openspaceman

There are some changes to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 and something in a new policing and sentencing act. The effect is to make protests a criminal act on private land (consider the Kinder Scout trespass that led to the public being able to access the hills would now become criminal. The thing is some of these areas which people are buying up can support public access without causing the owners who are often absent any problems. Not that I think England can support a right to roam as in Scotland and indeed I did not support the CRoW act where IMO it impinged on different rare habitats. Now ostensibly one part of the act is to criminalise setting up encampments with vehicles, the side effect will be to criminalise kipping in your car. The driver is businesses that have bought into big office developments and shopping malls with their own security, because these were often built alongside public squares and roads but the land was transferred and rights extinguished, so when you walk by them you are now walking permissively. The upshot is it will control protests and the police will not have any more resource to deal with travelers but private companies will be able to evict protesters. In other threads comments have been made on how Covid has increased the control the government has on the population and I think this is mostly to do with the demands of the kingmakers, the holders of assets, to restrict the general public and has become worse as assets have come under control of the super wealthy.

That's an entirely different matter and if you are one of those people that believe putting notices up deters thieves you are the one with the problem. I was giving you advice on managing a permissive right of way horse to water etc.

Well you miss my point in that lodging a letter with the HA that you are not dedicating a path for public use protects the land from a claim that a permissive path is a PRoW. Anyway the fact that trespass is currently a civil offence (and injunctions can be had in the civil court to abate a nuisance from individuals) means that a blocked PRoW can be circumnavigated and is a good thing IMO even though this is slated to be changed in the new police act.

You should also lodge a statement with the highway authority that you do not dedicate the path for public use and renew it every few years.

I'm not at all familiar with where you are discussing but we have plenty of residential roads where cars park on the footway either side of the road here and completely block it for pedestrians. In such circumstances where there is little pedestrian traffic it makes more sense to be to do away with sidewalks, allow parking on either side and give pedestrians priority on the road which then is often only 12ft wide.

Bob in our area OSS, Ramblers nor I object to routes that take PRoWs away from yards. In fact one such diversion has been confirmed only 400 yards from my home. The highway Authority do require costs to be borne by the person making the application and often owners are unwilling to pay this unless (as in the case above where the owner wanted to build a barn and manege) there is a development benefit. The diversion has to offer the public the same or better amenity as the existing route. In the above case the owner wanted the path enclosed by fences and agreed a 10 ft width, no barbed wire and no obstruction by gate or stile from the public road up until a track which livestock could use. Even then there are problems for walkers in that the enclosed path then becomes the responsibility for the HA to maintain, and they don't, again in the instance above the owner, a local developer, has orally agreed to mow the path, it cannot be a formal agreement as the HA taking the responsibility is part of the legislation for when paths are enclosed.

He was wrong too

I guess it does not have wifi then, just an ethernet connector but that doesn't matter as we very seldom watch it.

I still haven't figured out how to do that

Lithium phosphate, warranted for 7 years so may still be working after that. My main problem is I use too much electricity for cooking otherwise I would be self sufficient most days at this time of year. Economics don't look too good in the absence of very cheap offpeak power, at the time I ordered my battery I could have a 5p off peak tariff and a 16:00 to 20:00 high tariff of 30p but this is not offered now. At current rates my total solar PV and battery installation is available for £8k and generates 3MW/annum. IF I utilise all that at current rates of 28p/kWh that saves £840 but the investment is a wasting asset and only time will tell if it would be worthwhile doing now.

A bit like why I got my home battery except aprt from Octopus no one seems to be offering a decent offpeak rate unless you own an EV car charger at the moment otherwise I could top up ,y battery after midnght and never need to draw at the peak rate.

Both of which are extended all the time soil temperature is high. I think I am seeing this with gorse as well whereas deciduous trees can only grow when in leaf

Yes and the Lesser Celandine have been in flower for at least 12 days, mind it was adjacent to the M25 which is probably warmer than many places.

That will be to give a her a good golden handshake so she was willing to go.

It may be tiny now but...

Yes it's best to have a bit of quiet and Sunday is my day, I won't start any machine except for transport at home, so I agree with @Mick Dempsey and @lux though we do working parties at a remote wood on Sundays but are generally drowned out by traffic noise. Railway work there was no choice.

Truss me

That was my excuse too, when I did get guilty about it and tried to donate I was rejected because of my age.

That's extremely cautious, I agree it's best not to stray into the carnage @spuddog0507 portrays but cannot see a reason not to tackle some windblown and learn, I don't think the qualifications existed when I tackled the bulk of my windblown experience in 1987 or 1991.

The point being that the new cost has nothing to do with it, it's the return to the thief that's the only consideration. The tinwork, running gear etc. can all be weighted in hidden in the boot of a scrap car and starters, engines, batteries and alternators either sold or weighed in separately. The flywheel and chassis are then unidentifiable heavy iron, if the thief gets 400quid it's enough for them. The two thefts from my old firm that I dealt with were both found whole, one in an estate car park waiting to see if the tracker was working and the other after it had been sold on a couple of times to a firm of arborists.

It was a heads up so I will be wary in future cooking as a search shows a few studies.

are you referring to turmeric, if so why not if you are on blood thinners? I am in the habit of using it generously in curries.

Interesting read but I doubt the losses are quite as bad as they suggest, anyway I still liked the device to convert a bike and though I doubt I'll ever do it (little space for an indoor bike) it's a bit of fun and puts into perspective our dependence on energy sources.

Also less stressful to the clothes

I've picked up several of those green plastic 5ltr containers and while they look the same the threads feel slightly different. Adblue spouts are too small