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openspaceman

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  1. I tend to agree but I like about 3 of his songs, even if just for the zeitgeist, seeing him in East Berlin dancing in the dark with the happiest girl in the world at the time.
  2. Much as you appear to value the tree you should appreciate that if it is in fact 160 years old it is a veteran and removal will be getting more expensive over time. I cannot comment whether it could have caused subsidence this is down to soil type but if the discussion goes against you and the TO would not agree to react to a 211 notice by serving a TPO then turn the discussion to the engineer's report only apportioning some blame on the tree and consider a "without prejudice" offer for them to pay for tree work. Yes it is a lovely tree and a public visual amenity but it is no longer in its original environment.
  3. I think you are safe for a couple of months between charges, it's leaving it in the glove compartment for a year or so that is bad but I too like the idea of a supercapacitor one
  4. Don't leave it to self discharge, my daughter's got left and wouldn't accept a charge. I recovered it but it has lost most of the oomph after 4 years.
  5. Don't let my wife hear that, he visited her in hospital when she was 16 when it was a two person band, transferred her affections to clapton after and she's off to town with the rest of the decrepit groupies when he does a gig at the albert hall.
  6. No not really I couldn't get it fine enough which is why I used millie. This thread reminded me to get it out and clean it, I still have about 8kg of rye. Still wet but loosely assembled
  7. I have not tried sourdough baking but a year ago I had to cut my way into a patch of ripe rye a tree had fallen into, I brought home some ears , threshed and ground them in a coffee grinder. Added to whole strong wheat if caused the bread to be flat but I liked it. Next time I went back I asked the farmer if I could have a bucket full from the combine. A friend long term lent me millie, a french quern. 15 minutes of grinding just about makes enough rye flour for a loaf. Milling got suspended for a bit while I dealt with a mouse infestation ;-).
  8. I see so the lining extends from the register plate to the top of the reduced chimney breast and then the twinwall carries the flue up through the roof. I wouldn't worry as all the heat lost from the lining just heats the brickwork and gets back into the house. I depend on the flue gas heating my concrete lined chimney for retained heat once the fire goes out.
  9. please explain? the flue liner is normally continuous from the register plate to the chimney pot
  10. I don't see why not if the correct steel is used so much more is known about metallurgy now. One of my billhooks, a standford severquick, is laminated. Some previous owner has hammered the back and it has split to show it. In years gone by the big firms would forge weld two strips of iron or mild steel with a thin strip of high carbon steel in between, this high carbon steel when hardened then tempered forms the cutting edge. They also supplied the laminated steel to smaller makers. I have never owned a yorkshire bill hook but the long handled slashers we used when I started in forestry were that style.
  11. Yes 30 years old and it is the second time he has borrowed it, he wants to buy it now but I still have two others left over from when I was contracting. I can see I'll be left with the 026, the short is from the coil unit spade terminal to earth.
  12. Did you rebuild that check valve in your pic? I haven't got back on to the einhell yet. I have a little used 026 a mate brought in because it wouldn't run, loaned out a 262 for him to cut some logs. The 026 shows a short from the coil grounding wire to ground.
  13. That's the nub, according to that BBC doctor chap if it lists ingredients that you don't have in a normal kitchen it is ultra processed and not good. Trying to make vegetables taste like meat is always likely to involve ultra processing.
  14. Only thing I had against the standard one at my grand daughter's is that you need gloves to open the door, also too many controls to fiddle with. Shame she won't light it and I end up picking up the tab for the gas bill. I don't remember anything about the baffle support pin either
  15. Try the cricket bat firms that buy the timber. When I last sold some to Wrights they sent their own feller and he cut them with no sink. They then supplied and planted the replacement setts.
  16. That would be about the same as UK forces lost in the 6 years from 1939 to 1945
  17. Won't be that then, although it was predicted to increase at Xmas and I know a couple of people hat have it.
  18. I don't suppose you have any of those funny test kits left.
  19. It is beyond my knowledge. The median household income was about £30k, so that may be a starting point. I depend on my state pension but as has been pointed out it was only envisaged that retirees would receive it for about 5 years, in fact manual workers who were 65 when I started work seemed to die within a couple of years and I have drawn 8 years pension. In terms of overall wealth it should be affordable. BTW it is scrips and paying £9.65 every month wouldn't hurt me but it is possible my medication costs the NHS more than that. The thing is I seem to have to have a prescription to get the drugs (which I am not even sure I need but don't know the risk of stopping them).
  20. Still time yet, most of us probably still carry self replicating RNA care of pfizer
  21. @AHPP is not wrong plus these businesses owned by the wealthy are a means to avoid many taxes
  22. Not from me it isn't, I have frequently said that most of the problem of climate change and pollution is down to the wealthy and that the cost of supporting the poorest, including inevitable fraud, is inconsequential in comparison.
  23. We used to hand in our 5 shillings every Monday and as you say those too poor were readily identified and looking back I am sure I, amongst others, discriminated against them, for which I am ashamed.
  24. Perzactly 😀
  25. How much for a blood test?

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