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Government cannot prove biomass sustainably sourced, says National Audit Office WWW.STANDARD.CO.UK The NAO said the assurance schemes need to be reviewed.
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Twister in Wigan VID-20240123-WA0002.mp4
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That sounds like you got a free wood this morning ........... I was going to reply with a word beginning with M, but I've thought better of it.
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Mums, (and it does normally seem to be), dropping kids off at school and using the hazards to legitimise some truly outrageous parking positions is the most offensive use of them in my eyes. That's nothing compared to leaving the engine idling for minutes on end though, right outside the school, that really pisses me off! But I digress.
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Interesting idea, I'd not considered Brocks toilet. Cheers. Not in this case though I think. I've not seen any crap there, not anywhere. It must be snaffle holes, nice term 👍. I guess there's plenty of the Lords and Ladies in that patch as they're there every year and steadily increasing.
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I don't think so. There's worms all over the place so I don't know why they'd just concentrate on one little area.
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Anyone know much about Badgers? We've had one, (or some?), visiting the garden sporadically over the last few years. It's not been a problem until recently, they're welcome to it. These last few months though it's been wreaking havoc in one particular area. It looks more like the ground has been turned over by pigs or boar. I can't think what they're after, but assume it's food of some type. That area has a lot of Lords and Ladies, always been there not planted. I wonder if Badgers like to eat the tubers. Anyone got any ideas?
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But it hasn't been done though has it? Not properly at least. I'm talking about actually putting insulation into homes that need it, not scams to divert subsidies into rich government cronies pockets. No I wasn't going to mention standby.. As you say, it's small beer nowadays. Wasted lighting though, that definitely needs attention. I'd advocate advising people that they don't need to run their homes at 23 degrees all the time as well, especially during the day when there's no one even in the house.
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If it were me I'd spend the £2 billion on insulation and other energy saving measures. I can never understand why a reduction of energy consumption very rarely seems to be discussed. The focus is always on finding alternative, low carbon energy sources, (or even crazy ideas like this one of carbon capture), rather than tackling the problem at source. We consume and waste too much energy. But what do we ordinary people know? We're not clever enough to successfully run a country like our esteemed leaders do.
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Also in the defense of Pollards; some of the oldest trees around are pollards.
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Yep, this seems like such an obvious idea, it's weird that it's not been implemented yet. There must be thousands of acres of distribution centre roofs alone now. Alongside the solar generation the surfaces could also be used for rainwater harvesting. Water shortages being another issue waiting in the wings, and large scale rainwater harvesting may even help flooding by reducing run off. Fair point about current roofs not being strong enough, but ought to be fairly easily rectified.
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Got any pictures of said tree? It's always the first question that's asked as it helps a lot to understand things like this.
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I read this article recently, and felt glad that some people are seeing sense on the whole biomass and carbon capture thing. I could never see the sense in cutting down trees, to then transport them half way around the world, to then burn them so as to bury the resulting carbon underground. All in the name of "reducing" emissions. Only governments could buy into such nonsense. The EU and UK are backing the wrong horse in the race to net zero WWW.EURONEWS.COM There’s nothing about taking the decades-old carbon stored in a tree and parking it belowground that will deliver “negative...
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i got this lot at the weekend. Quite a bargain i reckon: £50 for prime Oak rounds. Nice and clean and still green so splits lovely. Its the first load of firewood I've ever had to buy so glad I didn't pay through the nose for it.
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I think you might get away with it. I did a job for someone once that included cutting down a diseased and dying or might have been dead, apple tree. I cut it down to ground level and thought nothing of it. Going back in subsequent years I saw that it had sprouted up again. With some nurturing over the years it was growing into a decent little tree again. Not sure about the rootstock issue though, it could well have been growing from there.
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I know those ceramic stoves that you mentioned, they're nice. I spent a fair bit of time in Romania a few years ago, Transylvania. I always admired them, some are really ornate, and they seem to be very efficient - kick out a lot of heat from not much wood fuel.
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Hello Gabriel. I believe that 18 months should be enough to season that oak in the conditions you described. We'd normally say at least 2 years, but that's based on our rubbish wet, cloudy, very humid British climate, jealous of yours!
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For sure. That crap is everywhere. We're probably only at the tip of the iceberg stage with that though, the effects are only just starting to be investigated and understood. Another nice little time bomb that we're passing on to our children.
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Still on late night radio until late last year apparently. That's some devotion.
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There's a serious point behind that: the difference between Life Expectancy and Healthy Life Expectancy. What's the point of living until 80 if the last 15 years or so are lived in ill health or in a care home? Might as well kick-on with the boozy breakfasts from 65.
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That's odd, it let me read that FT article in full the time I looked. It seems to work if you get to it via a Google search, rather than directly from a link. life+expectancy+uk - Recherche Google WWW.GOOGLE.COM But yeah, the gist of it was as you said; "bad diets no exercise & obesity plus poverty & poor housing are decreasing lifespans among the less affluent". Plus some Covid effect.
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Maybe we've past Peak Human. UK life expectancy falls to 2010 levels WWW.FT.COM ONS figures mark first drop across non-overlapping period since at least 1980
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@john87 Before you fck Virgin off it's worth telling them that you're about to do so, to see what they come back with. I'd be willing to bet that they'll drop your bill considerably if you scare them like that, maybe even as much as half it. For reference. We're with Virgin, I can't remember the details, but we've got 100Mb plus BB and a rook of TV channels for £42 a month. (We were paying more than 60 quid as they'd snuck it up over the years. We challenged them and low and behold they "found us a deal") Thieving cnts.
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Another bonus with Gmail is that you can store all your photos and other data as well, for free, (up to a reasonable limit).
