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GarethM

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  1. To be honest history is a very grey area, the more you read the better you'll understand and actually have context as it's not binary especially regarding Africa, India and many other places. Hamas however are not freedom fighters, just fanatical terrorists, mostly funded by Iran and similar places. Kinda like the contras and Afghan in the 70s, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
  2. Think you're getting a few mixed up ideals there, especially South Africa/Hamas etc. Very different, ideals and then throw in islam you're definitely 2+2= forever 21
  3. What the literal f. Think we can easily guess your thoughts on the troubles.
  4. It's a ruse to get your details for some long winded benefits scam or outstanding parking tickets ?. Yes I'm taking the piss, just bin the letter.
  5. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the neighbour who started this legal wranglings
  6. If that thing is causing anything, other than a piss take of a official letter I would be surprised!.
  7. Probably best not starting a discussion into those sorts of money making fly-by-nights. You're going to need to keep the ground around saplings clear mainly by hand, remove things that shouldn't be there and maintain everything else you wish to remain.
  8. The English landscape is in no way natural, our green and pleasant land have been sculpted and managed for thousands of years. Anyone that told you to plant and walk away, probably was selling you something.
  9. That's the reality of small woodland management, it's a ball ache by hand. You do learn quickly that if you're not wanting to burn it to cut/compact and leave to rot in say a dip or valley. Owning woodland is not a swan around it kinda deal, I've acres of it and it always needs work.
  10. We've already said get busy with a second burning pile, we're not going to justify you throwing a match on a brash pile because you're feeling a bit lazy. Regardless of the levels of wildlife, it's just not the done thing, as there will be fieldmice, hedgehogs, rabbit, hare etc using it.
  11. If it predates you moving in, how long has the tree been gone and how long have you been there. As it's odd how the owner of the other property hasn't informed the insurance it's been removed. I'd be tempted to be an evil sod, providing the stump is dead to just send the letter back with a note saying No and let their insurance actually do the leg work for a non existent claim.
  12. Do they atleast have the big screen TV pointing at you and the sound turned up ?
  13. They're usually the Facebook types, look at the £50 deal I got etc. Yeap, I stack more in a barrow bag than half the Facebook fly-by-nights builders bags I've seen. No point arguing with them either, as the next moaning post you'll see is it's wet or it won't burn what should I do Yeah there's a reason I have to charge more, because shock horror it's dry and it even burns!.
  14. Whilst you can burn it, the problem you'll face is other protected animals such as hedgehogs maybe even a badger set maybe using it now. Damage either and your in serious trouble, simple option is to move brash pile as you burn it, leave it to rot down.
  15. Yeap, that the idea. Whilst older open fire types say baxi burnall had a vent under the fire ash pan it was still open flue. If you've can fit a outside air kit, it's barely even worth discussing not fitting it.
  16. Regardless of the size, room sealed with a direct vent as you can't rely on air leakage for supply regardless of the size. Simple analogy, you don't light a fire to keep warm and leave the back door open or fit double glazing and leave the window open.
  17. Calm down chicken little, next you'll be trying to convince me the war criminal Blair wasn't all bad as it was just the one war on terror. So you're arguing 100 murdering scumbags is worth what 3 hostages is a fair deal ?. The art of negotiation is both sides getting a fair deal, it also helps having a bigger stick or atleast gods own boom stick if you want a historical reference.
  18. No, that's not how it works.m as you called it a branch. If you want to be pedantic, I couldn't care if you're a man, women, llama or sock puppet. It still doesn't change the fact you need to use whichever grown arse section to speak with them and then put up a real fence. This is not an echo chamber of suggestions that meet your narrow ideal of what you want or expect to have been suggested. If you want to go legal be my guest and prepare for a very very large bill as getting petty is the beginning of a thin edge of that legal wedge.
  19. Funny that. Still sounds like you and your neighbour deserve eachother. As I've said before you're a grown ass man, go speak to him as such and then put up a proper fence. You don't have to like a neighbour, I dislike and despise some of mine but I can still hold an occasional conversation when necessary, the rest of the year ignorance is bliss.
  20. I'll give it a listen later. I'm involved with a mink project myself, so maybe similar setup with monitored text message traps, DNA samples etc. Problem with squirrels is location and idiots thinking you're doing something wrong, limits where and who you can both trust and deal with. I've had to explain to the mink lot many times, I don't want anyone to notice the trap, zero dark and dirty almost clandestine.
  21. They were advertising for a job the other month, the reds have wised up to a free meal.
  22. I dunno, I certainly make up for it locally. But to be honest I don't think there are any trees that are resistant to greys, as it's primarily saplings that attract attention initially same with deer. I look at it as native tree will feed a red or a grey, but a non native would probably only feed a grey when a sizable tree so a negative long term for the reds.
  23. Just shoot the bloody things and plant native. Is a cart backwards argument to not plant native because of a non native pest.

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