Billhook

If it wasn't for the bloody trees everywhere it would take half the time! Cut the bloody things down, who planted them anyway ? Oh yes I think I did........

Bloody hell, I had a panda in the early 90's. It was only 2wd with the900cc fire engine. Loved that car, brilliant in snow, cross fields, it would go anywhere. Got rid after 3 years though as the thing wouldn't start in the wet, changed everything, but still wouldn't start on a morning if it had been raining. I bought a brand new Panda 4x4 white in 1986 when they just brought out the FIRE engine version. £5000, really bought as a replacement for the farm Ford Escort Van which was the same price but had limited vision pulling out of our gateways and was hopeless off road. I had a set of Greens gang mowers that I used to pull with a Little Grey Fergie, which was sometimes cold and exposed in bad weather and I wondered if the little Panda could cope. It did easily. I thought that something must break on it due to this abuse and it was such a luxury to mow like this that I could not go back to the tractor. I had a heater, wipers, headlights for night work, radio stereo and best of all when I had friends to stay I would ask them if they wanted to mow the lawns with me. The answer was obviously "no way" but I enticed them with a can of beer and the next time they came they asked if they could mow the lawns for me! A win win situation! So these Pandas kept coming up for sale in the local paper, not macho enough for men and too complicated for women so they were going for between £50 and£150 so I kept buying them since we have a spare barn. When my parents were alive they had one each for going around the farm. They loved them as they were a bit higher and easy for them to enter and depart and simple to use. A bloke in the village had a Volvo XC70 which had failed its MOT because the instrument panel had packed up. The cost of replacing everything was well over£1000 so he was about to scrap it but let me have it for £250. Diesel, auto, aircon, 4x4, electric seats, power steering. I bought another set of Greens for it for the farmyard area so I now have about four acres to mow incomplete comfort in about an hour. The way the grass has been growing recently it has been a godsend

Both Sisley, worth not a lot when I bought them in the 1990s but becoming a collector’s car now!

Eleven years on! Put the orange bars into the slots in the horizontal position and transported eleven 3/8” sheets of 4’x8’ behind the Mule. So easy and the Mule had no trouble at all on the one in seven hills.

Managed to fill the 72 cubic foot box which is about 2 cubic metres in 34 minutes with a couple of holdups the straight lengths of Sycamore have been drawn up into 70 foot tall branchless stems about ten inches in diameter. Perfect for the Palax Combi 600. If I could be bothered to grade the timber and had an extra helper and a newly sharpened circular saw I think I could break the 20 minute barrier if everything worked as it should! Sycamore on the dodgy ( but effective) log deck and oak in the third picture.

Sorry, I did mean English

I am fairly ashamed to be British when I hear that certain element booing every time the Danes had the ball, I was appalled by the booing during the Danish National anthem and the laser was unforgivable. there must be enough cameras around to find the culprit. They need to make some rules for this behaviour. If you ordered the stadium to be cleared every time it happened the crowd would soon control the idiots.

The remarkable thing is that Sammy seemed quite unfazed by the shock and after being launched into the holly, lands on the ground and starts calmly eating nuts again. Must be squirrel shock therapy!

Sammy Squirrel is learning not to nick the bird food. Had a good belt this morning!

You must have a lot better eyes than me then

You must have a lot better eyes than me then

Looks like they were lopping the overhead branches

The world seems in tune when you listen to Tom Lehrer still alive at 93 years

I really cannot see what you are talking about. The first four cones are to protect the lights and signs and then they continue for several hundred yards but I guess you never noticed that? We have just had several heavy showers to account for the water. The cones go on for several hundred yards and there is a gap in them to let vehicles in. So the reason they are there is to protect a workforce rather than shield a pothole or water. No Workforce so no need for the cones overnight or when the workforce is away.

Another one this morning, held me and several cars up for ages with nothing happening, no potholes, no workforce, just people too lazy to move the cones for the night and turn the lights off. Straight bit of road too. I imagine this is the case all around the country with thousands of vehicles needlessly held up with their engines idling. Makes a mockery of trying to keep emissions down.

How close can the defenders be to the goal when the penalty is taken? They must all be aware of the potential for the ball to go loose but I do not recall a rush of Danish defenders rushing in to try and save the day

Totally agree with you about Pickford every kick seemed to go out or to the Danes. The penalty was not at all as obvious as other decisions where there was no doubt. However, good to see that there is now a video judgement but I would be interested to know the line up on that video panel. It also seems unfair that the Danish goalie did such a fantastic save only to give away a chance for a second shot which does not happen in the penalty shoot outs, how did this rule develop?

All right for you my wife is Danish and I was looking forward to a good night in after the first goal, now it is a bad night out in the garage locked in the car for my own safety!

I reckon we've had about 10 cars end up in the middle of our sites because they said, we thought they were stuck on red. Fixed traffic lights at junctions no bother. Temporary.... Nearly classed as invisible as stop go boards. But I do take the greatest enjoyment of making them back up out of the site and then let the other direction go first to make the point. Makes a rainy wet cold winters day a little bit more enjoyable doing that. You cannot do much about complete stupidity

All these signs are moronic

But why should those people take any more notice of a sign then a red light? Probably cannot read anyway I

He’s back! I was prepared! Cattle electric fencer with the live to the cage and the earth to the silver metal strip below I was hoping he would be curious about that! Has not been back! Birdies all safe as they are not big enough to complete the circuit

Doesn’t any driver know in any language that if you come across a set of traffic lights which are red, you do not go until they are green. What difference does it make if they are temporary, three way , ten way, railway crossing or the one next to your wife’s pillow!

Could not believe anyone would put this sign up under a traffic light! ‘Elf and safety gawn mad?