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My maternal grandmother was a hard working Church going Presbyterian country woman, who I never heard utter an ill word about anyone. Yet in respect of one of the Elders in her Church, she confided in my mother, who recounted the story to me many many years later. "The bigger the Bible, the bigger the barstewart hiding behind it" I suppose over here "Big Ian P" would fit that particular description, never mind the rascal of a scheming property wheeling dealing son (making full use of his MLA knowledge and connections) he reared. I also distrust the Ego driven nature of many of the Clergy, especially those from good backgrounds who choose to enter the Church, as a career choice for a respectable guarenteed comfortable living, however I have also met a few clergy I like and respect as human beings, and as far as I am aware all these guys came to the Church late in life, after a career in the real world.

Eh! Any branch so obviously under tension, needs "relieved", multiple glancing cuts so as to form a narrow "V", or snicked up from the bottom. And, cough cough, a 2nd saw trapped exactly the same as the first one, there is, I recall, an expression about repeating the same action, but expecting a different outcome. It escapes me at the moment! As a 1 saw person, I only ever had to resort to a Ax once, on a 14" windthrown Lodgepole. Right, back to buffing me halo! Mth

Well I can only suggest a protest along/across the route of the funeral cortage. There are bound to be a few underemployed football hooligan types about to match the gravitas I am sure the Traveller community will be displaying on the day. Or rob/trash their caravans when they are all at the funeral, like wot traveller types are likely to do to the law abiding community. Just a thought. mth

I paid 9k for a very clean coddled 2007 model with 1800 hours, direct from the first and only owner, a guy running a business maintaining paddocks and menages for horsey folk(only fault was leaking hydraulics, as I soon found out, but from a steel pipe near a valve block, an easy fix) I had sussed the loader capabilities, a critical factor in my selection process, before I went to view. The biggest weakness are the various transmission linkages running back and forward below/beside the belly of the tractor, and the vunrable mounting of the power steering ram in front of the front axle. Oh! and a teensy/weensy wee fuel tank. And horrible hard, non grippy industrial tyres. So, not perfect by any means. P.S. When I bought Reco had just thrown up the UK dealership, so the second hand prices were probably suffering. btw. I really really really had the hots for a brand new 50HP Hurliman Prince c/w loader from Tunstall Tractors. cheers marcus

2 Full straps of blocks = 1800kg, on a pallet with the pallet forks, not bad for a tractor that barely weighs more than 2000kg but limited reach, obviously. With the low gears and fast hydraulics I can keep my foot fully off the clutch and let the tyres spin(a little only), to easily load the bucket or bulldoze. The gear changes are v slick and naturally placed for the left hand, so the right hand can stay on the loader joystick lever. All very natural. And dead handy to either step on/off or indeed work the loader standing on the ground beside the tractor. cheers marcus

Dug out Thursday past when seeking to establish the cause of a wet soft spot on the edge of the drive. Astoundingly thin flat and large. Should make a good sign/house No. backdrop for down at the County Road, stood on its edge like. But how do I pickle it? marcus

And on a not entirely unrelated note, the Mrs. was watching a programme about the Operation Jerico raid in 1944. For an official, well planned RAF Operation, it appears, that despite the 74 years and presumably any/all documents now being no longer secret, no one knows who actually ordered the operation, or indeed why? Though probably MI6, but only the merest circumstantial documentary evidence. So chances are some stuff will always remain secret, unknown and subject to much speculation. Like Putin/nerve agents/false flag ops, etc etc

Erm, cough cough, Labourites/Socialists can well be greedy hard selfish perverted barstewarts. Conservatives/Tories can equally well be very decent human beings. Your post merely reveals your partisan tribal viewpoint. Just observing like. marcus

Edgar Allen Poe, the writer of Gothic/horror stuff I guessed? Wor Daughter introduced me to imgur, for loads of soppy doggy/kitten images. But loads of other stuff, generally topical, generally entertaining, and non-porno, no unsafe images. marcus

A happy old dog (his right rear quarter is wasting away with Cancer(presumably) but zero pain and still very keen on his daily hour long walk, though he takes it a lot slower. And then the Piglets hiding out below the Coffee table, now boarded round on 3 sides and known as the Pig-Pen.

Wee Kioti working, having wrassled and fought to get much smaller stones into the bucket, I got the biggun in "first dibs" Bloody diggerman cut me watermain despite being told exactly(& marked with a buried vertical paling stab) exactly where it was. At least I found the telephone cable before he did!

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(i) That is a, or was a, pet project of Prince Charles was it not, Poundbury? (ii) The lack of road markings/signs at junctions, to force drivers to accept responsibility for their decisions, was successfully trialled in the Netherlands if I recall correctly. And "information overload" has become an ever aggravating issue in respect of this 59 year old's more recent driving experiences, it is virtually impossible to absorb all speed limit and bus lane and variable speed limits and other traffic camera monitered cash-cow shit, while paying such proper attention to other road traffic, cyclists and pedesterians so as to be a safe driver, without driving so slowly as to be an annoyance to other road users. And this comes from someone who did and still does consider themselves a proactive professional driver, who prefers to "make progress" when traffic and road conditions allow. Without ever crashing or causing a collision in 40+ years driving marcus

One of the most accurate posts I have read on this forum. Says it all Unfortunately P.S. Another good example of dim and selfish driving behavouir, I regularly observe, or am subject to. Say one is proceeding along an ordinary road or street, with a single lane in each direction, there is moderate traffic flow, & just up ahead a vehicle or other obstruction is blocking the oncoming traffic's lane, so that oncoming traffic is having to cross the median to proceed against the traffic flow. As one gets closer they keep coming, and coming, and coming, even though I/you/one has the "right of the road", and when finally, after letting multiple cars through, one moves forward and blocks their incorrect/illegal manouver, they absolutely blow a gasket. Because they feel entitled to drive on the wrong side of the road, because they are blindly following the vehicle in front, and they look no furthur ahead to see or access the consequences of their actions. Kinda says it all about unthinking herd like nature of human behavouir. marcus

Nobody answered the question re Elm's suitability for trusses, which I suppose can only mean it will be OK?

I too resided in a caravan with my family for a 12 month. just saying is all. P.S. I always thought Communism/Marxism killed as many, if not significently more, innocents/non-combatnents than the 3rd Reich/Faschists ever did. again, just saying.

As I kept explaining during our not infrequent Council Diversity training, discrimination, or discernment is a positive thing and we all do it. Audi or Lada(and used to be Skoda, remember the jokes?) Iceland or M&S Foodhall Because "brands" or indeed tribes gain reputations based on their defining behavouirs, which reputations can be changed, subject to hysteresis. However the reputation of travellers, pikies and other such caravan dwelling types is irrevocably established. In that respect Mr. Hitler was perhaps not entirely wrong in lining up certain groups of persons for the gas chambers. mth

However if others "sounded off" in such specific terms they would probably be charged with hate crimes, but nope, that law, like many others, dont apply to Pikies, apparently. mth

I noted a tree surgeon stabbed his wife to death recently, leaving the body to be found by the children . . .

Deliberate harrassment of the victim, i.e. the pensioner they were trying to rob, by the dead scrotes family. Police should have been all over it.

I installed a Morso in the garden room, & fired it up last autumn, burning purely conifer. I was tiling the wall recently and had to remove the flue to tile around it, the flue absolutely "spotless", some fine gray dust was all. but my wood is bone dry. P.S. The clay liner lined chimney, the flue feeds into has not been cleaned in 22 years, despite serving the Morse in the other room for these 22 years, and is also still very clean, or at least it still "pulls like a train" draught wise. marcus

A bit like horsey folk with their sorry collection of shelters and other crap in the corners of fields they keep their horses in. Anyway all sounds contrived as a ruse to get around planning regs in the longer term. mth

thanks all, having recently got a set of stairs put in to access the roofspace, the cat can now get up there, I will also place rat poison and those named above Fenn traps. thanks again marcus

Jackdaws now excluded, by repairing the holes in the soffait, but I cannot establish where the rats are getting in to the cavity, & presumably somewhere below ground level. So Anyone any experience of the electronic rodent deterrance devices Are they any good Do they work cheers mth

The golliwog story is much more proposterous than the stabbing one. And btw. re the stabbing story, I reasonably suspect from the photo in the Telegraph link, an Ex. Military type, and ambidexterous too, so like, totally unfair to the stabee. Houses where such characters live should surely be required to carry a Government Health Warning! mth