Gary Prentice
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Stubby, get a solicitor as soon as you can. Everything will be against your sister as it's the way the system works. She needs to get the dog back from the kennels because the level of care in them is disgusting (I have first hand personal knowledge). The police are pretty useless in their application of the law on dogs but once the system starts it's almost impossible to get out of it until it's run its course IMO I'm sympathetic to the dog that's died, but that's entirely the owners fault for not controlling her own dog. we walk our rotties at a quite spot and put them on a lead immediately we see another dog but have numerous arguments when other twats let their dog run yapping around ours cos "They are friendly". Common sense is just to prevent something starting rather than trying to resolve a dog fight. EDIT: Misread the first post and thought the police had seized the dog now.
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If you prune, rather than fell as notified, you haven't exceeded the notice and nothing can be done. I try not to get wound up by stupidity in LAs, normally by planning officers who know FA and make demands that they legally can't. I figure that I'll write an exact work spec for the client in the quote, which goes to site with the climber. Just copy that into the notice or application. It helps the TO and he/she will like you for it. not worth getting stressed over cos it'll only be you getting stressed over it. If a LA are getting silly in what they want to know, beyond the act and regs etc, then go to town and battle them- cos they can/do take the most mick from time to time.
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Told you it was good
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If you want to lop or top it, just inform the intention to fell, if the tree's no great thing. Saves loads of aggro and discussion.
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Made a complete cock up posting too early. The TO needs to decide the effect of the work and then decide whether to accept it or or TPO stuff. Providing enough info to make sure they understand the intent, as long as that's based on good practice or management, should be beneficial and makes you look professional (read, they get more helpful if you don't make their life harder) I normally give reduction specs the same as an application, but wouldn't supply details as to the current height/spread of trees or hedges. That isn't even a requirement of a full on app.
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All you need to provide is enough detail to firstly identify the tree/trees and then enough of a spec to inform what you intend to do I.e what the tree is going to be like when you're done. The height/branch spread sounds like a bit too much to ask for but to be fair the TO needs to know whether the work will ruin
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Better storyline than Corrie this! all it's short of is an illegitimate long lost LGBT child turning up. -
Lost seven pound? I've got it! Put that on since beginning of December.
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That would give a chance to buy a new handbag too...
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I like ancient Area TPOs. It's fun tying the LA up in knots when they're rattling sabres about contraventions when the solution would have been to survey the trees properly during the previous twenty, thirty or forty years.
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Being pedantic, the Area order was always meant to be a temporary measure used on the grounds of expediency (sp?) until such time as the trees could be properly assessed.
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Very different animals. Area TPO covers what's there at date of order, woodland what's there and what grows after
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After seeing what heroin did to my twin sister, I've no desire to try it even with cancer. That's a pretty daft comment.
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It's a start mate. I found that that because I'd always been on the tools I didn't have the sort of skills that others in the room had because they wrote reports and communications all the time. They were mostly from national companies or TOs. You have to relearn stuff from your school days and it takes time, but it does get easier as you get more practiced at it. Keep at at it and in time things start to fall into place.
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Over the holiday period the numbers were even higher, with the people smugglers maybe thinking border protection staff levels would be lower. I think two boats actually landed in the UK yesterday morning. i can't find the link, but there's an article about Javet/Javed meeting with various bodies to increase patrol boats because of the numbers involved.
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Just how you need to feel in control of a plane
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4 migrants? There. Was 40 alone recorded on Christmas Day. one boat, containing 4 or 5 migrants was picked in French waters, and then bought to the UK. Maybe Mr Johnson can explain how that works?
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I think that you need to be on some sort of benefit to use the food bank, if your homeless i.e., no fixed abode it's really difficult to get into the system to claim benefits. my missus has been trying to help a homeless lad out recently and when you learn how difficult it is, even for the ones who aren't suffering from addictions or other mental health problems, it's just bloody heart- wrenching. we were discussing providing the fellow a home when he told us that he'd got sorted in shared accommodation with a charity after months and months on the streets.
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Yeah, I should have qualified my post, IIRC after Forst finally sorted it out it was more or less a new machine.
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That's why I got shot of my one, too many problems and downtime under warranty to be bothered with the hastle when it ran out,. To be blunt, yours was an absolute lemon
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No joy I'm afraid.. there seem to be memory issues regarding the name, but the sight of the bottle has stirred some vague sense of nausea! we had a quick Google of bottle designs and limited runs of the stuff.. nothing with the same bottle, a few close to it but not the exact one! Will you thank her I thought it was a long shot really. Strangely enough I also suffer from memory problems and nauseous bouts linked to alcohol consumption now and again. BTW, the lower stars (3 star) are supposedly considered more drinkable than the five and sevens, or so I'm told, should she want another go at it.
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Rum? I thought Metaxa was brandy?
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It's an acquired taste for sure. Some are better than others. i don't suppose she'd have any idea of a name that I could search? Per chance. This lot are going to need proof, they're adamant it's whiskey
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I found this in the back of the cupboard and can't identify it. Does anyone recognise the bottle? I think it's Metaxa, but we've three votes for whisky, all from non whiskey drinkers. I'm discounting whiskey because 1) I've never seen any whiskey in a bottle like it and; 2) I very much doubt I'd leave a bottle of whiskey half drunk.
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Create a routine, setting regular time aside to study and don't allow anything to interfere with it. Be really (OCD ) organised when researching, you may search loads of sites and articles finding bits of info and then when you need to reference them again you can't find them. Make a note what info the site/article contains, so when you need it it's easy to find. I'm really bad at labelling files and spent hours, literally, searching for things I knew I needed to reference, often just to write a single sentence in a submission.
