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I used to work with a guy whose brother was a traffic warden and was named Richard Head... When I was a docker I was standing beside two other blokes looking at the sheet on the wall with that days eight man gangs listed, one gang contained a Mr Marjoram and a Mr Parsely. One bloke turned to the other who was chargehand of said gang and exclaimed "Jesus, another couple and you'll have to fit the transit with a spice rack!" Oh how we laughed...

In my time as a docker there were random tests and a test on starting. The starting one was a urine test, the randoms were oral swabs. Neither are particularly accurate, both are open to false positives. I'm just jealous cos I don't have spliffs or rollies anymore. About to pass my previous best on nicotine quit, 8.5 months. Still miss it baaaaddddly. Not smoked weed (Apart from maybe 6/7 tokes) In well over ten years. Weed is easy to quit, and back in the day I was no lightweight... Good luck with the job, mind the mossies!

Odd one out, Equisetum arvense, picture 3. Field horsetail. Can file your nails with that!

I love doing that, all sorts of variations on the event vwr scam, I love it when I'm able to make them swear especially... Good sport and yes, better than TV

I really was cheered up by that post, thanks for that. (This will probably be deleted, I don't know why. Maybe a mod would like to explain...)

I felled several the year before last, when cut and split they dried rock hard and burnt very nicely. Dried outdoors in my well ventilated logstore...

I went on sunday with the better half, had a great day. Unfortunately, after a couple of Aspalls Bridie the Victorian maid type girl on stilts chose me to drag from the crowd to dance a jig or reel or whatever it was. Apparently I didn't look too much of a tool, and I stuck it out for the whole tune, the next guy she picked on managed a few seconds, he'd obviously had no cider... Steve the hewing guy next to classic hand tools is a quality geezer, we chatted for ages. Freelance instructor no less...

If you scroll to the bottom and click the links for the documentary from vice magazine it is fascinating and terrifying. Takes 40 mins in two parts though...

Does what is says on the tin. Chicken, gammon and leek pie. I could go on but would end up accused of pie porn! This is not just a thyme infused pie... | )

Everyone should probably stop carping on now, or prospects are bleak. However, I'm not out to be-gudgeon anyone there 15 mins of fame... Now I have to go on some porn sites cos I just saw a girl with a mullet and it gave me a chub!

Paid just over two, just over two years ago. Just sailed through the mot again, test fee only. 87 ish on the clock, extremely pleased with it. Dreadful in the ice or wet though (Super cab, rwd)

Great blog Dave, my girl is in year 6 and also eats off 'Prison trays' At school. If her supposedly Jamie Oliver menu meals are like that it's no surprise she's all over the cooking at our house when she's with us! Also, massive congratulations to your daughter on some excellent work there!

Regular, non shrinky, long in the body, V neck. Too much to ask?

Laugh out very loud... On a forklift course during my stevedore days the instructor bet the three of us we couldn't pick up a fifty pence. We wouldn't bet so he demonstrated, We all did it on the second attempt with hse approved forks... Getting in the bottle would be a different story I imagine!

Sorry, had to laugh out loud at that one. I don't live so far from Staveton. Spent the night of my fortieth in the Moroccan room at Butley Priory, practically opposite. I've spent endless hours in those woods. Before I knew for a fact they were special, I could feel in my very being that they were... Once I stumbled upon a large heap of what looked like olive green missiles around 18 foot long, in the depths of the woods there, Imagine my ex's surprise once I'd discovered they were fibreglass and put one on my shoulder as if to bring it home. They did look like real missiles... We were there to crawl around photographing deer rutting for her dissertation and believe me the eco system is thriving. Just finished burning the last of my sycamore/macrocarpa mix, if anyone needs to offload some sycamore feel free ( Or macrocarpa!) I think casual forest users like to see a blend of species, beech, oak, box, holly, sycamore etc. IMO best to keep the veterans secluded somehow, away from the carve your initials in crew although I'm sure a lot of those trees will have met penknives many times before!

Had to put that on my facebook page, absolutely brilliant!

Yes mate, my daughter suffers from those, she brushed against a cut stem at her Grandparents place on a sunny day with similar results to the previous pics. Can be quite nasty. Giant hogweed does the same to me...

No idea why the links say google...

Guilty as charged. Sort of. Been playing guitar for 33 years, not constantly and not competitively! Love it, pick it up, put it down. Well up for a collaboration online for the Arbtalk band idea, I have a history of nursing these things through, including a fan tribute to Howe Gelb of Giant Sand, Known as @The godfather of americana' Or 'The new Dylan/Young' Among other things... Google Google Video 4 years old or so, tunes from a way darker time, old stuff...

Could be a Mirabelle- Prunus domestica subsp. syriaca. The one in my back garden is also at exactly that stage. Do any people involved know what the fruit colour is?

Uh Huh...

Had to laugh at that. I hope you guys are close (But not too cllose!) I love the shirts, The khaki is my fave cos I mostly wear drab colours. The bright ones would be better in a v neck in my opinion.. I'll buy one, where do I keep an eye out for the heads up?

Attention, please note the whole on topic profanity free content above! ; )

Sister? Spent on weed to smoke with his wife? Heavy ballistic shellsuit scene dude. Let's 4.20...

Thanks Alec, was about what I was thinking. Any more for any more?