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  1. Mick Dempsey
    A grinder would be ok for that, if the operator was careful, wall is already cracked at the back.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    If you get the chance to read his autobiography I recommend it. Very honest and funny.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    Tree surgeon is right, you can hit it hard and it’ll be fine, or take it out, the choice is yours. Khriss you can’t treat an apple like an ancient oak.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    Geese are smart.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    I tell you what would be really really funny Dougal.....
  6. Mick Dempsey
    Yes
  7. Mick Dempsey
    James Bolam is a private man and rarely, if ever, socialised in the village, not rude, just private. One day he did come in the pub, sat with a friend in the corner and one guy (pissed) stood in front and sang ‘When the boat comes in’ With comic dancing and geordie accent. Never saw him after that.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    Oh yes, that was good as well. I did some work for him at his house in Sussex. Nice couple, bit bohemian, dogshit everywhere.
  9. Mick Dempsey
    ‘ ‘ Whatever happened to the likely lads?’
  10. Mick Dempsey
    Interesting.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    Probably not.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    It may well develop into a twin leader, meaning two main stems (co-dominant in Technical speak) Like that it would be more vulnerable to splitting in two (much) later on.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    As my old boss used to say ‘it’s got two chances’ Dont let it dry out too much this first year, and in hot spells next summer. Keep the grass away from the base (so the new roots aren’t competing) A lot of shrubs will wilt immediately after planting till they get themselves settled, though I don’t see any wilting tbh. Chose which one of those two highest stems you want to be the dominant one and remove the other. Lets hope in a hundred years time someone is wondering who planted this massive oak in a back garden.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    What city is that Don?
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Nice one Spud.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    As you get older it’s more and more likely that your contemporaries will shuffle off this mortal coil. In all probability your friends won’t stop dying next year. Your lifeclock (a la Logan’s Run) is changing colour.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    That explosion in Beirut, insane! Storage of chemicals apparently. It’s like something from Game of Thrones.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    I worked in the Dulwich area 25 years ago, that would be a cheap price even then.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    For the first week in August, that’s not bad. I have seen some completely brown, others not so bad compared to previous years.
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Is the lowering lad yours or his?
  21. Mick Dempsey
    These people who go around in shops not wearing masks looking for confrontations, thinking they’re a modern Rosa Parks or something. Gets on my tits.
  22. Mick Dempsey
    If I’m trimming leylandii in high summer when it’s rubbery and sappy, I’ll use it every tank. In winter when the hedge is wet I might not bother at all.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    Wd40.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    “Lifting and thinning a lime”
  25. Mick Dempsey
    This one made me laugh 8 years ago, still give me a chuckle, bravo Mark!

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