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Then I feel sorry for your kids. Sorry you can smell me.

Not only but also, the current fashion at Felixstowe docks, among the hardcore proper dockers is for the e cig. I guess they don't want to be social lepers or stinky anymore.

I smoked, properly for 33 years. I am almost 48. I quit smoking just over 3 years ago. I was a roll up man. On the evening of the the morning that I quit, with patches, I went out to the shed where my cats used to live (before they died of being 20 years old) I smashed the top of my head on the top of the door frame because I wasn't used to being a non smoker, and I will admit to crying, embarrassingly hard. It was Nov 13th 2011. I have only smoked twice since, one a 3 drag roll up and once a spliff. The spliff was nice, with minimal tobacco, and reminded me of when I used to do that before I had to grow up. I am currently addicted to nicotine gum, who knows what the the ramifications of that are? Smokers reek. Trust me on this.

Cheers mate, kind of what I thought, but you never know unless you knowor sure eh? It came out of the ground fully seasoned it seemed and I have done nothing to it but brush it off with a nylon dustpan brush. I like it!

Great idea but... Containers would be the way to go. I was a docker for over ten years, general cargo/loose loads are more or less dead and gone. It's a hyper competitive market... Sorry to rain on your parade and I wish you all the very best.

It may be an old rose root but it is wicked!

Hi guys, I am going to post a link to a dropbox folder of pics of an item I have owned for around 25 years... https://www.dropbox.com/sc/bn8w3sffpl7ohnu/Q6Cyq7zFru The album is titled root burl as I couldn't think of a better description... It was found among the roots of a fallen veteran Oak around 25 years ago near Lingfield racecourse. When I first found it I thought it was a skull of some kind. Once dusted off it was clear that it was wood. Excuse my ignorance as I was mainly trained on the tools as it were. It is rock hard and I am happy that it has no worm etc in it, it lives in my bedside drawer. Anyone? Mr Humphries?

http://www.arbortech-tools.com/ Mark, it's a link! Here's another...

http://www.classichandtools.com/acatalog/King-Arthurs-Tools.html

Andy is right and if you follow his link, you will be presented with an article about a place that I worked for ten years. Trust me, it's an almost daily occurence for customs to board vessels and scrutinise documented container weight vs actual tare weight... Admittedly, a lot of recovered stuff is high end motors, mostly within 24 hours of being nicked, re plated and in some cases resprayed. A lot however is plant from all manner of industries. One time and import box was several times over it's stated weight. It was a soft top box from Spain full of onions on the paperwork, but actually contained huge slabs of marble and a ton or so of hash...

Many years ago myself and two good mates did a lot of work around the south east. Our phrase evolved from the original in truck phrase (Blushing) Gash alert! to the slightly surreal Splursh Gelert, eventually ending up as, after a spell on the South Downs as Lurgashall! (A village near Chichester) Happy days...

Yep Woodyguy, indeed...

Thought this was an interesting piece of advertising, from the US... Bubba's Tree Removal - A Southern Tree Atlanta

Aaaarrgh! A beautiful weeping willow was felled near me, on a a gorgeous amenity value site. Sometimes it just has to happen. Over and out...

Thanks guys, for your input. I'm going to fire off a couple of letters and see what comes back. I'll post up the outcome (Eventually!)

Thanks Arborist, but it seems so far that they are mainly concerned with bums on seats in front of Jeremy Kyle at the mo. Enviromental health have a lot more powers or so the CAB have told me...

One more thing, on my side IE: Where it is leaning, the only thing holding it up is a small acacia which the neighbour has already mostly killed by cutting back to the boundary and all along the run are nice mature shrubs and two clematis, two of the shrubs are berberis, lovely when you can't see where your hands are going.

Here should be pictures. This is the side I can't currently work from to do £500 plus worth of materials only work @ my own home. Taken from another garden that sides on to the offending garden... The blue thing is a ten foot plus diameter trampoline all brambled into the ground, and there's lots of rusty iron and who only knows what else laying around. Also, this is not a paying job, but a costing me job...

Thanks a lot for the replies guys. All valid, but we have been looking to replace the whole run to tie in with another new section I replaced in the summer, plus a nice existing section which I carefully worked out how to match to her indoors standards... The 172 ish foot run is split by a lovely former hedgerow Oak and the fence level stem of a dead othe Oak. All beyond the dead Oak to the end of the run (Which is the fallen part) now look makeshift and K rap so I have no interest in standing it up etc although I may find a use for them. The main point at the mo is that the rail side is inaccessible to me at the mo as a mad woman who doesn't own and has contributed to the demise of the fence is basically too mad to open her door or go out in daylight hours. I can reach the top rail from my side, just... Also, on the rail side are the posts, covered in her K rap that I don't want to move... I intend to replace with concrete posts and keep the spacing pleasing to the eye... Thanks again for your input

Hello chaps, the situation is this. Part of my side fence is the rear fence of a housing association property. The fence had been leaning since the summer and on Monday blew partially down into my garden. I own the fence, however there is a question of blame as the (AHEM) ill young woman at the back of whose garden it is had been piling all sorts against the fence, including rotting planks, a rusty 'Compost heap' made of corrugated iron and full of grass, inch thick buddlea stems, bricks etc. Yes, I'm getting on to enviromental health as rats have been seen, and yes, also contacted the housing assoc. No luck so far. The fence is approx 15 metres of arris rail and feather edge, which for some reason has the 'good' side to my side. What's the best way to get it down? I'm thinking saw through between obvious nailing points and take out in sections. I don't want to be sharpening chains all day nor am I too bothered about salvalging any of it, although if I can it would be nice. Any one have any suggestions? It is leaning towards my working area at approx 40 degrees and don't forget I am working from th good side. All help appreciated, thanks in advance

Just read/watched all of that. I'm a soppy old sod and it made me well up. Good luck dude...

Landguard Fort, 3.7 miles away. Landguard Fort When I was growing up it would've been Box Hill or Leith Hill tower. Traded big hills and trees for big skies and sea for financial reasons...

Congratulations Steve, well deserved recognition for your great site.

If you have them in your garden, it's good to make sure they can move to another garden, ie a gap under the fence, as they like to roam up to two miles a night. Badgers only eat them when they are desperate, as they share the same diet-earthworms and slugs mainly. Great aren't they Jon?

My other half also works in healthcare, although in an admin role, rather than at the sharp end. We've been together almost nine years and I don't know what I would do without her. She is amazing. An amazing, perfect, beautiful Woman, a perfect counter to my ridiculous man/boy stupidness.