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The pay nurses get is of course far too low for what they have to do, (as it is for care workers, social workers etc etc). Hence the scary A&E wait times we're seeing currently. But why are the slave wages fine for imported Eastern European and African Nurses? They live in the UK so have to pay the same prices as the rest of us. Surely they are just existing, rather than living, the same as British nurses?

Non dig cultivation has been around for years, and is steadily gaining traction. It gives good results; I did it for years before moving house, and will do again from next year. I wasn't aware that they were widely doing it in agriculture in this country, that's good to know. As well as destroying the structure of the soil digging/ploughing also releases loads of locked up carbon. I was listening to an interesting program on Monday actually, all about soil and it's structure. They talked about not digging on there. Start the Week - A revolution in food and farming - BBC Sounds WWW.BBC.CO.UK Tom Sutcliffe with George Monbiot, Sarah Langford and Claire Ratinon.

I reckon the Daleks are ok, as long as you're not in a rush for the finished product and you have space for a few of them. I've got 5 I think, all free; they're more than adequate for all the kitchen and garden waste. I tend to mow the lawn as little as possible and put the mowings in the council bin anyway as I don't want seeds germinating everywhere. Those red worms, I think they're called Tiger Worms, are amazing, they just turn up by themselves pretty quickly. I also see a lot of big green/grey slugs munching away in there.

Nice. Good use of the tyres round the outside. I agree, the Daleks are useless if you need to turn it over, so I very rarely do. It always comes out fine anyway, if I leave it long enough, just takes a while. Having an open or at least opening front is better. We often get rats in ours, after the kitchen waste, so I've thought about using fencing gravel boards for the sides of a pallet bin type. Not convinced it'd stop em though.

Ummmm cheese. How could I forget cheese and tomato? Decent ripe tomatoes with a bit of flavour, not straight out of the supermarket chiller.

Sounds interesting. I've been contemplating building a compost tumbler, with an incorporated sieving system. To save time at both stages. Not thought to combine it with a piece of playground equipment though. Genius if it works! Keep us updated with progress. I've got a few of the Dalek type plastic ones, mostly acquired for free, so plenty of capacity and they work well. It would just be nice to get the compost finished quicker than the normal 2 or 3 years. Sieving it by hand, when I want fine stuff, is a right ball ache too.

Magnificent beast.

That's the agony prolonged for a few more weeks/months then.

Too right; I'd like to forget the last two years,. It's not been the best of times has it? I imagine most people would, even yourself if you're honest. All we can do is move on and hope to learn from the experience. But we digress, this kind of chat belongs in one of those other threads of yours. The Sue Gray report was but a catalyst, your man would have been found out for what he really is sooner or later anyway. (No coincidence that it was delayed for so long. "We'll just have to wait for the Sue Gray report won't we?"!) He was lying long before he came to office, and will no doubt continue to do so, regardless of the current confidence vote. My money is on Jeremy Hunt anyway, not that I'm a fan of his or any of the other names that have been touted so far. He might at least be a better bet than the rest of the little weasels that BoJo insulates himself with. Whoever it turns out to be, it'll be a positive step forward for the Conservative party. (Whatever Mr Robin Horsfall might say isn't actually gospel).

Standard. Talk about missing the point. The current vote of confidence is over the continued, blatant lying by the PM. An erosion of trust maybe, the majority of his party don't even trust him any more. They've obviously also realised that he's now become a liability rather than an asset, as the majority of the voting public have seen through the bluster and buffoonery as well. Due to the utterly dominant factor in everyday existence being a global pandemic every other country in the world has experienced it. I don't see many others going through the same political turmoil as we in the UK are, or governments that have been quite so dammed. As you say, there's more to it, rather a lot more really. Anyway, I thought someone had kindly created a shiny new thread for you recently, in which to rant and whine about Covid. You might as well stick to that one rather than this.

My long dead childhood pet dog. There's more to being a prime minister than Covid restrictions, it's a bit more involved. Just saying like.

Circling the drain? He's been in there from day one. But yeah, it's the beginning of the end. Hopefully.

Keep it simple for me. Cheese and pickle, ham and mustard, Marmite, peanut butter or jam. Or maybe controversially; tinned fish. Smoked fish as it comes out the tin or if its plain mackerel then a glug of Worcester sauce compliments it well. Or tuna and salad dressing.

High Performance Wet Rot Wood Hardener | Ronseal WWW.RONSEAL.COM Our Wet Rot Wood Hardener strengthens rotten wood and prevents more damage. It creates a strong base and makes it easy for you to fill holes and tidy up. This stuff works well, ("Does what it says on the tin". Boom!) Though I've not assessed it from an aesthetic perspective. Probably worth a try.

Did you get kicked off Grinder for too much Trolling as well?

But there's not a gun problem in America ..........

World's biggest plant discovered off Australian coast WWW.BBC.CO.UK The seagrass is roughly 4,500 years old and three times the size of Manhattan, researchers say.

South a bit ..........

Glad it it wasn't just me with the dirty mind. I thought it reminiscent of certain parts beginning with an L.

Is it a brushless motor? I had a similar wobbly chuck issue with a Makita drill driver I bought about 5 years ago. It developed it soon after I got it. I sent it back to Makita but they said they could find nothing wrong so didn't fix it. I looked it up and apparently it's a common fault with early brushless motor cordless tools. It seems like a bearing thing to me but I didn't dig any deeper. Apart from that its a really good tool, I've still got it and use it fairly frequently. Though also got a mains drill and a cordless impact driver so it only does light work. (I suspect I caused the wobbly issue by doing a fair bit of hard masonry drilling with it early on. Though they ought to be designed to take that.) Wrt. the stripping screw heads thing; I reckon that's down to not necessarily dodgy but just old screws. Modern screws are probably designed to be driven by a drill or impact driver so are made of s harder type of steel.

If you want to take the roots out I'd suggest using a Mattock because you'll knacker the chainsaw chain in no time otherwise. If the mattock is reasonably sharp it will probably be just as quick anyway; the roots will be quite soft since they are live. Though if you do cut the roots the tree will die fairly soon afterwards, or fall over least. So you might as well use the chainsaw to cut the tree down instead.

Interesting. Now we're getting down to the nitty gritty details of the issue. I heard an article in the FT mentioned earlier; saying that the rise of mass shooting events in recent years in the US was at least partly due to the increased use of Social Media. I wonder if that is correlated with income inequality.

More likely that lockdowns meant that there were no mass gatherings of defenceless people, such as in schools, at which the Gun Nuts could enact their sick fantasies.

Hours of fun with one of them, plus the pints of hot tea.