Mark J

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/tory-conference-enters-guinness-book-of-records-for-most-bastards-in-one-place-20181002177903

I'm flat out surveying till February. Then I'm going to Thailand for a while. When I get back I'm keen to get a vehicle. What I'd do with an old truck is fit the meatiest sound system I could find and go hang out with like minded people in a field.

Well mate, all you can possibly do, is lock everyting up as well as you can. Might be worth investing in some kind of bollard in front of your place, anything that slows them down or inconveniences them enough to feckoff somewhere else. Make it as bomb proof as you can. Loud alarms and strobe lights are good at attracting attention. The idea is to make them bugger off somewhere else. You can get gizmo's that will text you if they move, I think motorbike places sell them, you could attach them to said bollard. Despite what many say, confronting a few wronguns, and it will be a few, in your boxer shorts with a pick axe handle probable isn't going to work out too well for you.

I like your thinking, but you could just give him a job and get a better security system with the money he earns your business.

Nice truck Eggs, That's got my thinking cap on. Which never ends well...

TR: Not saying that that would make it right or excusable, but I would suggest he’d be due greater degree of empathy than most given the sacrifices he has been forced to make and the systemic pressure that has been brought to bear upon him for talking what he believes to be the truth. He potentially jeopardised the convictions of the same asian paedo gangs that he's sworn to expose, while serving a suspended sentence for doing exactly the same thing. Why should he get special treatment? It's like saying that Jimmy Saville was alright because he raised alot of money for charity. Everything he's 'exposed' has been in the public domain for some time You see marching dust, I see a man under a great deal of pressure living with the expectation of being incarcerated before the end of the week, being separated from his friends and family, probably being in solitary and possibly loosing his life - i’d suggest that would be enough to cause the visible signs of what “could” be misinterpreted as drug abuse but could just as easily be the observable manifestation of considerable stress. Prison is a dangerous place. Like him or loathe him as a personality, there should be universal disgust at the nature of the treatment he has received from “the establishment.” There should be universal disgust at the nature of the treatment we have all received from "the establishment". Anyone that holds dear the privilege of freedom of speech can arrive at no other conclusion (unless they are actually a closet fascist.) Wheyaye.

I'd ask him if he liked movies about gladiators.

Poor wee ketamine hopkins.

Aye, I suppose it is. Each to their own.

And therin lies the problem. Read the headlines, ignore the stories.

He's a bit of a knacker by all accounts. A vote to leave an institution should never be based on a supposed 'birth right'.

Nice one Stubby,

Not making the news today: Brexit. Surely we should be a bit more concerned about something that's going to affect all of us, instead of talking about events that are unlikely to happen to you unless you're a Russian spy in exile.

Yîam mâak Silky!

I agree with Gary. Also, I'd look to instruct a consultancy to carry out a tree safety assessment. The outcome of the tree survey will determine what should happen next.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/countryside-hedgerows-regulation-and-management If it's wholly owned by the client, I'd be tempted to crack on. The link above does allude that it may be protected as it backs onto agricultural land. If it's that likely that someone's going to give you grief over it, then it might just be worth getting the permission in writing.

Nice tree mate.

Depends on the size of the hedge I suppose. I take it it's a conservation area?

I like burning larch.

Climb where you want. Be polite if confronted. Most people seem to be on the side of the tree climber rather than the high-vis psudo traffic warden types.