Mick Dempsey

For me it comes down to the premature declaration by Stokes in the first test. Still, no worries, been a great series.

Cut leaf beech?

In order, big cats in Britain, it’s entirely possible the odd large cat escaped captivity and lived for a while in the wild, colonies of them, no way. UFOs sadly no, not a single pice of evidence except ‘eye witness’ accounts. Yeti/Sasquatch, no way. Ghosts, see previous answer. New world order stuff, not quantifiable so can’t be judged. Nessie, impossible.

When did you stop?

Bit more like it, a decent Muscadet, much nicer!

Tbh, this particular wine is rank. But you could pay double here for something very passable and still be less than half the price of the equivalent ’outre manche’

Bit impatient with the uncorking though! Should have removed the foil first!

It is 11% That is insane!

€5.69 for the box so €1.42 a 75cl bottle!

Wow! Not mucking about then?

Experimenting tonight with this Spanish white, do I like it? No, not really, but cold with a packet of supermarket crisps it’ll do the job of battling reality into retreat for a few hours. As it’s Friday who’s drinking what and where? Pictures of foaming pints and great pubs especially welcome to a pub lover in the land of crappy soulless bars.

Keep the big block and order the little one. You don’t return gear, you keep it, we’re not women buying shoes. Pull yourself together!

“And why did you fail your exam Johnson?” ”sorry sir, got into an argument on the internet with a stranger about the Loch Ness monster and didn’t study enough”

Ha ha! ‘Staggeringly arrogant’ You do love a bit of hyperbole don’t you? I never said there’s nothing out there, but I do love it when there’s some kind kerfuffle about aliens and all the Trekkies start wetting their pants in excitement.

Here we go, buckle up Moonbats…

That’s very sad.

Holy thread resurrection Batman! Today… When you’re driving, a client rings and you answer, agree in principle to come over after work to give a price to ‘top’ their cedar (don’t bother to judge me, I don’t care) So I ask if they can send me an sms with their address (as I’m driving) much huffing and puffing and ‘well which direction are you coming from?’ stuff. (my imaginary voice says) “look mate I’m driving half an hour to look at this tree, the least you can do is tap a few buttons so I can get there” So I go there and it’s the usual bollocks, a decent size tall deodar to cut in half but sod it, I won’t be able to see it from my house so we start talking. He’s around 70 and starts giving me the old “I’d do it myself, but my daughter won’t let me” horseshit, then says leave it all on the ground as I have a tractor and will clear it all up (a way of maintaining his manhood after having to ask another man to do a job) I tell him, my employee can sit in the van and read comics, and the chipper can sit at home in the workshop, but either way you’re paying for them (the daughter understands this and persuades him to allow us to clear it up) So I write the quote out and get out of there, couldn’t care either ways. Anyway over dinner I revealed to my missus, I’m hitting sixty later this year and after that I’m not going to give a fook about what I say to clients, I’ve had it with listening to the same old crap.

Canals are fascinating. A country where the infrastructure depended on these waterways, then disappeared along with its world of workers, horses et al almost overnight with the coming of the railways. The Wey and Arun canal is in my home turf in the UK, they’re renovating as much as they can of it over the last 40 odd years, lots of volunteer work. A real window to the past.

For the record, I was joking.

Big lump to stop quickly!

Just dig the canals deeper under the tunnels!

Iirc another advantage was that delicate goods, like pottery, could be moved without breaking everything. The roads at the time being a nightmare. Till the railways came anyway. I just knew during that history lesson 45 years ago that nugget would be useful!

No professional tree guy would be seen dead towing that around. Is that price real? €18k will get you a really excellent second hand ‘genuine’ machine.

I had exactly the same problem back in 2016 (I think) with one of the first models. They sent me some extra rubber dampers for the control box which was getting too much vibration, can’t believe they haven’t sorted that problem! We replaced the barrel a few times as well.

I agree with everyone else about the chances of success. Who’d want that ugly thing anyway? I was just curious about how he planned to do it.