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This is the sort of thing we (ordinary law abidding citizens) have to put up with over here in the name of "peace". It absolutely made my blood boil in so many respects yet received minimal coverage in the press. Just to put it in to perspective, this murder was as cowardly and brutal as any carried out at the height of the "troubles". Mr Black was driving along the motorway to his work when a car drew alongside and shot him from it's passenger window. Shame and disgrace.

Released on bail!!!!!!!!!! Be odd if they're still around to be sentenced.

Surely sends out a very positive message for the UK. Trump puts Churchill bust back in Oval Office – Westmonster

Are you actually being serious Marcus? His missus is one of the most bigoted, prejudiced, people to be in the public eye for years but got fawned over because she was female, black, and the presidents wife. Some of the stuff she came out with would make Arlene look like a beacon of diplomacy!

Splashing the cash too. https://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/aspirations-of-excellence-at-trump-turnberry.html Likes his golf does the new Mr President!

I thought this was a pretty good article for anyone with a passing interest. Detailed enough to be useful, but brief enough not to be boring! Based in sportsturf obviously but should still be relevant to plenty on here. https://www.pitchcare.com/magazine/diesel-engine-emissions-all-you-need-to-know.html

Errrr, Grand Vitara is Suzuki! Apologies for not clarifying.

Consider Grand Vitara 2.4 petrol. Not that plentiful but a few about and the 2.4 engine is a corker. Probably about the only thing that will match the Honda for sheer metronomic reliability, but a bit more characterful.

As have you mine! In your own words........... Exactly, so why assume these forestry contractors won't be sufficiently hacked off to actually do something about it. The three month payment thing is no big deal as long as you're dealing with a company who actually pays you. When I was contracting some of the best paying work I had was as a "subby", I was actually quite happy when I spoke to someone who was too precious to deal with the terms as it meant more work for me.

Standard practice for construction/civil engineering sub-contract work and has been for many, many years. You still issue your own invoice at the end of the month, three months later you should be paid. Absolutely nothing like the issues being raised in the original post.

Bought a small Nilfisk about 10yrs ago to wash the occasional bike or any other small job that wasn't worth the trouble of hitching up our tractor driven washer. The tractor washer is now laid up and hasn't been on for a good number of years as the wee Nilfisk does everything. When it breaks it'll be replaced with another, no question. Oh, before the Nilfisk there had always been a similar type handy/electric washer of various makes (including Karcher) about the place, none of them ever done as much or lasted anything like as long as the Nilfisk!

I used to come home after "games day" at school battered black and blue, ...........and that was just from the teachers learning us how to play it!

Not sure if fearless is correct, but there is definitely some sort of generational difference. I'm late fifties, son early twenties. He's not a softie, he's been racing on two and four wheels since about 12 and had a few broken bones already, yet he's much more risk averse than I am even at my age. I suppose given the culture we live in now it's just inevitable.

First run just a few mph short of 300, on water, 50years ago. Either he was incredibly stupid (evidence suggests he was far from it!), or had a level of bravery difficult to comprehend nowadays.

Tragedy struck 50yrs ago today. [ame] [/ame] Philosophical words from his daughter, "If he had died a couple of weeks ago there would have been a few paragraphs in the Daily Telegraph. But here we are in 2017 talking about a hero that I still remember as a handsome young man."

Don't want to overdo it, we make hay on that ground and due to it's open nature it'll dry easily a day sooner than sheltered fields. A couple of field lengths away however, we have eight acres of recently planted broadleaved woodland which has both Silver Birch and Norway Maple in it. Have to say that so far the Norway Maple have been disappointing for some reason.

Maine.

What a lovely little creature. :love::love:

Thanks for all suggestions so far, food for thought already. You've hit nail on the head Alec, between top of the bank (edge of the field) and down the bank are very different. Edge of the field whilst never drying out, is never actually wet either, could be under water one day and as soon as the flood subsides you could drive a car over it! Your statement about "getting their feet wet from time to time" sums it up nicely. So I'll have a good look at the elm, walnut (I think he'd like the idea of that!), but also the swamp cyprus for maybe a wee bit further down the bank and one or two other places on the farm where it would be a bit of a change from alder and willow.

Our land is bounded on one side by a fairly major river which was widened, deepened and straightened (essentially a new river created) about 50 years ago. After many years of having been nothing more than a massive trench it is now starting to mature and develop character, a process which in relatively recent years I've be trying to help along on our own ground anyhow. I keep a fairly tight reign on who I allow to fish on it, but one guy who lives in the city and uses it as his "quiet place" gave me a few quid this year and asked me to plant something on it that could be there in years to come after his demise. I've got to know the guy very well over the years and he is a very fine human being so i'd like to put something good on it but it's obviously a challenging site. It's on the edge of a flood plain which extends to the south and west so quite exposed, against that, we are low lying and well inland so milder and not as violent winds as coastal or the like. Soil will be loam as deep as roots will ever go, so very fertile but maybe not as good an anchor for something very tall possibly? Obviously very free draining, but soil quite moist and could be underwater for maybe up to 24hrs in an especially big flood. So lots of contradictions there. Climate probably similar to NW England, my son spent a year living and working around Lancashire and he said it was very similar to home. A few things have managed to self-seed since I closed off the bank to cattle, hawthorn, willow, and a massive ash of all things has now established itself on a little estuary where a tributary joins it at the end of our run. These plus alder are the obvious candidates but he'd like one particular "signature" tree as well and I'm just wondering if there's anything a bit random or unusual which would be worth a go. I've added a few photos to help give context to the query. Thanks.

As we live out in the sticks we will never have fibre so over the years I've looked at both satellite and wireless broadband and also tried to keep abreast of various government "initiatives" to bring high speed broadband to someone like me. Yet the fact is that 7 or 8 years ago we had about 1.5 Mbps and now we have about 1.2 Mbps, but it is fairly consistent and reliable at least. A couple of years ago when Junior was living in England, rather than get tied in with fixed broadband contracts he got EE 4G mobile broadband as he could bring it home with him at least until the contract expired. Well he still has it and it runs consistently with us at 25-30 Mbps although you'd obviously have to try something out to see what speed you were getting yourself. What IS significant about mobile broadband is that only in the past few months has data started to become sufficiently sensibly priced to be able to consider it as your sole supply. When he started he had 25 Gigs/month, now he has 60 for less money. Daughter has just switched to Vodafone on a sim only phone contract that gives her 20 Gigs/month of data with unlimited phone usage, so she increasingly just uses her phone as a wifi hotspot with her laptop and doesn't even bother with our fixed broadband. So check out 4G, if you have the signal it might be worth considering.

Had it on a pirate 4 track which got played to destruction 35 odd years ago!

Video is a bit OTT, but then most videos are!

Yes sir! [ame] [/ame]

What I've been listening to for the past couple of hours is the playlist for my final show on the local charity radio station which I help out at up to Christmas. The Hooters - Satellite April Wine - Crash and Burn Status Quo - Mystery Song Lenny Kravitz - Are you gonna go my way Lemmy Kilmister and Willy Gibbons - Run Rudolph Run Foo Fighters - The Pretender Gas Can Ruckus (local band) - Goodbye Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water Bowling For Soup - Frosty the Snowman Metallica - Whiskey in the jar Green Day - Wake me up when September ends Twisted Sister - I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus Motorhead - Overkill Black Sabbath - Lonely is the Word Also have Rammstein - Ich Tu Dir Weh as a hopeful if time allows. This will be my eighth and final show of our 2016 broadcast (lasts for four weeks) and I've played everything from Vivaldi to Rammstein. Apologies for the waffle but I'm waiting on the dishwasher finishing!