kevinjohnsonmbe
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Bit abstract....😂
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White lines! White lines? Weme more likely to have a strip of vegetation where tractor tyres don’t go running down the centre of a single track, high hedge lane! Don't matter too much in a 4x4 but we took posh friends (wife’s not mine) for a Sunday roast out Pillaton way and they ripped the spoiler off the fancy Beema 😂
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I listened to that whilst eating my chicken & bacon baguette! What a mug he made of him!
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I don’t think the teacher is half as daft as the mongs that are (apparently) so up in arms about it. “....it’s offended me and all my Muslim brothers...” has been the common rant on LBC today. You’d think they’d be more exercised about the genocide in China than a cartoon image in Bradfordistan, but hey, never let the reality of world priorities get in the way of claiming the UK is institutionally racist huh...
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Been across the river to Devon K - they got dual carriageway and all that jazz over there! (hence the rush to get home 😂)
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They will (and absolutely should) do absolutely nothing “to” the teacher - other than perhaps protect him from manifest threat of violence to his person because he hasn’t ‘done’ anything that would warrant police investigation / intervention. They will likely similarly do absolutely nothing about the unlawful gathering and threats of violence which ARE worthy of police investigation / intervention. Isn’t this just another example of an over entitled, over excited cohort flouting the law because they think they can? Think I’ll drive home at 120mph tonight and then kick off like billy-o if I get a speeding ticket.
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Had delivery of wood and it is quite wet...
kevinjohnsonmbe replied to carbs for arbs's topic in Firewood forum
They don’t like it up ‘em Mr S 😂😂😂 -
Had delivery of wood and it is quite wet...
kevinjohnsonmbe replied to carbs for arbs's topic in Firewood forum
@eggsarascal Egger will laugh at this.... Once had the local chapter JWs knock the door when I lived in Torpoint. It was back in the day when I didn’t really have anything like wife / child / business to occupy my “spare” time and I was ‘time rich’ A Sunday morning after a particularly enthusiastic drinking night before, answered the door in my crackers, bleary eyed, still pissed and notably disheveled to be confronted by a bloke in a cheap whistle & bird in tow. After the initial wave of panic - thinking it was CID and not quite sure what happened the night before - I realised it was JWs! They opened their pitch with some old pony about damage to a local phone box and how terrible society had become. I thought, well that’s odd, there aren’t any phone boxes anywhere nearby. When pressed for the location, date and details of said damage they conceded that it was just a generic opening pitch. Right you cnuts, thinks I, you come here, wake me up and try preaching about the state of society when your opening pitch is knowingly and intentionally fictional..... 2 ½ hours I kept them there! I knew they were too polite (lame) to actually say “...we’ve got a right one here, lost cause, let’s do one...” It all fell apart for them with the misrepresentation at the opening pitch and went downhill very quickly when their (assumed superior) quotes from scripture were countered, at every point, by real life experience of having visited and studied most of the actual locations and stories they were trying to present. That’ll learn ‘em! Never saw ‘em again 😂 -
Had delivery of wood and it is quite wet...
kevinjohnsonmbe replied to carbs for arbs's topic in Firewood forum
Totally understand, for every one’s sake, if it was sub-optimal product, he’d have been better off saying “Sorry, I’m out” -
Had delivery of wood and it is quite wet...
kevinjohnsonmbe replied to carbs for arbs's topic in Firewood forum
Hell! I can’t think of anything that would make me LESS happy than doing a job, getting paid, undoing the job and giving the money back. That’s about as pointless and nugatory a series of actions as I could ever imagine. Well done for getting your mullar back though. -
Had delivery of wood and it is quite wet...
kevinjohnsonmbe replied to carbs for arbs's topic in Firewood forum
Great for kindling - no so great for firewood! -
Had delivery of wood and it is quite wet...
kevinjohnsonmbe replied to carbs for arbs's topic in Firewood forum
Retort of the year contender right there 😂 -
Have the definitive regulations regarding firewood?
kevinjohnsonmbe replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Or just take the Cornish approach and give it all a DGI! There are many hereabouts that still haven’t bothered with basics like vehicle RFL, MoT test & insurance. This creature turned up on site last week to remove timber. Nothing to do with me - my work was done! Private arrangement between landowner and local ‘log merchant.’ Every stick fell off 4 times before he got them all onboard and then he drove off through Callington on the public highway! I felt sorry for the dog! -
Have the definitive regulations regarding firewood?
kevinjohnsonmbe replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Mheh.... Acts of Parliament, “laws”..... What do they mean.... Just have a riot and smash up some Rozzer vehicles. That seems to be the new “will of the people” 😂 -
This is a more detailed piece than that presented by RHS. https://www.trees.org.uk/Trees.org.uk/files/d7/d73bbf00-b534-42bf-a417-17f5055c2ab3.pdf RHS advice on burying a barrier is somewhat vague and lacking detail since you’d need to know the extent of the subterranean rhizomorphs for it to be effective. “…Stumps which cannot be dug out can, if access allows, be chipped or ground out with a machine designed for the purpose (see under Tree Work in the /Yellow Pages). Large unchipped pieces, particularly of the roots, often remain. These should be dug out. The efficacy of these measures depends entirely on the thoroughness with which infected material is removed or destroyed: the larger and more numerous the remaining fragments, the greater and more prolonged the risk of reinfection. The mixture of chips and soil which remains after stump chipping probably constitutes little danger as a Honey fungus source but if it is not removed, replanting should be delayed for 12 months or until no rhizomorphs are to be found in the mixture. If you know or suspect that larger buried segments of root remain after chipping or excavation, delay planting trees or shrubs within 30 yards of the excavation for at least 2 years, longer if possible. Annuals may be safely grown on the site meanwhile. Alternatively, replant with resistant species..”
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I've pulled the topic of stump grinding away from your thread to stop it getting cluttered but you might like to look in here if it gains traction:
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Without wishing to muddy the waters (😂) You may have inadvertently started (another) sub discussion about the potential pros v cons of stump grinding in relation to the prevention of spread of honey fungus 😳 Id question whether stump grinding would be an effective means of preventing the potential for HF to spread to nearby trees. If it has a nutritional source within the existing stump, it may just stay there whereas if you remove that nutritional source (by grinding it out) it is compelled to seek sustenance elsewhere. Ive never been able to get a firm discussion / conclusion on this subject (even after asking Guy) but if I quote from the field guide: ”....can spread from stumps and roots to surrounding trees particularly if there is a lack of natural suppression in the form of fallen deadwood colonised by other fungi performing naturals suppression...” So if you retain the original ‘food’ source and retain a good deadwood pile, is that more or less likely to encourage translocation to nearby trees? That’s the fuse lit 💣 😂
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Cnuts the lot of ‘em! PC Zoom meeting tonight - I’m home early to prepare my disruptive questioning 😂 Nov PC voted 0% Parish precept increase. Council tax statements issued last week showed 1.3% rise (that’s parish precept - county was 3.99, PCC 6, adult social care 2 etc,etc) There’s ‘ell on in the parish and all set for a right ding-dong 😂 You think Brizzol was bad? There’ll be lynching mobs in St Cleer tonight 😂😂
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WATCH | Commentator Shares First-Hand Account Of Bristol Riots 999STORIESFROMTHEFRONTLINE.COM Seb Whitehouse gives an accurate rundown of what happened outside Bridewell Police Station in his nine...
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£5k fine - non refundable 😂
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Reality somewhere in between? The overwhelming vast majority of outraged (but decent) folk popped off home as the sun set. The hard core fwits (those that I originally highlighted) were intent on premeditated riot and lawlessness. The hashtag for the amorphous mass that rallied here was “kill the bill.” It would be grossly naive to assume that the double meaning of that wasn’t intentionally inflammatory. What are the old bill meant to do? Watch?
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Am I even really seeing that? The pacifist, docile, peaceful and reasonable behaviour of the attendees changed to lawlessness, destruction and violence because of Police intervention? And you’re giving that angle bandwidth because that’s what is reported on an anarchist webpage... Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
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It’s not an Antifa article Mark, it’s from the Anachists Federation - who do, it seems, have a website. Which is a bit odd given their apparent objection to the sort of capitalist mechanisms that gave rise to the WWW and the ‘tech’ required to sustain it. I guess they are able to swallow large portions of their own blatant hypocrisy in order to draw the giro from the very institutions of ‘government’ they so vociferously opposed? Who knows? Each to their own 😁