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And his lovely little Suzuki. Come back, Pat.

Funny isn't it. You get to feel like you know people from their online persona. And why wouldn't you. They're still a person; just a person talking to you on a forum rather than in the queue at a petrol station. I've seen a band whose members' videos I've watched on youtube and meeting them afterwards and saying sick set bro was a funny little hero meeting experience. I'm just old enough to remember the days before the internet so can appreciate it from a zoomed out view so to speak. Not sure how kids now perceive the whole thing. The internet might not be the internet to them. It might just be life, seamlessly integrated with the rest of life.

Oh why anything? It's a bit of fun. I have a few different watchstraps. I'm wearing the firm colours today because I'm on the phone with my web bloke. When I work on the winch, I wear pink. When I do a job or need to be hard nosed about something financial, I wear yellow, the broadly accepted colour of capitalism. The garden keys are green because plants are green. The shed keys are blue because the shed keys growing up were 'the blue keys.' Little visual things make life that little bit easier, like Mick said.

I do. My dog is colour coded blue. I'm yellow. Guess how many times in my life I've bought new curtains btw.

Rather ratifying Mick's main main message, I only really noticed you on here about a year ago. Then I found you last night in the wee chipper thread about a decade ago. And I'm reasonably good at remembering internet people.

Terminator. Now there’s shit television.

Why wouldn’t a bot be right on top of it? It’s not like they have to go and do anything else. Must be programmed to not reply within seconds (faster than a man can type). Or if not programmed, deceiving purposefully.

Now that’s soldiering.

Yellow ones are particularly good.

I'll be quite unhappily climbing it.

Yep. Thanks, both. White.

I'd love to post the streetview but I respect my client's privacy.

So there is. Nice one, Norway. I've drawn the ellipse a bit small but you'll get it.

What sort of courses do you run?

Cheers, Rich. Our approaches coincide. Not remotely looking forward to it but good opportunity to do a nice job on a very visible tree. Hugs and kisses. Dissolve the state.

Oh shut up.

I saw an absolutely delicious meme yesterday, riffing on the 10% of blacks commit 66% of violent crimes thing in America. Alas. Lost, like tears in rain.

I was at the shop last night, looked at the black pudding and thought, "FCK YES. HERE WE GO." Evidently got distracted and walked off without it. I'll feel this pain for a while because I very, very much fancy some now.

Yeah. I like the look of the Milwaukee one but Stihl do an angled head which the most artful gypsy sticker I know swears by.

Website says to log in to see price. Crying out loud. It's a tyre machine, not a coach built car.

Probably pissardii because the book says that's a common British Isles variant. There's a nigra and probably some others but if you hear hooves, it's probably horses. And yes, doesn't it look perfectly horrible to work on. Client wants it more shapely and it's getting towards the house, casting shadow and stuff on driveway. The stuff I read made me think it would take an amenity style drop crotch prune (as opposed to any weirder, fruit-specific strategy) without going off its tits with end regrowth and the guy isn't demanding strong butchery. I can see me spending a whole day dicing with death on sketchy ladder setups to do it nicely though. No tie in point, whole inside of the tree like the chokey from Matilda. I also wasn't desperately polite to his neighbour, whose driveway I'll need to be in for some of it. That was a shrewd move. I'd like to picker or crane dangle for it but too much faff (steep driveways and blocking pavement and/or driveways seems excessive). Freelance climbers in the North East with big tripod/A-frame ladders, leather welding sleeves and a desire to have cherry branches up your arse, get in touch please.

Just in case but don’t think so