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In the decade after the war many locals still kept a few layers, chicken meat was still expensive compared with pork but occasionally one of the old hens would be eaten. The bones were much tougher than from modern shop bought chicken. My nan would not allow the bones to be fed to the dog, an ancient mongrel called Dumbo, because she said they would splinter and stick in his gut. We have continued to refrain from letting the dogs have the chicken carcass but I do strip it thoroughly for them.

Crimping may be better if it needs to flex a lot.

For the first time in 45 years we have no tadpoles in the garden, I did spot a small frog, presumably from last summer's crop earlier in the spring. Dearth of wildlife generally here I just hope the stag beetles from under my wood pile survive to adults.

0/4 for me

only 18 for the first and a miserable 2 for Mick's

The only softwood I can think of that is below 51% mc wwb is european larch, next is douglas at 52% but all the pines and spruces are above 60%. Volume will shrink by about 10% on drying below 20% mc. The problem with bags is they have lots of "edge effects" where in a stack the logs fill in all the gaps in a bag there are always spaces at the points the logs contact the bag, worse with solid containers that have no give.

Yes, slightly pink in the bark fissures, colour of sapwood and heartwood and star shake shouts cerris to me.

Strangely the piston crown away from the exhaust side looks a nice tan brown. It looks like it melted rather than impact but over protruding plug could explain the hot spot. I wonder if the use of carbide chain is significant, from my limited experience of it it provides less resistance so revs go up and you tend to press harder. If the saw is running lean it would tend to rev higher than it should anyway.

The problem with nuclear fission is the capital cost and the storing of waste, they are simply too expensive in the face of renewables becoming relatively cheaper.

It worked okay, seemed a long time but may only have been the ten minutes. I'm left wondering how well I did though.

I will give it a whirl then

Star shake in oak seems more common on the poorer sandy soils, I was told it was an adaptation to drought. It doesn't seem to be present on young vigorous trees, even on our sandy heath. Beams from a shook oak were still accepted for groynes on the beaches south of here. Often when felling a tree with shake you get sprayed with a mixture of sawdust and tannin stained water that has collected in the shake.

They used to call it resilience cutting, to allow for up to five year's growth. In this case I guess it will only give them two year's grace.

It looks like it is grafted and the rootstock is sending up shoots. They will need to be removed but not until mid summer to lessen risk of silverleaf.

Commercial EVs will have a gross weight allowance of 4.2 tonnes I suppose, same as the driving licence IIRC