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King Charles, like the Spaniel's. Oops.

These websites simply reveal how much the "intelligentsie" of the left/socialist/markist/leninist types hated Boris, cos being smart and using those smarts to mislead folks is their particular gig. How very dare he! I am already seeing evidence of these belittling campaigns against the new PM et. al.

And how is that much different from how our Politicans live, incl the Labour ones, the Kinnocks for instance. Wealth is near as easy lost or frittered away as it is earned by savvy entrepreneurs.

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/oliver-walston-33a02613 Not sure if this is the elder, or the younger. But the sprog was well bred offen his da. Btw. I believe I recall OW said his grandfather returned from America with the gold or hard cash to buy the 3000 odd acres.

As per Oliver Walston, an otherwise very intelligent and well doing bloke. Who "invested" in sheep some 40 year ago, when it was the "no-brainer" thing to get into. And bailed out a couple o years later, reflecting that a local and wise old Shepard had advised him," that a ewes only ambition in life is how to die asap"

Fornicate that for a mismanaged game of energy producing soldiers! And "some" folk STILL want to nationalise energy production! FF'sS!

What is their excuse for increasing the standing charges, just because the cost of the energy has increased, since I imagined the standing charge was to cover fixed installation costs? And, sigh, Nationalisation, sigh, remember I worked as a Supervisor in Local Government and witnessed appalling laziness, inefficiency, ineptitude and waste. Gawd help us is all I can think.

A 2250 litre fill of oil lasts us more** than a year, say £2000.00 per annum Our last quarterly electric bill was £200.00, so say £1,000.00 per annum. So 3k a year. plus endless "free" firewood. **I just checked, after a fill which brimmed the 500 gall tank last Sept, we still got 275 gall left. Not running any upstairs radiators since the daughter moved out obviously made a significant difference. Btw the negligible oil burned to heat the domestic hot water over the summer makes the capital costs of installing solar panels hard to recover imho.

Is it possible to "sleep over" in the car park, or does one need to leave the site before finding somewhere to kip down?

When I typed in Cairnryan to Alcester, Google choose to route us across and down the M1, presumably to avoid the nightmare that Birmingham is, or was, some 30 year ago, and I can only imagine the traffic has got worse. P.S. The fornicating ferry is quoting £350.00 and that was for the cheapest tickets! FFS!

Considering going this year, so do most folk tend to avoid the Thursday, or are the stands still being finalized on Thur? guessing Sat would be the busiest day, so was thinking Thur and Friday was all. Marcus. I also missed the camping option. Bugger.

All local hedges are hanging heavy with blackberries, after a glorious hot sunny week of weather. Yet I have seen zero impoverished food hungry people picking them, and these blackberries are only a 1/4 mile from the village. But local foodbanks cannot cope. Someone help me understand this paradoxical conunderum?

Heh Heh Heh, says a smug "sexually late developer" 63 year old. tee hee!

Surely natural convection currents will move more air, than any affordable to run fan? When we lived in the living room, if I were sitting in the bay window, about 5 m away from the stove, I could feel the draught of warm** air falling down and recirculating. Or at least that was my preception. It could have been nearing 30 deg at the ceiling so the air was still "warm" despite being cooled by the glass. And my thinking would be to fit a ceiling fan to drive the heat back down from the ceiling/prevent stratification.

We got our quarterly bill just lately, nominally £200.00 for the 3 summer months. Which worked back to about 400W/Hr I dont think it is much worse in the winter months, since we dont use electric heating. Hoping to make it through the winter months wthout buying any more kero. Fingers crossed.

How about the totally radical notion that the bloody stove could be constructed from heavy section cast iron, so additional bricks are not needed, but then it would take longer to warm up . . . And moving the hundreds of kilos of bricks needed would require a conveyor belt or fork truck. I like the massive Russian stoves built from mass masonary with convoluted flueways, and beauitfully tiled with all the ledges and nooks and crannies to and sleep on and store stuff in. Keep it simple.

You wanna go to the well, burn or Lough wi a bucket, and drink the untreated water ? Never mind disposing of all your shite within your own curtailage? And obviously all that infrastructure, dams filterbeds, resovoirs and pipes are totally free to provide and maintain? Scheesh!

I am rather interested in Neil Olivers thoughts.

When the news first broke around Christmas 2019, I was both concerned and perplexed, concerned that such a deadly virus was spreading like wildfire, and perplexed the air travel continued unabated, for fornicating months and months and bloody months. So if the virus was so deadly, why the inaction? Then I rapidly concluded that it was merely a super-flu and would only thin the herd of the unfit. Which was probably well overdue. Some of whom might have been my own mother(well into her eighties) or indeed our only daughter(who was not unfit, but very exposed to contracting the virus) due to working as a physio in the Covid-positive ward for the duration. BUT life MUST go on. Or else our economy was going to be fornicated. And it was and is. And now, shierk horror, Monkey pox. Yawn. Marcus. P.S. Why anyone with a functioning brain would believe ANYTHING the Government, "experts" or the BBC chooses to tell us truely baffles me. They have shit in the nest big-time in respect of eroding and destroying public trust in the shit they tell us.

There are no words . . .

Bit like France after the 2nd WW, where "everyone" was in the Resistence. And "nobody" ever collaborated! Dr. House had it sussed, "everybody lies". Well, except me.

Do, "J" is there a business opportunity to export prime Birch firewood to the UK market?

I can say, having used used NIE poles for gateposts, that the untreated heart will rot out surprisingly fast, to leave a nowt but a wooden pipe! And these were pressure impregnated cresote treated poles. And not entirely sure that covering the top to prevent rainwater ingress would prevent this rapid rot, since they will wick moisture upwards from the ground. They are replaced for very sound, or more accurately unsound reasons!

Sniff, We got wor own unique postcode! Ya Boo Sucks!

Umbilical systems for dribbling slurry have now near taken over, over here in N Ireland. Much better for our generally wetter ground conditions.