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Mark J

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  1. Well they've turned over everyone else.
  2. Lest we forget :
  3. Chuckles: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/humiliated-tommy-robinson-demands-second-vote-in-bizarre-video-from-his-bed-after-european-election-a4152131.html
  4. Well that's my bank holiday ruined.
  5. How very lax of me. It's the only, centre of right, news I could find.
  6. I didn't hear Tommeh kicking off about this one https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-44798649
  7. Top tip: You can tell if your pint glass has been washed in water that has washed milky mugs, because bubbles form on the side of it.
  8. Aye, there's some naughty people out there.
  9. You could set up a branch office in another city. All you need is an address for post in the locality. Not sure if that would be against the rules or not. Probably would. They've usually thought of all the things that might catch them out. Or just get the plant delivered to site and get a train up.
  10. Aye, my work is very much seasonal at the moment.
  11. Of course it's a joke. You should get him some speed instead. Contracting with a team of two I'd want to be making 4-500 a day minimum. 6 hours on site at 80 an hour is £480.
  12. If it's adding an hour onto your day, which you'd charge around £80-£90 to a client, this is costing about 400 quid a week. Buy him a bag of weed on a Friday if he makes his own way in and you both win.
  13. If he's going to have to supply his own PPE, then he's going to have to spend some money. As far as the no strop and one handing goes, then an explanation that things are done by the book at the new place should do it. If he doesn't listen, then he's probably not worth employing no matter how good he is at climbing.
  14. We felled quite a few of them a few years ago around south shields, they almost all looked like that.
  15. Aye, whitebeam by the looks of it. Colouration will be likely due to fungal activity.
  16. Mark J

    Jokes???

  17. Mark J

    Books?

    These have been useful to me ontop of the books mentioned above. A good web resource is: https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/~id-guide.php
  18. Well, I'd heard of the band but never really listened to their stuff. I wouldn't know if they played well or not. I'd been out for food around lunchtime and then went for a few beers with a mate for his birthday. Some guesties for a gig became available, I stayed out and ended up at the gig. Didn't fall asleep on the bus and wake up in Wallsend either.
  19. I enjoyed the gig. It was quite late in the day so I wouldn't trust myself to write an accurate review.
  20. Given that ash is ring porous, the dry summer and general lack of rain will have left them struggling. I travel quite a bit with my current role and nationwide it seems like they're in a canny shoddy state. I agree with you Matt, that many roadside trees have just been left to rot, but this looks different. I never really knew elms in the landscape, but driving around and seeing mature ash (admittedly just late) bare, makes us think of how it'll look when they're gone. If I was of the contacting mindset, I'd probably be investing in a decent winch.
  21. Aye, grass can dessicate the soil to 1.5m or thereabouts. That could cause problems for relatively shallow rooting beech trees.
  22. Yesterday was a good day. I celebrated a good mate's birthday and ended up seeing Gong. I'm glad I don't work Mondays.
  23. Mark J

    Jokes???

    Sorry to hear about your mate. Seems like a good way to spend what time is left though.

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