djbobbins
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It's the same with stihl. I sent an email to the Uk sales director about 18 months ago asking why an Ms 250 was so much cheaper in the us than here, I am still waiting for an answer...
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Forgot, there was some soup mix in there too (dried pulses and the like) and enough water to cover the veg in the pan.
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Carrots from the garden Four or five spuds Carton of chopped tomatoes Three medium sized onions Mixed herbs Salt and pepper Two beef oxo and one veg Pack of sainsburys pork and red onion sausages (because they were selling them off cheap) Cut everything up into small chunks (good if you have got a dicing attachment on the blender). Cook for about an hour. Take off most of the liquid with a couple of scoops of solids (mainly carrot and spud if possible) and blend until smooth. Add this back to the solids as a nice thick liquid to give hearty soup. I am just re-heating some for my kids' tea as I write...
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Think I will be saving the money to buy in some logs! And might look around for another 4x4 in the summer, but something that won't make me wince at the thought of filling stations every time I turn the key!
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The reviews on this [ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Veet-Men-Hair-Removal-Creme/dp/B000KKNQBK/ref=tag_stp_s2_edpp_url]Veet for Men Hair Removal Gel Creme 200 ml: Amazon.co.uk: Health & Beauty[/ame] are pretty funny if you have the right sense of humour...
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What with work being busy, my friend selling the woodland I used to get to play in and not driving it far for fear of the cam belt giving up in a big way, I worked out I'd only done a few hundred miles since the mot in June. With another couple of hundred sheets due for insurance in jan I've waved the old tub a sad goodbye today. Feeling blue. On the upside, scrap prices must have gone up a bit since the summer; I got £250 for weighing it in.
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My local garage had one if them as an hgv recovery vehicle, Bertha it was christened. Beast.
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This time last year I was 17 stone 11 and one of my resolutions was to get down to 16 stone 7. I got on the scales a couple of days ago and was 15 9, so am pleased with that. Been down to just under 15 stone in the autumn but piled a bit on again in the run up to Christmas. For next year, the resolution will be focused on finding a job that I enjoy and getting stuck into it, plus doing something more enjoyable and constructive in my free time than sitting on my backside watching the telly or surfing the web!
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Depends on what you fancy but we have done a few family holidays in Germany and Belgium, the Ardennes are nice (I would say a bit like being in the Peak District), plenty of history to see. Aachen is beautiful and you can take the missus to the Lindt factory shop, plus stock up on German beer at five quid for 20 half litre bottles. Luxembourg if you want cheap fuel and ciggies. Maastricht is pretty. The Ardennes is about three and a half hours from dunkerque, which is about sixty quid return ferry from Dover. Try looking on Vakantiehuizen te huur in de Ardennen bij ARDENNES-ETAPE if you like the sound of it, holiday rentals are a lot cheaper during peak season than here in the uk. Alternatively if you book early the center parcs on the continent are pretty reasonable too. Just booked for 11 people in the kids half term end of may, the center parcs near Reims in France, Monday to Friday for about £750. That will be my only hol next year though!
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Round here (Warwick) there's a guy who does a Transit load of rings, hardwood and mainly green, for £75 delivered. He claims it is three and a half cube. Since I'm one of those people that's not an arb pro and no longer have my own source of wood, but would quite happily split, stack and season it myself, I'd count myself as being similar to the OP's customer.
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It was in the middle of the road on a left hand bend, hitch pointing towards the kerb on the opposite side of the road. Looked like it had come off the towbar of the tow vehicle and landed on the jockey wheel, broken the jockey wheel then sat down with the hitch on the road. I would have taken a pic but there was quite a few cars about and I wasn't able to stop (it was near a primary school at half past eight in the morning).
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Not in a vehicle with a tow bar, otherwise I might have stopped and shifted it. For the public good, obviously.
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I'll take it that's a no, then. Fair enough, who'd want to own up to being near Coventry...
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Anyone going to own up to the (Timberwolf?) chipper that was sitting unceremoniously on its broken jockey wheel outside Burton Green school near Coventry at just after half past eight this morning?
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For anything bigger than about 4 inch diameter - it'll be two years minimum, better after three. And like everyone else says, splitting will be a pig.
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You'd need some bigger guards on that. I'd say half inch plate steel, welded into a box about 8 x 8 x 6, seam welded with the splitter inside and never be accessed by humans, to make it safe!
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£25 a day including using your own gear? (And presumably the fuel and everything else too?) That's taking the urine. Nearly 20 years ago I was 16 years old and getting £2 an hour for casual labour working on a sheep farm and I didn't have to find any equipment out of that. And there was a local guy I did some work for who was paying £5 an hour cash for gardening work. The guy obviously wants to make some money out of the logs but you need to cover your costs and not be taken for a mug.
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My favourite is "I love Macc", ironically because it's about the only one of their songs with not much swearing in it. Still not got anywhere near visiting all the pubs named in it though. Shelly's - I remember being outside there as a nipper (well, about 12) and seeing the TV crews because they were due to film "The Hitman and Her". I never made it in, Valentino's and Uropa I remember doing. And the Hacienda a couple of times before it shut. Good old youtube, here's a few memories: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTXJ6GOE69Y&noredirect=1]Shelleys - The Legend (FULL) - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z7cwqqBHkU]The Macc Lads - I Love Macc - YouTube[/ame]
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Had ours lit for the last couple of weeks most evenings, light it about 7pm, three or four logs (2 at a time) enough to keep the house warm enough that the oil-fired central heating doesn't kick in on the thermostat. Currently on seasoned alder (about 17% MC if my meter is working) but got some cherry to come; hoping it doesn't get really cold because once the log store is empty my pile of oak was only cut this year and is still about 35% MC. Need to find another source of wood... any suggestions? (I'm just near Warwick).
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Call me a cynic but I'd rather not be up the tree and just waiting to find out if it got hit!! If I am going to get grilled my plan is on it being at a crem in about 50 years time if I've got anything to do with it:001_smile:
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Call me a cynic but I'd rather not be up the tree and just waiting to find out if it got hit!! If I am going to get grilled my plan is on it being at a crem in about 50 years time if I've got anything to do with it:001_smile:
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Well impressed with the bears in the boat, that's mint. Regarding the Wildcat, if it's not tough enough to allow a bit of touching then I'm not so impressed...
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Well impressed with the bears in the boat, that's mint. Regarding the Wildcat, if it's not tough enough to allow a bit of touching then I'm not so impressed...
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Crikey, I'm shocked that no-one has snapped this up at the bargain buy-it-now price of £90 a tonne for green wood, collection only! Tree Logs FOR SALE!! Over 5 Tons of Quality Wood | eBay
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I saw this and wondered if anyone fancied a restoration project? Vintage collectable Danarm 55 Mark 111 Chainsaw | eBay
