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It was that part of the East Coast that I was referring to. I remember also the wheat was full of ladybirds and the wheat on trailers going into store was orangy red! Still it probably raised the protein levels and made a higher price for milling!

I am old enough to vividly remember 1976 , the hot Summer and the plague of greenfly which covered the ground like a green carpet. This was followed by a plague of ladybirds and again everything was covered with a red carpet and it was so bad on the beaches that people left in droves and complained about being bitten, although I have never been bitten by one. I do not think that they can bite a human. Compare that to this year and I do not think I have had to clean my windscreen once for bug splat, I have seen relatively few flies and moths, hardly any butterflies. Very few insects came into our bedroom in the evening with the window open and light on. Wasps and Hornets were doing ok though. The swallows left early without gathering on the wires Short of food? Was it the long wet Spring this year? Any other theories?

Taking a jump with a good look(er)

Seems to be the rule to go by. As an elderly farmer having never met Gary Prentice, I can see where he is coming from! We old farmers have had a lifetime of flak and are quite used to it. I was not aware that there were grandfather rights anymore with chainsaws. I seem to remember that in spite of the fact I do not employ anybody and my farm has only one footpath on the boundary. my insurance would not cover me as I was deemed to be working for the business (which is a partnership and not a company) unless I had a chainsaw certificate. So I duly went on a course and gained one. It cannot do any harm to do a course. I do not think it matters in the eyes of the law if someone is trespassing and happens to be under a tree you have just dropped, I suppose it may even be a child hiding in the bushes, you will be nailed in court without insurance. The strange thing is that I can use the chainsaw in my garden (last time I looked into it) without any certificate or insurance. An no Gary, my chain is never slack, always tight, just like my sixpack! And I do ride a bike!

Long thread and I am sure this has been mentioned but walking into a parts department is where it usually takes place. You walk in and nobody is waiting to be served, go up to the counter, look the assistant in the eye and the phone goes and they immediately pick it up and proceed with an enquiry or order. Sorry mate, but I am standing here and they can wait and ring back!

I bet he would remember a bowline and a hornbeam if you showed it to him once what is most remarkable is that he is very normal and confident with other people as most people with these abilities have autism and are social outcasts. I went to a wedding once where the groom was running a school for people with autism and they were unidentifiable amongst the other guests. One guy came up to me, smartly dressed, jacket and tie, and looking over my left should asked "What's your car number?" I looked back over my shoulder and there was nobody there, so I told him the number, JJL I think and he said that was too easy mid Lincolnshire. Gave him another off my tractor GGG Glasgow and he named the area. So I went through every vehicle I could remember and he could tell me where they all came from, but he was not much good at anything else away from that topic. What about the guy on the film Tim Peek who had the film Rain Man made about him. His father says he can read a page of a book which would take an average reader three minutes to read, in 8 to ten seconds and can read both pages of an open book, one with each eye at the same time.

He memorised Pi to 22,000 digits and recited them in a five hour session and learned the Icelandic language (impossible for most) in a week

Would it not have been better to take it down in small sections in the circumstances?

And amongst all these regulations, is there a rule regarding the correct loading of a trailer for its balance, especially if tail heavy and braking down a hill causing out of control snaking. This can happen even withing legal weight limits and I would argue is more important than the finer points of plates and licences

Buggered if I would ride that!

I suppose the obvious thing for a benign God to do would be to create a heaven full of love and understanding and sustainability and skip the Earthly bit. Oh yes I would not create a Devil either.

What about when the doctor is Harold Shipman?

You must be a testicle!

Donald Trump?

I think you have spent too much time at the Arundel Brewery Stubby!

Just rediscovered this excellent documentary that someone has just uploaded. I have it on VHS but no VHS player! My father flew a Catalina in the last war.

1875 feet is nothing and he could easily have gone up in a light aircraft 18,750 feet he still would not see the curve 187,500 feet, now he would see the curve. He looks mad, sounds mad and by doing this has confirmed his insanity.

https://www.rd.com/culture/conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true/

A weekend documentary to peruse

That really is a super article and I only glanced through both parts. I need to set aside more time to read and re-read it. I did not see music and art mentioned and the ability to create inventions by pure inspirational thought, nor did I see the main factor for wanting to keep on existing which must be love.

Great chance for history repeating itself After World War One Germany on its knees due to severe reparations forced upon it by the allies A generation of young Germans with no hope or money We could well have a similar generation here in another 20 years with jobs taken up by machines or cheap immigrant labour, having to pay vast welfare taxes to keep the NHS going which costs will by now include home care for all us oldies. Along comes a new young charismatic leader who brings hope and jobs. But first we need to be rid of the people who are taking a lot from society without contributing anything. Hitler started by killing the mentally handicapped albeit quietly inside asylums. That went on to the very old and demented followed by the terminally ill. All that having been accomplished with little disagreement he moved on to the next group. Gypsies are not any use to society, let's do away with them, who else is taking from society and not giving. Oh yes the money lenders, the Jews, let's do away with them too. You can see how a charismatic leader could start all this off again sometime in the future, especially given the surprising rise of antisemitism at the moment in certain places. Luckily the current leaders are the opposite of charismatic