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Why would you take a blunt axe btw?

Pussies! Same as that old saw:"beware the man with only one gun'. As he sniffs in pure distain.

Aye but! Look on the bright side, iffen ye pay peanuts and get monkeys, they should be able to climb well! The Chainsaw H&S stuff could perhaps stand some finessing!

Back in my day it was fashionable to call it "diversificaction".

I do appreciate that aspect, but like the Parsons egg, it is good in parts only. I also "appreciate" the apre-game boozing culture associated with many footballers/Rugby players/Hockey players and their mostly shite diets. So only good in parts. Cheers

Yes, absolutely. Why fund "sports"? Like I need a smallbore rifle range, but the Government will not fund it nor subsidize my shooting. So why does football be so heavily subsidized ( you ANY idea what it takes to provide and maintain a Council pitch and changing rooms?) , especially when there are multi millionaire football clubs and multimillionaire football players that should well be able to fund their "beloved" game? Hmmmm, I just remembered the Soviets were big into their state sponsered football clubs, something to do with distracting the proletariat from their woeful plight I suppose.

Let the private sector pay, they like flaunting their wealth, and what better way to allow them to do so. Hey, even give them tax credits towards their donations. Gubbermint is a fornicating wasteful shambles in this respect, especially with the subs to the Ophra! To benefit their muckers, an Labour are ever bit as bad.

So, "self funding" but 2,400 jobs and 60 production companies at risk? How can this be unless there is a wile lot of unneeded fat or cream about in that particular trough then! P.S. The arts should NOT be Government funded or subsidized, other than proper old-school museums. I observed the "up themselves" self-congratulation and waste in "the arts" in our LG sector, while there was zero funding for genuinely needed property maintenance or basic lawnmowers.

Just hopped back in the tractor to do another wee turn, after my siesta(and am I turning Greek or Spanish?) and having noticed the nest material in the heater vent apertures a couple of days ago, despite me working the tractor for a solid week, fresh moss added today! Nature, huh! P S Dash ripped out in rather a hurry the day she tried to go on fire!

Mac, Visually looked about 10" to 12", still quite a few survivors though, since in the sunny blink this morning the water was "fair boiling" wi rising fish. I have no idea what is hatching and rising to the surface just now, but there was definitely some invertebrate life on the move today. We need to source some fertile fish to stock the pond, and I suppose I am thinking of wild brown trout? Then we can afford to feed the bloody Heron. Marcus. EDIT. Old Peculier and "mezes" today, but only while Senior Management cooks my fillet steak.

Phone fuccked up a wheen o hours ago when I attempted to respond to Gimlet, an ah canny get rid of nor delete. Anyway, Bollocks to that bloody Heron that I just witnessed snatching a 4 year old Rainbow trout, who strayed too far into the shallows. No doubt with a reward like that he will be back! Nature, huh!

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My pancrease may disagree! And oddly, the odd time I indulge myself with a 2nd beer or bottle, I do not enjoy it as much as the first one. Plus! I ud get as fat as a fool since alcohol still gives me an appetite AND lessens my rather needed calorific restraint. Cheers!

Unfortunately only an Erdinger Weissbier today, but a full trailer load of the Queen of Firewood? being Quickthorn /Hawthorn. Very very straight(for Hawthorn) and quite thornless. From tidying up the roadside verge where the Ash had to be removed. I reckon they will sprout from the stumps and be cuttable with a tractor mount hedge flail when needed. They had simply got far too tall due to zero cutting for too many years and were badly overhanging the road. I may even plant more Thorn quicks to form a proper hedge. Just because.

The beauty with a "cord" of wood, is like many US ways(thinking of the building trades, working across language barriers) of measuring stuff, it is easy to learn, visualize and measure.

Eggs, I did, yes energy is getting stupid expensive, and since oil and gas are both a declining asset with ever increasing demands this situation will not change. Unless nuclear and coal are brought back. Which will take years. And "renewables" rely on mucho fossil fuel to be installed, subsidized and maintained. And the Government did not help with QE! Nor did the vastly expensive and unneeded overreaction to Covid. Nor did the war in the Ukraine. The difference with the feckless in the past compared to the present is they are now aided, abetted, excused and encouraged by a sector of our political leadership, plus they create lucerative employment (taxpayer funded, natch) for those who "care" for them. Here in N.I. it is probably worse, which means I see more examples of blatent abuse of the system, again aided abetted and encouraged by the politicans, for votes. Which all costs those who work excessive taxes. Tough.

Kevin, But OYFB. What I see is roads still busy with cars NOT on needed runs, and coast roads and car parks stuffed full, pubs still busy, expensive carry out food galore, etc etc. Plus stupid expensive building sites in Portstewart still selling at 1.5M Quid. No shuttered bookies shops either. So if the better off keep getting better off and the feckless remain feckless there could actually be a reason for this. And if our Politicans continue to pander to the feckless, to buy their votes, reassuring them that "it is not their fault", well perhaps iffen their great grandmother/grandmother/mother hadda kept their legs crossed more often it might not be. It is simply HOW a lot of the population choose to spend their money. The factory I work in a couple of days a week is a revealing example, workers talking of needing more hours, but also blithly relating about how they spent the weekend in a hotel(30 mile from where they live!), and planning to hire a camper van etc etc. Plus the younger ones blowing about excessive drinking, taxies, tattoes, motorbikes, babies by multiple women/fathers etc etc etc. Nevermind the woman on benefits with umpteen children. It is simply unsustainable. I am past caring how unpalatable this opinion is to some. Marcus

Since Will C has already swerved this topic, I will try and bring it back to timber related, but unrelated matters. Like when I had McClellands in last month cutting roadside Ash in pissing rain, you would have sworn his cherrypicker had had a hydraulic leak, in that the roadside puddles looked discoloured by hydraulic fluid. Ian said that was the sap from the Ash, mixing with the rainwater. mth

Best wishes in your new venture Will.

It were so fornicating perishingly cold walking along the prom though. Be glad to soon be back in the 30 odd degrees in the garden Room. Cheers. Last drag of Ash home this evening, such a pleasure to be working in the dry clean footing, and with the yoke sitting on the verge of the (very minor) County road.

And the Guinness bes quare an guid, Sur!

Currently on the way to the Harbour Bar, Portrush, for a stout.

ALMA= Ah Love Me Acronyms!

Another full load of Hawthorn and Ash home for firing, and sitting with a superb bottle of Belfast Black beer enjoying the crisp Sunshine. Plus also enjoying ogling my mostly Ash firewood pile.