Squaredy
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Yes, of course the well known terrible pollution caused by electric trains. Actually do I know brake dust is a problem. This is why they use wooden brake blocks in Paris (Poplar). I used to go to school by electric (overground) train, and I was aware of how everything near the railway got covered by this horrible brown brake dust. It was sort of hidden when Network Southeast was created in the mid eighties, but in the BR days it was horrible.
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Well I guess you have answered your own question - the policy has worked. As for Sadiq Kahn - well he is a politician.
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I sort of agree it seems un-necessary to have the steel container when such a good job is done of the log "cladding". BUT, imagine the look on the face of some toerag trying to break in, and he discovers that underneath that lovely hobbitesque exterior is an impenetrable steel shipping container!
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Well not a mallard, but yes.
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I wouldn’t say I feel smug, but I am a little smug. No Turkey in this house, only cooking for six, so we always have duck. In the oven at 11am, ready for twoish. So easy, much tastier than Turkey, and all eaten today. Bones on wood burner this eve.
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That sounded perfect until you said crossword! Happy Christmas everybody, hope you all have a lovely day.
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Usually by the time wording is required for MOT it is too late to do much to slow it down. Most of the serious rust comes through from the other side of box sections and double skin areas anyway which you can’t treat anyway. Personally I would just get the welding done as and when it is needed. With luck you will get a few more years yet.
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I see you like green eggs and ham…
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You need to read some Dr Seuss. Maybe you do?
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With a slight amendment this should be in one of the Land Rover threads…
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It looks like it would be ideal for a sports bar where half the members were basketball players, and the rest were jockeys. As long as they have separate sittings for the different sports!
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Would you be able to find any of the fallen leaves from the tree? That would settle it?
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Sorry to say I think he saw you coming. I might be wrong but it doesn't look like oak to me. And certainly not part seasoned. It could be willow, which at least is easier to dry than oak, but not great burning. -
Etsy is useless how do you get your products seen!
Squaredy replied to Thomas younger's topic in Woodcraft Forum
The bottom line is there are way more people making nice things than there is a market for. The end result of this is only the top one or two percent of sellers will ever do well. Making nice things is skilful. Selling things is a skill as well, but most people forget this and assume their nice stuff will somehow sell. -
Well, yes I suppose we would all welcome even more handouts. Trouble is it is always at the expense of something else. And that something else might be providing help for (as an example) a severley autistic kid whose parents really need help. Because from next year every primary school in Wales will have to make major cuts to apparently already squeezed budgets.
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I think the point you are missing is we have been debating feeding ALL children in primary school. The poorest already get free school meals and have done for decades.
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Agreed. In fact both my kids used to complain about the quality of the bought in meals, and in the end asked for packed lunches, which of course was a fraction the price for us as parents.
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Well yes; but of course in the long run we all know there is pressure on budgets, and something ends up giving. And in the case of a school it will be lack of staff, maintenance, facilities And no, many schools (certainly all the state schools in my area) simply buy in the meals from a large caterer so the cost is per pupil. So in my kids old school the cost really would increase by £124,000 per year. And these days the payment is online by parents, so the kids have no idea who gets free meals and who has it paid by parents.
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Even if this means the school is two teachers short or has to teach in crumbling buildings? If budgets were unlimited I might agree, but of course the sad fact is that most schools are struggling to make ends meet, and every £ spent on giving meals to a child who does not come from a poor family is a £ less to spend on teachers, assistants, repairs. The primary school my two boys went to has around 350 pupils and currently about 63 get free school meals. When the Welsh scheme kicks in next year and they all get free school meals this will increase their yearly costs by £124,000.
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And now the Welsh government have decided that every primary school child in wales should have free school meals. That will cost about the same as employing 2000 teachers. And of course the pressure is on for the schools to also feed those kids in the holidays as well. I dare say this will reach England eventually. And some people are daft enough to think that children go to school to be taught stuff!
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It actually costs Wales £630,000,000. England’s population twenty times wales; so on this basis it would cost £12,000,000,000.
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And in Wales they are always free for everyone. Which costs the Welsh NHS over 600 million per year. That is the wages of about 15,000 nurses.
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HMRC stopped my local garage selling red for a time as he wasn’t keeping proper records. Now when he sells red he asks you for your name and address and what it is for.
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So this is legal for heating?
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But it probably needs to be pointed out that it would not be legal to run it on red (unless it as part of a forestry or agriculture setup of course).
