Mark Bolam
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Mortgages are back down to about 3 1/2 times annual income. If you’re on £30k you can probably buy a bathroom these days. It’s a big problem, and I don’t know what the fix is.
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Big tree TT, nicely done.
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Lumberjock, it’s considered very bad form on here to ask for advice and then actually take it. Have a word with yourself!
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Or the insurance.
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The problem is if you pay £15/hr at the bottom end, it spirals upwards pretty quickly, and the system crashes.
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Yup.
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It’s obviously acceptable because people are paying it.
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I was a junior engineer for McAlpines in the early ‘90’s. Thursday night was McAlpines night in the local. Always a ‘big night’. This was back in the days of ‘lock ins’. I witnessed blokes heading into their caravan in the morning after a lift from the bar, quick change of clothes, and into the cab of a Cat 215 or a D6, and put a full shift in. Unbelievable. I’d be puking both ends of the night trying to keep up with them. We built the road though.
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How are you finding the Avant compared to the Multi Mick?
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Last century! That makes you sound really old!
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I sprayed my splitter hot pink. Extra security layer to put the thieves off a bit.
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We don’t have any set breaks, just take them whenever the job dictates. If brews are forthcoming we tend to take more. No point in calling a break when the climber is 60’ up a tree. Always job and knock.
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Skyland, online for you, but their service is top notch.
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You’re right Dan, many potential Queens may be be long gone (that’s how they colonise),with other potential Queens still in the colony. I would never advocate trying to exterminate anything, but these bastards seem to be an exception. And horse flies. By Christ it gives me pleasure to kill those bastards to catch them on me and kill them before they bite. I’m getting quicker in my old age.
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We can only hope Eggs. Ian Huntley is still alive though.
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It’s a shit tree Mick, and shouldn’t be there. Open gets my point of view, you don’t. The tree predates the house. Not the trees fault someone has fukked up in the planning process.
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Mick, it’s a weak tree with bad form in totally the wrong place (now), and I totally agree. BUT - If you build a new house beside an older tree you lose all right to whinge. You can can just hear the snake oil planning consultant - ‘Don’t worry about that tree, we’ll get permission to remove it….’
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You spelt ‘totally’ wrong Saul.
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I will bare my arse in Burtons if the tree wasn’t there first.
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They’re relentless Dan. Two squabs (doves) relocated on Monday, sectioning cherries growing from a mixed hedge. Nest is now 8’ lower, 18” down into the hedge with a temporary monsoon/magpie branch tarp on top. Mam was back on them before we pulled out.
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I can’t condone your schoolboy antics afterwards Stu, you shouldn’t mess about with these things, although I find them totally understandable. There’s a good vid on the net of some rednecks firing a rookie (crow scarer) into one with a catapult with devastating results. BUT- while my inner child cheered, you do have to think about the ones who got away? Your hypothesis that they all simply die isn’t necessarily correct. They can form mini-colonies of super-bastards. They have already decided who the new Queen will be. Think Cersei in Game of Thrones. Best keep them all in one place and kill the whole lot, surely? They do pose a genuine threat to our bee population.
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Bullet dodged nicely there Mick!
