kevinjohnsonmbe

+ car parking, some choice surf spots accessible in Kernow via NT car parks at no additional cost. + makes for a good day out with plenty of local house / garden / park trees. - and it is a big minus, Machiavellian skullduggery surrounding recent vote re fox hunting on NT land. - NT draw down from tax base via ag subsidy. Footnote - it used to be possible to join NT NZ (at a fraction of the cost) and enjoy reciprocal benefits at UK venues but I believe this Avenue has been shut down (bloody Brexit!) On balance, from a personal perspective, it’s still an overall positive, but it’s borderline!

I did expect that answer. To be fair, I thought it would be Mr B though ? I'm on the earlies at the moment - Katy apples, too sweet for cizer! https://www.gardenfocused.co.uk/fruitarticles/apples/variety-katy.php

Good to see Barcham Trees making the Sunday papers today! Maybe a separate thread - What to do with the surplus apple crop this year....? I'm scouring the tinter web for new ideas! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/plants/fruit/8758150/Preserve-apples-to-enjoy-them-until-spring.html

August! That is a crime against humanity (in the UK at least!) Just back from Greece and there is a very noticeable temp drop but I’ve already told her, “not before November!” It’s unlikely I’ll win but it’s important to at least try and set some clear parameters!!

I’m quite certain it was by mutual agreement!

Was delicate the next day! ?

It was a good night! The BS was liberally greased by the barmaids elbow!

Whoa..... That tripped me out for a minute or two.... First picture - your leg looks more elegant than I'd imagined and it looks like the table is on carpet.... Second picture - looks like the table is on polished granite! and third picture looks like carpet again!

Don't fall for it..... It's a con! She was probably a plant (or got fired straight afterwards for being 'nice'), you know just to generate an urban myth that Hector isn't a twat. Throw in a 'good news' story once in a blue moon and folks will lower their guard - then BAM, they're all over you like a tramp on chips.

We already tried that! He got pissed and fell asleep just as I was lining up my best pulling moves... ?

Butting in and speaking ‘for’ others.... Starting to wonder if it’s a Stokie characteristic...? i know of 2 bloody experts! ?

See what you’ve started now! ?is up for a rumble and there’s no stopping him once he gets fired up!

Now then! I thought, over the years, we’d settled on a more amicable ‘agree to disagree’ sort of relationship based on mutual respect and healthy constructive discussion since our earliest exchanges viz-a-viz Scotch independence where you adopted such a crass and confrontational approach as that shown above. I am deeply disappointed and emotionally bruised to find us, after such a passage of time, seemingly reverting back to the old ways of direct personal insults. My faith in the gregarious generosity and inherent warmth of Island character is on a cliff-edge. What’s got under your skin you miserable old goat? Is it the early onset of seasonal depression what with the start of British Winter time up there in the Norf?

I did look at that when you linked it in an earlier thread. I noted the source (which made me smile) and the content back then but intentionally didn’t comment. I thought it a deeply flawed and heavily biased PR piece with massive gaps and such obvious ‘sponsorship’ from ‘interested parties’ that it didn’t warrant comment. Whilst I recognise that it appears to provide a source which those that are unwilling / unable to embrace a different way of thinking might reference, it does nothing to challenge the status quo nor does it present an open, balanced and forward thinking concept for the future. As such, it serves only as a comfort blanket for the institutionalised and, I suspect, will completely fail to bring any new converts to that side of the argument. I know we’ve touched on meat consumption before, but the solution (IMHO) lays in less rather than more. I guess in that respect I can agree with the part of the article which appears to advance the argument that food supply (at the National level) should be given the importance, as a strategic asset, that it deserves. This should start (at the individual level) by treating meat as a valuable treat rather than as a routine staple. What a challenge that would be - a seemingly impossible task of attempting to reverse the societal rot of instant gratification, lack of appreciation, buy now pay later, rights rather than responsibilities attitudes that seem to prevail in the UK these days. Hope all well with you and yours up there in the Islands! ??

Can't ever admit to having 'liked' the bloke, although he would have been on the list of geezers to have at a piss up (along with Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Jacob RM, George Galloway and Russell Brand (and possibly even JC - just so that I could laugh at him as he sat in the corner unable to get a word in edge ways or find anyone that would listen to him even if he could)) but I think this one genuinely needs to play out properly. Easy to let emotion take charge and hope that he swings, but I don't want to let personal prejudice interfere with due process.

Ledge!! ? Esp if they've had the 'invisible' T tax as well!!

You’d have to be working on some pretty suicidal margins to be faffing around considering the VATable rebate on input consumables when calculating the overall profitability (or otherwise) of a task.

I f*cking do! The first tier tribunal didn't wholly agree with Hector though and bent him over for me. It's just a shame the judge wouldn't allow my higher tier tribunal appeal so that I could go to full elbow length for the final insertion!! I think you could (if you were sufficiently stubborn, determined and with enough free time to take on the Tribunal process if required) argue a case that that was your business model - there was a company in Plymouth doing pretty much that "Trees for Free." They'd take down your tree (if they wanted to), leave all the shite and mess, take only the timber from which value could be derived. That was their model and I used that example to (successfully) argue that Hector was talking out of his 'Arris. Maybe it "could" be done, but would it be worth the nause is another question....

Piece 'o cake to change over tools too....??

Exac-1 do the black splitter which can have have brush, riddling drum, cone splitter, stump planer and auger heads. Once you’ve got the rotator head, the additional attachments are “pence!” I’ve got it for the Multione- good kit!

Take it to the (sand) bank!

Hope he doesn’t harbour a grudge!

https://www.piratefm.co.uk/news/latest-news/2658242/watch-boy-who-fell-from-pier-was-chasing-a-seagull/ Its all kicking off in Looe!

Country in economic and political meltdown..... Just about ripe to join the other EU basket case ecomies. Turkey + military coup = the start of this epic thread!!!