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My business is a sawmill. We find very little demand for our waste. As has been said a lot of it is rather thin. It is all unseasoned and in long lengths, so needs a lot of processing and drying for a year. Most people just can’t be bothered. Even at £25 per ton bundle we can’t get rid of it all. If I were prepared to deliver I might get more takers, but at that price it is just not worth it. So lots of good potential firewood, but not enough people willing to put in the effort to convert and dry.

Government subsidised restaurants. This is the latest idea to get disfunctional people to eat well apparently. Being rolled out from next year. Let me see if I can get this link to work: https://www.thecaterer.com/news/government-to-pilot-state-subsidised-restaurants Whatever next? Government sponsored relationships?

Every time I come to the Scillies I love the Elms everywhere. Today though I was totally blown away by the Monterey Pines. This is my 12 year old with one, and a remarkable rope swing that has been set up on another.

Well I am not much of a gardener, and only nature can take the credit for these; but the wild strawberries on my site this year are laden with fruit. My dogs were loving these today (right level for miniature dachshunds!). This lot were growing just behind my office.

This one is totally lost on me. Maybe someone can explain...?

Don’t forget qualifications are not always written. Not everything can be proven in a test environment. If they are the type of organisation that is going to want everything on paper they might not be worth having as customers.

Changing the subject a little, how do you Arbtalkers feel about the de-criminalisation of late abortion? For those who don’t know, the amendment passed yesterday does not allow the UK medical profession to assist in late term abortions; it just allows a mother to order pills by post, and carry out her own abortion at any time before birth. What she does then I have no idea. Take the abortion pill then call an ambulance?

Funny this should come up. Apparently the only reason that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction as the west claimed in order to justify the war, is because Israel had taken them out.

Well our Prime Minister for one. Look back to the reaction of the government at the beginning of the year on this issue.

And as has already been linked in this thread, finally we can stop being called racist for pointing out that the rape gangs are overwhelmingly Pakistani men. After years of denial this is now acknowledged. In some cases young girls were convicted of child prostitution whilst rapists got off scott free. It makes me ashamed of my country.

The mainstream media tend to portray the Palestinians as the victims. When Hamas slaughtered over a thousand Israelis on 7 October Israel were hardly going to just demand an apology. To be fair ordinary Palestinians are of course the victims, they need to overthrow Hamas and learn to live in peace with their neighbour. Hamas do not want peace - they want to totally destroy Israel. That is what they have said for decades. But the BBC will not tell you this.

As I said I don’t condone everything Israel are doing, but it is probably fair to say they take better care of the Palestinians than Hamas. It is Hamas who stop the aid reaching the people in need. Yes, they steal aid from their own people and then accuse Israel of causing famine. They use the aid to fund the war.

You do know that the ruling regime in Iran wants to carry on where the Nazis left off don't you? I don't support all Israel are doing, but I struggle to see how anyone could voice support for wiping out all Jews.

It looks to me as if reversing lights not working is NOT an MOT failure. I suggest you check, but that is what a quick Google search suggests.

Well you can’t see the leaves close enough in the picture to confirm if it is an oak. The general form looks nothing like native UK oak trees. Am I right I’m guessing that this tree is not in the UK?