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From what I hear there is now a new method of distributing the aid. The Americans are doing it directly. Finally the people who actually are in need of food may actually get it. I find it difficult to criticise the Israeli government for not allowing aid through knowing that it was not distributed by Hamas but sold to raise money to fund the war. Why should Israel go to lengths to look after the Palestinian people when their own government don’t?

Whilst your suggestion is probably unnecessarily harsh, I suspect the majority of people now finally agree with you in principle. What used to really annoy me when the wife and I watched the BBC or ITV news (we no longer bother with main-stream media) was that no-one ever said ‘But they are coming from France’. We were expected to buy the narrative that they were escaping persecution and war. What a stupid thing to do: cross a dangerous busy shipping lane in a totally unsuitable boat. No wonder the government at one point wondered whether they could just ‘push them back’.

Lucky dogs! I like that you got the butchers block to use as a butchers block! They usually get turned into a trendy island these days from what I gather.

It’s beech. The medullary rays are what I wanted to look for. I trust you also will be having some of the muntjac?

It does look like beech, but if you get a sharp really close image it will be easier to tell.

Thank you for that. By all means keep me posted of the winter thinning, but it is only going to work if a lorry load can be made up, and even then I would have to see pictures to assess the quality.

OK great, thank you.

Many and varied. Alder is very pretty timber if allowed to spalt a little. Lime is mainly used by carvers. Beech has all sorts of uses, all small scale and indoor.

Well you could always work out a price for logs including haulage, see if it sounds feasible. I guess from there everywhere will be a fair old treck?! My yard is near to Usk. Or did you already have someone lined up for the sawlogs?

Ah so it is. Looks lovely doesn't it?

No; quite wrong. Refer to Common law - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG Common law is a vast and ever increasing body of law that is also referred to as "judge-made law".

If you are in Pembrokeshire this might work. I don't know where Angle is though.... or was this an auto-correct type error?

Well if everything were simple and black and white this would be true. In reality the courts make arguably more law then parliament. And I don't just mean foreign courts, but the UK ones also. The law says that you may use reasonable force to defend yourself. The courts interpret this, and once interpreted that becomes case law. So parliament doesn't say whether you can shoot a robber in the back - the courts do.

I have used them many years ago, but I only buy fairly locally now. Also unless they have changed a lot they mainly deal in oak.

Just had a little look at Woodlots. No adverts placed so far this year and I can only find one from last year. I wonder if @Steve Bullman has considered adding a new trading website to his collection to give a decent platform for buyers and sellers?

Yes many times in the past. In recent times it looks as if it is not really being used much any more. I have made contact with a few people who advertise on Woodlots, but never actually got anywhere. Thank you for the suggestion though - I will have a look, and of course I will be phoning round my usual forestry dealers.

I am currently in need of lime, alder and beech sawlogs. I need ideally to purchase by the lorry load, but species can be mixed. So I will happily buy a whole 26 ton load of these species, but if they were mixed in with other species this might also work. These are for milling so I am not after firewood grade. Having said that I don't need very large diameter - as long as each log is no less than 8 inches (200mm) top diameter that is fine. Also not too bendy or knotty please. I am based in South East Wales. Any offers? By the way I usually pay around £65 to £100 per ton, plus delivery, depending on quality etc.

It doesn't sound as if you read the very first post on this thread. The reset goes way way further than you appear to be aware. Are you comfortable that our elected parliament (useless as it is) is in effect always subject to judges based in other countries? Judges that it is worth pointing out are elected by no-one. Suppose the UK passes a new law to try and improve the terrible state of our rivers by limiting the chicken farm runoff that destroys them (you may be aware that salmon have almost totally disappeared from the famous Usk and Wye salmon fisheries). Would you be comfortable that the EU could effectively block such a move even though the UK held a referendum which then took us out of the EU?

Sorry to hear you are giving up on milling Mark. I hope you enjoy your new life.

Agreed. In fact it is even worse than you state. Much of the salmon we produce is flown to the USA. And most of the salmon we eat is from Norway. With cod it is even more bizarre. The best cuts go abroad, the cheaper cuts stay in the UK.

Mmmm now that sounds very familiar......!

I don’t think many people think trade with the EU is a bad idea. It is handing over our sovereignty that people don’t like. When I was young we were members of the EEC otherwise known as the common market. Then without ever consulting the public John Major Took us into the EU. That is the European Union. Quite different from a free trade area.

Personally for me it is not about benefits. Our governments of all colours over the last twenty five years or so have mis-managed most things. But I find this easier to stomach than foreign unelected Eurocrats and foreign courts mismanaging us. But to answer your question, one benefit is we have saved about 20 billion in net contributions since leaving. So maybe our ‘Black Hole’ is a little smaller than it would otherwise have been.

Well I guess the remainers must be celebrating. We are now in effect back in the EU. Here is a quote from Martin Howe KC one of the leading experts in EU law, writing today about Starmer’s reset: Brexit was all about getting back control of our laws, our borders and our money. A Brexit in which we formally leave the European Union but still follow its laws is senseless. We lose our freedom to choose our laws, and we don’t even have a vote on the shape of the laws which continue to govern us. Such has been the political rush to get the Starmer reset deal announced that no actual legal text has been agreed. Instead, there are a series of vague aspirational documents containing agreements of principle. But they are concrete enough to reveal an astonishing series of concessions and surrenders by the Starmer government to the EU in return, as far as one can see, for nothing at all. This pulls the UK back into the EU single market across the whole field of food and agriculture. It is a flagrant breach of Labour’s 2024 election manifesto promise that there will be no return to the single market. The UK will be obliged to ‘dynamically’ apply EU rules. This means that whenever the EU changes its rules in this field, the UK must follow. In addition, those rules will be interpreted under a dispute resolution mechanism which ensures that the ECJ is ‘the ultimate authority’ on the interpretation of those rules. Thus, not only will we be accepting a huge body of foreign law to apply across the country, but we will also be accepting that that law is to be interpreted by a foreign court. And not just any court, but a court with a track record of ignoring legal texts in order to further the European project. Enjoy the EU Arbtalkers!

I am a bit late with this, but I happened to be reading about this poor man today. Retired special constable from Gillingham arrested for posting tweet warning against anti-Semitism WWW.KENTONLINE.CO.UK A former special constable had his home searched and devices seized before being cuffed for replying to a pro-Palestine tweet. To save you having to search in the article for what he actually posted online this is it: "One step away from storming Heathrow looking for Jewish arrivals…". That doesn't make much sense, but it was in a response to another post complaining about the then home secretary. The post was only seen by 27 people. and no-one complained about it. Incredibly it was Kent police themselves who spotted it and decided the poor man must be arrested and his house searched.