Mick Dempsey

I just can’t wait for the whole thing to start again today. Come on America! Get out of bed.

Lad off today, so that means I am. Had a stroke of good luck (I think) this week. I have had an ever growing pile of waste wood, the size of a minor royal residence in my field since the crackdown on burning. Mostly oversize conifers, willow, poplar, you know the score. It’s been a constant niggling issue, I’m close to retirement and we will sell this place and it’ll be a bit of a minus to the sale to see this in the grounds. So knock at the door, young man (35ish) covered in wood dust. He’s one of the guys who I’ve been seeing around with the mahoosive chippers turning the local forests into biomass. He’s heard about my pile of wood, and not only will he come along and chip it, he’ll pay me €20 a tonne for it! He will not manage to get the oldest stuff I imagine as it’s pre-avant loader so smaller pieces, not grabable by his machines. But he’s going to make a big hole in it. Plus he says he’ll come yearly if I can get enough piled up. Happy days!

Trumpettes surely?

Musk calls Trump ungrateful and that he wouldn’t have won the election without him.

Well no, reading EMs tweets and watching Trump talk about it on the news. Are you saying it’s not happening?

Musk and Trump fall out. Things you love to see!

You said there’s a statue of an incestuous pedophile outside the BBC. The meanings are very different. But by all means double-down on it, it’s the modern way.

I wouldn’t go that far!

To attach myself to the tree when making cuts and organising the rope etc. But you’re right it was pointless.

Yes to both questions. I don’t own either, so tried it with the avant winch and 2:1 pulley system. Not enough unfortunately.

It’s not a statue of him, it’s by him. Try and check basics eh?

Had an ash to try and extract from a river (quite deep) Winched it out in bits, but couldn’t raise the last 4/5 metres from the root in the bank. Too deep in the water to put the saw in. It was a scenario that I had envisaged, so a deal was struck on the price. I retired semi defeated. (see last photo)

Not to my mind, no.

Who is the statue of?

And Fred West could lay a bloody good patio (by all accounts)

I change the head gasket on my B&S 35hp v-twin. Set the valve clearance and everything! Been fine since. Its worth having a look and seeing if it’s clearly compromised.

You know what you’re doing when you “imagine” GL or JV being accused. Go and suck Fred the Weatherman’s cock.

Joey Barton lost a few quid accusing JV of noncery. Twats like you making completely unfounded accusations just cos you don’t like someone is one of the reasons the guilty ones escape proper investigations.

I meant no real snark. I just think if a homeowner or someone outside the trade comes on asking a genuine question, I like to see them get an informed factual answer, or at least an attempt at one. Not misled through ignorance or mischief.

He hid in plain sight.

Umm, difficult to know where to start here..

Srsly? You think cupressus have a snowballs chance in hell of coming back from that?

No, I doubt very much they’ll survive.

When you fully commit to a performance, they want to come with you!

I done a karaoke in Portugal. be18e572-54fe-4572-8805-0138099d2071.mp4