kevinjohnsonmbe

Tesco home delivery crates rock! good for kindling, good for kit, just good for 'stuff!'

Tidy is good - busy is better!

I was looking up similar earlier this week. Found this on a google search, came off some LA's webpage can't remember which LA: "There is a responsibility placed upon the highway authority to maintain roads to a condition fit for the traffic that might ordinarily be expected to use it. Unless there is a traffic order in force restricting the size or height of vehicles that can use a particular road, a vertical clearance of 17 feet (5.20m) shall be maintained to allow sufficient clearance for vehicles which might ordinarily be expected to use the highway to gain access." Had a quick look at Mynors and there's loads in there but too much to re-type here! Hope that helps....

It's the chancer who works on the books during the week, then does cash back handers at the weekend that do it most round here. Haven't got a clue how to cost a job so let the customer get a proper quote, then just comes in 100-150 under - bingo!

Liking the mills! Had a chance at a second hand Lucas recently but passed it up as it was rather old although well maintained. Got to be better to go new and benefit from the updated motor efficiency and safety features?? I wonder if I can get through the APF without smashing the bank balance?? Just been knocking up a play den for the little one with the Alaskan.... There was a thread a short while ago asking if there's any profit to be made from an Alaskan. For me, I'd say it's more about 'tinkering' and trying to make better use of some decent timbers rather than just firewood.

Same as the TM tickets! A week of day dreaming before a 2 hour test completed in 30mins! Pants!!

Is it the case that this applies to agricultural land where funding is drawn down in subsidy, but not necessarily relevant to any other areas not drawing down CAP subsidy? That's the way I'm seeing it but appreciate any corrections if I've misinterpreted.

Hedge sparrow & Hanser get the point about the potential "issue" with DIY sweeping. Like many insurance issues, you either have to reduce the risk so far that it's acceptable to dispense with insurance or you have to follow the "letter of the law" so as not to give the insurance company opportunity to say you've failed in your duty of care so they can avoid a pay out. That's the balancing act! With 20 yrs experience, and knowing your system intimately, it sounds like you've got it sussed Hanser, conversely, Hedge sparrow sounds like you've made a sound choice in your circumstances with timber frame.

Lined or unlined? What did you throw at a set of brushes? Thinking of the buildings insurance, if we had a chimney fire would insurance Co. pay up if it was a DIY job?? (most insurers are dirty back tracking weasels)

"Busted!" The wife sussed me as well! She's a good deal clevererer than than I give her credit for! She said "you're just practicing log cabins aren't you? Does this have anything to do with that woodland auction next week?" Me "Mmmmmmm, no, just a coincidence........"

Do you sweep it yourself? We've got 4 chimneys, unlined, 1830's house, got a good sweep we normally use, but at £30 a chimney for maybe 20 mins each I'm wondering if I should buy a set of brushes.....

And the hard work is finally starting to take shape:

Yes,yes! Fair one!! There's that which 'should' happen, and that which 'actually' happens!! With the best will in the world, sometimes a tree comes down and you only see the nest when it's too late.

Wouldn't it be true to say that "awareness of bird nesting" should have been the norm since CWA? Cross referencing to CAP is not 100% relevant unless the site is drawing down funding from CAP?? It's only an offence to "intentionally" disturb nesting birds under CWA.

Can't imagine why it should, unless the organisation or area of operation is drawing down funding from CAP or HLS?? What book is it?? Sounds like it's worth a read!

That's a great little exchange of messages! Hope it works out for all!

Thank goodness I'm not alone! I was beginning to think I'd lost the battle with my OCD! TCD, did you see PM I sent a few days ago about Mont Pine??

Had a walk around the grounds this evening since our little girl is on the ward. Few interesting observations and pictures, the new car park build and landscaping will have made someone a pile of cash but it's some of the weirdest stuff I've seen! Carpark looks like a Shanghai bamboo scaffold, couldn't believe it, they have used round fence posts on the upper tier. I wondered if it was some kind of temp safety measure but why would they choose round fence posts? The spacing is so wide as not to provide a barrier to a child falling through, surely this can't be the design effect / finished item but the car park is in use??? How on earth would this pass Bldg control? Haven't checked the new BS but the spacing on the new plantings seems too close, the ties are way too tight and look to be too low to me? The boundary fencing for the outside ground level parking, although rather agricultural, appears that the top levels are reasonable but, and it's difficult to see from the pic, the bottom post levels are up to 3" variance in length! Pretty poor in my view. Anyone else seen it?

Still confused! What's the equation for vegan? And can yogurt be used instead of chain oil??

Apologies if I went too low brow for you! My rationale for adding that contribution to the mix was to illustrate how popular artistic culture through the media of literature, film and TV for example, can and very often does provide a a window into our future...... I for one recall watching "Space 1999" as a child and thinking how inconceivably into the future 1999 was! Now it's almost inconceivably in the past! The film "Outbreak" (1995) and the current Ebola situation (not a great example but current & topical) http://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-ebola-outbreak-globalization-infectious-disease-264163 Take your pick: 1984 12 Monkeys Total Recall I Robot Planet of the Apes Independence Day, to name just a tiny few, They may seem inconceivable, but as I said early with Space 1999, already in my life, that which I, at the time, thought was beyond my comprehension, has already faded into history. I won't be making that mistake again - even if it means reading a Dan Brown book (I did enjoy the previous ones in the series, but not so much this one)

Don't mention the ending! I haven't finished it yet. It's been laying (pretty much cast aside) under the bed for > 12 months. I just couldn't get 'into' it!

Anyone read Dan Brown's latest (2013) - Inferno?

Ed, this particular part of your reply caught my attention, I'll PM you so as not to derail this thread if that's ok??

That's a strange feeling I have too.... Like we've lost a friend we never actually met.... Hope this link works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j1Hq8L28Us