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So far as ww canoeing goes. I've done most of mine tandem. You need a lot of water to float a tandem canoe 17+'. Especially when the other paddler is well over 20st. and you're packing gear for a week on the water.

Raining now but it was a cracking day. Just wish I hadn't had to spend part of it in a hospital 60mls. away.

The "800" was as an example of what might be said from one paddlers to another. Not a direct conversion from 80,0003³ Ltrs. But if we're being pedantic: 80,000³ Ltrs. = 2825.173³ ft. 80³ ft. = 2265.348³ Ltrs.

Overloaded? If bars and rack can't take that, there's something wrong. However, the photos suggest there being no crossbars. What was the load actually rest on? Ah, I see now. The plastic thing is a supporting lug. My opinion, is where there's such loading, the cross members ought not be simply bolted onto the bar's side/s. As this will result in all the downward loading being placed on the connecting bolts. Better that the crossbars rest on the long bars, thus spreading the loading over a greater area.

Yep. That sounds fine, providing the soil is acid. If not, remove the top soil and replace with the 60-40 mix. Being a raised bed, will help it to freely drain. Spacing partly depends on width of root system. But I'd give them 10" between stems. Should give enough room for future growth, without entanglement when it comes time for lifting. Then mulch with bark, to suppress weeds.

Remember to give a good watering after repotting. Then leave to drain.

Dig out a couple of buckets/wheel barrow of soil from edge of field, level it off in the buckets/barrow and moisten. Pour water over the treelet and wait for the water to percolate down through the roots and soften the surrounding soil. Do say five at a time. Did out around and down 6"x6" but before temporarily replanting, tease out the entire root system of the first. This will give an idea of the future hole-soil to be dug out with each seedling. No point giving each 6x6" if you only need 4x2". Generally, loamy or sandy soils are preferable for growing beech trees. Silty soils that are moist while also draining efficiently are prime locations. Chalky soils are a common example of prime growing conditions, but many other types of soil may also be suitable. When you're done lifting, repot each seedling in a separate pot, big enough not to bend the roots into a ball. Mix the field soil with some bought ericaceous soil 60-40% and add a little grit/sand for added drainage. Don't bother putting them in a greenhouse, as this will dry them out. Beech like damp but well drained soil. Which is why one often finds them on hillsides. If they came from a shaded area, then place them in a shaded area. If they came from a full sun area, then place them in full sun. They're hardy and will only need watering if there's a dry spell. It's worth bearing in mind, that while in pots, they'll be more susceptible to frosts and premature drying. So keep the soil moist but not dry nor laden. You've got a farm, now you've got and arboretum. Plant in final position when big enough, (whip size). Happy gardening.

Cubic feet - as in a standard notional measure of flow. As seen from the bankside by a paddler, e.g. "It's running 800 cubes." That is to say, the total volume of water that passes a stationary bankside observer in one second, would be 800cu ft./sec.

Great vid that accompanied by suitable music.

Maybe a little less falling over juice and cut down on the baked beans.

Just under 3,000 cubes. Could be worth kayaking down stream. But you need more for a good run in a canoe.

Rained last night, rained this morning and is forecast for more of the same. But dry now, so I can get on with some planting and get on with dressings changing later.

It used to be in Spain, that if you had an outdoor pool, you had the right to refuse extraction for firefighting. The law's changed now. If you have an open outside water source, any firefighting crew has a given right to freely access & extract that source. If it was me, I'd much prefer to have my pool emptied, than have the land scorched.

Well it saves having to water the garden. Though the cat's not impressed by the puddles. I rather suspect this particular cat, would only be really impressed, when someone invents the self-opening self-emptying cat food tin.

Hardly any voters in rural parts. Whereas the mass electorate are townies. Plus coppers might struggle to rise in the ranks through rural arrest rates but there's more chance of them doing so where arrest/conviction rates are presently highest. Plus the people who seemingly matter, are town & city based. A farm gets done-over twice in three years or a rural arb company get run out of business, after being cleared out three times in two years and we know about it but not many else. But if Lord Muck has the cream stolen off his milk by sparrows, he and his bottles get an armed guard, at the tax payers expense. While plod search all the bushes. Or Tesco sells baked beans cheaper than its rivals for a week. The townies, (majority of voters) take a 6mth. interest in the movement of small food stuffs across borders, the poverty of the S.American bean worker, push the government to an enquiry on cheap and fake imports of baked beans; but still go out to get their baked beans for a week, at 2p less per pack of four. And the whole country knows about it. A big retailer takes a slight loss on one item and a mass killing on general profit. The voters eventually lose interest in bean movement, having moved their interest to cheap custard. Lord Muck has the Lord Chief Justice on speed dial. Rural crime is still not known or cared about by the masses, (Besides, it's only a farmer. Not really important. Give them a call when the farmer moves to S.America and starts exporting custard.) When the good good land will become available to concrete over, to build another big store and second-house the voter that matters. And somewhere forgotten in all this, is a sparrow doing 3mths. to life and a couple Chief Constable who've got an efficiency pay bonus.

I'll guess it's best on 20" and a little slower on 25".

Have you asked them before now? Hope you gave them Eddie's contact details.

No proof of anything but hardly ever see an Irish plated vehicle. Then two in one day in the Beacons area. White Lexus sport tourer and a metallic mid blue Audi Est. Both with tow hitches. The latter was parked up outside a friend's place. Female driver making notes with pen and paper. I stopped, wound down the window and asked if she was lost and offered directions. She just glared at me, flung the pad onto the passenger seat and wheel spun into the distance.

Didn't get a photo but recently saw LWB Transit tipper, with lots of shiny 'scrap' piled up so high, it was taller than panel van; and non of it was secured.

Catching the sods is hard enough but what happens when they get caught? A slap on the wrists. I reckon the UK ought to follow Spain's lead in these matters. You cause a fire that damages anything that isn't yours, you pay the total cost. And that includes reinstatement of land, waterways, highways, services, wildlife; and the replacement of stock, vehicles, buildings; and the total cost of putting the fire out. If you can't cover the costs or plead poverty, then it's the clink for you. After the Spanish introduced these laws & penalties, the instances of wild fires and 'accidental' fires decreased by approx. 85%.

Container out of Felixstowe me thinks.

Truckers' Hitch is one of those knots best tied in use. Doing it freehand is unnecessary hassle.

I thought he was just Idolly talking to him. The rest of us are just interlopers.

Had it planned out for me. As hospitals don't close for BHs, I'm hospital transport.

Don't know the history or significance in its setting but it's a nice looking wall. I dare say materials cost something but if it's being restored with volunteer labour. The overall cost is going to be much reduced.