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Picked the majority of our one small tree this evening. Best year it's had in a long time. It was laden. Plus a couple more small bowls that we've already eaten. That lot is destined to be stewed and bottled tomorrow. I thought about jam but there's still too many jars in the cupboard from previous years. The strange thing is that here was not one single worm in all that lot. Very surprising as there's normally a good few. Something to do with the extremely dry summer I wonder?

Trade Descriptions Act breach! They're dismantled shelves, not planks.

No way. Well, there's your claim to fame!

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It's the cereal game, I thought you'd started it a few posts back, a new version of the AT fish game. I'm no fan of Starmer, but he's not even on the same scale as Robinson, (or Farage for that matter), when it comes to divisiveness. He (Starmer), seems to be pretty much universally unpopular! Which is good in one respect, as it provides some common ground in an increasingly divided world.

I'm amaized that anyone could actually like either The Tommy or The Donald. My dislike of both is based on the divisive, hate filled BS that they both pump out into the public domain. (As they have been doing since long before the recent advent of AI). They're both cereal pumpers in that respect. The latter is clearly a narcissist, I'm not sure about the former. You don't really need to know people like that to form an opinion; not when they share, (subject everyone to), their values and propaganda so readily and at such volume. Can you direct me towards anything that might portray either men as normal, decent, compassionate human beings? You know, hardworking blokes just trying to get on in life. Other than that, I believe we're agreeing again. A vat of salt is required if you're viewing anything on social media or anything that comes from AI. What do you think to all these data centres that are being built across our green and pleasant land?

I don't know rye AI is being so relentlessly pushed by the government. Think how many better uses there are for all that land that's being taken over for data centres. Data centres to be expanded across UK as concerns mount WWW.BBC.CO.UK The number of data centres is set to jump by a fifth in the coming years, figures seen by the BBC suggest.

AI itself is bullshit. The problem is that it is increasingly being believed. You just have to keep your critical thinking hat on and avoid garbage on LinxedIn or anything from that lovely Tommy bloke. Unless of course you believe in Trumpian "alternative facts" or "alternative truth".

I know. The truth is oat there somewhere still though.

What a load of bollox. Opportunistic pushing of an agenda by the AA. From what I remember they weren't even Tree Surgeons. The main man ran a Ground Works company, (and occasionally cut down trees), and the lackey was a mechanic or something else unrelated to trees.

Look out for an outraged LinxedIn post featuring the video popping up on here soon.................

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Love it, that's a great idea.

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Two cracking songs. I might have had a phase of playing both on repeat when I first discovered the originals. They were well before my time, I only heard Somebody To Love because there was a dodgy dance remix played a lot on the radio about 20 years ago. Controversial! I think it sounded OK, had the same energy as the JA version. Better than this similar effort at least:-

I'll admit my ignorance here - I had to look that picture up. Don't think I've ever seen the film.

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Vietnamese/French braised duck. A litre of orange juice plus, ginger, garlic, lemon grass and a gallon of fish sauce. Lush. Should have had a load of chilli also, but for the boy.

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