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Was it in 1985 then?!

Hmm... 'you want ****************y ****************y?' is pretty well understood too!!!

...or Pyewipe as I recently discovered. Would be ace if those are such eggs; I wish the parents all the best with so many corvids, badgers and foxes about. But they may have become smarter in the face of such odds; my farming friend in Scotland has noticed a change in nesting habits of his few lapwings over the last few years. Having been absent for a while due to predation they are slowly returning but are placing their nests in grass tussocks instead of in shallow indents as was previously the case.

Have you considered buying a 25L container?! I think the economic saving is pence but it seems a practical move

Marsh or Willow AJS?! I've only seen one on our feeders a couple of times; wish it was more

And look at the weather we've greeted them with poor sods!

Enjoyed a Fomula Ford (I think) experience there years ago. When we arrived my 5-year old daughter started picking up handfuls of gravel in the car park and randomly throwing them up in the air. We soon stopped her when they started landing on someone's very shiny Aston 😮

Was Murell not detained for 12 hours or more? That's quite a lot of interview indicating that the Feds have much knowledge and many questions. Many many q's if Murell goes no comment!!!

They pinched that from Ryanair 🤣

Being on good terms with an independent is the best way I'd say too. I've been with my guy for about 10 years now. To give you an idea of the relationship he recently messaged me to apologise for a slight delay in my Navara service and included pics of his newborn to explain that delay! I trust him implicitly; no way would he cut corners or use crap parts so I'm happy. So @Cordata to answer your question - find a good independent garage or mechanic. To do that ask around; word of mouth finds the best people

For my indoor use no, no treatment; I didn't want to spoil the colour. It was finely sanded, that's all As has already been said it is very stable while drying; a small amount of end split in the boardswas all it suffered

On a much smaller scale than you AJS I had some 10" Robinia branchwood milled at 1" some years ago; made beautiful waney edged rustic shelves

You must have said something very bad! I got on fine with him, especially after telling him to up his prices for the furniture he sells around the south east!

Our poplar, their cottonwood

...I nearly said not one for the climbers as they wouldn't be so stupid but this is the jokes thread 😊

Do you reckon you could have supplied me with 160 x 3.7m boards @150x35mm?! Got them from Hazelbury Timber Supplies near Sturminster Newton

Phones/cameras struggle to show true colour Mark, viz these WRC boards I've recently bought from Dorset,not far from you actually. Didn't have time to pop in; I was doing there and back in the day I bet your boards are a rich colour and will last longer than mine being indoors Jon

Tree surgeon's handbag is what my instructor called it

I wouldn't know about rabbits and foxes but in rural areas they must form a substantial part of the foxes' diet. So a drop in bunny population presumably affects the foxes. We had to have the full gamut of bat surveys last year as we put in for planning for an extension to a timber framed and clad house. Soprano Pipistrelles summer roosting in the current cladding, though now gone, and four other species detected in or over the garden one summer's evening although one of those (Natterer's) was just flying over. I don't get peoples' aversion to them: I'm pleased to have them - saw two hunting in the garden one afternoon last week - and will be making provision for them both when the house is re-clad and on the new build Sussex barn. I suspect that there will be sufficient gaps in the boards there without my intervention but if not boxes will surely be going up, along with bird boxes and proforma swallow's nests in the barn

Hibernating insects have all but disappeared this season; I fear for this summer. Only a handful of queen wasps have I encountered anywhere and only two butterflies in my log cages - I usually find more than a dozen through the winter which get carefully relocated to the middle of another cage I won't be opening until next autumn

Ah - Mrs Furnival at her peak... you're bringing back memories now 😂

Compost for rhodos and azaleas, not manure; the latter is too high in nitrogen. And don't mulch it deep; it inhibits flowering of plants that have shallow roots.

Agree with the first bit entirely. Re the second part; the Police don't decide whether to present evidence to a court, the CPS do or with you the Procurator Fiscal. I'm with you on 'letting the court decide' but giving them the opportunity isn't the Police's decision, that's all

Maybe it's a Polish thing: I was on a team working on veteran oaks and the young Polish lady ranger for the Common (married to one of our gang - no piss was taken, honest) used to express what can only be described as an almost sexual pleasure when a good fracture or tear was achieved when veteranising a tree. 'Ooooh - what a reep; that's byootiful'