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Only prevented by going into the woods with a bee keepers suit to wear if cutting or strimming in likely places. This is the most likely time of year. I do not think that once an elderly man has been stung so many times on the head that there is a remedy once the shock has taken place. There was an idiotic remedy piece in the Torygraph today saying that you should pull out the stings and then wash with soapy water! I think that the journalist needs to do a little more research!

[ame] [/ame] Just have a few of these guys and gals on the job and the whole lot would be done in no time!

I think that men buying these expensive tools is the equivalent of women buying shoes! Men become just as excited about seeing a set of cabinets full of beautiful smooth sliding drawers and shiny Snap-on tools A cheap tool or cheaper pair of shoes will still work, but the feel good factor is not the same. Because I am tight fisted and always losing tools, I buy the cheapest I can find usually from discount stores or markets, so I may well have about a dozen 10mm spanners kicking about the place in various cars/ tractors/ workshops but they are always around when I need them. I did split a couple of cheap Chinese sockets under high torque way back in the 1970s but I have never broken a tool since then. I have cut spanners in half to do a difficult job, which I would not consider doing with a Snap-on spanner! I run around in a Panda 4x4 which cost £100 in 1997. A Range Rover I am sure is more sturdy and comfortable but the Panda deals with the offroad bit well and has not let me down.

This thread has given me the great idea to put the contents of my septic tank on ebay free for collection. Useful as compost/fertiliser Winner needs tools (slurry tanker plus tractor)

The only thing that will frighten a 26 year old man into changing his lifestyle is the possibility of losing anything to do with his reproductive parts! Telling him that he may end up like poor old Treequip with heart problems. or end up like others with diabetes when they are middle aged seems so far away when you are in your mid twenties that you tend to say "What the hell, have another few packets of crisps and diet coke followed by a Mars or two washed down later with a pub session." But tell him that his willie will drop off or his gonads will shrivel, then it is a different story!

It looks perfect for the perfect world where all the wood is dead straight in long lengths and four inches in diameter with no knots!

Hi Sean Hope all is still progressing positively. Just a note to say that we have not forgotten you. Because of our dangerous work, especially working alone, I now make an extra effort to try and be safe, the use of the bSafe app and registering 999 on my iPhone is just one example. I rather miss your photographs and one of those every now and again is wonderful to see. You don't have to say anything, the picture will say a lot! Now you have mentioned your love of Swallows, I think of you every time I see one and hope that you are doing well.

Thank you for that Paul, my wife and I have just successfully registered. Also we have registered on the bSafe App this has the advantage of using "find my phone" co-ordinates but has the disadvantage of my wife knowing where I am not meant to be! None of this will make me stop trying to operate more safely, especially when I am on my own.

Just answered my own question with a quick google search 5 Free Personal Safety Apps that Can Call For Help - Techlicious

That sounds like a great idea. Is there an app which does something similar? For those of you working alone perhaps going off to do something potentially dangerous in a different place, just tell someone where you will be or at least leave a note for someone to read.

Strange year for butterflies here in Lincolnshire. Hardly any in the garden, even on the buddleia "butterfly plant". I think I have seen one Peacock and one Red Admiral all year and hardly any Honey Bees but loads of Bumblebees of all types. However, when mowing the grassland out on the farm, the place was alive with Meadow Browns, hundreds of them and each time I stopped about twenty had been sucked onto the radiator grill. They could not move with the engine at working revs but a soon as it was at idle they had enough power to free themselves and flew off apparently none the worse for their ordeal. There were dozens of skylarks also which seem to have had a good year here.

Says 1890s on one website but says 1875 on my bit of paper! Orange Toast - FinnegansWiki

Like most fleas they are host specific, so whilst you or the dog may suffer for a day or two, they cannot breed. http://www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/faq.php

Just found this at the bottom of a drawer of ancient papers from the 19th century while reorganising the office. They certainly had freedom of speech and expression in those days! "Here's to the glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William III, Prince of Orange, who saved us from rogues and roguery, slaves and slavery, knaves and knavery, Popes and Popery, brass money and wooden shoes. And whoever denies this toast may he be slammed, crammed and jammed into the muzzle of the great gun of Athlone, and the gun fired into the Pope's belly, and the Pope into the Devil's belly, and the Devil into Hell, and the door locked, and the key in an Orangeman's pocket, and may we never lack a brisk Protestant boy to kick the arse of a Papist, and here's a fart for the Bishop of Cork!"

Lawyers!

Gordon Bennett I wish I had never read this thread as I have now discovered it was Tony Bennett "Rags to Riches" December 1953! [ame] [/ame] I wish it could have been Purple Haze but I see the great British public in their ignorance only ever voted it to No 3 in the charts in spite of it being acknowledged now as one of the greatest singles of all time! [ame] [/ame]

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This guy shows you how to grow a pineapple tree! [ame] [/ame]

I had a virtual pint in each of them! What about the Monkey Puzzle Farnborough. Monkey Puzzle Brewers Fayre & Farnborough Premier Inn - Southwood Farnborough Hampshire

From the Wiki Bush, Holly Bush, Mulberry Bush etc. refer to plants, but note that Bull and Bush refers to a battle (see Historical event above). Chequers from the Wild Service Tree or "Chequer(s) Tree", the fruit of which was used to flavour beer before the introduction of hops. Crabtree would refer to a crab apple tree growing nearby or in the grounds, as pubs are often free standing. Flower Pot, Maidstone, Kent, Aston, Oxfordshire, Henley on Thames. Flowerpots, Cheriton, Hampshire. Four Chesnuts, Chichester. Hand and Flower, Hammersmith, London, also Ham, Surrey. Hand and Flowers, Marlow. Major Oak, Nottingham. Named after an ancient tree, and locally associated with Robin Hood Pineapple, e.g. in The Pineapple, Kentish Town, also Berkshire and Oldham. Tulip, Chelmsford. Vine or Grapes possibly harks back to the Roman custom of displaying a vine outside a tavern or wine-shop, as in The Hoop and Grapes in Aldgate High Street, London (reputed to be the city's oldest pub).

I bought some Rentokil which contains .25% permethrin and there is a small area in one Copper Beech floorboard with about six active holes in it. I have been squirting it down the holes every day for a week and there is still a little volcano of fresh sawdust each morning. The Rentokil seems to have no effect at all, has this happened to anyone else? Is there something more effective?

I had always thought of these things as a bit "New Age" and not for me a spanner wielding, sawmill operating petrolhead. We had the garden open as part of money raining for the Church and I had a bench made out of logs. We have a great view in all directions and I was deciding where to put the bench and found a particular area in front of a gap in a line of trees where one had died and been removed. I put the bench in several places and sat down on it but these places were not right, not because they impeded the view, but just because they did not "feel" right. So it went in the first place I put it that felt right. On the day it was remarkable in the two acres of garden with views in all directions that the fifty or so people who were in the garden throughout the day constantly changing, all ended up together at this spot. It was more than coincidence and more than being the best view. They just felt content, strangers chatting and not necessarily looking at the view. I had not thought about the missing tree till I read this post There are other places in the woods I like to go and sit on a log for a bit of thought collecting which "feel" right. Others which do not. "There are more things in heaven and earth..........."

I would have thought that a Lucas Mill would just handle it so that it could be milled on site and taken away in planks or slabs with the slabbing attachment

[ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008CNWR80?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00]Bushnell Trophy Cam 2012 HD Camera - Brown: Amazon.co.uk: Camera & Photo@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41qbxkoGy2L.@@AMEPARAM@@41qbxkoGy2L[/ame] I bought one of these in early 2013 for £224 from cameraking . I assume the £374 now asked is for an old stock item not produced anymore. You can buy one like this for £60 [ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/VWTECH-Infrared-Trigger-Digital-Hunting/dp/B00O9THPTC/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1437806208&sr=1-1&keywords=trail+camera+with+night+vision]VWTECH 720P 8MP Low Glow Night Vision 5 MP Infrared Fast Trigger Digital Game Trail Hunting Camera: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41USujWI%2BiL.@@AMEPARAM@@41USujWI%2BiL[/ame] The reason I paid more was because we have an acre of lake where I leave the camera for some time before checking it and I wanted a black LED as a lot of them have red LEDs which show up at night. There are twelve batteries in mine and they last for months. It also has a colour viewfinder. Of course night work is all black and white. I have had some fantastic results on an animal trail around the lake. Families of Roe and Muntjac plus a Chinese Water Deer. Badgers Foxes and Carrion Crows all seem oblivious to the camera. (As do humans who should not be there!) The highlight was definitely this March when a bitch otter brought her two pups on several occasions and they are playing on the concrete overflow. She brings them fish to munch, usually Silver Rudd which we have in abundance. Otters are very rare in this area. I also have a few clips of a big dog fox hanging around the overflow and sniffing the scent marks of the otters. He is staring out into the lake and I was thinking "oh no he is going for the pups." However the next video 10 second clip sees him leap the overflow in one bound and his feet are nearly on fire, I have never seen a fox move so fast. He was absolutely terrified of the otter bitch. Somebody told me that although a fox will look big it is mainly fur whereas an otter is pure muscle and even a bitch will probably weigh more than a dog fox. maybe 15 lb for the dog fox and 17lb for the bitch otter and 20lb for the dog otter according to google. Everybody tells me that "They will clean your bloody lake out" but I think that is another of those crapetition stories as the lake has fish jumping everywhere in the evenings catching flies and if I throw some bread in it is like a scene from Jaws! They apparently need 15 to 25% of their body weight in fish a day, I was hoping that they would clear it out but clearly the fish breed faster than they can eat them! In conclusion a fantastically useful device for all Arbtalkers to see anything from wildlife in the woods to pilfering in the yard to seeing whether your neighbour is putting their rubbish in your bin! (Or checking on the milkman!)

When you have trimmed her bush and dealt with her box are you going to give her a good pollarding as well?