Today's Posts

Its politics, as far back as I can be bothered to remember it has been rife with corruption, deceit, bribery, murder, extortion, blackmail, torture, you name it, in just about every party and country all over the feckin' planet. the way some single Trump out and ignore every other bent scheming cnut in politics, even those in their own backyard is not just obsessive, it's downright feckin' disturbing. a professional, qualified person might even say dangerous. the depth of disdain for a single person on the other side of the world must take up a lot of time searching for the next verbal onslaught. I dread to imagine what that level of obsessiveness would bring forth if they were in the same city, or even the same country. everyone is entitled to an opinion on anything, but feck me sometimes there's a list of posts by the same individual you have to scroll down the or go to the next page to reach the feckin' end of it. you don't like or agree with him,, we feckin' get it. Trump would struggle to write a book, everything he's ever done in his life,, you already told everyone. I am as guilty as anyone for straying off the thread topic, it happens on all forums, and I have been reminded often enough, but going back to the title of this thread, it was a question of who would win, trump or clinton, well that result was known for some time now, I looked at it from back at the beginning and several americans were in at the start, some pro trump, they haven't posted for some time now, maybe they are busy, maybe they just got fed up with the constant derisive references to their elected president. I guess we'll never know.

a lot of the reservoirs in this country are built on small rivers/streams and they have to let a certain amount of water out per minute downstream. 20-30 years ago, they built a pipe network round the country so they could move water around from reservoir to reservoir including Kielder what has happened to that

External stimulus. My mate does. Get the fertile eggs from him. Hoping one of the chicks is male. Borne from an outside egg. Won't be incest the first time round.

Picture of mine with a 30 year old repair Araldite and glass fibre with carbon fibre stitched repair added much later I have since given up with the Stihl bar from oiling issues and bought a 3/8 sprocket to make use of an unused 26" bar I had

It’s been an amazing year for things that sometimes struggle with lack of sun/heat. I’m gutted my melons took an age to get started, it would have been a really good year for them and I fear they may not catch up. I left that marrow as a young courgette barely big enough to pick before I went away for five days. Came back to two big marrows plus loads of courgettes. Out of four plants this one is yielding the best by far. The yellow ones I’m really not keen on, funny shapes and get old before they get to a nice size. Aubergines looking the best they’ve ever been too, already ahead of the usual to medium fruits per plant offered up grudgingly at the end of the summer. The drip irrigation has really been key this season, and the weed membrane was the right thing to do also.

I'd happily put the cnuts through a woodchipper.

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 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!

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.