kevinjohnsonmbe

You forgot the most important factor in your careful and conscientious driving J..... The cost of the tow vehicle, the towed load and the trailer all came out of YOUR pocket and the financial cost of any loss / damage was also coming out of your pocket. Owner operator is a huge factor in care and diligence - although there are still rare occasions where incidents happen.

Leaving the EU is a small bit part of a much larger problem that was, in large part created as a consequence of being in the EU and which existed way before Brexit was even a word. Remoaner horse plop 🐎💩

For brevity..... er, no, doesn’t seem that way 😂

I didn't go into too much detail Jules - uncharacteristically brief 😂 Of course, in black and white, a straight forward trump card but the situation is rarely that binary - even if the outcome is, in theory, predetermined. A prominent row of TPO'd Lime with excessive basal epicormic which forms a significant part of the hedge (can't remember what the hedging species is) and where the hedge was originally planted right up next to the raised bank boundary with the footway such that cutting back would be so severe as to likely kill the hedge and denude the pleasant aesthetic appeal of the CA. Incidentally, since the attached pic, the hedge has been trimmed back to the usual historic pruning point but does still overhang the footway (but not excessively.) Maybe it was the TPO application for reduction on the Lime(s) that triggered the s154 - but I doubt the LA is that 'joined up.' I suspect it might have been the addition of telecoms street furniture on the pavement restricting the width and the covid requirement for more 'space' which has brought about the s154. Just seems a little excessive and inconsistent that this particular hedge - amongst so many other nearby private and institutionally (including LA) owned incursions into the highway - has been selected and that, rather than following the better practice of liaison with the 'offending' owner, the LA moved straight to s154. It's not my job BTW, I just did the TPO app back in May and was recently chatting to a pal that does the work here and it just happens to be an old boss of mine that owns the tree(s) / hedge. Had the LA followed the better practice of liaison prior to service they might have been able to reach a mutually agreeable compromise which (a) didn't destroy the hedge and (b) acknowledged the potential for the TPO approved work to coincide with the hedge work thus reducing the street works disruption on a main city route to 1 occasion rather than 2. Just for context, the attached pic (May 21) shows the hedge pre-annual trim when I did the TPO app, it was a bit excessive then but has since been trimmed. Certainly not the worst offender I've ever seen and rather surprised that it has progressed direct to s154. Today's main effort (pic 2) is the supporting detail for the planning app to widen / resurface the entrance to a listed building in a CA... What fun!

A symptom of such overt regulation that layers start to impose upon and contravene other layers.... Currently have a s154 (14 days notice) in a conservation area 😂 Riddle me that 😂

Just send the attached pic to the council! Wall or tree? The wall is a clear and present danger to public safety. https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/dangerous-looe-wall-forces-emergency-5628641

Does that mean you disagree with the rest? (I'll take a small area of agreement over nothing mind....😂)

I’ll keep it intentionally brief and at high level because there are a million rabbit holes that could be opened up. 👍🏻 What is happening is a vain and misdirected effort to treat the symptom rather than the cause (in large part although there are some justifiable exceptions.) Care of extended family, as a default start position, should be with the family - not the state. People should take responsibility for their own situations rather than having the state fund them. Taking that as a default start point, funding the exceptions to that POV should perhaps be state subsidised. Wealth disparity is at an all time high and it is not appropriate to draw taxation from the lower tiers to fund state deliverables with such a degree of wealth disparity. There needs to be a whole scale shake up of taxation.

Your suggestion, albeit not ideal, is better than what has been done. What he’s done is a short term sticky plaster on a gaping wound which ‘might’ just stem the bleeding till the next election when it (might) be someone else’s problem.... And so it has been going on for decades with no true insightful leadership and clear thinking from politicians focussed on the 4 year popularity cycle. Personally, I’m sick to the back teeth of (seemingly) every man jack wanting another 1% for this or that and justifying it with “...it’s ‘only’ 1,2,3 %...” Theres 2% on council tax for social care, there’s 3.4.5% for the old bill, there’s extra now on NI, add ‘em all up and see what all these random 1 & 2%s amount to in total. They'll end up strangling the golden goose! You simply cannot rely upon ever increasing taxation on an ever decreasing work force (automation, robotics etc.) Ive got the right hump with this!

I was sat in a bar in Tromso watching it on TV. Returning from the 60 year commemorations of the Arctic Convoys at Arkhangelsk, 'someone' had the 'good idea' of transiting the fjords as a navigation exercise. Myself and the deputy engineer were having a brew on the upper deck as we sailed past Tromso and thought - that looks like a cracking run ashore.... Minutes later the ship ran aground and we got our run ashore! Kept us in Tromso for about 2 months as all the shit unfolded around the world post 9/11. Beer was pricey but what a place!

You’ll need to be a bit more specific mucker. If you mean neighbourhood development plan then, after passing examination and referendum, they become adopted planning policy and are given full ‘consideration’ alongside other planning considerations. Doesn’t necessarily mean they have ‘legal standing’ in their own right necessarily, just that they may form a part of the decision making process and / or appeal of the decision. Really depends what you mean by a village palm and who has come up with it. What does it specify and who / how might it be implemented? If I made a plan which included doing something in your yard I’d have no right to actually ‘do’ it, but there’s nothing to stop me making a plan which states a future intention to do it. More detail mate!

Delivered on 2 pallets.... Payment option for 2 instalments.... (couldn’t resist 😂)

Materials are scarce, prices are fierce!

Don’t get caught in the ‘busy fool’ trap though. Be like Stella Artois - reassuringly expensive rather than setting your own value too low and then slaving away for insufficient reward / recognition. Choose your jobs carefully and look after the good customers. I’m pretty sure there is more work available at the moment than there are good people to do it. For now at least, it certainly seems like it’s a work rich environment.

Just getting into this thread late but saw this and thought it might raise an eyebrow: Cornwall Wave Hub to be sold for offshore wind farm WWW.BBC.CO.UK Wave Hub owner Cornwall Council hopes the deal will lead to more offshore power schemes in the area.

Brilliant! Never seen the film - don’t want to if he’s about to have dental ‘treatment’ - but, a fine choice of film clip to summarise the post 😂

By the book J or by the seat of yr pants? If you have a BT van anywhere nearby ask the lads inside if they could do you a favour. Save hours of admin hassle!

Is a tree ‘safe?’ Thats what you want someone to tell you but I think the premise of your desire is flawed. If you find a suitably qualified and experienced ‘expert’ you might still struggle to find someone that would (credibly) provide such an assurance. After a suitable survey, you’d be better thinking in terms of the deliverable being - is it unsafe and why and what should / could you do about it. Bit like an MoT test really, not worth the paper it’s written on in terms of proving a cars ‘safety’ at any point after it leaves the MoT test centre. Whilst it is possible to observe, record and comment upon potential hazard features, are you ever going to actually get a definitive statement of a tree being ‘safe?’ What happens if there is an exceptional snow load, wind event or lightening strike? What’s your ‘safety certificate’ worth then? Ask somebody to tell you it is UNSAFE (and why) and you might be better served. Ask somebody to tell you it is SAFE and you’d be just as well buying the snake oil too 😂 @AHPP - dammit, will somebody think of the children 😂

A lot of us are - but that’s a personal choice and doesn’t require / demand anyone else to help. It’s expecting others to bail you out and to share your personal passion (and there is no avoiding - it was at a ‘cost’ (in resource terms) to other elements) where it kind of falls over. Admire his personal passion (and could quite easily see myself behaving in exactly the same way) not so much his expectation that others should be as invested in it as he is.

FO - find your own figures! You know how it works 👊🏻

I'm more towards the less complimentary end of the scale tbh. I know many here, myself included, put their dogs on a higher level of emotional attachment than might be applied to certain humans, but, and whilst I admire that man's personal commitment to a cause that he is prepared to risk his life for, 1 man / 1 charity is never going to solve the problem of animal abuse in such regions and it is illogical and unreasonable to expect others to share his determination just because it is a cause he has tied his colours to. I saw grown men cry in both Iraq & Afghanistan after informally 'adopting' local stray dogs and then, having tried all the available avenues to repatriate them at the end of their tours, finally realise it might have been kinder to both themselves and the animals if they hadn't formed such an emotional attachment. In this case, I'd view it as - do what you want chummy, but when you doing what you want involves expecting others to be as passionate about it as you are, and then being surprised and angry when they are not, and demanding their time, attention and resources to solve problems pretty much of your own voluntary making - it doesn't come across as particularly sensible. Granted, it was a charter flight and it was funded by charitable donations and that animals were not taking up human seats - BUT - if reports are to be believed, there were some 5000 emails that went unopened from actual humans that wanted attention and the FCO was too busy to deal with them. It's all very well saying the flight was chartered and paid for and that no seats were taken by animals, but - as is apparent from his tirade - he was expecting and demanding administrative resource which might have been better deployed elsewhere. Fair play for having and following a personal passion. Such things rarely, truly, stand alone and without the need for external support. Throwing your toys out of the cot is not such a good look.

I read 1 page - it’s a lot like AT.... Endless repetition and argument over meaningless points of detail where folks become obsessed and ultra focussed on minutiae rather than taking a more strategic overview. 😂

I hadn’t, but have now...

🛎🔚 or good 🍳? Thoughts.... Pen Farthing threatened to 'f***ing destroy' official in leaked recording METRO.CO.UK The message was reportedly sent to the defence secretary's aide during the Kabul evacuation.

Partial fix for ya there 🍳🍳z