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    Looks more like a children's portion. Just back from two days in London last night. Got up on Sunday for a walk round before breakfast. 7am around Buckingham palace and Green park and up birdcage walk and hardly a sinner about - i thought London was supposed to be 24hr. Just me, some armed police (nice touch, made me feel at home) and litter pickers in the parks. The trees are looking great, even a bit of cable bracing in birdcage walk/guards barracks. Amazing though there are weeds growing all thru the red gravel behind the railings at the front of buckingham palace-I,d have sorted it but they weren,t for having me in.
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    Thanks for the info. Very useful bit of kit
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    Nice combination. What make and model is the crane. Did you fit them yourself? Does it make the nose weight a bit heavy? Just being nosey, sorry:001_smile:
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    42.1% including directors salary Our fuel bill is excluding VAT Curious as to the turnover of other companies and whether the ratio changes much if you are turning over £100k or £500k?
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    I dont mind:001_smile:: Fuel 3.6% Insurance 2.5% Advertising less than 1% Machinery repairs and new kit well over 10% Our vans - I always reckon it costs between 2-2.5k a year to have a fresh well maintained Transit on the road. It's either depreciating at £2k a year or when it get a little older towards £1k on dep and £1k for repairs and servicing -but it always seems to come in around £2-2.5k a year. We run 5 Ford Transits all bought new by us and now of various ages serviced by the Ford main dealer Transit specialist and they rarely miss a beat Been running Transits now for 18 years.
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    Hey Predator - you're braver than I am - dealing with your dogs glands DIY style - wow I can smell them from here:laugh1: Step by step and keep getting help where you can - it's a long process and sometimes you step forward and sometimes back but you have family and friends who care - (oh and a bemused dog)
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    Shewd business people . My two we boys are six and we send them to Mandarin club in school to learn chinese and about their culture and they love it. Better to talk the talk -it will probably be useful in their lifetime.
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    A clove brown Mini Metro Van (with a cracking Pioneer sound system - pumping bass by 1985 standards - Pimped it up with the interior and seats out of a HLE Mini metro car from a salvage yard - dead swish!) and a williams harness from Honey Bros Drove up and down England (and Scotland) from Belfast to Ag college in Essex.
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    Wow - you don't post very often but when you do it's very real! Without having used Cellox and I can only imagined what it must be like. Your experience takes it a big step forward into reality. Thank you.
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    Nice shots. Things are really wakening up in the growth department. Just hope the cold snap that,s forecast doesn,t nip to much. "Fresh" I always think best describes nature at this time of the year.
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    Just had the tank filled - 0.731 per litre. Amazing they actually go down to three decimel places now!
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    Cheers for that - I'll give them a call. Thanks
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    Are those the puncture proof tyres - if so where do you get them. Thanks
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    Good man yourself.So do they use husky or stihl on the other side. Your girls sound like they love you very much - puts everything in perspective. And paying for lunch - you big softy:thumbup:
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    Just wondering and I know it's not that bad yet, but at what stage would you crack open the big raspberry tank and start running on red.How bad would it have to be before HMRC gave a special dispensation , and yes I know our saws don,t run on red:001_tt2:
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    You're not wrong in what you say - its sounds frightening when you think about it like that. Try before you buy in more ways than that, if you're into life after death you might get a quick peak at the trees and accomodation on the other side:001_unsure: - Good luck:thumbup1:
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    Excellent pictures. The previous ones of the tree planting - I always tell our customers that we aim to plant 10 times the number of trees we fell each year. It's not a hard target to hit but it drives home the fact to the public that replacement is important. Are those Buzzards circling overhead? We've loads of them around our wooded areas.
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    Stihl hp ultra is the one we were recommended to use after screwing up 3 br550 blowers one after the other. This was the advise given to us by our local stihl dealer as recommended at their last stihl dealer update. haven,t had one go since. Although I wouldn't,t buy another 4 mix engine again. The 2mix ones seem to be going fine - so far and we,re running them on normal two stroke
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    We,ve had it with our last two 4x4's. firstly Trooper then our Defender Td5 which only had 30'000 on the clock when it went. The old Rover Freight sherpa vans used to do it frequently. 5th gear stall is the job, but the smell of burnt smokentakes weeks to go away.
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    Stopped advertising with yellow pages about 6/7 years ago. Put the money into a website. Get far more commercial business hits from the website than we ever did thru yell. Don't miss the "can you give me a price over the phone" or "we,re just waiting for another 5 quotes to come in before we decide" type customers. good move on your behalf, keep the faith and use the money to promote yourself elsewhere.
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    The colour is right for this thread - the porche should be in the other thread. And if you'd nearly bought it, you could have put it in the "lucky escape - I nearly bought a make-up artists car" thread.
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    Boat tracks - sweet:thumbup1:
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    One of the things to consider when looking at food is that the retailer will always promote the plus points of their product and not the bad points otherwise no one would buy it. When VW promote their R32 Golf they promote the speed, acceleration and road holding. They don't promote the sub 20 miles a gallon, £450 plus road tax and its rubber eating ability. When you see someone promoting a product like this, always remember while they offer it to you, they're holding their fingers crossed behind their back that you don't realise the whole deal. For further suggested reading see "The Hidden Persuaders" written by Vance Packard. he wrote this classic decades ago and it still holds true - the definitive guide to marketing, mind minipulation and advertising the products we buy every day. And you thought it was all about healthy eating!

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