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I just thought they made you look cool.

Come home, Mick.

How soon after transplanting could a mature ish hawthorn be laid? Say 75mm diameter at shin height.

Which I can confidently say isn't illegal btw.

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How much do you love the people who sold you that heater right now?

Rubble logs, like euc.

I’d buy the big Milwaukee backhandle over Stihl atm. One advantage is that an experienced Stihl chainsaw user expects less from Milwaukee and is thus lessly disappointed.

Put the winter tyres on yesterday. Right down to the last moment. Proper brinksmanship. Played a blinder if I’m honest.

Seeing as I probably haven't yet left education, my perspective: I was at school 1992-2006. Just missed needing to do stuff on computers. In hindsight, thank christ. Did my law degree 2013-2016. Not that long before AI. I'd have ignored it anyway. You can still do it the (relatively) old fashioned way, thank christ. I had a place on the bar course for 2017 but told them to stick it when I saw the intake was full of scammy Indians who'd blatantly bought fake passes of the mandatory English language tests. The training provider knew and didn't care because they were getting paid. I cared deeply because I didn't want to do a year of career-defining work shackled to people (joint work) who couldn't speak the course language and had cheated to be there. I also wasn't going to be lectured on ethics by the people taking their dirty money. Now the legal industry is fully gay for AI. I know lawyers who use it for real stuff and I know it's as crap as any of the other AI. They bang it in anyway. The thought of entering the profession full of that mess makes my blood run cold. And the thought of going crawling back to the same bar course provider with the same illiterates ruining it with AI too now, makes me sick.

Is it that a chipper disc requires a lot of torque to get moving and some PTOs are too weak?

Weigh them. Have other people shoot groups without telling them anything.

Sort of but what's that got to do with the price of fish?

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.