sime42

Top tip for the day

That must be one of the most frequently posted YouTube videos on Arbtalk. No complaints though, it's legendary.

Straight as a die our dear Boris is.

Joking aside, I have similar sized socket bar handy in the van, primarily for nuts and bolts but also in case of need, should any knobber decide to try some road rage.

That's what I thought initially but the lines are too parallel and too evenly spaced, especially for a handsaw it looks like to me.

Yeah I have been wondering about their culinary suitability. There'd be plenty of meat, they're goose sized easily.

It's just the one, a male, that's aggressive. He's a sneaky bugger; as soon as you turn your back he creeps up on you. Surprisingly quiet for such big birds. He's drawn blood on a few occasions, with me and others. If they were mine I'd use a big stick to teach some respect. Got to be careful though, not good for customer relations!

At work today ............ I had to contend with Peacock shit. It was all over the tops of some of the branches of a big Weeping Willow that I was working on. They roost up over night in there apparently. There's four of them, and one is a right vicious bastard; tries to attack me every time I go there.

You're a lucky man. Maybe come back to dirty old Blighty for Midsommar though ........ Midsommar - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

That it's in a nutshell; honestly, honour, integrity and empathy. They are all dead with the current lot in charge. I'm not into party politics, I don't have a particular dislike of Conservatives, having voted for them several times in the past, when their policies have aligned with my views. I've heard a few old school senior Tories interviewed over the last couple of years, they've were all of the opinion that what we have now is not a Conservative government.

How very odd. They're very evenly spaced, so look manmade somehow.

About time to start thinking about padlocks on those log stores I reckon.

Flat pack arms

Yep, houses deteriorate rapidly when there's no one living there to do even simple maintenance. Water is always the biggest destroyer I think. Quite nice to see in a way through; how quickly mother nature erases the marks of man. Good efforts with the reusing/recycling/upcycling of previous contents. Sure you can do the same with the bulk of the building materials. Pretty much all building stone can be reused, if you've got masonry patience, or hardcore if not!

Take the roof off and rain will rapidly do the rest by the sound of it...

I heard that too, though it was in the context of big buildings, old factories and warehouses etc. Shame; it leads to far too many examples of beautiful Victorian industrial architecture getting demolished. Must be a higher environmental cost to rebuilding versus renovation as well.

Climate change: IPCC report warns of ‘irreversible’ impacts of global warming WWW.BBC.CO.UK IPCC scientists outline a harrowing summary of climate impacts already hurting people and species.

Deranged is the word that I keep hearing. I heard an interview on the wireless today, with some guy who's known him for years and years, an ex-colleague, politician or KGB officer or something. I was only half listening but one of the questions was "has he always been like this", (mentally unstable, unpredictable etc)? The answer was "no, he is evolving", rapidly corrected to "devolving", towards insanity. Another question was something like;- well won't others within govnt or the system stop him going too far, with nuclear weapons for instance? "No, you don't understand, there is no-one else. He is the only one, everyone else in Russia does exactly as he says, or gets removed to prison or worse. Lovely. Something for us all to look forward to.

Fair enough. She won't be getting it from me .......... Or did you mean Pies?

As we're on the subject;- I saw Charlie Dimmock on TV the other day, bloody hell! What happened there? She's proper blown up. I never had a thing for her but I could kind of see how lots of others did, not now.

It's all just a demonstration of good old fashioned Christian values. [emoji12]

I'd say it's more Monty Python, but I take your point. There's been a general Nazi proliferation of late.

How religious are British people? | YouGov YOUGOV.CO.UK A quarter of Britons say they believe in ‘a god’. Four in ten neither believe in ‘a god’ nor in a ‘higher power’ what+percentage+of+the+uk+is+christian+2021 - Recherche Google WWW.GOOGLE.COM Around half (51.0%) of the population reported their religion as Christian in England and Wales, a decrease of nearly 8.3 percentage points since the 2011 Census; No religion (including not stated), was the second most common response, increasing just over 6.1 percentage points from 32.3% in 2011 to 38.4% in 2019. Seems like there's barely any predominance nowadays in the UK as a whole. Looking at it on a more local scale though, I'm sure you'd find that there was, but it wouldn't be Christian.

Gyms are never going to be net producers of electricity but they could surely move more towards being self-sufficient at least in terms of energy needs. Their function is to facilitate human exercise. Which is basically just the transfer of energy from a chemical form, fat, to other forms such as heat and motion. These could then be harnessed or transfered to another form; electricity. All those machines don't have to be powered from an external source, they could be fitted with an alternator to allow the action of the user pedalling/running/rowing/lifting to generate enough electricity to run a few lights or a screen or whatever. (Or giant hamster wheel if you like!) In a similar vein. Where's the sense in all those overweight people driving to the gym? They'd be far better off walking, running or cycling there. (They'd also save all that fuel and reduce all the pollution the rest of us have to breath in.) Then the car parks could be better utilised as spaces to install solar panels, ground source heat pumps, wind turbines, micro-nuclear reactors, plant biomass ........... as appropriate!

"Interesting" is one way to put it. If they can actually work as an alliance against the West then we are well and truly screwed. No energy and no manufactured goods could be just the start of it.