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We’re remarkably lucky with foxes etc. There’s a fox den and a badger sett a few hundred metres away. My mate’s been keeping chickens and other stuff here for twenty years with no problem.

The Warrener who used to write for the shooting magazines?

That’s going to be used as a background for some instagram photos isn’t it. You make me sick.

Remember to ask matey about crane sizing please.

Both still alive and coming on well. I put down chick crumb, layers’ pellets and grain. Sometimes I can be bothered to crush the grain. Mother hen is taking them for walks outside, teaching them to scratch worms up etc. Very gratifying to watch. They’re up to about two hours today. The other chickens haven’t tried eating the chicks again. Largely ignore them. I have quite a bit of faith in mother to fight them off if they try. She just ably reprimanded Sailor for coming too close. Geese stood off in such a way that makes me think they’re playing the long game. Have left a variety of broom handles around to diffuse any of that when necessary. Still locking them in the pavilion when I’m not here. Probably will do for another week or so. Thoughts invited. The white/yellow one, your standard chick, is a bit bigger than the coloured one. Makes sense because my mate who gave me the fertile eggs has some fancy chickens, bantams, game cocks or something. Small ones. So looks like we’ve got one of those. Worth money apparently.

Can’t we just have one system…

Are you going to crane her off the back on one of those bird perches that look like a hotel suitcase trolley?

Can you make glyphosate or whatever poison into a jelly or mousse (or even a soufflé)? It could be cast over a patch and left to sit and dribble with gravity and time. Like a block of it under an upturned bath for a couple of years. As it happens, I don’t like poisons and I’d rather digger and mattock it out, but should Monsanto see this and make millions, I want my cut.

My post comes in two parts. In the first part I shall be facaetious. In the second I shall be helpful. Husky doesn’t start. Fuccking imagine that. There are particular 550s and 560s well known for being difficult starting hot, quite possibly fixed on revised models (mk2 etc). I don’t know anything about Huskys (other than that they don’t start) but now I’ve prompted it, someone who does know is likely to weigh in on the matter with actual help.

Glad it’s not just me who finds the whole thing impenetrable. It’s what keeps you going down to (expensive) trade counters and asking for one of these please. The bloke still got it wrong last time. At least this particular trade counter I can cycle to.

Exactly that.

Is it a problem?

Is this regular client private sector or public sector?

I haven't changed. I've never used state might to starve an Irishman before and I probably won't do it now. I don't know who the British government is being a twat to at the moment, besides me. Probably more people than you hear from on British TV.

Half the world want to come here for free money. It's not for the weather and Punch and Judy shows. Britain's despised internationally for being a cunnt to most of the world at one point or another. Reason number million why nation statehood is a bad idea. I didn't partition Israel or Pakistan. I didn't hand out smallpox blankets to red Indians. Some wanker flying the flag I was born under did.

Of course it is, you basic little schadenfreudling. But no. Too much waffle. I'm moving house in the next year or so. I'm burying the new place (and everything else while I'm at it) in trusts ten deep. I'll own nothing.

How old will you get before you just say fucck it and drive what you want, no tax, no insurance, no MOT, bus lanes, taxi ranks? I'm thinking I'll get to it by about forty.

Roots are shallow and mat together. I've pulled a small strip of it out by hand. Cut into strips/squares and peel those up if you lack power. Digger obviously preferable.

Ideas. Yes. Make them rectangular and a million times easier to handle.

Just to be clear, that's a 6000 mile annual mileage limit and not a £6000 annual premium?

Very, very, very marginally maybe if you’re wrapping flat bar round something as opposed to punching the eye. With the gear of the last 150 years though, easier square. Likewise strong enough steel to not have stress risers at corners (which you could very easily avoid by chamfering the punch anyway).

Yeah, that. The thing I was trying to tell you might be wrong with something of yours a few weeks ago. Because I’m obviously the one to offer the other one advice on hydraulics out of the two of us.

A JCB telehandler of my acquaintance had similar. A roving mechanic had put it down to a pressure vessel balancer/equaliser/something the last thing I knew. Black steel bulb about the size of a pint glass that lived in the machine’s armpit. Replaced and it worked but, for a reason I can’t recall, I’m not 100% convinced it was just that. I’m back on that telehandler at the end of the month. It won’t have changed. It was two years ago I was last using it and it won’t have had an oil change in that time, probably ever. Let’s see if I can remember how to do it. I did write the bloke a long WhatsApp message of instructions (for his own machine, at his request) but no guarantee that’s still visible. My life would be easier if I could bloody remember bloody anything but here we are. I’ll take spanners.

Why are tool eyes rounded/oval? Square cornered makes more sense at every stage of production.