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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!

I copied** the daughter a sombre article about the predicted collapse of the PCP "funding" model that has allowed people to drive cars they realistically could not otherwise afford, except for the stupid low interest rates.. Which not unreasonably suggested the cars would either be handed back at the end of the PCP period, or repossessed. What these people are going to do for another cheaper car I do not know, guessing it can only push up the prices of older cheaper smaller/plainer stock? But the market should in theory be flooded with up-market motors that most folk cannot afford to buy, or indeed maintain 2nd hand.. **Cos she will be needing a new to her motor and was thinking about pulling the pin on a new Corolla, and I had been trying to tell her to thole(very difficult btw!) and blag a bargain in the near future. Hopefully the refurbished(virtually a nut and bolt rebuild) 1999 vintage SDP Van will be good for another 20-25 years of emissions related trouble free diesel driving for us. Cheers, Marcus

Eggs, my thoughts are with you and your mate. All I have observed, or concluded from lifetime observations, and this in stable/settled rural farming communities, where depression is not at all uncommon, is that despite families being aware that a family member had and has depressive tendancies, with intermittent periods of both depression and better humour, that they often mistake that period of, dare I say serenity? prior to a suicide, for a period of better humour. Which is entirely understandable. And that is within close families over a lifetime. It nearly always takes them by surprise, because they thought their family member "had finally turned the corner". Lifetime observations included responsibility for running a Cemetery for quite a few years, so perhaps I had more exposure to such shit stuff. Take care, Marcus

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I have idly pondered this for years, since any time I have lifted freshly fallen Beech mast, and scrunched it between my fingers, I have never, to my recollection, found any substance to the mast. I.e. they always seem to be "blind" or lack any kernel or "nut". Like I would expect to find? Am I missing something? Marcus

I suffer from vowel-specific dyslexia, I will realize I have misspelled a word(it simply does not look "right"), and I require to resort to trying different vowels until I get it right, but regardless will have rely on spellchecker after fruitless trying. Or something like that. BUT Cub-ota is an easy one!

If there is ANY possibility or likelyhood of feet trampling over the roof for access for whatever reason, consider thicker/stronger sheeting, I did a roof 20 odd years ago and used the "recommended" 1.0mm thick(I think?) sheeting, a proper delicate bollocks! you look at it sideways and it "crinks". I later did another roof with, again I think/vaguely remember 1.5mm thick sheets, and it is a different roof to walk over.

I was pondering buying a smaller trailer for behind the RAV4 and IW's wee single axle manual tipper caught my eye. Absolutely perfect gross weight and payload wise.(though, oddly quoted at 1220 wide internally, why not 1225 or 1230) My only reservation is the scow since I would rather have had a flat floor. See link, I hope. IWT Single Axle Tipper » Ifor Williams Trailers Ltd - Britain's Leading Trailer Manufacturer WWW.IWT.CO.UK The TT2012 is light, adaptable and has a wide range of applications.

Only I know my Mrs. was an only child, or I could imagine we were somehow related by marriage!

To beat the drum in favour of often "despised" softwood, I just lit the stove in the garden room(and I wish I had taken pics) with 1/2 rounds(and not particularily rough or splinterly ones either) split from 5 to 6" dia Sitka, only room to get 3 of them in the grate, and only got 3 in because 2 of them were only 6" long. Zero fines or kindling. It would looked to some like a highly unlikely set-up to kindle, at all, ever. Anyway, plenty of rolled up corrougated cardboard stuffed in, lit, door ajar, and away to make the coffee and feed the dogs. Came back to find it had "got away" in the 2 gaps between the logs, re-arranged said logs, topped with some more corroguated cardboard and another 2 artfully placed logs, closed the door and left it. This procedure took near as long to describe as it did to execute btw. Job done.

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Hmmm, he thinks, that sounds dangerously interesting.