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Mind you from a quick inspection(like the base with the notches for a suspended on a chain support=clever) the one at £420.00 has loads of well engineered features built in, but the price is ripping the arse out of it considering the power tools one can buy for the same money, with loads more engineering involved in their manufacture. And****** What selection of "bits" are included in the asking price, like for instance the chain being used in the illustration.

I guess it may be back as much as 18", which considering our freakily dry late March, April, May and most of June, is acceptable considering it lost about 12 of those 18" before I found and fixed a leak( and as far as I can establish the only leak) in early April. And it has risen a little, perhaps going on 3-4" with the recent patchy rainfall, each 1" of rainfall giving 2" of rise in the pond, with the area of roof being more than equal to the surface area of the pond. And the 40 rainbow trout are still doing OK, i.e. still feeding strongly and no casualties that I have seen. I had a notion there was a leak since despite the heavy rain in early March, the water stopped rising, or did not rise as much as I imagined it should. I.e. the leak was relatively high up the bank when I found it. I hope the water will eventually rise to near the top of the banks, fingers crossed. Cheers, Marcus P.S. I really really MUST install a depth gauge.

A few fresh images; The latest recruit is a juvenile waterhen/moorhen who is rather camera shy, despite my repeated efforts, unlike Mr.Pheasent, who remains unpreturbed by the dogs, despite their continued harrasment. Mr. Pheasent has a couple of lady friends with chicks about but they are a little more secretive. A pair of woodpigeons(and the nest is in a nearby hedge) fly in for an evening drink, plus a pair of doves. There is also a hawk of some sort about local, and needless to say numerous buzzards and heron(again the heron nest in a bit of our woodland). Plus cheeky jackdaws and plenty of swallows and a few bats. There was a family group of Goldfinch feeding on a thristle about 6m from our noses the other evening. Only ever saw an Owl once though. Suppose I really need a better camera with a decent telephoto lens and a BIG injection of paitence. Life is good. Edit: I intended to mention the inordinate amount of time the swallows spend feeding over and moreso in the water, really really splashing in to nab whatever they are hunting, presumably just sub-surface. I nearly wonder how they managed before the pond was there.

The perfect away day for the Millwall Lads.

Sorry Mick, not true Diane Abbot all added up? Shirley you jest!

I was at a local radiator specialist this morning, wor man was sporting a natty "South Africa" baseball cap, I suspect it was some sort of barely coded message re his support for BLM, not!

If ye got it, flaunt tit! However it is her happy enjoyment of the admiration, and I can only surmise in her full realization that it is NOT all about the music. Compared to some of the dour feminist sourpuss's out there. Life is good indeed.

Tends to make a bit of a mess in the living room I find though.

We wuz watching a couple of programmes on Youtube about China's "Belt and Road" project, staggering in scale and fascinating in detail. So indeed, there is only one place like China. Btw I am also gobsmacked at being able to cast Youtube to the smart TV. Which TV was probably made in China. P.S. On the subject of racism, the Asians are remarkedly racist about other Aisians, like the Cambodians whinging about the Chinese tourists being ill-bred larger louts, while the Chinese property investors bid up prices in the Cambodian resort. Sounds familiar?

Well, my take on this latest "the end of the World is nigh" story(regardless of any actual/factual causes for reasonable concern) is "we just gotta suck it up" Since there is zilch we can do about the vast amount of plastic already in circulation, nor civilizations absolute reliance on plastic, particularily in these post Covid PPE trashing days.

If an Ash survives Ash die back, and is still throwing out fresh growth(below the dead wood) 3 years later, is it going to survive, or will it likely eventually succumb, and therefore best removed and burned, since I have a few like that. I was guessing these specimens have some natural resistence, or they would have died outright the first year, which is why I left them alone. Marcus

I am tickled at the proper copper plumbing, never mind the lump of an oil pump, for the bar oiling(presumably) The essence of steam punk I imagine.

I say Mark, those are such judgmental discriminatory remarks, it really really surprises me especially coming from you.

I was idly browsing last night while listening to Senior Management, and clicked on a site that was clip after clip and link after link, all "Neo-Nazies, Alt Right protesters, causing violence etc etc" in connection with the so-called BLM protests, all right-wing thugs causing bother, well apparently. BUT strangely BLM/Antifa/rioters/looters etc were NEVER once mentioned as the underlying causation. So I looked for the provider, and what do you know, it was the Guardian, when I had suspected it could only be the BBC. Biased was not the word. Marcus P.S. Steve's posted link with the "football crowd" comment was spot on though.

AhHa, I like yer mates thinking MB. P.S. Thanks Bob, that is reassuring since I would only be using it on a very intermittent basis.

Advice sought, looking to lift a LWB G Wagen, so sub 3 tonne, but guessing better to aim for a 4 to 5 tonne capicity model? 2nd 3Ph commercial(but I ud need a ph convertor ) or new 230V Chineseium ? Any to avoid in particular? Cheers Marcus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb_TLU_M7PE

Thats downright racist, wot about wor Muslim neighbours?

Gosh, ? Ah diddnay realize ye had ever lived in Free Derry Khriss?

After our premature exceptional April heat we had a quite tight and very late May frost for 2 or 3 nights in a row, which left Beech and Oak looking like someone took a blowlamp to the leaves and the fresh new growth on the Beech.

Funny enough I was earlier tempted to refer to "breeding" as being more important than race, always imagining falling in with a well-bred Nigerian lassie, at Uni fer instance, and her parents reaction to moi, when she took me home and introduced me. "Get that white trash out of here" would be about the gist of it. But I can find that amusing and not be offended by the underlying rationale.

Pure semantics Mark. So why do we identify hundreds of different dog breeds, never mind birds, since they are all the same specis. The human animal is no different, and as subject to conveinent labelling, by all and sundry. Cheers Marcus

Where did I mention race in the context of this remark? The differences in breeding between regions, yes, or whatever way you wish to describe clearly recognised DNA differences within a European context. And since you raise the issue, at some point these clear genetic differences are collectively labelled, and not just by us "whities". As I keep saying, we are all different, and I know enough rascals from my own bloody tribe, to have little inclination to be particularily concerned about "racial" differences across the globe.

Motivation . . .

One of our bridesmaids had a boyfriend with a well educated but distinctly Irish brogue, when I found out his surname was Guidera(again only phonetic, apologies) I asked where his family had blew in from, his answer was; the Spanish Armada, some of his forebearers being washed up on the West of Ireland shoreline. P.S. I was considering getting my DNA analysed, out of pure curiosity.