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My uncle, one John Bloomfield, had, needless to say grown up with "proper" loose tea. When his wife at some point switched to tea bags, John insisted on carefully ripping the teabags open to make "proper" tea. Which did not really work due to the fines cunningly concealed within the teabags. What did that Yorkshire man say "Theres nowt so odd as folk".

I was thinking of this post this morning, as I was lying in bed with the weak Sunlight breaking in through the East facing window, which rays of light beautifully illuminated the thousands, millions of dancing motes of dust circulating above our bed. And I was thinking, hmmmmm . . . humanity evolved to survive and indeed thrive in such shitty dusty natural environments. Then I went out for a cycle and tasted the diesel/kero exhaust fumes from passing cars. And I was thinking, hmmmm, you know what, that shit is probably not good for my body. Cheers, Mth

I wonder how they are going to account for the vast number of pallets burned on the 12th bonfires?

Well, hi Sur, ussens over here in NI might be safe enough, unless we are so unlucky as for the politicians to agree to get Stormont up and running again. Mind you this also means we are still stuck with the post 1997 car drivers unable to tow a trailer greater than 750Kg

I kinda suspect that those so stridently complaining and protesting about the hazards of wood smoke, probably use aerosol body sprays, plug in air freshners, never mind a percentage of them vaping or smoking cannabis. Or perhaps so overuse bleaches, harsh cleaning chemicals and antibiotics on their over-sterile dwellings, themselves and their children, that their immune systems are fornicated. But they choose to blame some unrelated outside influence. Bit like black mould always being the landlords fault, not ever, ever anything to do with the tenants unhealthy habits or slovenly behavouirs.

This thread delightfully demonstrates what this forum is really about, helpful advice when needed. Thank you Jase, and indeed David.

Paul, in so far as this 63 year old horticultural ignoramous is concerned, tis proper Ivy, growing on the ground, and up through the hedge as well. Or visa versa.

I suggested pink granite over membrane, I suspect he is thinking of pavoirs/flags or some other brush/blow clean surface, cos there are mature trees along the street that shed leaves. Hopefully sommat not too soulless, but if he will not keep the grass and hedges cut, it will be tidier for the neighbours. Btw. His sister is a super keen gardener and her place is "on it's edge". From being a shit hole when she bought it. Muddy42, I had figured/gueßed/hoped Glyphosphate should work. Cheers, Marcus

For the sons place in Belfast. He wishes to put down low maintenance surfacing and wants the ground Ivy killed first. Something to discourage the Privet stumps from the hedge I just removed, from resprouting before he gets a digger in to dig founds for the replacement wall would also be nice. I just removed the hedge at ground level before birds started nesting(not that I found a single nest of any sort) Cheers all Mth

Oliver Walston, a very large scale arable farmer, in Cambridgeshire I seem to recall, was once tempted to invest in a flock of sheep, properly, on a commercial basis, complete with shepard, way back, say some 45 year ago, because, "there was money in sheep!". Anyway, after about 3 years he "divested" and summed up his experience thus; "I should have listened to the local retired shepard who told me, "Mr. Walston, a ewes only ambition in life is to die"" Which actually agreeded with the contemporary rueful observation of a local mechanic with a few inherited acres, who being tempted into owning sheep cos of the money to be made, said, yes, there was money in sheep, mostly his money . . .

This grammar nazi bes wile dyslexic like, Sur!

The grammar Nazi in me is tempted to identify that you ignored your own proscribed rule by precising these generic OP examples in 1 sentance, not 2. just saying like.

Our local motor factor actually suggested looking on Ebay for the additive, whilst nodding towards a litre container brought in special at £80.00 + VAT, which he said treated either 1000 litres or 1000 gallons.

A compressor is one tool that I dont know how I managed withou(but I did for about 20 years!) Apart from the odd tyre inflation I exclusively use it with a snozzle to blow stuff off and outta stuff. But I need a smaller one since the 100l takes to long to build pressure for a wee fiddlefart of a job.

In a plastic tank, on a 1989 G Wagen, which is kept brimmed with diesel cos the fuel guage does not work. Copious copious quantities of it too, but no water that I could see any evidence of, though perhaps the microbes "eat" the limited water. Only my second experience in a life time of driving older diesel vechicles and tractors. The other occassion was a one-off in the 1984 DB, back 10 or 15 year ago, where I simply cleaned the gauze in the lift pump and changed the filters and it never has re-occured.

I too always wondered, "why 56 mph". btw using the Rav4 gives me 50mpg on a 50+50 mile run to Belfast and back running at 50 and 60. or 30mpg if towing the heavy built but empty cage sided DK 3500Kg trailer there and loaded with mostly well tramped in bushes back again.

Ow many oles?

I would however suggest, and rather strongly, that the dice are now decidedly unfairly stacked against the bright children from the fee paying schools, in favour of the genuinely less bright, especially if female/lesbian/black/disabled/alphabet soup types getting to attend the elite universities. Our PSNI watered down the entrance standards, but only for woman and RC's while blocking better male candidates from a Protestant background, while also fastracking promotion for those favoured applicants up past better males with Protestant backgrounds. And the PSNI is now a shambles. All these "positive" discrimination schemes do is cause division, mistrust and envy. Where even if a lesbian/disabled/woman was actually the best candidate we all think, "hmmm, I know why she got that job or promotition". I rather successfully wound up our female HR officer by saying that we all discriminate, in our choice of where we live, the cars we drive, did she drive a Skoda, or cough cough, perhaps a BMW, etc etc etc.

2 likely options, either she fell in the river as the Police have suggested, or the Police have a notion of foul play and put the "fell in" story out so as to attempt to trick the perp into relaxing and revealing something. As they have successfully done in other cases, or so I understand. I do feel for the children, obviously.

Thank you for your honest account of how simply these dreadful accidents happen. Tiredness and or stress and distraction is absolutely deadly when working with machinery. I have seen myself do stupid stuff, like I akinda realize what I am doing, but continue to do it, in some kind of disembodied way. Marcus

See, to polish over 5' of 28mm copper, to extend this door handle, to hang a tapestry, 62" by 52" and two years of virtually solid seven days a week work by Senior Management

Odd, I saw it, but was unaware I was a member🤗anyway it is a 1983 Holder A60 c/w loader, with apparently only 668 hours

regarding the peak of automotive design. In respect of automotive diesel engine design, I reckon the VAG PD 1.9TDI from about the year 2000, or the MB OM605/OM606 from about the same period, plus no doubt the contemporary offerings from BMW, Fiat or the PSA group. Petrols, I am not so up to speed on, but "The Car Care Nut" an independant Toyota specialist on Youtube was dropping a new short block into a 300,000 mile petrol Toyota(due to an acknowledged by Toyota poor piston design or manufacturing issue) due to oil consumption of something like a quart every 100 miles! and was carefully showing and stating, camshafts still good, timing chain still good, timing chain tensioners and guides, still good, head still good, valves still good, etc etc etc. Plus the owner had kept meticulous records of all expenses, and there were very very very few parts that had required replacement over the 300,000 miles, other than wear items, which had included a single replacement clutch quite recently. Which has to be the peak of automotive design durability. Well except for the quart of oil every 100 miles! EDIT In terms of engineering, when D A Stewart was stripping the 1999 Steyr Puch, ALL nuts, bolts and threaded components unscrewed without rust fuss or damage, despite 23 years of benign neglect. Alywen has mentioned this "factoid" to me on several occassions. Plus when I replaced the rear brakes, with genuine MB items(and at Sprinter as opposed to G Wagen prices) and adjusted the traditional cable operated parking brake, I got full engagement, with some physical difficulty in engaging even the first "click", but yet both wheels spun totally freely when the parking brake was disengaged. Now THAT is superb "run of the mill" production engineering, in respect of tolerances. Ramble over.

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When I get the 461 van back from her protracted, and no doubt expensive refurb works, her be getting the proper transfer box mounted PTO offen the Black bollocks of the LWB car type that, because it was a MB demo vehicle, had this rather expensive optional extra fitted by MB. To drive a hydraulic pump, with the oil resovoir in the well behind the seats, to provide hydraulics for a winch, et.al.