TGB

Re. Marmite comment - I knew. I was just trying my hand at wit.

Never mind that, what toy did you get?

Black and gloopy with a yellow top..?

I can't help you directly. But if it's playing up and you don't reckon on being able to fix it yourself. Why not send it to Spud for a looksee/fixed and maybe get it modded/ported while it's with him.

Yep! That's the puppy.

The view above already suggests the street trees have a a hard life. Bending away from the buildings, toward available light and over the road. Another photo shows it's the same on the other side. Now the trees are getting a good soaking. But their roots are not normally subjected to such intense heat from below. Are these trees now doomed?

Don't rub it in!

Sugi Lite Type Pro 545 15" is near enough same weight as a std. Husky bar. I'd be surprised if it didn't last longer than the H' bar, as that was made from melded marsh mallow and something almost as hard wearing. The Sugi's nose sprocket can be replaced with the same gauge as that of the bar. Though their noses are a bit narrower, the overall shape is a bit fatter and I found the Husky bar more controllable during plunge cuts. But overall, I prefer the Sugi and unless they turn out to be made of something softer than mallow, I'll be sticking with Sugi.

6 man days and three lads for two days sounds the same to me. Or does 3x2 not = 6 these days?

Yep. Not being insured is something that can be avoided and any sensible soul would be. Regardless of the above - that's a really bad thing to happen. And in no right world, should the honest person/s be £&@;/@ by the bloody scumbags of another world.

Damn! When they took over the Focus sites, my nearest store came within a few miles. If the shut that one, it'll be back to being over an 80ml. round trip. In which case online sales with Screwfix, (the same company' and Toolstation will be getting my custom.

Nice. Is it just me or does it not look a bit tail down? What might it be like with a bit of weight on the backend?

You're a hardy bunch over in LL. I think a stroll around Stickle Tarn and up Pavey Ark in shorts & skimpy T-shirts would be fitting. 4" of snow the other day as I remember. But it didn't last later than mid afternoon. Give my brother a nod next time you see him; "Who is he?" You'll know when you see him.

Fine now and hardly any wind.

If you're desperate, then 50p isn't that greater a price. But it's still a rip-off. If there's only you willing to pay, then that's ok. But if you get to the front of the queue and while you're waiting, someone else pays 50p. You're then not at the front. In effect, you've paid the extra 50p, just to feel smug that you 'may have' got answered quicker, than had you not paid their ransom demand. Pay the 50p ransom gets you there quicker = NO! Pay the 50p ransom gets you there no quicker. But you feel better for saving time = Maybe. If they can really answer some people quicker, just because they pay extra. Then they are in a position to answer everyone a little quicker. Or they have people in reserve, just in case more than one person pays their demand. The word 'ransom' is used above, as they are holding your perception of time against your will to wait. We think of a ransom as being paid in one lump sum. The notion that 50p isn't much and cannot therefore be a ransom, doesn't pan out. As the demand is not open just to you alone. But multiple 50ps, paid in multiples, still amounts to a hoard. And since they're playing with separate multiple minds, there's far less chance that the multiple-minds will become a hive-mind and rebel/not continue paying the ransom. Also, by paying their ransom; everyone who does so, makes an underclass of those who do not. Purposely delaying people, then 'rewarding' them if they pay extra to be where they would have been, if you had not delayed them in the first place, is pure skullduggery. Plus those who have resisted thus far from paying their portion of the ransom, may well feel like an underclass and be more amenable to pay-up in future. There is no way to disprove their claimed practices and services, as any data will have to come from them through them. Pay if you feel vulnerable or be part of a hive-mind and rebel against the tyrant. It's up to you and your will to wait. Or your will to capitulate to their demand, that you shall wait however long they wish you to, before giving you the option to progress no further and having you pay for the experience.

Yes it's windy but not so bad. But the gusts, now they're worrying. Plenty of things going flap, bang, crash, creak and the like.

That's tough to say the least. Hope the insurance pays soon and that the scum don't return again.

I go to local agri shows when I can. I remember going to a particular one for the first time and found it odd that all the swanky 4x4s were being directed to park close to the entrance/exit gate. While the majority of cars, (me included) were directed up the grass bank above the show ground. I decided to leave early, as it began to rain and not wanting to get caught in what I assumed would be a rutted jam. Only to be jammed behind half a dozen cars. We were all waiting for a swanky 4x4, which had been parked on level ground not 50yds. from the gate, to be extracted. The driver of which had no idea how to use his vehicle. I had a chuckle or three, when after being got out of the parking space by the brute force of a few burly guys. The troubled driver and his now muddy vehicle, were easily towed out to the road, by a steward in a white Jag. On the way out of the gate, I had a word with the guy on the gate and asked whether that was a one off. He replied, that the reason all the posh 4x4s were near the gate, was that none of their owners knew how to drive on anything other than tarmac or pavements. And that hadn't been a one off but the first of all too many. He too found it particularly amusing that a once bright red Range Rover, had been towed by a white sports car, who's driver evidently knew how to drive on what had become slippery ground.

Cold but clear night. Plenty of stars to view; but I just wanted out of my work clothes.

You tried birch. Doesn't last long but gives plenty of heat for sitting round at the after-BBQ-gathering.

I've only just got over the APF. Can't commit to Arb Show yet.

Drizzle. Which won't make today's task of dismantling a sewer to find a blockage any more fun. I suspect some jobbing builders who did some work for my father about a year ago, flushed more than the usual. Recently fitted a 'Fluidmaster', as the siphon was playing up. Rodded the drains and cleared some of what was the problem inside the building. Now it's time to start on the outside. Oh joy. Oh rapture.

Nice one!

Hope the pain eases and eventually ceases. And hope the physio & rehab go well.

Night before last it snowed. Then yesterday it bucketed down, then the sun came out, then it bucketed down, then the sun came out, then it chucked down with hail, then the sun came out and finally going into dusk if bucketed down. A somewhat damp 36hrs.