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Fabulous. One of those days where a mechanic goes home and decides that evening to stop voting and start learning how to preserve food.

IMG_6112.mov Sailor just being a fine figure of a dog on the penultimate drive today. Tied up because he’d just tested my patience on some bloke’s labrador and I needed to drop a length of fencing during this one anyway. His best work went unrecorded because I was too busy laughing a rib out. Big field of waist-high dead peas. Woodcock up straight away. Then zigzagging like he knows what to do, three or four pheasants. I praise him and riding high on the adrenaline and my satisfaction he bounces across the field like a blesbok, springing three feet straight up and down, not in slow motion but as if the world just stopped for a moment to marvel at it. Magnificent. Pissed myself to the point I couldn’t blow the whistle.

And a really fcking good guitarist. Really rhythmic, while singing something totally different (well). Not easy. https://youtu.be/TMGJhPO0fUo?si=ToB-03PocWMUC29u and to a lesser extent, Shy. Tom Morello is often held up as an inventive guitarist (not virtuosic in the classical sense but doing things other people don’t do, usually rhythmic). I think Ani could teach him a thing or two.

Best I can do is my druid (who didn’t show, presumably because it was raining, the soft cnt) and that I used to drink at the same pub as the Sweet’s drum tech who filled in playing for a few shows. I can do other musicians. Sat on Jack Bruce’s knee at primary school and laid my sticky fingers on presumably his least favourite bass that he brought along for that reason. Was related to Ani DiFranco until she divorced my complicated cousin. Went backstage at the Hammersmith Apollo in 1997 ish and the whole band quickly hid their drugs from me and my middle class parents.

Anyway, @Rastamick. That song was for Dan. This track’s probably more your speed. Delia Smith is on it.

Specsavers’s reminder letters increase the font size the longer you let an eye test slide. A little thing that cheers me up no end.

Wagwan, Mick! As it happens, I like Duran Duran too. The soundtrack to my favourite Bond film. I do grant you Skindred is a bit gratuitous at this time of morning. One of the beaters I’ll be seeing in an hour is the drummer for a big druid metal band btw. Would you like an autograph?

Beating today? I am. Swimming weather here.

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You'd think an important function like justice would be carried out by capable people; failsafe, double checked etc. It isn't. It's performed as competently as anything else the government does. Oh look, Alex is whingeing about government again. I talk with lawyers pretty much daily. I've done loads of bits of legal work experience. I've helped people with legal stuff. I've been through various legal proceedings on my own account, mainly doing it myself. Three days ago I settled an 18 month civil claim with a 9 year history, that I ran from start to finish. Same thing everywhere. Errors are the rule, not the exception. Two weeks ago I was served a copy of a court order (which you can go to prison for not obeying) mandating something be done by a date that had already passed. Evidently computer generated and not checked. You call the court. Everyone's off sick. They can look at it in about five weeks' time (by which time other contingent deadlines will have passed). You call the court via a different telephone number. You get a different answer. Total joke.

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Apparently assembled at Andover. Would recommend sound off. Actually would recommend not watching.

Quite liberal firearms laws in Gaza btw, Mike.

Frenchman was it?

Slightly undue mockery. A tenner a year (plus the fcking on though) or not, it's still melting itself. You wouldn't be impressed if your car melted its own bumper.

Can everyone stop saying please and thank you. You all hate each other.

Any ideas where the bits are fabricated?

Yeah, I know. So I’m curious why Pete says I haven’t been able to buy a Brit built one before (unless you live in Bolam’s Britain and there aren’t enough Pret A Manger branches in East Anglia to qualify for nationhood, you southern metro-fag). Are they fabricated somewhere else and painted and assembled in Stowmarket or something?

Well that’s what I thought but I’m prepared to be corrected.

Where are Timberwolfs made now?

Well I've not needed them much but then I don't work very hard. I mainly find the double dogs on my 661 annoying when changing chains on a flat bench.

https://www.iscwales.com/Products/Detail/reflex-mechanical-hitch/ ISC don't offer any guidance and if they did, it's not going to be in the bag with it when an employee is issued it (without the swivel) and told to go and climb a tree and not complain. I've never done a tree climbing course btw. My mother held me by the heel and dipped me in a river, which endowed me with all the strength and wisdom I've ever needed. I do take your point on nothing being truly idiot proof. But you strive to make stuff as idiot proof as possible and ISC have not strived enough.

No no. I was delighted to see it at first. Then deliberately open minded. And now I'm settling in to the grim realisation that it's just more tat. I don't even care that much about climbing stuff. But I do care about people missing open goals and filling the world with clutter. We don't need more things that nearly work, or that work if you've been careful about other things. We need things that (as close as possible) can't go wrong. This thing has a bit you'll lose and a load of ways to clip it up wrong. I just want the best for us, darling.