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I have leylandii and apple in abundance. Both are very good on the fire but have quite different characteristics. Leylandii light extremely easy, burns hot if a little quick but leaves very little ash. Apple burns slower but less hot and copious amounts of ash to clear out of the fire. If I had to choose just one it would be leylandii.

I hope it is and love your optimism. Not so convinced myself but will find out when I cut my way in.

I was going to saw some wood today with my pto sawbench but couldn't find it. Eventually realised the last place I left it was where a load of trees have since fallen down. Not sure if that is Karma or not but I am pretty sure it will be completely fecked. I don't know because I can't even see it or the 3 ton trailer that I did know was under there. These are a row of 90' tall leylandii that have uprooted and laid flat in the storm a week or so back. It may have survived but I very much doubt it given the trunks are flat to the floor. So, I am going to have to buy a new one which is a shame as I really liked this one. I made this one myself but have lost all enthusiasm of fabricating stuff. Any recommendations? Mine was 13" cut and would like to stay at or near to that. Pto driven.

Very impressed with the handle if homemade.

This is good stuff for waterproofing, restoring and preserving. You won't get a shine though.

Th ones in the pic didn't snap, they just blew over completely and lifted the root plate. I do have one that is either just as big or bigger that has snapped out into the field where I keep my geese and have had many over the years. They mostly snap out as a result of not being single leaders and the union where they fork becoming a weak point. Once they snap out the weak point is still there and the other fork is very likely to snap out at some point. Very often when there is a strong wind from the opposite direction. If you cut the top off you will create multiple leaders all of which are prone to snapping. Plant another leyland if you like them that much, there's a good chance it won't snap in your lifetime/ownership.

From an owner of thousands of these things point of view ,once they start snapping they keep doing it and more frequently. Yes you can cut the top off and it will rapidly regrow but this time with multiple new leaders and each with the potential to snap out, this time from higher up so potentially more damaging. Remove it and start again, with a new leylandii if you are desperate but there are better choices. A pic of my carnage this morning. Seen it many times before.

The wind snapped the pointy bit off my wind gauge last night. So I might know how windy it is still but won't have the faintest idea where it is coming from.

Yeah well, it turns out that Christmas is fake too.

You have to be quick to collect eggs if you don't want the buggers eating them. It is quite a challenge to stop once they start. My geese are just as bad.

Chicken broth?

Give me a shout if you get yourself in such a pickle as my Allen key set includes Imperial, don't know why anyone would have half a set missing. Maybe they will invent an adjustable (shifter) Allen key one day to solve the issue.

Broke it again today. 🙄

You will be wasting your time, they won't reuse the nest and neither the queen or any others will overwinter in it. The non queens (workers) die off at this time of year and the new queens that overwinter to start new nests have already left. I am already finding overwintering queens in their dormant state in the logpile and elsewhere.

I bought an FX DRS .22 in walnut a week or two back. Put a Donny silencer on it and it is very quiet. PCP and filled with a dive bottle. Does 2p size groups at 30metres. I’ve put about 500 pellets through it already and absolutely love it. Only shot at targets so far but will be used on live quarry.

The first apples that are ready in my orchard are Discovery, usually mid August. The wasps are still very active and in bad years they take a significant amount of the apples. One year I was picking them on my own and eventually my bottle went and I left them. Later I saw my Romanian workers and asked if they wanted a bit of overtime. They did it and nobody got stung. By time the maincrop apples are ready a month later you rarely see a wasp.

As a kid a wasp sting was no more than getting stuck with a pin, no I didn't like it but no big deal. These days it hurts like feck for 30 minutes and then gone bar an occasional itchiness where I was stung. My day job is squashing apples, when I am squashing the early varieties it is like standing in a swarm of wasps, there can be literally hundreds of them. Very rarely get stung and even then it is because you got hold of one by accident but my bottle does go on a regular basis and I just say feck that! I have been known to get the industrial vacuum out to reduce numbers in the shed.

I need an epi-pen due to my sesame allergy. Haven't always suffered but it has reached the point of it being dangerous now with anaphylactic shock. Easy enough to avoid in this country as long as you are careful, no Chinese takeaways, careful with seeded bread, read labels etc. Can't have a Big Mac due to the seeded bun and a lot of pre-prepared stuff has sesame hidden away in it, like a lot of cracker type biscuits for example. I am going to Australia in the spring, that is where it gets troublesome because there is a big Asian influence on the food there. Worst ever reaction I had was eating goulash in Oz. Thing is you need to have a prescription which involves exposing you to the allergen, I am not very keen on that idea! Also strictly speaking you should still attend hospital even if you administer it yourself. The episode I had in Oz was 6 hours away from the nearest hospital and that would rely on transport being immediately available (it wasn't).

It puzzles me why this rapist gets the attention he does in this age of cancel culture. He is a rapist, he did time for raping someone. No better than a kiddy fiddler in my book.

Bring back the Ewbank and not that lithspy wassock.

Dyson no doubt got into farming due to it being tax efficient for him but as far as I know his farms are very much working farms rather than just land being owned. A fair bit of what he does goes well beyond the basic farming stuff. Beeswax farms if you are interested enough to look them up. As far as farming in general goes I don't know why anyone does it from a business point of view, there are far easier ways to make a living.

I had a shower this morning and I am bald so wtf are you on?

They don't reuse nests so they won't come back to that one. I'm not mad on wasps but if you have got this far through the year with no bother I don't see the need to do anything now, they will be gone soon enough. Wasps do a great deal more good than harm, they eat an awful lot of pests in the garden. If they just dropped the stingy bit they'd be more popular than bees that just arse about in flowers and sting people.

Missus snores like a pig, can't hear myself think never mind anything else.