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And you can’t think of the workforce as just your immediate contacts and neighbours. There’s a broad and terrifying spectrum of retards out there and they have national insurance numbers.

Slightly unfair. If it’s just weeding, grass and hedge cutting, taking machines to the shop if they need servicing and a bit of Googling how to grow plants then yeah, 19/20 could do that well enough. But now say you’re expected to change oil on a petrol ride on and spark plugs and recoils on hedge cutters and take charge of the dynasty dahlias that great great grandfather got from the Galapagos with Darwin. A disappointing proportion of the workforce would start to break/kill things, even with YouTube. Now the stately home, open to public, NT type gig. Managing paid staff and volunteers. Tractor, digger, quad bike mechanics. Sourcing ice for the icehouse, dealing with the events people who are putting fairy lights and a sound system in the orangery, a boy has fallen down a well you didn’t cap. The lady of the house has increasingly wild whims and you can’t satisfy them all. The lady of the house is now Uncle Monty from Withnail and I. Etc etc. How many can hack all that? It’s not 95%.

Arbtalk is brilliant. Every time I think about getting into forestry, I get reminded not to. Must have saved me a fortune.

Watches are the worst. People will have six dive watches, all basically the same, none meeting ISO 6425 and usually none that will ever be taken diving.

@Chris at eden Have you got any course material/notes from your interview training?

There's THE caution and then there's A caution. THE caution is the particular wording ("You do not have to say anything. But it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned...") that a copper must use when arresting, interviewing etc. It's the 'reading you your rights' thing. Known as Miranda in the US. The requirement to use it is in PACE and the wording (changes slightly every now and again) is in the PACE Codes of Practice, probably G (arrest). A caution is a relatively light punishment for a criminal offence. Offender coughs to whatever he did to avoid a trial. It's a black mark that shows on things like DBS checks and firearms certs checks and it has implications for things like giving evidence in court, probably something like the other side's lawyer is entitled to bring it to the attention of the bench/jury to make them seem less trustworthy as a witness. I've been rather lazy and not looked it up but I suspect they're made into a particular legal thing in somewhere like one of the Criminal Justice Acts, Police Acts, Rehab of Offenders Acts, LASPO, PACE or some similar catch-all act.

I bet you could fell trees of at least a pint on your old cert.

I was talking about crayfish.

But is it a caution with equivalent legal power to one the police or CPS can give or is it just something called a caution?

What are we arguing about?

I'll give you £100 if you can find out.

It's a bit arbitrary anyway. Where do you measure from and to? They never stick out of the powerhead what they're nominally sized. And then dogs eat into length. An 18" with big dogs is probably actually 15".

Unless it's 16".

Yes and no but mainly no. They knack trees, which is bad in my eyes. If reds knacked trees as badly, I wouldn't mind either way. I still don't know whether they do. Most people reporting things about squirrels have a bias.

Does the whites being driven out matter though? What were they doing that was so worth preserving?

Do councils have cautioning powers for TPO offences? A proper caution that goes on your proper record like the filth can give, not some lesser or non-existent legal thing that calls itself a caution. Are (criminal) TPO offences brought as private prosecutions by councils or do they go through the usual Crown Prosecution Service/Procurator Fiscal channel?

So signal crayfish are prolific, easy to catch and delicious. Failing to see problem.

Thanks, all.

No meat on them but they’re easier to pluck than a pheasant.

Sulphur tuft looks right. Just as well I forgot to put them in dinner. Will pick one carefully tomorrow and get a shot of the gills. If they're free, what else might they be?

I'm bang into flatbreads at the moment. Flour, salt, dash of olive oil, water. From start to putting them in a dry frying pan is about ninety seconds. Hot enough and they blister up lovely.

Growing on a chestnut stump on my driveway.