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😂😂😂😂 That made me chuckle - esp in light of today’s job. They were quite “shocked” at my suggestion for the best course of action. The full on “we love trees” gig (shame you didn’t invest some research prior to selecting your previous tree butcher!) PS (just in case TCD is still lurking in the shadows - base all full of nails and fencing wire!)

Multitasking! 😂😂😂😂

Feel you, bloody shame when it all just gets too difficult. 🤯

It’s a shame we rarely seem to get the follow up info after a thread like this. It gets all excited, then it goes wildly off track, then there might be some jokes and randomness, maybe some handbags but rarely a follow up to say what the final outcome was. It’s almost like a Boris Johnson press briefing - entirely futile. Remember this one: I put a lot of time and effort into the caravan + pony solution, I felt quite ‘invested’ in that as a viable solution.... Never heard any more about it. Seems a shame really 😫

Legend 😂

You're dealing with an idiot.....

Well, I guess it’s an inevitability that some threads may just stray a smidge off track..... 😂 Surely weme pushing the boundaries with this one 😂

There's been a huge liberal salt bath over the comments of Lord Sumption on "The Big Question" (or what ever it is) on Sunday morning. Good Morning Britain on ITV: Piers Morgan in row as Lord Sumption claims older lives are 'less valuable' - MyLondon WWW.MYLONDON.NEWS The Good Morning Britain host questioned whether Lord Sumption would have let Sir Captain Tom Moore die Is one life worth more than another? Yes of course it is and the point he was making was perfectly valid and entirely appropriate to the discussion in which it was presented. As ever, media ego-trippers are trying to sensationalise and scandalise the comments which where entirely sensible and the kind of logical thinking needed to haul us through this shitstorm of our own making. Come on, really, who actually believes all human life is equal? I'd sacrifice my life for that of my wife and daughter. It makes perfect sense, I'm the oldest and I've pretty much kicked the ass out this body on the way. No money back refund required.

This! Its been busier than ever! Maybe especially noticeable in Cornwall with the dominance of holiday let’s and the (very) generous support to the tourism sector. Notably, discussing the latest round of grants with a holiday business, apparently, “...it’s a bit embarrassing...” how much money is being thrown at them it is traditionally the ‘closed season’ from Jan - Easter but the latest lockdown means another tranche of 10s of thousands of pounds. That money is going on getting works done - good for me. When combined with previous lockdown grants and the exceptionally busy staycation market between lockdowns many in holiday business have done better than normal for a fraction of the effort. Then there’s the grants to 2nd home owners that register as a letting business, eligible for rates relief and also got 10k per house. The figures for that a truly shocking in Cornwall. Maybe it’s my limited circle of contacts but I can’t think of anyone that has found them self worse off as a consequence of Covid - on the contrary, it’s sickening to hear them harp on about how well they’ve done out of it.

Have you considered a cone splitter?

That’s a good part of the success right there - obvs the main part is the service / availability / expertise but all that amounts to nothing if a poor 3pl carrier destroys all the good work that goes into getting the gear out of the door. Customer / order can’t be satisfied until the goodies are in hand. I often check which carrier is being used before ordering online. Needless to say, if it’s a habitually poor delivery company order goes elsewhere. Always been 100% with CSBs & DPD.

I had to look “usurious” up 😂 Never has been, never will be any such thing as a free lunch.

I’m looking at similar kit at moment too. Already running a stand alone upright splitter with 3pl brackets but I run it off a hyd pp. From memory, Mick Dempsey put some thoughts forward on the subject in a different thread a while back and they’ve stuck with me - if you tie your splitter / processor to your Avant/MultiOne, (a) you lose the availability of the machine for lifting / loading / moving and (b) you potentially whack a load of hours on the machine. Looking at the Jappa 305 at mo. Plenty of vids on YouTube - even 1 with it being operated on an Avant (I think that is the company “Reach it, Move it, Lift if” or something similar. My conclusion thus far, unless I do a lot more log work, I probably can’t justify the outlay v return. I may see if I can have a week hire of someone else’s 305. Hire cost + transport worthwhile, <10k purchase outright, at the moment prob’s not viable. Hyd 305 run off MO 4K cheaper, but brings the issues mentioned above.

It certainly wasn’t from HMRC K 😂😂😂

Tou might want to check with your accountant and maybe avoid public statements that would give HMRC a reason to have a look at your books. Expenses if you're self-employed: Training courses - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK Business expenses you can claim if you're self-employed BIM35660 - Business Income Manual - HMRC internal manual - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK Supplementary guidance on how to check tax calculations or work out the trading profits of a business for Self... If you take the supplementary guidance and then overlay current ‘industry guidance’ for refresher training of existing tickets - which may be achieved by attending then next ‘stage’ course (small tree felling refreshed by attending a med tree felling course, for a simple example), it gets even more complicated. What part is refresher and what part is new skill? 50/50, 40/60?

I could however indulge in that age old AT tradition of going wildly off topic (and maybe even draw @trigger_andy into some proxy handbaggery on the UBI topic....😜) They tax you on what you earn, they tax you on what you spend, they tax you on what you save and they tax you on what’s left when you die. Maybe it’s just sex and drugs that aren’t taxed and they both have significant potential complications involved anyway. Within each level and category of tax there are seemingly impenetrable layers of regulation, interpretation and implementation. And the cherry on top is that it is all necessary to sustain and perpetuate the massive Ponzi scheme of ‘government spending’ which demands exponential increase in the consumption of finite resources - at some point it must all come crashing down. Just like the massive Beech which has started throwing limbs that I looked at yesterday. It could be left well alone to carry on and ‘do its thing’ or it could have some well considered intervention to avoid disaster. Not sure if I can link Masonic lodges into the thread - that’s a masterpiece there K 😂

And getting the ticket is not deductible.... If I can’t claim it on a tax return I ain’t doing it 😂

Like a Vindaloo but a bit otter?? 😂😂😂😂

Year 23 starts today 🤣

You're absolutely right on a subject that many seem to struggle to accept there Dan - new skill is not an allowable expense for tax whereas a mandatory training cert such as H&S, FA & refresher training is. I'm sure this very subject has been covered (with handbags) previously where many argued that they DID include new skills training in their tax return and it's just like the accrual of non monetary benefits handbagery from previous, there's a difference between what people DO and what they will be told they SHOULDN'T have done in the event they are collared by HMRC. 🥔

The mashed potato incident is a good one for referencing ‘flash to bang’ in our house. I am well known for having a particularly slow burn, long tolerance, happy to chug along without mention of a grumble type character which is starkly contrasted by a rare but unpredictable instantaneous flash to bang when the final tolerance is breached. This once (that’s right, ONCE but never to be forgotten and recounted at any suitable or even wildly tangential opportunity by Mrs J) manifest itself in a pan of mashed potatoes being launched across the kitchen then pounced upon and stomped into the originally desired consistency. Nothing to do with the potatoes of course, it’s just that the inefficiency of the mashing implement was ‘the final straw’ in a chain of events that can’t even be remembered. Hence I am destined always to be chided by the wife recounting the “mashed potato incident” whenever she senses the dial moving towards the emergency relief valve.

I wouldn’t pretend to know enough about the subject to attempt to present a credible arugument one way or the other but I was personally struck by the significance of what chummy was saying on wireless yesterday - if he knew his onions - and then somewhat surprised / disappointed that the show host didn’t seem to grasp the significance and gravity of what he was saying - if he knew his onions. And - if he knew his onions - it begs the question WHY PHE, via their various LA inspection and enforcement teams (significantly augmented from other departments during COVID), or any other government’official’ or advisor have made no mention (so far as I’ve heard) of the significance of air quality management?? Strikes me as odd.

Yes that was (and still is) my method OSM. Dyson thingy (much to @Khriss ‘s displeasure 😂)

Don’t worry about sounding abrasive mate, no issue with that. You crack on as you see fit. What I reflect upon as an ‘interesting episode’ is not presented merely as conjecture of a worst case scenario, it’s not the art of the possible, it’s a real lived experience. You sound like you’ve got it all under control and keeping it well under the radar so no need to worry 😜 👍🏻