John Barleycorn
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Any wisdom out there on getting rid of voles ? Large numbers of holes & tracks. Eating roots, bulbs tubers & bark of shrubs. The drought here means that they are also using cracks in the ground. I have only recently realised that voles are also known a "field mice", but in a garden situation they have bred up to plague numbers. Poisoning is not an option. Looks like it will have to be large numbers of mouse traps under something to prevent kids, pets, birds etc being caught.
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Educate your customers who have woodburning stoves. . Give them a few pine logs for free. . Ask them how they got on. . Then offer them a load at a lower price than hardwood
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So you have a relationship with him ? Evidence ? For me religion is something that was invented in an age of ignorance, when atoms, electricity etc were unknown. I have nothing against Muslims, Jews, Christians etc, but they live in the past & deny basic facts. & oh yes I do have a degree in Geology, but it is getting on for 40 years ago.
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You should be grateful that you are on mains gas, heating oil costs a b fortune. Not to mention the cost of having to replace the old storage tank (bunded) and all the pipework.
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Somebody should sue the US government over the damage
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Key search terms on front page even if you put them invisible on the background like white text on white background. Link to and get listed on as many other sites as possible. Have read that you also need to be near the root of directories, rather than out on some distant branch.
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Worst case scenario is you spend your 200 quid, it craters on the first day, you send it away for repair & it comes back 6 months later.
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In that case it should be English Pine
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I thought that the correct name was European Pine, or have the Scots now patented it ?
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No, the rabbits were deserted by their mother & snuffed it, so I just recycled them.
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Phone & check their stock before you go.
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No, and according to Wikipedia its a fantasy. (who the hell would write six volumes on moles ? )
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Weald & Downland Museum in W Sussex may be your nearest.
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The mole trap garotted him, almost cut in two
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Finally caught a mole that had been wrecking the raised beds in my vegetable patch. So I suffed him in my compost heap together with some baby rabbits, a 3 ft grass snake (strangled itself in some netting)and then the other day I found (or smelt ) a dead rat that had crawled on top of the pile to die. They all act as accelerators to the pile of composted chainsaw dust, hedge cuttings, grass cuttings etc. Now Ive got rat, mole, rabbit & snake, I think that I might just go for the full set, say mouse, squirrel, badger & any other roadkill I spot !
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If their house insurance is also with NFU Mutual then public liability insurance for woodland will be cheaper than anyone else by a mile.
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Just because we can, doesn't mean we should...
John Barleycorn replied to janey's topic in The Lounge
I once saw a woman screaming at her husband because he had just backed the car over the rear legs of their small dog. A few weeks later I saw the dog running down the road with its back legs replaced by a pair of wheels strapped onto its body (i am not joking). Personaly I think the husband should have reversed a little further and put the thing out of its misery. -
Joking aside, it would not look good if a member of the public was injured (or worse) and the HSE and your insurance company decided that you had failed to take adequate measures to ensure their safety.
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Well if Southerners need guiding like sheep it sounds like Northerners have kind of inbuilt suicidal tendency.
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What no barrier tape ?
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Must be Crowborough. Anglo Saxon was "Crowberg" Literally "crow hill" and there are still a few patch of degraded secondary woodland between the urban sprawl.
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Cack handed
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Dont let your kids name their own pets
John Barleycorn replied to Steve Bullman's topic in The Lounge
My kids had rabbits some years back. A lion flop eared named "Flopsy", it went native, refused to get back to its hutch & lived wild in the fields & garden. "Cheeky" seemed a more regular sort of rabbit, but a couple of one night stands with wild bucks resulted in litters, they went wild. She is sadly missed, burried in a shoe box under the old Oak. -
On Ebay is a new 58cc saw with a 20 in bar (only £79-) Described as "not for commercial use" So it must be for domestic ? Sounds like a massacre
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Most vegetable oils will get sticky with aging & heat through oxidation. So your ex chip oil may have improved its stick. But also remember that the oxidation of vegetable oils is the reason why oil paints & varnish "dry", so dont be surprised if they block up your lubrication system.
