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  1. But at least no weeds grow on his grave.
  2. Invaluable when you need one,for taking down whispy stuff whilst on the ground,or in the tree when you cant get a safe anchor point above whats coming off. I love my gypsy stick.
  3. Day 1,Module 1, traffic management course, 'place cones pointed end upwards'
  4. Ive got its little brother the 2045 which i use quite often,a little belter that punches above its weight.
  5. My friends 55 plate defender is colour matched,around the bonnet its sprayed black to match the oil thrown up, the wheel arches too are black where the brake fluid has splashed out of the cylinders,and most of the rest is matched to the colour of all the welding up.
  6. When i was leaving school my parents wanted me to join the police force. My friends at the time,of the same age, talked me out of it,but by the time i was in my mid fifties they were all retiring from the raf or fire brigade or Fords or the daily mirror and on pensions i can now only dream about. They fill their days playing golf,going to the gym,walking their dogs in the rain and have 2 or 3 foreign holidays a year. Most have come back to live here again in retirement,and i sometimes see them as ime setting off in the drizzle to another conifer hedge reduction and think "oh well never regret what you've done,regret what you havn't done" .
  7. When i was leaving school my parents wanted me to join the police force. My friends at the time,of the same age, talked me out of it,but by the time i was in my mid fifties they were all retiring from the raf or fire brigade or Fords or the daily mirror and on pensions i can now only dream about. They fill their days playing golf,going to the gym,walking their dogs in the rain and have 2 or 3 foreign holidays a year. Most have come back to live here again in retirement,and i sometimes see them as ime setting off in the drizzle to another conifer hedge reduction and think "oh well never regret what you've done,regret what you havn't done" .
  8. I love my tranny tipper,guys in the front,tools on the back seat,quick attach greedy boards, domestic work - bring it on.
  9. I was chatting to some forestry commission guys the other day while they were sitting down eating their sandwiches, this was at a rides crossroads where when they're not cutting and signed off,is a very public area,and 1 fc blobber had used his aerosol can of orange paint to encircle all the heaps beside the tracks in that little area so none of his workmates would drag it about.
  10. I was at some allotments the other day and a fellow was explaining to me where he would like some chip tipped the next time i was over that way. As i walked off a path near his plot i thought ide stood in a load, "oh you dont want to worry about that,it wont hurt you" he said,but my boots were clean,he then looked at his own training shoes which were loaded up with it. He went absolutely bonkers threatening to kill the dog and its owner if he found them. I had to chuckle to myself.
  11. If a vet chipped a whole flock,surely it wouldn't cost too much per animal,and if they're pedigree all the more reason to do it,but thats assuming they'll be found before they end up as chops.
  12. Got as far as the button switch identification,just a little too exciting for me ime afraid.
  13. Plaster of paris,or portland cement was used by old rat catchers, but not in the way mentioned above. As a boy i hung around with a rat catcher,and sometimes we were called to an infestation in a shed or house,where it was not obvious how the little devils were getting in or out,so he would lay what he called 'tracking powder'. As they walked on the powder they left their footprints on the floor,and this is exactly where the traps would be laid the next day with deadly results. I can see him now, when we got home, picking all the days dead rats up by their tails out the back of his van and casually tossing them into the tall nettles down the bottom of his little garden.
  14. If the piles clean and relatively straight forward, i usually say something like "if you put the kettle on and bring the biscuits out i should think so" But not sawn up fence panels,barbed wire,or turf for all the tea in china.
  15. Either of those 2 prats on pointless,that would make top gear even more pointless,but would make tea time tv a little more bareable.
  16. However, I did got away with the new Browning 725 last year by simply keeping it in its predecessors gun slip.
  17. I cant do anything without her finding out,if i pop back when she's out to make a sandwich,she knows instinctively,whether ive been using butter or spread, selected white or brown bread,and how many cranberrys were in the wenslydale.
  18. Those 2 birch need tidying up a bit, lets see, £100 each would just about cover it.
  19. Its not uncommom, i was once aquanted with a fellow who used to run a tri-axle down to spain and back regularly,he had a hidden red tank behind a false front of his trailer,would run on white to the ferry,then switch to red for europe,then back onto white when he hopped on the return ferry. I later disassociated myself from him when i found out more about him.
  20. Part of my agreement with a farmer is that i keep the grain stores rat free, i use bait boxes rather than traps, and find that i can keep the beggers in check to the point of seldom seeing one sniffing about.
  21. Almost always wear safety specs when working nowadays, a doctor once told me that out of all the organs in the body,the eye deteriorates quickest after injury. The last time i had a scare,a sprig of brushwood swished up and laced into my eye,which immediately filled with blood,and i realy thought i'd lost it,but it did heal eventually with lots of medication.
  22. Was there a bricklayer on stand-by,in case of damage?
  23. I tuned in to axe men for the first time in ages the other night,and what a load of old potatoes. Some of them should be nominated for an oscar.
  24. Yes he does looked quite chuffed, he's got her in a head lock.

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