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Well c’mon topchypples, start the ball rolling with a guess!

Just started to slab the Elm, which is about 14 feet long, 4 inches thick and averaging about 42 inches width Tree died of Dutch Elm a couple of years ago and has been down for a year in the yard in the open. There is a weighing scale above the grab which weighs 25 kilos

Been nice warn sunny days here in the East Midlands when I released mine. Might they not find another Winter home?

Still finding at least three queens per wood box (one ton potato box loose packed stored in open fronted shed) All caught and released

They do seem to be very good tyres

A massive bit of virtue signalling here in this photo of my bike wheel that has become so worn with everyday use that the rim has become so thin that it has broken away from the main wheel! I still do not think I am going to do much to help the greenhouse gases as I probably expel as much CO2 and maybe other noxious gases from my body as the Kawasaki Mule on the same round trip!

Are you saying that Boris is a Count?

You just hit the nail on the head Difflock!

Put an infertility drug into manufactured sugar and tell everyone that it’s there. That would kill two birds with one stone and be voluntary. A good start to address both noise and gas pollution as well as use of non renewables, would be to ban fireworks worldwide.

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Obviously a member of the Carabinieri, complete with his arrestor cable!

I see now, but I do not find it very intuitive. I was thinking weight rather than volume.

I must be thick, or perhaps my brain is loose stacked! Surely the vertical columns are the wrong way round and that in the top line "Solid m3" and "Loose m3" need to be reversed??

Agree about the lack of bugs on the car windscreen, even on the 186 mile journey in the sunshine from here to Oxford in late September. However in October there were thousands of midges gathering in the corn store eaves and ridge which had been warmed by the sun on the metal sheeting. Quite a few butterflies, a very late Brimstone, but hardly a moth to be seen. Queen wasps everywhere and I was buzzed by a massive queen hornet yesterday.

It’s Holly Willoughgobooby and she’s forgotten her bra!

Seem to have done very well this year. Every load I bring in from the wood box seems to release one if not two and having been stung on my little finger after picking up a log ( why does that seem to hurt more than most other parts of the hand!) I bought a long handled spider catcher from Amazon as I cannot concentrate on the paperwork with them buzzing around. Thoroughly recommended!

If the skin is quite thick, and they are green for most of the season then turn yellow at the end I suggest D'Arcy Spice Delicious and will keep well into the New Year due to the skin.

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I would have thought that a very deep borehole would be a less instrusive way of retrieving the heat from below

Good bit of lateral thinking Dave. Perhaps it will counter global warming? The soil has a whole lot more life in it than just a few insects, it is a whole ecosystem when in good condition.

Good man! Must make the most of the current opportunity in the high prices of gas, oil and electricity As My dear old dad used to say "'tis an ill wind that blows nobody any good" It is just the same in farming, wheat should be five times its current price and so should firewood. Values become lost when inflation takes hold.

In the Summer the radiators are off and the heat is just for the hot water, but if it becomes too hot a valve opens and relieves it through the radiator system Bit like ground source heating in cold ground the solar is not much good in Winter in our dull climate, but for us it works well in the Summer

I thought that people living next to a river found it a better source than the ground, cannot remember where I read it though

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