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I "lost" my car keys, on a key fob, as I got out of the car outside the Portakabin that I had just driven up to. I pulled the keys out of the ignition on autopilot, probably reached across to the passenger seat for sommat, got out and realized I had not got the keys in my hand. I idly looked, and better looked, and looked on the bitmac below the car, behind the front wheel etc etc, and borrowed a torch and a piece of wire and looked fished down between the seat and the centre console and I even asked Clive to look, explaining exactly what happened, all with no luck whatsoever. So I finally phoned the wife to bring me the spare keys. Got in the car at lunchtime, spare key into the ignition, and reached for the seatbelt. And there as I pulled the seatbelt across my body, neatly and securely clipped to the seatbelt with the aforesaid mentioned keyring was my "lost" set of keys. Which I deduced had been scooped out of my lap as I released the seatbelt. I slowly released the seatbelt and the keys disappeared up into the narrow darkish gap between the seat and the door. FFS!

Obvious innit, buy an even more expensive replacement, and volia! You will then have TWO! P.S. This strategem worked for me on two previous occassions, once for a multimeter, once for a joiners "L" shaped right angle thingamabob. Looked for ages, knowing they were not "lost" merely mislaid, finally reluctantly purchased replacements, and "volia" found them the day after the money was spent.

Like I lost my cherished Vertinox Alox Pioneer penkinife about a month ago. Looked everywhere, no luck. Browsed internet for a replacement, ideally with a high carbon blade and bottle opener( very important that!) but non locking for UK EDC knife law compliance. Like I might treat myself to sommat knife for Xmas. Still kept looking nonethless. No luck, so I took an old steel (German Panther brand perhaps?)lockblade out to the shed, clipped the point to bring it under 3" and filed off the locking gab. Brought it into the house, a bit disgruntled that stupid UK law made me do such shit to a perfectly good knife, and set it down on the table inside the back door, while I went into the utility room to wash my hands. As I came out of the utility I idly looked at the cardboard box that contains hats and gloves and other shit, sitting on the back corner of the table, looked in and INSTANTLY saw my "lost" penknife looking back at me. GERRR! P.S. The wife also left the immersion on for a solid 3 months, as we found out when we recieved the bill for the quarter! The switch was well hidden behind the foodmixer and breadmaker in "her" corner that I dare not disturb. So Whats the 3rd misfortune or calamity to be then!

At present we burn 1 carefully filled and heaped full banana box per day. Which heats the 750 ft sq of the house we live in. Underfloor under 500 sq ft of this area has been running for 1 hour early am this past few days, but only on a low setting to take the chill off the floor and drive the bedroom/bathroom radiators. This would use about 1,000 litres of kero per year. Easy to get it too hot if the Sun is about mid afternoon. But if windy, much harder to get the heat up, though the fire does burn more vigorously. A variable feast.

My take on this is that the stacked rings will **always trap moisture(either the sap, or even horizontally blown rain wicked into the gaps and then sucked up by the end grain, like even if covered by sheets of tin) and be really really slow to dry and get mouldy. We are perhaps windier and wetter than most of the rest of the UK so other experiences may differ. But if split and stacked the difference is that the windblown rain that gets into the stack, is as readily re-evaporated by the wind, which is occassionally without rain! Which is not so with stacked rings. **One must understand this is in part due to my exquisite cross cutting accuracy which allows for molecular bonding between the end grains🤣🤣, the same as happens with Axminster Engineer Series 47 Piece Gauge Block Set | Axminster Tools WWW.AXMINSTERTOOLS.COM 47 blocks ranging from 1mm to 100mm. Each block has its opposing faces dead flat and finely polished. So much so that when one is gently rubbed against another the surfaces...

My grandmother lit the fire wi a peat( turf to some) which just had had a strone of pariffin poured on it out of a teapot(which sat in the corner of the hearth) Essentially the same as modern firelighters.

The ratio of pooping to fire-lighting perplexes me?

The heavy corrougated cardboard fruit boxes we bring the groceries home from Tescos in. Hard to tear up, but, man sur, quare firelighting stuff.

I did not help that my day started with a fit of explosive sneezing at 05:00, so today as I came down wi some bloody lurgy, I simply could NOT get warm, it looked pleasent, and was dry, but there was a cutting edge to the air despite virtually no wind. Working outside at dysfunctional lights on a trailer did not help. The car was only reading 4 deg mind as I drove home at just before 16:00. And Thur past was 5 deg at 17:00 Sniffle. But a comfy 25 in the garden room.

I continue to be boggled at the unthinking stupidity of my fellow species. Like how in the name of under god did he not think to park somewhere safe(er)

I spent months imagining I was imagining hearing something weird while lying in bed, an odd intermittent humming. I finally figured out it is almost certainly the Leibherr freezer just on the other side of our downstairs bedroom wall. Resonating through the poured concrete floor that was cast hard up against the outside wall of the house( with no polystyrene expansion strip placed pre pour) Doh!

A brilliant pithy observation.

It wisnay me. honest mate!

Ah thought that was "thickotropic', phonetic spelling only. Now going to Google your word, and mine, iffen I can spell it.

I might beg to differ, if land is left in its natural state, without cutting or mowing, or excessive grazing, it will, by and large recover it's natural drainage structure, due to deep penetrating roots and soil microbiology. And there should be more humus. Setting aside acidic peatlands which are what they are. Benign neglect is a wonderful thing, though most simply cannot thole to see the rampant untidyness of nature. But that is nature of nature. So my couch grass, thistles, Benweeds and Dockins among other species, have allowed a song bird/sparrow population to thrive, or so the evidence of my eyes would seem to indicate. Cheers, marcus. EDIT. To say, I am busy interfering with natural nature, in that I am seeding acorns and horse chestnut and crab apple et. al. "up the moss" plus judiciously felling Birch and Lodgepole Pine to give the various volunteer Oak and Beech a better chance. Cheers!

To highlight he immense value of benign neglect for nature to flourish. I was too slow, but just a few minutes ago the sky above the pond in the 2nd image was FULL of song birds/sparrow sized birds. Impossible to count, but 100, 200? A VERY large flock. I had a stab at guesstimating the number in say a 10th of the swirling mass but. . . . Cheers all. MTH. P.S.Not under SAS surveillance, twas the flash reflecting on the glass.(1st image)

"The poor will always be with us" As observed a wheen o thou year ago. And despite 60 years of generous social welfare in the UK, this is as true now as it was then. Feckless is still feckless. Or some, not insignificent percentage of the population cannot cope with money, regardless of their "income".

As long as ye warney snogging him . . .

I thought that was young vehicle mechanics, scratching their balls while wearing sump-oil soaked and routinely unwashed overalls, or so I recall reading somewhere.

Dammn . . . relatively unencumbered. That is all.

Surely your "mort-gage" pays up iffen you die before it is paid off? What more does your wife need? Dont mean to sound harsh. Marcus

Come round to ours, it rarely exceeds 30 deg C, honest.

Well explained.

Al loike the pun there Sur!