order works under Highways Act, it qualifies the works for exemption under the Forestry Act 1967. Joined up.

I like stuff like this, I though others might too, if so I could always add more.

Hi All We have just kicked off the ARB Surplus Black Friday Sale. 20% off all products site-wide. Go and grab a bargain. https://www.arbsurplus.com/

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I must have bought one of the last pairs of fellhunters and now that I want another pair I can't find them anywhere and the arbortec website doesn't list them anymore. I like the high leg and the soles have stood up to walking on a lot of sharp rock. I can't see any similar boots apart from spending big bucks on some Pfanners. Anything I'm missing ? Any recommendations? Anywhere still got size 8/42 fellhunters on the shelf ?

Love the cafe unrequited love story! Not sure what I've got on but would like to watch the rugby! Bonus daughter doing a roast for 8 people later which is usually a good affair! Bauble, Land, Squeak.

Anybody else there to witness a fantastic game? A friend asked me down as he has permanent seats there. I have been twice before and not enjoyed it as it was either freezing cold or raining or both but this time the weather was perfect and I think they seem to have altered the floodlighting as everything seemed so clear. The atmosphere was great and also better than previous occasions I have just watched the Welsh game and thought that they did well in spite of the score. They were not only up against a great side but also up against a side that had obviously been given a strong dressing down by the management! The quality of passing and kicking is a joy to watch and also my attention is with the Red Roses whose handling and passing is also superb. Being a sad old git I can watch Ellie again and again!

It is a rare condition when certain people working with wood all their lives have their brain matter replaced with sawdust!

I am pretty sure the moral amongst the Russians is as low if not more so . They are deserting in droves .

No mate, its not that big, must be the aspect of the photo! You can easily stand and split from the ground. Guy that built it for us made sure it was sub 750 kg for the road.

Picked one up in Aldi today actually.. wouldn't have seen that 20 years ago 😂

Yeah I use radmoors a fair bit. But still too far to drive. Always happy with the service provided and would recommend. Latest battery husky hedge trimmer was delivered next day from them. Honey ordered Friday arrived the following Friday with delivery charged at £9.99. Is what it is I suppose, nobody died I got my goods but I do feel like the delivery charge is a bit steep for the timescale.

The last decent sized job I planted was about 30,000 mixed hardwood, 14,000 of them an experimental Sessile Oak block, with a mix of UK and German provenance, FC site over at Abbots Wood near Polegate, East Sussex. All trees had to be staked and tubed at the end of every day due to excessive browsing by the exploding deer population., then had to replant and re stake hundreds of them every Monday due to the weekend vandalism. I had planted a similar amount every Winter for the best part of 25 years, but this was the end of the line for me, stood there at 5am digging in the dark with a head torch on to get the numbers in and make it pay, only to have the whole lot ravaged within 5 years by grey squirrels, no thanks.

Agree. I think they're unrelated, OSM has just been particularly unlucky! They probably share causes; the same occupations or too much of one thing can lead to either or both of them.

What an innings. You have to hand it to the guy, that was tremendous batting. Not so tremendous a performance from England's batting to put it extremely mildly.

Surely that's misuse, like ragging it on full throttle while the clutch slips? Otherwise I can't see how to wear the inside of the drum so much before the teeth come off the sprocket.