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Me and the boy picked some plums yesterday. Amazing how many you can get in about 15 minutes from quite a small tree, with plenty eaten along the way.

This is largely based on personal experience, and of those around me, but I think 14 is a good age to start part-time work. Even better if it's manual/constructive/skilled work. I guess retail or service work is better than nothing but still. I had a couple of part-time jobs, in holidays and on Saturdays, from 14 - 18. I believe the work and renumeration taught me a lot. The values of hard physical work, of learning manual skills, of financial saving rather than borrowing, of diligence.... One job was making wooden jigsaws, the other was general building work, mainly masonry and landscaping. My brother worked on a local farm, I joined him at haymaking time. We, and some other local lads, also did pheasant beating for a few years during the season. (Fond memories of being given a pint of shandy with lunch at the pub, and then driven round country lanes and across fields at speed in the back of an open back Hilux! Exhilarating stuff.) I'll be encouraging my son to follow a similar course.

That looks good. What's brien sauce?

There's no point in trying to reason with meathead racist scum. Anyone that defends and supports the burning of libraries and attacks on innocent hardworking christian folk, just trying to get on in life, is too far gone. Let's just hope the law is applied equally, regardless of race, religion or political affiliation. Based on the precident of the JSO sentencing, they out to get what, 20, 30 years? For attacking and injuring police, other emergency services workers and innocent bystanders, (of the "wrong" colour). We should just think ourselves lucky, as I think the majority of us on here are white males. I don't imagine a third generation Hindu doctor will be sleeping that easily tonight.

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With added protein.....

I've always worn chin straps. Never even considered not doing so as they're not at all UNcomfortable. They help a lot to keep the helmet secure so win win in my eyes.

I think we need a couple of drinks on board already before we can tackle fundamental questions like that. I'm sure there is an official definition somewhere, but I don't know it. It's pretty arbitrary in practice obviously. I saw a 40% drink recently, it called itself a Beer for heavens sake.

Exactly what I was thinking earlier. All the meatheads waving foreign flags around. The irony of it. I might set up a side hustle;- importing Union Jack's and St. George's flags. There's money to be made as they must be selling like hot cakes at the moment.

I think I probably followed a recipe. Though I've a vague memory of it being a ginger beer recipe but I decided to morph it into wine part way through. I'll have a dig around tomorrow for ya.

You're speaking in riddles, for me at least. What Riddles?

Homemade ginger wine from a couple years ago. Look at the clarity. It's quite dry with a pleasing heat on the palate, and buzz on the head!

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Start them young enough and you don't even have to pay them!

That's not just any moan, that's an embarrassingly expensive moan.

1010kg. Regarding the graft point. Why would you graft just a limb like that on a Beech tree? Question for the floor.

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Nah, most stuff I do is a one pot wonder, can't be arsed with anything more fancy.

Preparing this for later on and remembered it being discussed on here. I get it in a dry block like this and then rehydrate it. Courtesy of Morrisons.

Homeopathy............. Ummmmmm?

In case of any doubt, cherry definitely cherry. It'll probably smell pleasantly sweetish if it's freshly cut.

Teeming, and steaming.

Sounds a bit too fancyful for my liking. Similarly to sowing seed according to lunar cycles. Maybe it does make a very teeny tiny difference to water content in the wood, but I don't think you'd ever notice. Capillary action is far stronger than earth's gravity, and that itself is far stronger than the moon's gravity. Nah.

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Not sure on the original question, (though it's probably not something to worry about at this stage), but I read an interesting fact about Hornbeam yesterday. It's actually more closely related to Birch and Hazel, rather than Beech. I always assumed the latter as the leaves and bark are so similar.