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We haven't seen the quality yet! I agree £30 per cubic foot plus VAT sounds good for brown Oak but it may or may not be good quality.... Or it may not be all brown. A lot of brown Oak boards are only brown at one end.

The local authority should make sure there are no Oak trees in their area, they are highly dangerous - the acorn is the perfect size for children to choke on. Get them all cut down quick before a child dies. Whilst they are at it they should also make sure any birds are quickly removed as bird faeces can spread all sorts of disease. Kill all the birds now. In fact maybe we should ban children from going outside - it is a dangerous place you know.

Permanent pasture must be grazed and this is of course a problem, as the grazing animals especially if cows or sheep emit large amounts of greenhouse gas. But apparently if done in the right way the world's vast grasslands can be well managed with grazing, and then sequester carbon on a huge scale.

The landowner is Newport City Homes. They are the local housing association. Fly tipping is I assume also a police matter, but are they really going to investigate?

Well yes indeed. It is in the middle of a large housing estate, so plenty of kids will be breathing it in. I reported it to the landowner but realistically what can they do? If it is not clear who dumped the rubbish (and I assume it is several people). Hopefully it will be removed before it is set light to but I doubt it.

Apparently in some areas when it is building a bonfire for fireworks night. Is it just me who finds this embarrassing and disgusting?

Lime is the usual carving wood, which also will rot fast outdoors. Can you get good detail on poplar like you can with Lime? I would like to think you can, but I have a feeling it is a much courser more fibrousy timber. Any thoughts? Is fibrousy a word???!!

Half term this week so my boys do a day at the mill. Aged 9 and 6 and they learn more in a day of work than a week of school. Very pleased with them today; everything does take twice as long though.

Firewood processor. Our Jappa 700 does a nice job of this. Or you can get a handheld circular saw with a 16 inch blade - that would do it pretty well. If you are near south east Wales we could help.

I do buy Birch logs when I can, but the problem is I don't get offered them much. Very pretty timber and good for any indoor use (just like the majority of UK hardwoods). In my house my cereal shelves in my kitchen are Birch. Birch is much used in Scandinavian countries for furniture, but then they grow it for timber whereas we don't. Even better than Birch is Alder - very similar but a little more golden. Here is my Alder kitchen.

That sounds useful Les, any pictures of the lorry so we can see the possibilities? I have nothing to move now but I sometimes do.

Well not all the UK. I seem to remember watching a program years ago which said that many English rivers were way too low mainly due to abstraction for farms. Probably not a problem here in Wales or Scotland I would guess.

In fact the studies showed that such grasslands if grazed in the right way act as a bigger carbon sink than all the worlds rainforests combined. But this is a whole different business from most modern animal farming. In fact this beneficial grazing requires no added food or water. Here in the UK cows need 160 litres of water per day from troughs, and haylage etc by the ton.

That is a very interesting article. As always it shows the true answer to reducing man made climate change is not simple. Just the same with palm oil - some of it is grown in a sustainable way - it doesn’t have to cause deforestation. It is all about local appropriate management of methods and outcomes. The developed world should certainly reduce meat consumption, but not necessarily by becoming vegan.

Just checked, no license needed so long as you stay under 20 cubic metres per day.

I apologise if you know this but I think you need an abstraction license to do this.

Yes agreed, or cheaper in the long run to get a smallish de-humidifier. Will cost more up-front but much cheaper to run. A 10 litre per day model would be plenty.

I think the charts are more intended for central heating rads. Steve mentioned an oil filled radiator which of course is just a plug in electric heater. So as long as it has a built in thermostat it will regulate the temp nicely.

Steve the answer is really really simple. As long as you make sure the heater has a thermostat (most do) it will be fine. Most electric heaters are 2kw which should be enough unless you leave the windows open to admire the snow drifts. The type of electric heater makes little difference, they are all the same efficiency pretty much.

Well it all hinges on how and where they were left. Even couriers have a duty of care. I do agree though it is maybe a little foolish trusting that a courier will leave them In a sensible place.

No it is up to the supplier to deliver the goods. If they employ a courier who leaves them in an appropriate place they will have to sort it. If an arborist employs a subby who fells the wrong tree he won’t be able to say to the paying customer ‘Not my fault he is a subby’.

Good advice; and remember the onus is on the supplier to prove the goods were delivered as arranged. Until the goods are with you or somewhere you have agreed they have not supplied them. I also use DPD a lot and find they are usually really good. Unlike Citylink - they were lying scoundrels. Well, the ones that I had experience of were.

As has been said it is very very dense timber so go slow. Also get your blades sharpened by Stephen Cull, as most people who sharpen these blades mess it up. Finally, it will split and distort terribly as it dries so sell it all to me at a wholesale price and save yourself the stress and loss! Seriously though it is very beautiful but very troublesome timber so do expect a lot of movement and splitting. Can we see some pics?

Two points here. If you have agreed the items are to be left in a safe place, were they or were they left in a very unsafe place? Right out in the open is hardly "safe". Did the app give you the chance to enter exactly where is "safe". If not it has to be a matter of judgement and no reasonable person would say that in clear view of passers-by is safe. Secondly remember your contract is with the retailer. If they failed to deliver the goods as arranged they are in breach of contract. As the Which webpage (linked above) says, it is worth reading the retailer's terms and conditions. If it is clear they have not left the items in a safe place take it up with the retailer. Or better still if you paid by credit card claim against them as they will also be liable. If they have acted with due care and left the items in a place that would reasonably be considered safe you will have no case, but from what you have said they weren't.

I have used Dropbox for years, works well as long as you remember not to update a file before the system has synchronised when you switch a laptop or whatever on. Mind you I am the only user -not sure how it would work if miltiple users were involved.