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£5 or a 4 pack of beer. If it really was in short supply. You should be able to get that amount for free I'd've thought, without too much trouble., just by keeping your eyes peeled when traveling around.

You appear to be completely incapable of engaging in any form of discussion. Insults and abuse do not count as discussion, it's just seen as tedious noise. Rather than resorting to that, you'd look better for lying low for a bit. § What's the point of joining a forum if you're not going to contribute anything positive, or even just thought provoking?

This sounds like sods law at play. If it doesn't want to split when you want it to make firewood. I was coming at it from a woodwork or wood turning perspective, it's got a bad reputation for splitting before or after you make something nice with it. Splitting as it dries and shrinks. I think a lot of the plum side of the Prunus family have thorns of some description. Or maybe what you saw are old small branches that died off and then got eveloped by the bulk of the trunk/branch. I've seen that with other timber.

Too dark for Acacia, that's more golden. Unless the colour of the photo is off. It's some kind of plum, or other variety of Prunus.

It was me, I did it! I mentioned the story in the New thread Stubs, but it was quickly eclipsed by the normal guff.

There's always some common ground to be found somewhere, as long as you engage in reasonable, considered discussion. I still maintain that the average hardworking, obese American, just trying to get on in life, isn't going to be able to work a 16 hour shift in a Chinese style sweatshop, 6 days a week. Yer man would've done better to prioritise fixing the ****************ed US food system before starting the tariff flip flopping. China does indeed have a reputation for industrial espionage. Although that's probably out of date now. They're years ahead in most manufacturing processes and tech. development, including in renewable energy generation most importantly. Trump just hasn't realised that yet. Who knows what the hell they're capable of on a military front as well, they're not just an economic danger potentially. On the Israel/Hamas conflict. No one has ever disputed the fact that what Hamas did was brutal, barbaric and inhumane. Nor the fact that it obviously needed a response. The nuance you are missing here though is that Hamas is not the entirety of the Gazan people, (innocent women and children included). Similarly, not all Palestinians are Hamas members, most aren't. Also, it's about the proportionality of the Israeli response. 30.48 : 1

The bad news is that even after the exploitation of the fossil fuels stops, the changes to the ecosystem won't magically reverse in the same blink of an eye.

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Alder.

Did you just plonk the stone in the soil? I used to grow them as a youth; the old three cocktail sticks and a jar of water trick. They almost invariably rooted after a few weeks, as you say. I found out recently that the leaves are edible. Used in Mexican cuisine. You could give it a try.

Here you go, fill your boots! Millions tune in for three-week live stream of Sweden’s moose migration | Sweden | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Slow TV is attracting viewers with hits such as a knitting marathon, burning firewood and swimming salmon Den stora älgvandringen – Igår 00:00 WWW.SVTPLAY.SE I flera tusen år har älgarna vandrat samma leder för att ta sig till sommarens rika betesmarker. Följ årets vandring, som är... I see what you mean, they do have a certain movement about them. I can never quite take them seriously with that floppy nose.

Exactly We'm on the same page Davey, China's Human Rights record is appalling. Which is why the rest of the world should be uniting against them to apply pressure to stop violations, such as what they're subjecting Muslim Uyghur's to. Your man Trump is doing the exact opposite, he's fragmenting the world order. Whilst also cosying up to the big boys of genocidal dictatorship, like Israel and Russia. It makes no sense, whichever way you choose to look at it.

Looks too nice to burn, with those prominent medullary rays. I think Plum splits like buggery though.

Bit addled again. You'll have to explain the random use of double quotation marks there. What has Israel got to do with anything, other than the fact that they buy a lot of US arms? I don't believe they make Apple products there, (they do grow a lot of actual apple apples obviously!). Anyway, it's not the US arms and aerospace industries that your man is trying to bring back onshore, it's all the other stuff that they buy from China, and the rest of the world.

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You could flog that image to Sainsbury's to make your fortune.

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I'm impressed that you've kept such an accurate Moose tally!

Devious cnuts. Using Aldi tactics.

M and B, who own a Toby Carvery nextdoor, thought it was dead. So I've just heard. I reckon they saw a photo of it in the winter.