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Farage gets “a visit” (and in their parlance, ‘words of advice’) from plod for going to Bognor to report on illegal economic migration and international serious organised crime - not to mention the inherent health risk to Border force / police / medical services personnel associated with those activities - and the general public - yet the likes of BBC (and others) can stand outside Dowing Street to present a report where the location of the reporter brings absolutely no added value to the story being presented. It’s utter bollox, but comes as no surprise. Having been on the receiving end of ‘words of advice’ from plod on several occasions, I can personally attest to the immense satisfaction that can be derived from replying that their ‘advice’ is neither invited, welcome nor even relevant. It is after all just an opinion and you know what they say about opinions ? From my playing days I well recall the ‘media’ not even being able to get simple detail like final scores and scoring player details correct. Not worth a monkeys toss.

A little girl was leaning into a lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the collar of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, all under the eyes of her screaming parents. A biker jumps off his Harley, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch. Whimpering from the pain, the lion jumps back, letting go of the girl, and the biker brings the girl to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly. A BBC reporter, Laura Kuenssberg, has watched the whole event. Laura, addressing the Harley rider says, "Sir, this was the most gallant and bravest thing I've seen a man do in my whole life.” The Harley rider replies, "Why, it was nothing, really. The lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger, and acted as I felt right.” Miss Kuenssberg "Well, I'll make sure this won't go unnoticed. I'm a BBC journalist, you know, and tomorrow's news will run this story. So, what do you do for a living, and what political affiliation do you have?” The biker replies "I'm a British Army veteran, a Conservative and I voted for Brexit”. The journalist leaves. The following morning the biker turns on BBC News to see if it indeed brings news of his actions. BBC Headline: RIGHT WING UK VETERAN ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT & STEALS HIS LUNCH. And THAT pretty much sums up the BBC's approach to the news these days.

UK ‘just’ starting to talk / think about isolation of international travellers on arrival. The future, which nobody seems to be talking about, has to embrace a whole scale change of thinking / policy on international travel. Anything else is just a delay....

Yikes!

I don’t recall it being anywhere near that sort of dollar... Have you tried EXAC1 for current prices?? Appreciate what you say about feeling you want the work confirmed before committing. I have tended to ‘do’ a couple of jobs with the tools currently at hand but not necessarily the ideal set up, then think, I’m not struggling like that again and invest in the better kit ready for next time. It’s always there when you need it and you’ll (hopefully) find that previously ‘unattractive’ jobs suddenly start to take on a new appeal.

Is there a legal limit? Surely it’s a contractual rather than a legislative arrangement.... ? Motorway services - walk in, have a waz, grab a double espresso and gone - 10 mins! I s’pose it’ll have to 10 mins 20 secs now what with the hand washing. On the bright side, the conveniences should be ringing out with the sound of people singing verse 1 National Anthem as a timer going forward ??? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

I’m not going Norf of the Tamar!

It’s a fine balance between ‘wanting’ to hold the cut tree/limb or not. On a smaller, narrow wheelbase machine, I prefer NOT to transfer the lever force of cut piece onto machine due to potential to turn it on it’s side. Also, a cut and hold head (on a smaller machine) is less likely to have rotator function so you can only cut and hold relatively upright stems. The cut and release function allows for a good degree of directional felling through the rotator plus, important for me, elevated cuts that are at any angle rather than just vertical. I looked long and hard at the cut and hold but dismissed it (on this small machine) because of the limitations above. You can still grab and move cut pieces with this style. Really depends what your primary use will be - if it’s all upright stem cuts, maybe cut and hold is best, if variable height and angle cuts (like hedge reductions) worth considering cut and let go.

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Decent link that ?? - easily adaptable and a good starting point for a documentary evidence trail for due diligence. HSEs guidance is here: Working safely during the coronavirus outbreak - HSE news WWW.HSE.GOV.UK This guidance is for employers and those who are self-employed and work with or near other people and explains... with click through options for specific industry sectors (construction and outdoors is probably most relevant for arb although there is nothing specifically dedicated to arb.) It's really difficult to try and lock down an accurate % chance of catching the virus in the workplace (exposing a worker to a known risk which can be mitigated) from any figures that seem to be available - they are starting to emerge from specific sectors like bus / taxi drivers, healthcare etc but that's hardly a metric that can be extrapolated to open air arb work. Traditional risk assessment is a measure of the potential of an incident in relation to the severity of it. When that balance is too severe, or there are 'reasonably practicable' means of reducing the risk they should be initiated. If you can't make an educated 'guess' as to the potential, how can you reasonably make an proper assessment of the risk? I think, in time, we will come to recognise that a certain amount of over-reaction was evident in the early days with organisations, companies and individuals bending themselves all out of shape where as a more measured, agile and adaptable approach will be seen to have been the better option. This was the message from HSE from early April: - Keep your business open. With the exception of some non-essential shops and public venues, businesses were not asked to close – indeed it is important for business to carry on

New Year was bad for me, right through Jan really. Aching bones, every morning woke up feeling like someone had put a dumpy bad of 3/4s to dust on me during the night. No energy etc etc. Carried on training but fairly half assed. On the bright side, it’s hay fever season now. There’ll be days I’d be better off sitting in a small room filled with CS gas and no AGR rather than go outside. ???

See if he'll do you 'mates rates' on a new pair of reading specs Andy.... ??? (or issume yome taking the piss??)

They’re flying off the shelf now! Maybe there’s a second career for Boris in the T shirt printing game once this clusterduck is all over?

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He’s not listening.... ?

A light news day locally:

Buggered you may well be - just to set an example to the masses! JC1.mov

? What? You mean all this time and energy is just being wasted?? ? The more rules that are put in place, the more reasons people have to find a means of circumventing them to personal advantage. I think I'm turning into an anarchist....

There's a big shake up a-coming I hope too. Chap on wireless this morning thought big airline adjustments / losses would be seen in the business sector with scheduled flights going off a cliff and it may only be saved by leisure / pleasure flights of the holiday / tourism sector. I would think there are quite a lot of people enjoying the newly freshened air they are breathing but are they sensible enough to realise it is, in very large part, their own activities that will take us back to higher levels of pollution. Tough call for the masses - like the classic, "I love trees, but could you cut that one down for me", how many of the fat, sun burned, drunken, glutinous masses will be willing to forego their own cheap all inclusive package deals to Marmaris? "I love the environment, but all the Watneys Red Barrel and fish and chips I can eat, including flights and accom for £500/week - it's a deal, it's a steal, it's sale of the fucking century!"

With the exception of schools, the supposed ‘easing’ measures are nothing more than has actually been in place all along - it’s just that media misreported/sensationalised/perpetuated the general hysteria and police attempts at over stretching their authority are starting to bite home and people are finally starting to realise what has always been the case: Work from home if possible, travel to work and implement PHE guidelines where reasonably practicable.

Replying to what? There was no question... You expressed a personal concern, how would that obligate me to a reply?