Dean Lofthouse

Another little experiment to see if a cutting will root out of season in a cup of a potion. Got a cup and filled it with cotton wool then topped it up with a water/plant food mix, then took the cutting, dipped it in rooting gel and carefully placed it in the middle of the cotton wool. Will it die or will it root ??

Did a Horsechestnut take down today that overhangs a few gardens. The usual happened where everyone comes out and gawps at what you are doing. Normally they stay a safe distance, albeit normally down wind in line of the saw dust cloud This guy, bless him was 91 and wanted to get close in on the action, standing right under branches I was roping down etc, the job took twice as long as it was supposed to because I'm too nice to tell him to bog off out the way Eventually he wandered off up his garden which allowed us to crack on. I'll remember to add " Watch out for senile 91 year old" in risk ass next time Neigbours can be a pain sometimes, I do like a gab but there's limited time for that

I want to sit down, put my feet up and drink tea in a wood

Yep, thats a pollard... did you make the mast for the evil boat out of the bit you cut off Josh

I got.................. up at 5.30am and took the dogs fitness training on the canal The fitness training was for the dogs not me Made myself a cup of tea and a slice of toast, chatted to Stevie on the phone, kids got up and grunted and that was it

Had two automated calls this morning from Barclaycard, but thats my fault

Good call Ian, I'll give it a go

That too :lol:

I have been meaning to try Fox meat, but my vet put me off, said they need to be cooked very well as they can carry Hydatids disease which can be quite nasty I did quite fancy a try at deep fried crispy shredded fox in ok sauce

Never try and ring a pigeons neck Their heads always come off .... best way is use a makeshift priest.. Nice heavy stick whacked around the back of the head. The only trouble with pigeons is getting to hit them clean on the back of the skull, if you hold them and angle them down they alway have their head level, they're not very obliging when it comes to execution.

Haha...So good I forgot I had the big rifle with me, I was waiting for a fox at the time

I was once in my wood Thea, where the chip pile is ..... I was sat on the ground below the chip pile looking out with a combat jacket on and a green wooly hat when I heard a twig snap behind me.. I thought it was someone who had wandered down and hadn't seen me. I thought if I turn round now I'm going to frighten them to death as it was getting dusk. So I ever so slowly turned round to see a big stag, stood not 8ft behind me sniffing the air, I sat and watched him for a bit then I made a click with my tongue and he just sauntered off at his own pace. When moments like that happen in nature it's awesome

Cant believe your going to lower that stub from that height John

I'm not tight mind, dont get me wrong...I give all my "hand me downs" to Pete Mc He's at home right now tuning in his new transistor radio

Your not kidding...I'm getting one of those wireless...cordless ones next

I'm going to do the sales hotline trick Hello...sex toy hotline....can I take order number please..

I had one of them where they get their mate next to them to ring and laugh as their mate gets a bollocking and it goes round the call centre like that. Only I had noted down the first callers name and googled the number, got the call centre address and when they rang again I asked for them to put me back onto Trevor, they did and I told him where he was and that if he thought it clever and funny he could see if it was funny when I meet him outside his office when he finishes his shift That call stopped

Just dont over wind it... My camera phone is auto wind

I was told the swearing or racist comment thing is supposed to work because the call centres have a duty of care to their workers and if they receive abusive calls from a number that number is taken off the list. It didn't work Stevie. cant put the house phone on silent mate, and when you sit down to have your tea and every time you get the fork within an inch of your gob, the phone rings, it get really annoying, especailly when you get three calls in two minutes I think the fast pace of today makes every minute you get to youself count and I dont get very many....but your right Stevie, I have a lot going on at the moment so am like a bear with a sore head to start with

Andy, If your going to keep your old phone, the least you could do is put a new main spring in it, that could be the problem, it's winding down too quick

I've had well over 40 phone calls this week from Telesales 0845's 0844's one that constantly keeps ring is 0091502 With this last number I asked them to take me off their list, then someone told me to hurl abuse at them and they'd take me off the list, I then tried racist comments, silence, then just answering the phone and leaving it connected. Each operator that rings is blissfully unaware that I have verbally abused the last caller so this time I'm going to play along with them, keep them on the phone for as long as I can and get them to send out bumf and information to cost them as much as possible. If everyone did this to telesales operators, the Post office would be booming and create jobs and telesales companies would go bust I have also done the registirng my phone as ex directory and tried the call filtering. I also know of lots of people that have registered not to receive these calls but still do. It really is getting silly, I recon yesterday, between my mobile and the house phone we had 15 calls in 3 hours at around tea time. Time to mess them about me thinks

time to get a new phone andy

Just pay them £100 a day till they get their act together, not that I know anything about football, I haven't even seen one match yet, they're all over paid wastes of space

Not being funny Ed, but if JCA are trialing things, shouldn't they be doing it for free, they are going to be beneficairies of the study