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Interesting as I too have lost the very few Greenfinches that I had in recent years, I try to keep my bird table clean but I've got a few neighbours who definitely don't... I'll need to look out for the symptoms, cheers.

The water in both my locations comes from lochs fed by streams. Purely as a point of interest and some years ago as I said, having discovered the 6 chemical compounds added to the drinking water I decided to buy a water distiller, 3.5litre and cheap at about £60. On it's first use I distilled Glasgow tap water and tbo I was fairly surprised by the residue that was left in the pot when it switched itself off, from only 3.5 litres there was a thin layer of brown oily looking sludge and a few dark metallic in appearance hard crystals of around a bit less than 1/2 mm and no calcium... so I got the answer to the deposits on the stainless drainer. On doing the same with bottled and natural spring water all I get is varying amounts of pure white dissolved mineral salts, probably calcium carbonate or similar as you said. While the residue from the tap water looked unpleasant and is probably just symptomatic of a large piping system and may be harmless, but I know I don't want to be micro-dosed on a daily basis with the varying chemicals added to water by a water authority who are reluctant to say what they do. I hope the water in your well turns out to be nice and clean, cheers.

Never thought I'd like anything that he said.

There's quite a few affordable ro filters out there that claim to produce pure drinking water, I don't know how much they cost to maintain though.

I know a few folk that take their water from alternative sources and test with kits like this, and filter with reverse osmosis, not too expensive for small quantities. Watersafe Well Water Test Kit - WATERSAFE UK WATER TEST KITS WATERSAFETESTKITS.CO.UK Tests for 10 harmful contaminants in water including Bacteria, Copper, Iron, Lead, Pesticides, Nitrates, Nitrites, Chlorine, pH...

Not wanting to derail the water rates discussion, but most of the year I risk my health by drinking / cooking with untreated water from a local natural spring, it's wonderful, and when I'm in Glasgow I buy spring water at £1.25 a gallon, once you get used to this tap water really stinks of chemicals. I don't know if water treatment is standardised throughout the UK and I realise that the supply of safe drinking water is imperative to public health, but when some years ago I started noticing a very much increased amount of deposited white substance on the kitchen sinks stainless draining board from the small amount of water that had evaporated overnight I went about trying to find out just exactly what is put in the water to treat it. Not an easy thing to find out, as a layman... after a few tries just googling and spread over a few years [ only when my curiosity was spiked by said white residue ] I eventually came across this FOI request to Scottish Water, some folk may be interested in this, I think to be ingesting these chemicals on a daily basis can't really be healthy but thankfully no Fluoride in Scotland. Chemical additives to water supply - a Freedom of Information request to Scottish Water - WhatDoTheyKnow WWW.WHATDOTHEYKNOW.COM Could you please supply details, broken down by month, of all chemical additives used in the mains water supply serving...

The traveling scum that turn up here in the west highlands each summer are filth and leave their shite [ literally ] everywhere. they just camp up in a beauty spot do as much damage as possible while stealing anything they can before they're moved on..... But you already know this👍

Many would say you're about 30 years too late🤣

This is the real creosote that I use, it's actually cheaper than the shite from B&Q etc TRADITIONAL CREOSOTE 20 ltr – Creosote Sales WWW.CREOSOTESALES.CO.UK Not sure that I'd want to spray it though, I dip posts and paint or roller boards, once done they'll last a very long time👍

A very emotive subject and you're explanation of the results that happen from dog attacks on animals I've no doubt of and I accept your right to deal with a dog that's worrying sheep or worse. Unfortunately far to many dogs are encouraged to take on the traits of their arsehole owners and I'd very much appreciate if you'd shoot them too. My near 16 year old loves inspecting nature just like me, she'll stand over and watch a beetle or spider with interest and on a recent walk through highland cows she ended up nose to nose with the bull which I wish I had a pics of, so you can't tar them all.....

Very good, that fairly put's things in perspective👍

Yes, yes and yes I do exactly the same, the ability of sharing knowledge using this tech has truly changed everything and for instance enabled me to meet you, cheers by the way👍 I guess what I was disagreeing with is the dark side of tech where everyone including our own elected representatives seem to be using it to do us over at every opportunity with ever more elaborate and underhand methods that most of us don't have a clue about. As ' Alexa ' was mentioned before in this thread, are any of you aware of the insidious aims of Jeff Bezos and the launching of his project ' Amazon sidewalk ' ?... If not you should look. Every aspect of our human rights and privacy is being eroded and undermined by an organised and determined regime that has no regard for us as individual and unique beings.. I've got a sense of despair as I watch each new generation of folk sleepwalking into oblivion riding on the wave of cheap Netflix and all the other rubbish.

Can't possibly agree with that, it's just so scathing of ' normal ' values ..why should only 20 ish years of evolving development force us to be so far apart, to me the pace of change is unnaturally fast with very little scope for the needs of nature to catch up. You're a bit of a bit of a conundrum in that you work at the pinnacle of technology and yet on your time ashore you replenish you're spirit with the rewards of manual labour and the joy of producing something with your hands. In no way am I criticising this method of achieving your dreams and I wish you success, but I think it would be more fitting for you to be conscious of the fact that this is not the norm for most folk, and that many others can achieve the same level of satisfaction just working in traditional ways without artificial crutches to buoy up their achievable goals. I for instance get great satisfaction from stonework. which tech couldn't, and never will have a hand in, the rewards of working with stone are spiritual , are as many long since neglected skills / crafts are, and to me this is what needs to be passed on before it's too late.

Plus 1 for the 3 ton Sealy/ Yankee

Aye, they look great and I can tell straight away with a quick glance that these don't have the Achilles heel of the polyurethane mid sole, I've an old style pair of Scarpa's just like them. Boots like these are what I also like for working in, there's quite often a bargain to be had with s/h mostly unused old school hiking boots that really take a beating and last for ages.. though no toe cap.

What I meant was that if the piston groove is 3.17mm + 2 x 1mm o ring cross section then there would be a 0.17 mm interference fit in the cylinder with the slight extra width of the groove 0.2 mm or only 0.008" allowing for the slight deformation of the o ring which would seem about right for the push back to form a seal. Sorry for the imperial reference but my brain doesn't work in fractions of mm's😁 Here's a link if any use to you, they're usually next day even to me way up here. looks like 5 for 2 quid free delivery👍 Metric Viton Rubber O Rings 1mm Cross Section 1.5mm-35mm ID - UK SUPPLIER WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Viton also referred to as FKM has a low compression set and have high temperature and chemical resistance. All of these...

Try SEALS 'R' US, they've got an ebay shop, they pop up first in a search. in my experience o rings are mostly a standard size so a 3 mm ID x 1mm would be the most likely with nearly 0.1mm beyond the 5mm piston. Apologies for busting in but I've been closely watching this for a solution.

Yep, I'm not sure about chainsaw boots but pretty much all of the top brands of mountain boots are the same now as they compete with each other, I think it started as a comfort / weight reduction thing but it's also built - in obsolescence which is a pity as many of these boots are getting on for £300 a pair. Even worse, some brands like Salomon for instance won't even provide the likes of LSR soles at all so when they wear down the boots are for the bin, cheers.

I've had this happen to quite a few different makes of boots including Meindl, Salomon and Raichle all top brands, not Arb boots but I've long since chosen to wear mountain boots at work due to comfort and support. It's since they started using a Polyurethane midsoles and is a pita. the midsole is perished by a combination of time and UV light so for instance I bought a bnib pair of Meindl Island boots s/h and unworn at a decent price of £100 so £140 cheaper than retail, I was delighted with them until I took a few steps in the living room and the midsoles turned to dust. Not all bad as I got my money back and got to keep the boots, In the UK and Ireland Meindl boots get repaired through Bramwell international who then send them back to Germany to Meindl's own repair workshop I think it was about £80 plus return post to Bramwell in England, £20 ish. All new sole including the rand, new laces, a pair of insoles and a Tin of wax.. so not too bad as long as the rest of the boots are worth it👍.... There's quite an interesting vid on youtube of Meindls repair shop which is still very traditional and purely old school. Bramwell International Ltd | Meindl Footwear and Accessories WWW.BRAMWELL-INT.CO.UK Here at Bramwell International, we are the official distributors of MEINDL footwear and accessories. Supplying the...

It's a common salt half as lethal as Sodium Chloride, table salt. It's one of the essential micro-nutrients essential to all mammalian life. It's had dozens of uses since it's discovery in the 1800's. It's uptake to our systems is through vegetables should which take it up from soil at about 4-6 ppm. It's spread on farmers fields to bolster depletion in certain crops It's used in the construction of every cell in our bodies. It's demonised by pharma who don't want an alternative to there trillion dollar pain industry. It's known that artificial fertilisers [ from said pharma ] reduce the uptake of this essential salt by veggies. And yes.. It's a conspiracy that's been going on since the 60's. Why would you want a substitute anything? .. we all know that the real thing is usually better at the job, creosote and white spirit for instance. And as far as Ebay is concerned, It's mostly new stuff that I buy from online traders and in near 1000 purchases only 3 or 4 have gone wrong and all were resolved painlessly. I'm more than happy to discuss this subject in as much detail as I can with anyone that's interested, and I do understand folks unwillingness to believe that Pharma doesn't ' have their backs ' but maybe the events of the past 2 years put that notion a wee bit more into perspective.

Yep, the main scare tactic that's used to put folk off from using it is that it causes infertility, as far as I can tell from looking into that I've found that it's not true. Even if it were, most folk with arthritis are beyond caring about fertility and just need relief from a chronic condition.

only 39960 left then😁

It's not banned in UK you can buy it on ebay in many different quantities, I've bought it a fair bit as one of it's many other uses is to prevent mould growing on fresh milled timber although there IS the threat of that, it is banned for sale to the public in various other countries and there is an agenda. Anyway there's loads of folk who've got arthritis singing it's praises online.. fixed my tennis elbow into the bargain.

Hi, you could do worse than google ' Borax for arthritis ' and the same with YouTube, just don't listen to or believe any naysaying medical websites who try to dissuade folk from discovering this cheap and safe remedy that could potentially benefit most people. I've been taking this for 4 years now and the change in my reasonably severe ailments has been profound... I posted a document on this in the ' Our broken bodies ' thread which got a lukewarm response but I can assure anyone who cares to read the thing that it's all true. I originally had to stop taking painkillers due to scary problems they were causing and did use Turmeric and cbd to hold inflammation in check before stumbling over Sodium Borate. I'm 65 and not had a pharma painkiller in about 6 years but for some odd reason I'm strangely still compelled to medicate with your first 2 solutions😁