The avantgardener
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I have a Swiss watch.
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There are lots of alternatives from clothing to tools if you look around. My Hi fi- Cyrus (UK) speaker cables (UK) Speakers (UK) turntable (Linn- Scotland) Saws (Sweden) Land Rover (UK/Germany), clothes/shoes for the kids(Toms) amongst other ethical shops my wife knows and uses.
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I think we still have to cull Beef cattle earlier than we used to due it the chance of CJD development in older cattle.
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Not really, direct debit, wife works part time and we have a Post Office.
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Nope.
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And it wasn’t that long ago that the UK had a worldwide ban on beef exports due to creating a disease called CJD that killed many if our own citizens.
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I don’t buy cheap tat from China or anywhere else, the only thing I own that I can think of at the minute from China is the IPhone I am replying on, only get 1 every 4 to 5 years, hardly keeping them afloat.
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But it isn’t just their products though, it’s products sold by well known leading brands that have assembly plants in China or receive parts and components from China that are assembled elsewhere and branded made in EU or USA.
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This all sound great but who really has the power to tell China what to do, to stop live animal food markets etc, it’s not like the likes of the USA and UK are saints now is it? If you state that you are going to take a task force if scientist to China a) you will get told to F**k off b) arrive without invitation, scientists will disappear.
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I will have you know that the English Royalty don’t use bog roll, preferring instead to wipe ones arses on swans necks.
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We can’t do anything to influence the Chinese food markets but we can pay more tax to better prepare our health service for future situations, I for one won’t grumble at paying more tax if it is used correctly. Before you joined Arbtalk I think most of us where unaware that there was an ‘Ignore’ button, are you going for the Arbtalk record?
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The first thing I would do would be to reinstate the nurses bursary to encourage more into the industry. We have always been able to afford this previously, so why not now? With the present situation it more a question of can we afford not to pay to cover the bill for more nurses?
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If laying bricks is deemed essential then crack on Matty, as long as you are social distancing. The builders I have seen this morning are all crammed in the front of transits, no point social distancing on site if your travelling to and from work in one vehicle. Brain dead.
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Just watching all the builders vans going past my house, two or three guys up front in hiviz, they are all part of the same family, right?
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But you are still out and about possibly spreading or contracting the virus.
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This page isn’t the official page I have just viewed. The official page states that to travel to work, the work must be essential and that it cannot be done from home. Paying our bills may feel essential to us but it isn’t essential in this instance, what is essential is that we stop this virus killing more people than necessary.
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Does you subbie live with you?
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It depends on what tree work it is I suppose and is it urgent/tree safety etc. I am felling a coup of chestnut for a new pheasant pen, poults are due and it has to be completed before the start of the bird breeding season, so I will be cracking on, but I am I am only working with one guy in isolation with no public access.
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My missus has been drafted into school to cover looking after front line workers kids, she has taken our kids along, most of them are vulnerable children, not front line at all. If these kids aren’t safe at home they shouldn’t be there, the school is now doubling as child protection. I am cutting in a large estate with one other cutter, I will not be in contact with anyone outside of my home for at least two weeks. I think lock down is imminent and needed to curb dimwits who continue to ignore all advice to not mingle in groups.
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That hotel room is going to get a bit lonely at this rate @trigger_andy, do you have others forums to frequent? ?
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I’ve had a very similar experience with copious amounts of cheap whiskey minus the military connection. It is one of the things I do regret. I would like to get my nose into some decent single malts but I wretch at the thought of it. Fortunately I found Brandy a good substitute, got a very good bottle of Hinde in the go at the minute, after a long, cold, wet day in the woods its warming qualities are like Opium in a glass.
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I am in the process of building a new workshop in the garden with some Larch that I felled last year, it’s been on hold due to work so it will be a good opportunity to get it completed. If I have enough time I will also build a new Mook Jong as my old one is rather battered after 26 years of abuse. In between all this I have the small matter of learning French from scratch as my okay Spanish counts for nothing in Limousin.
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Coronavirus - impacting you yet?
The avantgardener replied to BowlandStoves's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
No change in the Forestry world, self isolation is part of the job so not really noticed it yet. A couple of calls today making plan ‘B’s’ just in case but most jobs are booked in months in advance so should be all good, the bad weather has had more of an effect on work than Kung Flu. -
He runs courses down near me where you use his save horses to make your own. If you send him a message stating your excessive distance he may have some plans for you to follow. He makes amazing cleft rail fencing and gates, all pegged together, very time consuming but the finish is something else, worth a look through his posts as I am sure you could copy the designs.
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There is a guy in instagram called Richard Ely (greenwoodcraftsman) who has some good shave horse designs with extra touches for carving small spikes/spoons etc.
