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When Labour get back in there'll be an adjustment, if that is, they introduce a Land Tax

Wealthy people who whinge about paying too much tax sometimes threaten to emigrate. Here's some advice: get an accountant or just go!

Wonderful! Looking at how far up the log the splits and cracks go where the farmer cross cut them is interesting. How long between when he excavated them out and cut them to when you got on site? Would you say that the control in kiln drying would reduce this?

This is nothing new. Between 2005 and 2015, according to the MoD, there have been at least 94 incidents where Russians have flown into UK airspace. Of these, 23 were reported in the press. The most recent was this February. Russia likes to test response times.

was he pesting?🤣

Marketing is clearly a dark art. Robbie Williams said about fame in an interview once that when you stand on stage in a massive arena and say "I'm great!" and the assembled 200,000+ shout back "We agree!" then you get a close approximation of what marketing can do. Talent seems secondary. Our neighbour over the road once boasted at a more than a usual drunken gathering that she earnt £125kpa. Her "consultancy" seemed mainly in leafleting, email bombing and the other usual campaigning stuff. It's hard to believe. When you hear that big companies have vast schmoozing/networking accounts set aside for just this kind of thing, it makes you wonder. It's all about attracting a buzz, party poppers with whistles and bells, and all that jazz. I don't really get all the data crunching they do behind the scenes, But I do know that money attracts more money.

Will your tree survey commend remedial action given your photos? For instance, would you suggest a reduction, bracing, props? Photos are poor substitutes for actually seeing it live but may I offer one small thought: If no action is taken then your category profile may jump from late-mature to veteran instead of declining into ancienthood.

You're right John, I'm not academic nor bright. I've spent decades working in the woods, selling firewood, green waste composting, hedge cutting, fruit tree pruning and in my youth, crown reductions and take downs in tight gardens. I'm not bright but then I'm neither institutionalised nor corporatised. If you work with people like you describe in a place that costs as much to run as you've indicated over the last few months, then I understand why you're here. Some of what you say is occassionally interesting but ... ... please spare us your hypotheticals dressed up as fact. It's no different to crying wolf or wild goose chases. All you've shown in this thread is you merely want to draw our attention back to what you do for a living so you can dazzle us with your procedural care. Take some advise and stick to trees and the kit thereof.

And last year, the branch that a patient could have hanged themselves from would have been too small/insubstantial to support their weight! Deary dreary!

Best of Luck. I've enjoyed your posts over the years and hope you'll look in here from time to time.

You may get some £££ numbers but they aren't what you should be thinking about:

I'da thought you've been long enough to know the answer 🤣 as Doug says "speak" before form filling etc

I don't know volt all the fuse is about!

Here you go: unheimliche Selbstgefälligkeit 🤣

So, your "horrific truth" would like being in bavarian forest, possibly with wolves or bears or boar in the neighbourhood, but not having the tools to deal with the danger? I got the wrong end the stick and thought you were referring to climate change deniers or some such and therefore, when the change does come, when it's too late, they'll finally see the error of their ways but they wont be able to do anything about it. Ha! I'll have one last go in a bit, though I don't know any german. Google translate is useful.

How about Sackgasse? meaning blind alley or deadend but suggesting pig's bladder or windbag

A customer was telling me a while ago that woodlands.co.uk sold some amenity woodland off in strips about 20 meters wide and 500 meters long down in south Wiltshire. Apparently thats their business model - buy in bulk and sell off in piecemeal! Each "allotment" had one or two veterans, a few hazel coppice and the rest was rubbishy scrub. Apparently one keen new woodland owner carried in a 5ftx4ft garden shed up into his bit, panel by panel, so he could keep his tools in the dry and and have a place out of the wind and rain for a cuppa. You know the kind of thing. Anyway, his neighbours weren't having it. Someone reported him and he had to dismantle his shed and take it away. Some of us english do like rules is rules!🤣

Why's that? I used to follow Frankie Boyle on Twitter but he's gone over to Instagrammy now which I've not tried. Twitter will get its advertising back wont it? Someone tell me why de-bluebirding the celebs should matter?

Here's a snipnet from .Gov.uk about one of the new taxes coming in: The previously announced small profits rate of Corporation Tax will be maintained. Smaller or less profitable businesses will not pay the full 25% rate, and companies with less than £50,000 of profit – the large majority – will not see any increase at all, continuing to pay Corporation Tax at 19%. /assets/static/govuk-opengraph-image-dade2dad5775023b0568381c4c074b86318194edb36d3d68df721eea7deeac4b.png Government update on Corporation Tax - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK The government has today, Friday 14 October, announced that Corporation Tax will increase to 25% from April 2023 as...

My Greetings to you, my special friend, I am a wealthy Nigerian Prince whom was wrongly imprisoned by my government but with all the gullible support of the UK Citizens I found freedom. Perhaps you have heard of my email campaign? Alas, after coming to London to pay off all my loyal supporters, I had some bad luck. As I got off the plane I got kidnapped! I have had all money taken from me and I am being held hostage by an Allbran gang who only accept firewood as ransom. What can you do? It is very cold here!

I can't now! 🤣 It's not a laughing matter... Went on here for the first time and realised just how badly informed I was: An independent and non-political think tank concerned about the scale of immigration into the UK. | Migration Watch UK WWW.MIGRATIONWATCHUK.ORG Migration Watch UK is an independent and non-political body established in October 2001. Our purposes are to; monitor... t

It's anti-news and meant as a joke. I'll put it together tonight. You wont like it.🤣

You've got cattle and crops which means rotary motors (electric or ICE). Follow the advice from @Bolt on frequency. Are you musical? Would you say the internal structure of your house upstairs resonates? If you can isolate the direction or side of the house affected worse, try dampening the Hum with a wall of temporary bales out in the garden. Expensive and an eyesore but what price is your sanity? If the hum ceases then remodel the inside using steel rather than wood. If that fails you could always sell up and move? Also, google Bristol Hum. There's more info there than Wikipedia.

I've got a very bad one!

Any positives to keep in mind? 1. Ash Die back will keep many afloat, as others have said. 2. Increased used machinery sales, though indicative of a few firms cutting their losses, does mean kit replacement costs will be lower for those who decide to hang on in. 3. And talking to a neighbour yesterday, we were reminded of what happened after the drought of 1976 and the parallels with this year being a mast year. There are more acorns, conkers, beech nuts etc than usual. His boy said it was because trees were stressed in the drought this summer and therefore pushed alot of their reserves into new replacement i.e. reproduction rather than saving what little they have left for winter dormancy to start again afresh next spring. What's the arb technical term for this self-sacrifice for the next generation? On this subject, a New Scientist article looked interesting but was behind a paywall. This other piece states the very obvious fact that if it rains after a drought then trees recover by next year. If not, then they wont. Who'd have thought it? 🤣 Anyway, the UK is certainly getting it's share of catchup rain. But the chances are still higher that many street and verge trees as well as residential gardens will decline or fail to bud in Spring 2023. When a drought is over, here is what happens to forested areas where trees have died PHYS.ORG A large international team of researchers has found that forested areas that experience tree loss due to drought have a wide...