Jon3012

Me and my girlfriend are just about to start renovating an old farm house so we went to home building and renovating show in harrogate for ideas and suppliers. I couldn't believe how many stove suppliers were there stands full of people looking to put a log burner into there new build or renovation. It still seems to be fashionable to put them in wether they actually burn anything on them is a different story.

Unfortunately I feel that the green party ideas are made by someone that watches a bit to much countryfile. The highlights of my disappointment are shooting being banned no more me and dog working the hedgerows. You can shoot a squirrel but you can't enjoy it though. Ban on rodent poison which is ridiculous. Increase in green power, on the face of it thats fine but I don't want more turbines which are a serious waste of money and landscape, and a lot of the biomass we burn in our power stations comes from over the atlantic not very green.

I am in the process of renovating an old farmhouse. When I put the plans in to the building inspector he said that fire regs only really apply to bedrooms so if in a bungalow you maybe have an office upstairs then not to worry but a bedroom you really want an escape velux in the roof. On a seperate note the best thing I did was employ a private building inspector.

Deer will be irrelevant to a wolves diet why chase something dangerous when you can eat a sheep that cant get away. Also a wolf packs territory can be up to 300 thousand acres. Forest of dean, dartmoor I doubt it. The highlands aren't big enough for that I did read a very interesting piece on this subject in the field magazine. Its never going to happen.

Landcruiser everytime.

For work I treat a lot of houses for fleas, if there are pets I recommend advocate everytime frontline is a massive waste of money. Also if you actually get the fleas laying eggs in your house then the bombs sprays etc that you get from the vets or shop will not cure the problem they are a knockdown with no residual effect so when the eggs hatch the fleas just get on.

Well ours came from a place called torne valley store, but its available loads of places. Ebay it.

I use rubber matting that people put in horses stables, use the same stuff in the dogs kennels if my girlfriend would let me I would carpet the lounge in it it feels so warm.

You have a wasp nest very close to the house or in a part of your house and the nest is coming to an end. Pretty common this time of year.

Its ok because scaffold boards aren't treated they don't last long enough to rot when builders get hold of them. Nothings treated with the arsenic mix these days. Thats why stuff doesnt last in the ground these days. I used to work in a place that produced 45 thousand scaffold boards a week, hundreds of thousands of metres of roofing batten plus other bits like decking. When they stopped using the arsenic we got the first weed in the yard that had ever been seen nothing used to grow we even finally got rats.

There are literally millions of virgin timber scaffold boards in this country that don't make the grade no need to use 2nd hand

Plenty of packs of reject scaffold boards in the world. Plenty of bags in a 100 pack.

Its been a bad year for wasps this year no idea why loads of dopey near dead nests. I know its to late but a hornets sting will easily go through a bee suit. Be careful.

Love my orange knife from EKA. Never looked back.

The so-called 'modern game keeper', who is only really a pheasant rearer for London shooting syndicates, has to be called out and take much of the blame for the population explosion. They couldn't be bothered to do proper keeping for a decade, if at all! The shoot captains who employed these people should also take a considerable amount of the same blame too for being ignorant to the forests needs and this horrendous problem. The next generations 'big trees' simply won't be there when this crop is either felled or comes to its natural end. I think its a bit harsh to blame the keeper for an explosion in the squirrel population. You could also blame every person who owns a garden that a squirrel goes through the amount of keepered land in this countryhas been going down for at least 40 years and at the end of the day a keeper could kill a 1000 squirrels and not one single bill has been paid. gas powered traps will be the way forward in all grey forests just check them once a month the trials in new Zealand were very positive but it takes so long to get a trap approved its like waitig for Christmas but its not coming.