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Minus fuel & entry, I saved £21.30 on my few purchases. But had a good day out and I didn't get lost, (I use a map and not a sat-nav). Not that it was hard route. My instructions were seven lines and three noted junctions/turns. • Some books • Some glossy z-fold pamphlets, for pre walk-talk information boards • Couple of chains • Combi can, which may end up being a birthday present, (not for me) • Another Zubat 330mm Slightly peeved as I left, to see an Oregon saw horse for £60 at the FR Jones stand and knowing I couldn't get it home. My car's in the garage and the borrowed car is a VW Polo. No way of getting the thing in the back. Still... I can get one delivered for only £4.30 more, so not bad.

Doesn't pay well and some misguided souls might argue it's not work... but tea/coffee tasting is pretty good. Other than that and in a previous life, drystone walling, doing the 'Tree safety check' each morning before Joe public were around. And being a walking-talking public information centre, (south & central lakes area).

Being a Hushvarna, does that make it a quiet saw?

It's not the tool. It's the tool that's using the tool. And when did you win the lottery?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-32987550

Sunny and warm. Looking at forecast for the show, Sat. looks the same. So I'll head to Cirencester on Sat.

If you find a hirer, it'll probably be with an operator. With associated cost/pay. Certain some body I know used to have a Hakki Pike. Hired out several times when it was new and every time it was collected, there was a, "We didn't snap it off guv." or "It was bent like that when it arrived." And each to the repair cost more than the hire fee. They eventually caught on and stopped hiring it. Less than a year old and it looked quadruple that. Least its present 'owner', (it got nicked) will have to put up with its mainly welded nature.

Rain ok but the damn wind. Montbretia, Peony, Chinese Ballon Flower & Snow Caps all in full bloom and now just leafy twigs. But on the plus side, the Azalea, Hydrangea, Hebe & Bluebells are loving all the extra rain.

Now it's rain, fine but cloudy, rain, fine but cloudy, rain, fine but cloudy, rain, fine but cloudy, rain. Well you get the gist.

Rain, sun, rain, sun, rain, sun, rain, sun, rain, sun, rain. Well you get the gist.

At one point during the second video, he shows a cone that was made by someone else for the owner. He just describes it as a cone. I'm guessing that the cones are the speaker housings, since that amount of wood would surely dull the sound.

Heavy speaker cones Part one http://youtu.be/W0Mod_92VZA Part two http://youtu.be/_6bkaVGnvpE What I want to know, is where he gets his screws/bolts from.

So there and back by noon, no problem. Unless you have to go anywhere near Gloucester, in which case, you may make it by midnight.

It's the odd things that are found, that can brighten an otherwise rotten day. For instance, tax on car due to expire tomorrow. Naturally I'd left it till the last moment to renew. As I'd been busy and in the back of my mind, was the nagging, that the funds were better off in my coffers, than that of the state. Also, I hadn't bothered to find the relevant docs until today, as all the docs are in one place. So after a lay-in, I nonchalantly switch on the PC and while it's booting, I go get the docs. "Bugger! Where's the log book? Why the hell is it not with the rest of the docs?" Then commences the search for Stanley, the Ancient Marriner and one Golden Fleece. Well during my questing I found: • the hood of a coat that I haven't been able to find in quite some while. Every time I donned that coat and it was raining, I had it in the back of my mind, that one day it would turn up in the back of a draw. Well it didn't; it was in a suitcase. • a pair and a single 'chocolate box' wire connectors. Just what was needed yesterday to extend wiring in my father's garage. I knew I had some but couldn't remember where I'd put them. So the job got shelved and instead I found myself digging over part of his veg patch. Runner beans in next Tues and maybe some more artichokes will be ready. So far, there's been just the one. Oh. And I can finish off the wiring. • a full box of Piriteze. Which is a pity, as I'd just bought two boxes yesterday, having run out the day before. And finally... after six hours of tearing through every box, drawer, the Amazon, suitcase; shelf, file storage; got soggy listening to some bloke go on and on and on about how he'd sailed the seven seas and wasn't the price of cockles always going up; every coat, bag, including the laptop bag, in the car itself, under the hi-fi, ; meeting some chap called Jason, who said he'd carry on looking for a gilded sheep, as he needed something to do tomorrow; every nook, every cranny and eventually finding it, (the log book/V5C) under a bed. I was able to begrudgingly pay the state a few coppers more. But hey. The money stayed in my coffers for a few hours longer and it was a mini adventure. Less stress next time please.

I'm guessing one or more or them made a mint from "consultancy fees". The grant/s would have been got by ticking all the right boxes. But not necessarily spent the way the grant was intended. I know the Welsh government has recently pulled in its grant funding pots, which will now be administered from source, instead of through independent funding bodies. As there were such things as an intermediary funding bodies taking more than 50% of granted monies in consultancy & admin fees. And at least one chap who was giving out less in grants than was his salary.

Oo, the big man. Sorry, machine, is back in town. Well he did say he'd be back.

5' 5.5" 13st. Somewhat overweight, especially considering what I was just over ten years ago. I was either paddling & climbing every day or paddling or climbing every day. Just sinew, stamina and a bit of muscle. Climbing at my best and hovering around 8st. Some days I was over, some days I was under. Tis a pity I'll never climb at that grade again. Still, I enjoy what climbing I do do, even if my knees don't work the way they're supposed to.

Nice. I'll take two.

Lovely colour there.

Not the shortest link I'll grant you but there are still beds nearby. http://www.booking.com/searchresults.en-gb.html?city=-2592612&device_features=&rows=20&si=ai%2Cco%2Cci%2Cre%2Cdi&error_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fcity%2Fgb%2Fcirencester.en-gb.html%3Faid%3D303948%3Blabel%3Dcirencester-VpqVA_nlvrqhKPAEaGmJIASM8395063461%253Apl%253Ata%253Ap110%253Ap2%253Aac%253Aap1t1%253Aneg%3Bsid%3D6f9c9fd5617bb16f0b851d0aa3d4c9c0%3Bdcid%3D1%3Binac%3D0%26%3B&aid=303948&dcid=1&label=cirencester-VpqVA_nlvrqhKPAEaGmJIASM8395063461%3Apl%3Ata%3Ap110%3Ap2%3Aac%3Aap1t1%3Aneg&sid=6f9c9fd5617bb16f0b851d0aa3d4c9c0&checkin_monthday=5&checkin_year_month=2015-6&checkout_monthday=6&checkout_year_month=2015-6&ci_date=2015-06-05&co_date=2015-06-06&no_rooms=1&group_adults=1&group_children=0&search_form_id=88402a5c96b50108

Don't own one but from experience, the comments are bang on. Level dry ground is ok, even slightly greasy level ground is doable. But put an uphill section into the equation and things start to go downhill; backwards downhill as I witnessed. Ok if you're running rounds and small lengths downhill but up is a no no. Also a problem on greasy downhill slopes, is the inability to reliably stop a loaded ATV pulled forwarder.

Not sure the Romulans are going to be happy about that.

Was the building's worth £2m with the clock or excluding the clock?

Next thing we know, he'll be retiring to a tax haven, (up a tree). I wonder if tax collectors climb trees. "If you would just sign this Mr Bullman... I said sign this Mr Bullman." "Sorry! You'll have to speak up or climb up. I can't hear a word you're saying."