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See, descrimination actually has positive attributes. Like why most people would prefer driving a BMW to a Dacia, or live in the Cotswolds instead of Middlesborough, or eat fillet steak instead of manky frozen burger meat. And not racism per se. rather a balanced judgement or assessment of the likely compatibility of the 99% young fighting age males unlikely to want to work crossing the channel in rubber dingies sans families within wider UK society vis-a-vis the families with children sans the fighting age males coming from the Ukraine. Other European counteries have already made the same balanced decisions.

Double post.

Not sure how to mill it. Probably best to take it to a local guy who does such stuff. Except my old DB 1490 is not really fit to be out in public! For the 4 mile run down a main road/bypass. Despite being comprehensively insured.

Had to get these felled due to Ash dieback and since they were hanging out over the road and fibre optic cables, so despite being wile tempted to fell them myself I got a professional in. Going to try and do something with the biggest straightest butt. Anyway the amusement was in getting it onto the log trailer. Used the winch obviously. And 650/700mm by 3600mm long at 1.28/M3(per this forum)=2 tonne. Pics. Apologies, no idea how that snippet o video got in there! VID_20220317_155944279.mp4 VID_20220317_155944279.mp4

But our house, and many like it, are built on sticky, slippery when wet, impermeable glacial outwash clay . . .

I have perused verious threads relating to tree related(alledgedly!)subsidence and heave, yet here in N Ireland, insofar as I am aware, it is unheard of. Guessing it is always so wet over here that the trees can never extract enough moisture to cause these issues. Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

What do the 3 engines drive, each couple to a particular machine?, all driving a common line shaft?(hows that for "back to the future technology"?)or do some/all of them drive 3Ph generators? More details please. mth

The Grenadier team do appear to have focussed on the engineering integrity of their suppliers, rather than the price, with BMW engines and transmissons, Steyr transfer box and I believe Carraro axles. I might have been better to pre-order one, than watching our available funds wither away due to rampant inflation! But when I finally** get the 1999 290GD Steyr Puch lovingly restored, it will probably be an even better investment for the remainder of my driving life. **She is "booked in" with a very busy very reputable local accident repair guy, who due to a combination of hip operations, lack of staff and priority accident repair work is snowed under. P.S. What has driven the loss and lack of mechanics and spray shop guys, since over here all the local garages/spray-shops say that cannot retain or recruit staff this couple of years.

Sutton, I appreciate your understanding, and it was "wile younger in cheek" o me, seeing as a canny spel for toffee, being somewhat dyslexic mesel. An tha Ulster Scots background "dinny" help like. Cheers, Marcus. EDIT: "Wile younger in cheek" were intended to be "wile tongue in cheek" DERP! Pot-kettle-black.

Might be safer down the Ukraine than on here at the mo.

Who is going to pay for all this "free" stuff?

Ah, Just ponder your last paragraph perhaps.

It came through a state school a wile lot o years ago. It was shite, with older dispirited disinterested teachers. I then went to the local Tech which was much better. But, having subscribed to some building trades architectural magazine for a number of years and reading of all the brand new "state of the art new schools(which all had to have "pods" and super sophisticated heating systems) replacing relatively new but ill maintained schools at great cost. And knowing in the local community of such horrendously expensive and unneeded building works, never mind first hand knowledge of the deliberate scrapping and skipping of perfectly serviceable desks and such stuff, just so that the budget could be spent on new stuff before the year end. The state system can NEVER compete with the private sector. And my wife taught in the state sector, and despaired at the lack of educational rigour, Union values( the purpose of a school is to employ and pay teachers, not educate pupils as might be imagined!) and uncaring attitudes towards the pupils. Plus promotion of arse lickers who ticked all the correct PC boxes, regardless of their merits as a teacher. Cheers

But that is precisely the base politics of envy and spite and jealously that drives the leftist socialist Labour movements. Drag, or smash everyone down to a baser level, so we can all be equal. How about we all aspire to be better instead? And if parents are prepared to pay private school fees, on top of the taxes they are forcedto pay already for a dysfunctional state system, they are already freeing up a "free" place in a state school. So a win-win. And if the state system refuses to exclude deeply disruptive pupils, it can hardly be the fault of the private system, can it?

But that is precisely the base politics of envy and spite and jealously that drives the leftist socialist Labour movements. Drag, or smash everyone down to a baser level, so we can all be equal. How about we all aspire to be better instead? And if parents are prepared to pay private school fees, on top of the taxes they are forced to pay already for a dysfunctional state system, they are already freeing up a "free" place in a state school. So a win-win surely? And if the state system refuses to exclude deeply disruptive pupils, it can hardly be the fault of the private system, can it?

If anyone would care to properly count up the actual cost per pupil educated, state run against private run, it might well prove illuminating. The wife taught in a state run school, but fully supported the private school sector, which she had had the good fortune to benefit from as an army brat. They are not all Eton's by any means, and many of them provide bursaries and provide an education for the less well off who are intelligent enough to qualify. Paid for in part by doting wealthy parents throwing their own money at attempting to educate their thick as pig shit offspring, which subsidizes the others. Also many bequests by old boys and girls. Not many state schools can inculcate that level of lifetime support. The wife having observed both sectors says it is simly the quality and dedication of the staff, which is not necessarily reflected in their pay grades or bands either. Cheers, Mth

Never mind that Shell has just "blagged" a consignment of Russian crude at a deep discount! Business, eh! Anyway, from 40 year old memories, I recall a bloke seriously arguing that he could run his vehicle on RoI green diesel(their rebated fuel) simply because it was not our UK red! For whatever reason I had had recently come across the then revelant UK legislation, which boiled down to the absolute catch-all statement that, "it was an offence to run a vehicle on the public road using fuel on which the duty had NOT been paid". Simple eh! BUT That meant that for other than vehicles on the public road, anything went.

Funny enough, and despite never attending a Public School, I am in favour of them retaining their charitable status. Since it is entirely clear what their priorities are and where they spend their money. Other so called charities, not so much. Marcus

If I were not so lazy I could be envious.😉

Found the smoking gun. NHS Charities together. With a CE on an apparently undisclosable salary, who has recently appointed a few new "helpers". No doubt also on undisclosable salaries. FFS! Btw. NHS Together "grassed up' Capt Tom's Foundation, which was set up after the money was raised and given to the NHS( well akinda, but not quite!) in the first instance. Did the new Foundation perhaps decide they were going to exert more control over how their charity funds were to be disembursed? Follow the money as somebody else suggested.

Hard to tell the sand from the custard at times.

Boke!

Hey! No such thing as bad publicity. They just needed ato arrange a joint copyright legal action with the producers of "Still Game" For max effect.

Ah! Ha! Gotcha! Plan for tomorrow is digging out an unused bicycle of the sons, with the intention of cycling the 6.6 miles to work 2 days a week and back. P.S. There was a single bloody wobbly female cyclist hogging most of the road this afternoon, plus 2 male halfwits cycling on a narrow country road in the gloaming, in dark clothing, sans ANY high-vis.

Lord God, but it is heart wrenching deeply soul satisfyingly beautiful to be out in nature today. And the first frog spawn. Life is good, for me at least.