kevinjohnsonmbe

It's worse than that in Kernow! (if yome English!!)

I don't really follow your logic there Mark? I mean, I get the middle sentence, but the 1st and last don't really apply. Are you picking up on a previous post where I might have mentioned voting Green at the last election? That is true, but for very specific reasons (1) there was no UKIP candidate available, (2) the local Tory is a buffoon (3) couldn't vote Labour whilst there was a breath in my body.... So you see, it really only left 1 option - I had to vote Green (secretly, I knew full well that my single protest vote wouldn't change the balance of power in this constituency so it was more symbolic than substantive - the incumbent Tory was returned for a second term and increased her majority from 9% in 2010 to just shy of 33% last time.) In a nutshell, whilst issues of Env and Rural Affairs are very much in my cross-hairs, that's the limit of what could / should be concluded from that single Green vote (so there's not too much to be read into it - it would have skewed any data Cambridge analytica might have been trying to analyse for example.) Does the discussion of current issues affecting the Labour Party 'weaken' it? Is the suggestion then that we don't? Is that just a couple of steps short of suppression of freedom of speech? It's all getting a bit Soviet Bloc.... (I am just teasing there, nothing to be gained from locking horns again....)

Presiding over, but not really controlling, ever more influential elements of the party which he is more aligned to (and would rather be fully immersed in) whilst burdened with the heavy weight of responsibility that comes with the moderating role of leadership.... It'll be an interesting one to watch as it plays out. Where's Vesp these days? He'd have the answers....

I thought it would have been Matelt, but you other ‘usual suspects’ were a fairly safe bet....?

Can't see this going quite in the direction it was intended..... ?

(steady on Matelot, this is a non-political post!! ) Today marks the start of invasive species week, when a range of organisations get involved to raise awareness of invasive non-native species and inspire people to #GetINNSvolved and stop the spread http://www.nonnativespecies.org/index.cfm?sectionid=132 There's some good e-learning opportunities under the "training" tag if anyone is interested?

Thought you'd be all over that Ti!! Although it IS in the news AGAIN wrt the mural.... And it cuts to the heart of the problem (for Labour) of having Che Guevara T-shirt wearing Marxists driving the party. That which has been quietly tolerated and kept simmering just below the surface is now emboldened, empowered and unleashed and is exposing the rather unpleasant, fundamental racism that actually exists within the very core of the organisation which trumpets loudest the virtues of social equality... Local branch Labour Party meeting tonight, I'm thinking of popping along for a laugh.... Item 5 on the agenda looks quite interesting: 5. Where we’re to: what we’re up against – number-crunching SE Cornwall

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/03/25/jeremy-corbyn-branded-hostile-jewish-leaders-labour-anti-semitism/

you can’t claim a bonus for that! There wasn’t even an ATTEMPT to disguise the wind-up!! I’m no particular fan of Gove, but as he did in other dartments, he’s making sound progress in the Env brief. Perhaps because it doesn’t suffer the National, emotional paranoia which binds any progress in Health or the amorphous Marxist blob of Ed. Acid test will be how he addresses farm subsidies in the face of the omnipresent, pernicious, self serving NFU & CLA.

See, you can’t judge every politician by JC’s standards!! (Whilst recognising that Gove might not be the best antithesis to prove that theory ?) I think I “get” Gove. He’s too clever to be popular, he’s not a people person but rather a ‘systems’ person, people frustrate him because they can’t keep up, as a consequence, he’s a poor departmental head / leader - NHS for example. I’m increasingly optimistic about his tenure in Environment though On the STAG issue and the perception of potential for political gain, I respectfully disagree Mr E. Any number of ‘lesser political mortals’ COULD have intervened, it is BECAUSE nobody else has, and that he has recognised the gravity and importance of the issue, that, thankfully, he has. No doubt the ‘opportunity for moral gain’ won’t be lost on him (Labour Council) but does that negate his interjection or lessen the inadequacies of those that have chosen not to?

It would be a challenge for any one with an open mind to watch the OU debate and be disappointed with his performance. The biggest disgrace of the entire scenario was the overt protest, supposedly from ‘the nascent great minds of the future’ over the mere prospect of him expressing his honestly held opinions.

? I had no doubt, but I’d feel morally obliged since it’d be spreading the gospel ? (happy to share BSI pubs without coughing up the £, but this is different.... It’s a just cause ?)

A mortgage fraud conviction.... If that was enough to debar from running for office the Palace of Westminster would be empty bar the tumbleweed!!

I’d mail it to you Mark (and make a duplicate payment on your behalf!! ???)

(A) Is he barred? (B) In a f*ckng flash if the alternative was JC! ? You edited after I’d replied Mark! I didn’t suggest HE was a champion of civil liberties, but rather that those that proclaim to be champions have been conspicuously silent on some of the fundamental civil liberties infringements he has been subjected to.

Gove’s been reading our posts on AT!! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-43492887

I read the book, it’s out on loan at the moment but happy to mail it over when it comes back if you’d like. It’s the biggest example of civil liberties hypocrisy you’ll ever see. If some of the civil liberties whiners had a genuine “social conscience” they’d be championing TR as a victim of state sponsored censorship. I might be doing them a disservice, maybe they are inherently racist as well as hypocrites, maybe “is it because I is white” that we’ve never seen the likes of Shami Chakrabartihami going out on a limb for him, despite the fact his civil liberties were ridden rough shod over....

I kind of ordered it a couple of days before the Gnome World extravaganza, but went along anyway. Met Julian - I had met him previously at a Vincent’s “big dig day” a couple of years previous but that was before you’d introduced the fold up infeed on the ArbTrak. For sure wrt group visit, I’m easy to tag on with another group if you have one already planned, or for anyone else to tag on at the same time if I have a chance to visit (already had someone say they’d like to join in.) Really appreciate the opportunity if it comes off ??

And this one: or his book...

Pete, is there any chance of a factory visit? Is it something that might be possible as part of a group or by arrangement? I know it might be seen as a bit geeky, but having just placed an order for an ArbTrak150, I'd love to see it on the line. Also, it's been requested in black, I notice on page 4 you mention a black unit with silver decals, if I were to get the colour codes for the company sign writing, would it be poss to have the GreenMech logo in the same colours to match when the machine gets some company decals?

Agreed, but it has a caveat: This would be true if measured against a straight 8-4 / 9-5 (whatever) metric but doesn't hold up against a job & knock model (which is potentially more likely with contracted in personnel (particularly climbers)) A full time employed 'team' (by whatever definition) will rarely be as cost effective as a more flexible model where the job is priced according to its component input costs unless the 'team' is fully engaged in £ earning activity for the full duration of their employed day 5 days / week (and lets be brutally honest, that's rare from PAYE staff.) I've experienced this from both sides of the coin. If I go to climb for someone else, I want to know what the job is in advance and agree the number of days / £ per day required. If I were to finish early, that's my hard work, sacrifice of a break etc that has presented me the option to FO home early. On the flip side. I had a climber come help me a couple of years back, I'd over estimated the time required for the 1 job and we were done by midday after a not too demanding morning (that had earnt the days money.) Since I had another ½ day job in hand we agreed to slip onto that 1 as well. The day rate was the day rate and it was something like a 09:30-16:00 day in total so about what you might expect for a days work. I think that guy got the hump because, in his perception, I'd made double the money expected for that day.... In hindsight, I could have tipped him off with a bit extra £ but, to be fair, I'm not on the stingy side with my hire-in rates to start with. I did have some more opportunities for him but he never returned my calls.... c'est la vie! I guess the point I'm trying to make, as regards an appropriate price for the subject trees in the previous photo's, is that it will never be possible to be competitive if you are fixed by the input cost of a 3 man team where others might be using 2, or even 1 man for the same task. The answer, in my estimation, would be then to not be fixed by the number of people required for any job, make the manpower fit the task, not the other way around.

If you want to drive yourself COMPLETELY bonkers, start at page 1 and see if it gets any clearer by the time you've reached page 23! All I would say in answer to the question I've highlighted above is... They don't tend to know!! Certainly true in the case of Snows Toyota Plymouth!!

Is that the US forum I think you might have mentioned before? Any chance of a link or is it ‘by invitation??’ ?

I hear that! But I don't run a tractor....

Varies according to the materiel that's being cut Mick, I've done some thick gorse on hi-flow, and mid revs (can't remember what level but will be out again with it soon I suspect). Less revs and not on high flow for long grass. Sorry not too specific but it's been a while since I've had it running and I can't remember