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If you need to nibble so you can throw pieces somewhere safe rather than just shove them off, you're better off nibbling cubier blocks than big diameter, thin cookies. Short bar rather than long. Digs in, plunges etc better. I even carry a few of these with lag bolts/screws for if you need to tether a chunk that's in danger of falling off while you cut it, like a big beech knuckle.

First shoot of the season. No lead this year. Easier on the tangles and no doubt his neck. Harder on everyone’s hearing. He was generally good on the whistle but I did have to use my big voice a couple of times. He responds quite linearly to volume and intensity. Which is fine for me because I’m a metal and hardcore punk vocalist but probably less enjoyable for Maureen, 68, next to me on the beating line, trying to enjoy the countryside. He was pretty good. Stayed close. Got a bit big for his boots later on and went further. Had a word. Fine again. Bumped a hare on the last drive. Massive thing, all of about eight feet away. Nearly managed to dive for him but I’m slow witted. Willow coppice btw. Headland mulched for harvester next week apparently.

Would guarantee Mark goes in on an adult ticket. Possibly two.

God no. Spandex-clad strumpets draped over diggers like Kingwell had at the APF a few years ago. Crass as fck.

Discussing drug use with a mate: "You'd be fcking unbearable on cocaine, Alex. You already gan on like a cnt without it."

Sugar. Vast amounts of sugar. Lager is basically an energy drink.

Right or wrong to do it in the first place, you're making a lovely job of that reduction.

Big signs showing what's on, where and when. No fcking app or QR code to scan for interactive virtual bollocks. Food and drink reasonably priced. The low brow cycnicism of being pumped £14 for a burger as a captive market honestly stops people coming. Extremely high quality talks/demonstrations/workshops. No generalist sales rep reading from a brochure. No fat office wallah wasting your life with a powerpoint that might have conned a wildlife trust but doesn't actually say anything. Proper experts, talking details. Vet and discriminate. Extremely high quality only. Good classroom environment. Maybe a gazebo with a side open so people can be under shelter, looking out to an outside demo but able to check a board or paperwork in the dry as it goes along. One mic for teacher and one floating round the crowd for questions. Podcast it? I'm particularly interested in arb rigging so, for that, a selection of trees including spready-crowned hardwoods. Trees getting cut and roped. The ability to get close to see well and have a go.

I rack them up and Mick knocks them down!

Didn’t you have an arb ops manager thing lined up?

Gays, blacks, gay blacks, black gays etc.

He's probably still trying to programme the fanuc robots from a sky remote or something.

A mate worked at a university. They cleared out the (pleasingly analogue) physics department. I had a van. His house is still rammed with robotic arms and oscilloscopes.

Where's silky been? I've been waiting for big news for about a decade now.

I've invented something better. Coming soon (about 2040).

How light can you go before it’s a pain? And how easy to pull slack?

Have you used either of the ISC ones?

I need to learn some kind of meat preservation. Salami most appealing. Need some fat for that. No wild pigs around here.

Never got on with jerky. Meaty cardboard. Big on lamb though. I love fatty stuff.

OK.

Nice. Did you get the boar yourself?

kram sweetie. I'm very much in favour of self-starting, self learning and self-assurance but perhaps ask yourself why everyone else ignores you and why I'm now considering joining them. The swinging thing, yes, I know what you meant. I can see how your mind's working and I was telling you about something a bit further down that particular path. But by all means ignore me and find out about it yourself.

Fuxk me. Alex has posted about something other than rigging. No he hasn’t.

Aye. Good day. Laid Northumbrian style. i.e. Didn’t waste any of the bloke’s stakes and binders. Would have done a cow style had anyone said the field was for cows but whatever. Snapped a pleach I really needed to not but made a reasonable fix. Got all my brash back in and a bit of some other bloke’s. Came second in class. Decent craic. People helpful. Pleasant spot. Good weather. Nice little late lunch at the prizegiving.

Big J has remarked on birch quality in the UK compared to Scandinavia (but he would wouldn’t he).