David Goss

according to wikipedia it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young.

i have used them before and liked them so i am buying one as well in my next shopping spree

I almost disembowel'd it myself with a spade but i managed to see it just in time:thumbup1:

Had a rare non tree surgery day today putting up a fence beside an unused field. Turned out to be a full on nature trail The Cleg or horsefly is an east coaster and i noticed that its eye colouring is much duller than its scary eyed west coast blood sucking cousins. Is this normal? could they be a different species maybe? or just a simple difference between male and female?

Yea that tree has been sitting on that wall for as long as i can remember, i guess they just dont make em like they used too.

hear hear

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tickled my bits that did

I have seen this tree on the passing for many many years and always had a giggle cos it looks like it parked its butt on the wall for a rest. I only got these pics last week and i am glad i did because i would hate for it to be cut down and have no reminder of it.

I have not read the whole of this thread but i phoned up NPTC a month or so ago and told them i was asked if i had done the refresher on my tickets and i asked if i needed to do a refresher. The girl on the phone said NO you dont need to do a refresher course but certain companies will ask for it. So i didnt do it:001_tt2:

i think the cyanide is just in the leaves but i may be completely wrong on that one:confused1:

Marzipan is made from almonds so thats why, have i just fallen into another obvious fooling?

Doh! i should have spotted that:blushing:

that lovely smell is actually cyanide, nasty stuff laurel:thumbdown: I would say chip it.

We were working on a site once when a workmate got a needle in his thumb, I have never seen a guy go so white with fear and i have done some scary things in my time. We went straight to the hospital and got it all checked out and my workmate was ok but just the thought of what he could have contracted from it was scary enough. Horrible situation and i will always remember his face anytime i work near possible junkie sites, i prod around the tree with a stick all the time now just in case.

wow thats a lot of needles:scared1: Take care mate dont get stuck with one of those things or it could be goodnight in a slow horrible way

Hi ZED Thats good advice from Rupe but i would say if you are going to start up on your own then you will need to be extremely careful. You will be in direct competition with many other companies and probably a lot of which are vets to the trade. Pricing jobs is always a difficult thing and its very easy to get it wrong even for someone with years on the job. Lets say you see a job and think ok that will take 2 or 3 days so you price in the freelancer for that time plus all your other expenses, next thing you know after a week on the job you realise there is still some days left to complete it. BIG mistake and very costly on your part. On the other end of the spectrum you may put 2 or 3 days on a job which you wont get because the next guy knows its a 1 day job and prices you out. These are just a couple of examples of what can go wrong and for someone with no experience in the job its going to be extremely difficult for you to get it right. I can only wish you the best of luck and if you are serious about it then this is the best place to get advice:thumbup:

Nice one Ray:thumbup: Now its blood sweat and tears from now on:001_tt2:

this just shows how they dont care about truth, when they get a story that will sell papers then they make up the bits they dont know.

That is very true but off track of this thread. Addiction is a terrible thing and i know many addicts of drugs, alcohol, smoking (myself) etc but there is many addictions you probably wouldnt even have thought of and a lot of them are media induced like addiction to diets, tv, Arbtalk and there is even a water addiction! There are many drug addicts and few of them are sad cases of getting caught up in something they didnt understand, but the vast majority are complete wasters with no real ambition or just complete idiots. The problem is they all get tarred with the same brush.

Looks like a good bit of kit but ladders scare the hell out of me and i just wouldnt trust it. I can branch walk out to the thinnest of tips without a heart flutter but put me on a ladder and you better stay out of the way of whatever falls out my trousers:lol: only way for me is to fix it to something solid then i am ok.

Now thats flowing with what this thread is about! Nicely put J

about the importance of fools amongst many other things, i could spend all night explaining it but in a very very summarised version they are brainwashed into parting with their hard earned cash. Thats the bottom line.

I would say that most of that was made up, but you know, it probably wasnt!