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See my last paragraph above. I just watched that badtard Biscuit cat kill one of the 2 surviving Moorhen chicks, that had started to come out onto the lawn to feed with the the parents. With my own eyes. Fornicator! And I mean just immediately after I had fed him his lunch. But there are other semi feral cats hunting our ground so I suppose no particular point in blaming Biscuit in particular.

Tree Monkey, I know a lovely bloke who has asbestosis, he reckons he knows the job where he likely contacted it too, and he is quite bitter. But with all the chemicals around us in everyday life that we cannot avoid, incl overused household cleaning chemicals, never mind the idiots that vape, plus me having already having had a stroke(aged 65) and the hazards of venturing out on the roads etc etc etc. Hardwood dust is likely to be the least of my worries. We gotta live. p.s. I took a look at my only plane, while I was planing some 50 to 60 year old salvaged Oak from a school lab, its a Stanley/Bailey No. 4. I have no idea how or where I got it, was it a present, but I have had it forever. PPS I still got the pliers I won as a metal working prize way back about 1972.

I suspect that is likely to be the least of our worries.

Pity the piece I cut in 1/2 and glued end to end before using in the middle, has such a discordant grain.

Since I had loaned my belt sander to the son in law, now up at Ahoghill, see 40 grit sanded, to be finished with Tung Oil. I don't intend to go any finer, since it is for a working chopping board. Still got to add the finger grooves to the ends.

The son in law, fished these few scraps of Iroko from a skip in an affluent Dublin superb. Due to remodelling work It had been a solid 44mm thick door, complete with door trims, fully 5" wide by 7/8" thick. Stupid wasteful Bollix! Crudely chopped up into tiny pieces to go in the skip! Nothing bigger than 9" long. Cut on my wee electra beckum flipsaw and then planed with my only plane. I was quite pleased with my efforts. Cheers Marcus

Hawt Hawt Hawt, Here in Nth. Co. Antrim, started on Thursday past, then sweltering hot Fri, Sat, and today. Too hot to be pleasent if doing much. Its a bad job when an Ulsterman bees looking for a bit of shade. The measure of the heat, Senior Management washed out a 3" thick home made 100% wool rug yesterday mid morning, I hung it out to dry, moving and turning it bytimes during the day, then brought it into the still roasting with all windows and door open living room at 22:00, when to all intents and purposes it was already dry, FFS! That is HOT.

Well, before I got a couple of pints and a lovely late lunch today, I fired the lawnmower up for prob the first time in a month, stopping to rescue so so many froglets through the grass, yes it was that long and wet! and not cut for a month since it has been that wet with us over here, then hopped on the wee Koti with the Major mower to cut down the lane and around the pond. Except when I got to the back corner of the pond, there was a hen pheasent with chicks. So I choose to quit. And I then decided to investigate wtf the moorhen was making such a racket on the pond, and lo and behold, she had very young 3 chicks out and about. Did she perhaps lose the first nest of eggs? P.S. The big placid neutered tom cat from Belfast, that was a rescue kitten and kept in the house from a kitten and never allowed out, or been showed how to hunt by his mother, has turned into a stalking/ killing machine, well he catches the odd schrew and a rat or 2. Nature, huh. Cheers all Marcus

We have had more than enough rain here in Nth Co. Antrim to do for the rest of the summer.

AhHa! Well deduced Dan.

Being only £195.00 per year, after the eye-watering unjustifable greedy £5490.00 on first purchase. And also the stated fuel consumption figs? Like 10.6mpg combined average, fir a diesel. Surely this does not compute. Gibber, mutter an twitch.

Well, ah went inta tha toon, this afternoon, and both motor factors recommended a GYS Batium. They both also, each, despite retailing multiple Ring products, described the Ring stuff as only suitable for very occasional use( an who fornicating knew?) So ah bought a 12V/15A Batium . Despite its French provanance. For a relatively insignificant amount more than random on line suppliers. Fingers crossed.

Well, when I opened the Ring charger up, hoping to fine a failed fuse or something obvious, since it stopped working with a distinct "pop", the only fuse I found beside the 230V input, was 100% good. But, good Lord, 2 full circuit boards with a shocking( & pun fully intended) amount of electric/electronic components mounted thereto. Cheers Might just buy myself a stupid=unsmart Draper one.

Hmmm? Sounds like it is isolated, so start with a Silky saw or HD secauters, cut off at ground level, burn arisings or otherwise dispose of, and spray any regrowth with glyphosphate. Or post ground level cutting, gorr out the roots wi a digger, wait, and spray any volunteer regrowth wi glyphosphate. Rinse and repeat as necc. From an uninformed bloke that, a few years ago, helped a daughter eradicate bamboo that had spread beneath a boundary wall and invaded the neighbours garden. It has never come back, nor have we heard owt from the neighbours since.

Ah, yes Dan. Well spotted, my proclivity to forget about stuff. Incl battery chargers. Though oddly enough only a month ago, I had been very intermittently using the wee Kioti, without issue over a few weeks, then after a 3 day gap, the battery was completely dead. Refused to take a charge, so I swopped it with another one. And then I tried it again with the wee basic charger, and after violent full needle deflections and various other non charging aberrations, I finally got it to take a charge, it however took a full week before the battery, a Yausa showed the green light, and the battery once swopped back into the Kioti has been preforming faultlessly ever since. All most odd.