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Brilliant! Don't you just love it?
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My experience - albeit based on one machine bought about 10/12 years ago - is that they have far too much plastic and fall to bits in next to no time. Definitely not up to serious work. If they've changed since then or have a non-Airfix range running in parallel then apologies to them.
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It's funny when coincidences turn up, but probably not surprising really. My brother lives in Cork (he moved there to be with his wife, the family isn't Irish) and his son was christened in a random rural church in Ballincollig. Shortly afterwards I found out that my great grandather's brother was christened in the same church while his father was stationed there with the army.
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Maybe ask your GP to refer you to a specialist - there's probably a fix available if you speak to the right person, which might not be a generalist doctor. Alternatively look for a good sports massage/therapy person. Whereabouts in Bowland are you? I used to live just outside Chipping.
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Toro are alright - they've been around since at least the 80s. I used to use one that was (somewhat unusually) front wheel drive. Avoid Etesia.
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I too failed to notice any effective publicity for the evening talk. I might have found a way of getting there if I'd realised. Might even have made the last train home as well if I'd got away by 2230. I'm a trifle skint at the moment though, so maybe not. But I wouldn't have minded being in a position to make the choice.
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RRB (via FFR) kit is hardly manpack kit. And did you have an antenna sticking up above the canopy?
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Berlingo with a quad on a trailer? Other than that I'd agree with what has already been said - the savings you'll make on fuel (if any) won't justify the cost of changing vehicle.
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My Mrs attended a patient called Dildar the other day. Snigger.
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Refund is the right solution. Nice one
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I've been signed up for about 6 years now, and have found mountains of fascinating information. Just waiting for a marriage certificate I ordered on Saturday as it happens. Although I've gone back hundreds of years on some lines (Cornwall, Essex, Kent, North Yorkshire, Cumbria, Scotland - real Heinz 57, me) my paternal line has been stuck at my great x 3 grandfather, born about 1812 for years now. I'm thinking of hiring a pro to try for a breakthrough, but I'm not 100% they'll have any more luck than me.
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I'm not siding with the TO in your case - I don't know all the facts so how could I? I was responding to a post that referred to TOs protecting trees simply to justify their own positions. I said that examples of bad decisions exist - your case may well be one, but without all the facts I can't say.
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Bowman...simple to use....a bit of wee came out! I used to use Motorola jobbies - can't remember the model - on a repeater network which was fine, as long as there were no trees in the way. Set to set the distance in woodland was about 200 metres. Bowman won't work through thick woodland either. PRR probably wouldn't even reach shouting distance.
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Rebecca Oaks, you can find her on this: Eric BARROW, Not 100% sure how up to date the website is in general as Alan Shepley, the chap who ran it, died. Rebecca is still trading though.
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I got stuff for a public inquiry from the Met Office website once.
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Perfectly normal to find out by the newspaper first - they send reporters to planning committee meetings and it appears in the paper the next day. How can the LPA get a letter out that quickly? Applicants are entitled to make representations at the committee, so this could have been helpful, with the added bonus of finding out the result before it was in the paper. Ok, so it might have been impossible to attend, but it's always a good idea.
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Randy Bumgardner is true - I believe he is (or was) a PE teacher at a secondary school.
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I think there's a world of difference between a bad decision (I agree, I'm sure there are many examples) and a TO's cynical decision to apply a TPO 'simply to look busy'. Maybe I'm just lucky in that all the tree officers I have worked with were highly professional and applied robust processes when deciding if a tree was worth protecting. I am no stranger to appearing in front of planning committees to explain why the tree in Cllr Smith's ward isn't worth a TPO, despite his and his constituents' protestations to the contrary. Whilst JR or appeal can be costly, it costs sod all to make an FOI request to see the evaluation that was carried when deciding that a TPO was appropriate - has anyone thought of doing that?
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Why on earth would a tree officer put a tpo on a tree 'just for fun'? To say that it might be done just so that the officer could go home smugly feeling that he had achieved something that day is cynical to the point of being ridiculous. I've worked with many TOs and managed quite a few in my time and have never encountered anyone who would do that, or encountered a scenario where it would be conceivable that something like that might happen. That's not to say that there hasn't at some point been a mentally ill tree officer who did bizarre things; Bob Lund - BBC News - Robert Lund guilty of killing wife in France - was a tree officer but that doesn't mean they all kill their wives. Probably. But to say it happens in general is insulting and, in a nutshell, wrong.
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I had to email a guy call Michael Hunt a little while ago. When I was a kid we had a silage clamp built by a guy calle Joe King. A guy called Heath Walker booked onto a guided walk at a place I worked once.
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Was planning to go but life got in the way...motorbike broke down on Monday resulting in ludicrous recovery costs, plus of course the cost of repairs. I was looking forward to the cider trailer.
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Someone mentioned going back 1 year later - this is excellent advice, even if it can be tricky sometimes. A lot of what I've learnt has been through following the progress of trees as the years roll by. It's more useful than looking at a tree for the first time and being told that it had X done to it 3/10/20 years ago as you hold a lot more of the background information in your head, even if only subconsciously. Apart from that, read, read and read. Than match up what you've read about with the real world. At least that's what works for me
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I'm happy enough to go with a dictionary definition of research - the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions Or to put it another way; finding stuff out with some sort of objective. Formal or informal, it's all the same.
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:confused1: Every piece of information in the quoted text is the result of research! Without research we would have no information on which to base a diagnosis, so I don't understand your doubt.
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Jesus wept!!! I've seen them going for £40-£50 recently, but they're few and far between. Best bet is an auto-search on Ebay.
