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Eggs, Re my constant quoting/questioning "contracts", & and your dogged "no contract" replies/statements, Ernesto has enlightened one of us; I.e., in fact there is a Contract, however it is not a Contract of Employment, rather a (signed, presumably) Contractural Obligation to deliver a service, which at law is probably a more binding Document, in terms of financial penalties. Like wot I also stated, re the financial penalties. Scheesh

If there was/is no contract, how do they, the Employer, enforce the fines?, especially to the tune of £1500.00, presuming the staff are paid weekly. Regardless gents, my take on this "story" is based on the shite I used to read in our local papers 20 year ago, where some poor wee innocent Mr./Mrs./Mizz suffered some dreadful calamity at the hands of Business/Government/NHS. Which story, from good local knowledge one knew to be essentially lies, or at least very very "BIGGED UP". A whole lot like the dreadful life threatening injuries suffered in simple 5mph rear end traffic shunts, when someone else's insurance is paying. Marcus, the somewhat cynical hat.

Erm, presumably this is all in the Contract of Employment one signed? I actually, to some extent sympathise with the Employer, purely based on my Local Government experience, and the constant flagrant abuse of the very generous sickness benefits afforded to all staff. Who, by and large, proper ripped the arse outta it, simply because they could. Btw. the employer will have contractural obligations to fufill, no doubt with cost penalties attatched. So? Who pays? mth

Neither we, nor Morton's could afford colour, (from recall, the flour bags had black text on a white background) Touche!

Eggs, Growing up on a small farm, doing without many things I saw other children with, sleeping between sheets sewn together from Morton's flourbags, and being reared to know the value of a hard honestly earned pound, was what formed my conservative political views, well that and the Red Robbo/British Leyland/Arthur Scargill strike struck 1970's, which kinda confirmed the essential truth of my youthful notions. 32 years spent in Local Government, with a small %age of incompetent uncaring *unsackable staff, who blight the workplace and eventually their collagues, did nothing to change my *political opinions. *unsackable due to Unions and weak senior management. mth

Spud, pm just sent, cheers Marcus

Spud, Funny enough I toyed with the notion of sending the wee 026 to you to "fettle", before my recent issues, but, hey! for cutting a wheen o sticks, a bit OTT.( Not unlike the brand new 520mm wide tyres on the knackered D Brown tractor) I will speak to the local guy tomorrow, a final time, and explain what transpired re the "stale" fuel. Many thanks Marcus

Danny "Morglus", phonetic spelling only. Him, with his spendthrift nature and jealous/envious attitude towards others who were accruing, regardless of earning power, plus many others with similar revolutionary mindsets, have indeed helped to "form" my character down through the years. mth Oops BUI 74, had been used to take dogs to the beach by its previous owner(as I found out afterwards), which together with late 1970's Renault rust proofing resulted in an early MOT failure. sigh

As a student many years ago, in my 3rd year, from monies "earned" as an Officer Cadet in the OTC, and saved due to abstaining from travelling for pleasure, I bought myself a rusty Renault 5 and forked out an exhorbitant sum for insurance, perhaps I even taxed it? A piss-head, just back from galivanting somewhere, commented, as he gargled another pint down his neck, "Its well for you Marcus, you can afford a car", without in the slightest realizing there was any irony or hypocrisy in his statement. I guess he voted Labour. This is absolutely true and I could still name him. mth

And whether JC photshopped in, or not, does not detract from the truth of the statement I made about paramilitary funerals, does it?

Well, actually no Mark J., as I understand the situation, paramilitary funerals were never "legit". Unfortunately tolerated, but never legit. I will save another post and add to thissun The Green Party are another bunch of deluded nutters, they can preach and promise all they like, whilst in a safe minority. BUT They simply could never deliver their green utopia. tough, but true.

Edit; All that is missing are the cross-hairs, in my dreams!

Hi Sur! Am an Ulsterman, born and bred, (should that not be bred and born btw?) i.e no Popery here. But, I appreciate JRM's intelligence, this does not mean I agree with everything he believes in. But I have a whole lot more in common with JRM, than J Corbyn. I am also more than a little jealous of his brood, I wanted more than 2, but me mother AND the wife ganged up on me, for daring to suggest such a Papist desire. mth

Bollocks to the above twaddle. A very miniscule %age of Conservative voters fit your description Mark. Most Conservative voters, work for a living, own their own homes, and wish to pass on some of their carefully and legitimately accrued wealth to their offspring, as opposed to pissing it up against a wall during their lifetimes. On the other hand the supporters of the leftest politics of greed and envy, wish to grab this accrued wealth, so they can give it to their voters, to piss up against a wall, in exchange for voting Labour. Simplistically put, but absolutely true. Why should one not be able to leave legitimately earned and saved and prudently invested wealth to the next generation? I can perhaps reluctantly accept the case for swingeing death duties way back in the 20's and 30's, to break up the large estates that had been "gifted" by the Crown down through the years, and then handed down within these fortunate families. But times have changed. mth P.S To add; I dont ride a horse I do shout loudly, being used to communicating outdoors in all weathers. We dont yet own any estates, neither the suburban housing development type, nor indeed, more sadly the proper Country type, but perhaps one of our offspring can leverage these feats off our financial headstart. Fingers crossed. PPS We do got proper English Bulldogs though, I suspect wor daughter is going to breed a suitably refined line for the forthcoming Country Estate!

My local guy, say he checked the fuel line/lines? and they were good. I may need to either; dabble myself(and I freely admit to knowing knowt about chainsaw carburation, and with 60 year old failing eyesight not best placed to learn now ) or dispatch the wee bitch to spudulike. but I suppose I will conduct non invasive extraploratory investigations, but when sober! mth

Since I interjected in this thread re my ill-running Stihl 026, which was apparently due to "stale" fuel. Not so! my 026 on absolutely fresh bought petrol anally retentively mixed with Stihl red 2 stroke oil, and . . . still not running correctly, once warmed up. My brand new, bought for the as yet unassembled Logosol chainsaw Mill, but unused 390/391 saw, which still has the old stale fuel mix in, i.e. the exact same mix as the 026 would NOT run on . . . Running 100% Both saws fired up this morning. bugger ! ! ! so I surmise either; (i) either an electronic issue, only manifesting when the saw warms up or (ii) a collapsing fuel line?, or some other cause of fuel starvation, since the saw behaves the same as when running on fumes= last dregs in the tank. thoughts. please mth

oops, I also intended to say, per Matelot's remarks about grass fed vis-a-vis corn fed beef(or mutton or whatever) It must be taken cognisance of, that much pasture land and rough grazing are only suitable for growing grass, ergo grass fed meat, is the only way mankind can usefully gain sustenance from such acreages, i.e. via husbanded livestock. Ak loike bigg words!

Is so, the money he married got a hellava good deal . . .

JRM is probably too decent a human being to be a successful PM, a job requiring some soicopathic/psycopathic tendancies, applied purely for the good of ones country you understand. But to lead any country one must have little or no concerns about causing death or suffering for individuals, or particular groups of indivduals, including members of ones own political party. Simply to lead, one must have the capacity to be ruthless, when required. imho mth

Is absolutely the easiest thing to start, the old done battery has been on her since I bought her, prob some 10 years ago. She could sit for 3 or 6 months and starts 1st kick. The charge light glows (reasonably brightly) all the time, but man she still charges the battery. Fine in the our peaty soft ground, and very compact and nimble in among trees with the 5 tonne winch, but when traversing stumps it can get more than a trifle jarring. Also bloody awkward to get in an oot o, though when used on stationary duties small and low enough to reach in. I still regret that I did not buy a brand new/old stock square bonnet Fiat crawler, sans cab, for £10k, "once upon a time" say about 15 year ago, complete with 4 no DA hyd circuits! Or, indeed the unused Same crawler, again without cab, at a local dealership, I tink I recall £8,500 would have lifted her. Silly man! mth

Way-Hay! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/26/police-investigate-poisoned-tea-plot-workmen-chopping-trees/ Gulp!, or not perhaps? mth

I regularly piss-patrol our inner boundaries, to keep Foxes warned-off. We are also on a metered water supply. Every non-spent penny counts! mth

Hawk, Spit, Steer!= bloody imported Yankee terminology, but yes, meaning the same thing as bullock. P.S. The one area of nomenclature the Yanks got right, as in better than the Brits, is car body parts, in general. Muffler, not silencer, because it does not silence, only muffles. Fender, not bumper, because it should be used to "fend off" rather than to bump into other objects. etc etc Such issues concern me deeply. mth

I seriously, seriously considered a GSHP installation, but reluctantly decided, that since I had "free" timber to burn, a gasifying boiler was the answer. I had the perfect location and ground conditions for the slinky coils too. (where, I now intend to construct my/our big pond/small lake) And, the heating load was/is mostly underfloor. Though with the contribution made by our wood stoves to the total heating load, and the wish for hot tap water, oil just might be a perfectly good fit. Also, to get the grant, I would have been unable to self-install, AND be limited to only using "approved" installers=snake oil salesmen, therefore the quality of the install would most probably have been questionable. regards marcus