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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    Déjà vu?
  2. Mick Dempsey
    That’s right, especially with the new touch screen ordering system. All I get is some youngster coming up with my MacFlurry ‘bon appétit’ and off they go.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    This spring they opened a MacDonalds in a nearby town. Some afternoons during the hot French summer, when passing, I stop in to enjoy some cool air conditioning, eating a vanilla Macflurry, with raspberry topping. I talk to no one, no one talks to me. Absolute bliss.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    Tbh, I don’t find it very impressive, poplar, soft as you like. Not really all that.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    Nice Bob, looks like some superb firewood, not for the goblins I hope?
  6. Mick Dempsey
    That doesn’t make sense (not just because of the lack of punctuation and spelling) Of course you win some and you lose some, but you wouldn’t be human if you weren’t happy when you secure a good job, and equally disappointed when you lose out. That’s the way it is.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    As a younger man I lived with my family (dad was a tractor driver) across the yard from the dairyman’s tied cottage. At around 5 every morning I’d lie in my warm bed and listen as he’d start his tractor to make the 1.5 mile drive along the farm drive to the parlour. Rain, ice, wind whatever. His fingers were always cracked and damaged by the wet and cold and chemicals.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    Why wouldn’t they be disappointed if they’ve gone to the effort of quoting for no result?
  9. Mick Dempsey
    I used to play cricket with a guy who was a dairyman for a good few years, up at silly o’clock, stuck in a freezing, shitty parlour every day and everything else that job entails. Then he jacked it in and became a postman, he said he laughed hearing the other posties moaning about their lot, every day was a breeze for him after what he was doing before.
  10. Mick Dempsey
    Too right.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    It says it’s in Batley Uk? ok, got it! You don’t speak Norvern. my bad.
  12. Mick Dempsey
    Lovely, lucrative grinding day. Pops all around a footy pitch, 4 years felled so easy grinding, flatten it out and flail repeatedly to leave a decent finish. 5 days a week of this would be nice!
  13. Mick Dempsey
    Does look likely.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    No these are in Horsham, 700 km away.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    I don’t think so Stubs, wood ant mounds are not so concentrated.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    I believe you’re right, I know what others have said about ants and moles but ants don’t have mounds so close to each other, and mole hills are less robust
  17. Mick Dempsey
    I’m on a Facebook group where a guy has posted these photos asking what these mounds are. Now I’m pretty sure that in some places, certain grasses pull the earth up to form clumps, I’ve tries to strim them in the past. It looks to me as if these grasses have died leaving these earth clumps. Any ideas from the more agricultural sorts on here?
  18. Mick Dempsey
    ‘Willing to split’!!!! Oh I do hope those two stumps get to stay together, they’re worth so much more as a pair.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    Right up there with ‘I know loads of people round here, do me a cheap job I’ll get you loads of work’ Translates as ‘everyone thinks I’m a dick’
  20. Mick Dempsey
    Part of the problem upstairs are the velux, which allow sunlight in but not the heat out, if you see what I mean.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    No sorry, in and out. If it were Chicken of the woods, how would that affect any prognosis ?
  22. Mick Dempsey
    Truth be told at 35c the upstairs does warm up un peu trop, but in a new, ultra insulated house without air con it would be a whole lot worse.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    Well it’s all about windows and doors here, once o got those sorted it’s toasty in winter. The walls are thick (90cm) stone, not a problem in summer.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    I like old houses, energy wise we heat ours with wood. Insulation is all about windows and doors. Admiitedly it is a small house, and the climate here is warmer than the UK.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    Omg.

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