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difflock

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  1. I my current post pub "witty" state, I ud be tempted to suggest you were rather not actually the sharpest tool in the First Aid box!
  2. Fcuk you Eggs! wander? Pot-Kettle-Vantablack
  3. Well fcuk-me!, I met our next door neighbour down the pub this afternoon, during the Rugby. (i) The car following immediately behind the just-suddenly now-stationary right turning vehicle, (which was being driven by his wife) swerved out onto the wrong side of the road, i.e. the inattentive following driver could not get stopped, and due to pure blind good fortune, did not meet an oncoming vehicle and the van driver, 2nd behind, while attempting to get stopped, merely clipped her nearside tailight,(absolutely the only damage, per her husband) before rolling over the hedge into the field. So, 2 questions; (i) Why the fcuk was the driver who blindly went onto the wrong side of the road not prosecuted for dangerous driving? (ii) Why the fcuk was an Audi A8 provided as a courtesy car(as volunteered by himself, who recounted the story) and I smell a big over-inflated personal injury & other expenses claim. (iii) Why was the air ambulance sent for, at all, ever. JHC! WTF is up with people. Marcus
  4. Ere! some o us are a lot closer to the Artic Circle than you southern Cornish Riveria softies. We got a couple of figs, but due to my harsh deliberate underwatering, the Fig has generally shed the semi-ripened fruit. I imagine I was too slow with the hand pollination of the Peach last year, so only 1 fruit properly set. No limes or lemons. And the grapes are wile slow getting away, might need to shovel on a few kg of granulated lime outside to sweeten the dour essentially acidic ground(i.e. all cut out peat bogs where the house is built) to their taste. And considering investing in a 20 tonner of limestone chips levelled across the front of the ground at the house, both for asthetic reasons and to hopefully influence the underlying water table in the locality. Considering putting in a mezzanine floor (using galvanised weldmesh, but dont tell the Wife!) to better utilize the 2 story high, fully south facing, otherwise wasted glazed space at our front door. But I got a 3rd "G" Wagen to MOT first! Fingers crossed. Marcus
  5. And voila!, the Peach coming into blossom this morning. Even the lost-all-its-leaves, and-I-thought-it-was -dead Brown Turky Fig in the other corner, has produced fresh buds and a couple of tiny figlets. Aint nature wonderful. Fingers crossed. P.S. I deliberately underwatered to attempt to persuade both plants to send down roots to find the water, that is down there in abundance, in the subsoil, but deep below their planted at floor level, level. P.P.S. The bloody Avocado or Mango stones (and I really cant remember which now) that were merely carelessly stuffed into the soil, sprouted, refused to die due to my underwatering and are now threating to take over. An Avocado I could work with, but a bloody Mango tree, inside . . . marcus
  6. Sommat to do wi G Wagens obviously
  7. Nah! Better not make any lewd comments . . .
  8. Just because you are schizophrenic, does not mean they are not out to get you all  .  .  .

  9. I smell something fishy, not Cod surely?
  10. https://www.equipmentworld.com/video-guy-starting-up-this-60-year-old-jcb-backhoe-is-a-moment-of-pure-zen/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=02-22-2019&utm_campaign=Equipment World&ust_id=a7a01c466b78115d2c3452cac1cc2dd2
  11. I can understand the insurance companies wishing to send out a clear message, re un-restrained heavy objects, metal tools, sharp objects, never mind 2-stroke mix(potentially), inside the passenger compartment. Causing them needless hefty personal injury claims furthur down the road.(& pun intended) And the best way to get that message across is . . . just my thoughs. mth P.S. That is why most vans have, or have the option of, full steel bulkheads.
  12. The strongest force at play is the bending moment caused by heavy braking, which will be the same regardless of downsideup or upsidedown mounting.
  13. Whats the difference between a G Wagen and a Land Rover? The G Wagen keeps the oil in and the water out. BooM BooM!
  14. I kept anticipating some sort of LR link in there?
  15. Way Hey! Wor Peach is well into leaf again, well at least at each end of each branch! About 20mm of green leaf showing. Fingers crossed.
  16. tsk, tsk, That was clearly inferred in my laconic comment. And "n" is nowhere near "r" on my keyboard.
  17. That, dear boy, is pure simple statistics, a big/biggest saw cutting more timber faster, has to find nails sooner, especially in the more likely to be metal laden mature trees it will be cutting. See! There is always a "why" mth
  18. Ah Ha! He said, just now realizing why 50 year ago, his grandmother could grow phenomenal blackcurrants, just where the lagoon for the chicken litter leaked a little copiously!
  19. Will you get a Postcode with that . . .
  20. Nope, twill be me, useless as I am with computer technology.
  21. bugger . . . wait out . . .
  22. No "k" 'K, tis "coked", only wine gets both "corked" and "de-corked"
  23. Hmmm, since a professionally built 3500kg flatbed/tipper trailer will weigh 900-1000kg empty, I kinda imagine for a 5500kg gross trailer the chassis, running gear and superstructure could be nearer 2000kg for the presumably longish chassis required, and superstructure stiff/strong enough to restrain logs(pure gut feeling, nowt more) I am also unaware if you are intending to run under an Agric exemption, or if that even applies for 56mph speeds. but I would however have imagined air was mandatory for 56mph. So cant really help, mth

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