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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 😂

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

All your techniques will be upside down won’t they? 👨🏻‍🦳➡️my (c) 🐐

I see your logic there J 😂 To expand upon your wife analogy.... Might I add a boiler analogy? No sense swapping out an old boiler for a more energy efficient new tech / renewable one - unless - the old boiler is knackered and near the end of its useful life already. But, if you have to swap it out as a matter of course due to unserviceability, inefficiency and general cantankerousness, then a newer, younger, more efficient and generally more pleasing model makes absolute sense and will look after you for many happy years Just for absolute clarity, I am referring to the move from a crusty old oil boiler to a newer model pellet biomass boiler rather than my own historic marital status which, whilst bearing some comparable similarities, is entirely coincidental 😂 The pellet boiler has provided 10 years loyal service so far, has provided for my domestic heating and hot water needs at a significantly lower financial demand, is kinder to the environment and has more than covered it’s installation and annual running costs through the RHI scheme. All of which pleases me greatly! The wife, of 13 years, (and 13 years my junior) has many similar qualities - like I say though - purely coincidental 😂

Side walls on they big balloon tyres looked a bit flimsy... Liking the winch + redirect arrangement though. Not sure I’d be too confident with loading on those bars off the front of a £££s truck though 🤪

Ideally, you should have entered it into your asset list at purchase price, claimed AIA on the purchase price and devalued it annually. The current value, as per your asset list, is what you should record as your sale price and your sale price must include VAT which you must pass on to Hector. edit! Just read Swinny’s post. Maybe I’ve got it wrong? But as Mick says, I would have thought you’d have to charge VAT - unless you get a load of scrap to weigh in and record in on asset list as the digger being written off after a mysterious fire - then sell it under the radar?

Over charged at 395? It can only be per person and that would be a stretch. Sounds quite reasonable actually. Council took down a small Ash outside the house of wor nipper’s mate yesterday. 2 blokes - all day. It was an hour’s work for 1 man! The only way they can have been overcharged by subbies is if the subbies were working at council pace....

It’s not a piss take, it is a sound concept (if you can handle the potential hassle of having ‘unknowns’ on your patch - although that could be mitigated by going through a training provider who would / should take responsibility for the actions of their students.) Sound idea, well trodden path round these parts for landowners looking to save a buck in return for a bit of inherent hassle.

Is she a babe? Niiiiiice 😂 just had the RHI newsletter, Woodsure having taken over from Gemserve as the administration of that scheme. Their latest ‘long screwdriver’ QUAnGO, self justification, money spinning scheme is to develop and impose a maintenance schedule / requirement for biomass boiler owners..... Got to pay for next years holiday and a boob job for PA somehow.....

What’s yr current employment Mags? I’m Liskeard based but frequently working in Plymuff and surrounds. Often got opportunities for extra help.

Phone goes off or ‘do not disturb’ when I don’t want to be disturbed. Other people have different work / life patterns or different time zones if, for example, living working overseas. They can phone / email whenever suits them and I’ll answer / respond as suits me. What I find more annoying is the: ”...I’ve been worried about this tree for years, can you come as soon as possible and look at it...” Yeah, no problem, I’ll be sure to fit it in at some point in the next couple of years....

Hong Kong tree trimming fatality | Vertikal.net VERTIKAL.NET A female tree worker died earlier this morning when the boom of a truck mounted platform/bucket truck suffered... Thankfully still rare in UK, the number, frequency and similarity of MEWP / BT accidents where they are more widely used seems to present more Arb aerial accident instances than climbing. Im not buying the MEWP should be the default ‘safer’ option that is presented in certain quarters. A competent climber, applying proper working practice, using kit that they them self can visually check before use as compared to climbing into a machine that the user is rarely qualified or sufficiently experienced to properly check. Does anybody actually believe or subscribe to the MEWPs position as ‘preferable’ to climbing?