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I'm sure 70 year old shells ain't as dangerous as people like to make out.. all the chemicals must of deteriorated in all those years... Its like that peter Kay Joke about the swans, has anyone ever seen a broken arm.. Still, fascinating story none the less...

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Good thing Britain has contingency plans if things go belly up in South Africa. There's a plan to bring up to one million south Africans to Britain if things turn really sour over there... meanwhile Gibraltar's in the news,, Spain will be given a veto over the status of the place during Brexit negotiations.. Putting the cat amount the pigeons springs to mind...

the best sounding engine is the one not running... I like silence when I can get it..

I don't know, I like working alone.. for a number of reasons. My only thoughts are to get the job done, never enters my mind to run off to the pub to get pissed instead...

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I'd be tempted to rig somethin up on top of the barrow, so you can take it off in a minute or two... and like Treequip says, rather have wheels.. Tracks are OK if you spend all your time in the mud, not so good if your working on hard standing... If the idea is to use it to drag logs about, why not a two wheel tractor?.. rig somethin to one of them... Not sure how you'd do it but I'm sure it can be done with a little ingenuity..

It might be OK for New Zealand to do its own thing, but it wouldn't work in Europe or America... Without some form of subsidies, food price inflation and agricultural ruin would be upon us every few years... What we're paying for is price stability... A school of thought I've come across is China and India are growing economies, leading to an ever increasing demand for our agricultural products, and if we dispensed with subsidies, their buying power would hoover up any excess production and thus we don't need subsidies to stabilize prices like we used to... The problem would be when China's consumption stabilized and production still increased.. back to square one with a need to subsidize agriculture... As much as I can't stand the idea of paying farmers for doin nothin, its better than the alternative, of thousands of farmers going bankrupt every few years... Its a matter of taking your pick and picking your poison..

Yes well, I don't suppose the fella ever considered that making an attack on Westminster Bridge would have an added impact out of all proportion to his crime.. perhaps he was just lucky?.. IS gains nothing as well, everyone knows they're full of crap.. My own opinion is Erdogan triggered this numpty with his statement about Europe's streets becoming unsafe the day before, or was it hrs before...

Having ruminated on this attack its also crossed my mind that this might concentrate the minds of those in Westminster.. Its plainly obvious he was attempting to get into Parliament to cause death and mayhem there... Knowing they're targets might just make em listen to the concerns of the populace and not just dismiss them as ranting xenophobes.. I'm not sure what can be done about our own home grown Islamists, but they better get busy makin sure those here aren't added to... Erdogon himself threatened Europe with his fifth column of Turkish Muslims just the other day.. we need a wall, and we need our politicians to grow a pair...

some numpties just found out you don't bring a knife to as gunfight..

I never did blame Thatcher for any military deaths suffered under her leadership, why should I ?.. men join up to fight if they're worth their salt anyway... The difference between thatcher and Blair is who they fought, she, a penguin Island.. He, Iraq. a country the Romans and Persians even had trouble bringing to heel..

Niel Kinnock was one of Labour's unsung hero's.. But for him, we never would of had Tony Blair promoted onto the front benches, or Gordon Brown.. Its because of the things he did to modernize the party that they once again became electable... and if you think he was bad take a look at whats happened over the last year, we have the Tories being led by the lunatic fringe and Labour being run by a half whit... things have never looked so bad...

Tony Blair built up the country, increased our wealth base. he fought in a proper war... Thatcher, ran down our country, wrecked its economy, went to war over a penguin island.. No comparison... She was an essay on how not to run a country... tells you everything when even the stock market rose on her being booted out of Downing Street...

I feel the same way about Tony Blair... A lot of fake outrage about him as well, and he won and an won and won....

Very good work, must of took some time to do that... Speaking of pallets, I was gonna buy one of those log horse's for choppin wood during the winter, I settled for an old pallet with a side chopped off.. saved seventy quid on a new one....

Robert Peston.. As soon as I heard him speak for the first time, my first thought was, thank god someone gets it... I'd been warning friends and those who would listen a crash was round the corner... I'd even advised some numpty not to buy a house in the next few months, a crash came, he lost his house... So Yea, I've good track record when it comes to how the economy's shaping up.. as I believe has Robert Peston... great minds an all that,,

Because, like Scotland is better off in Britain, Britain is better off in Europe.. Its just that at this moment, the political fashion is to be so politically correct by all parties that they have lost sight of those they need to protect, their own citizens first.. In time, and in the not to distant future the wind will change direction, and hopefully the new politicians will have more backbone... Meanwhile as we wait, Britain has shot itself in the foot by leaving an institution that has helped build it back up from ruin..

The BBC are very picky when it comes to their staff, not any old numpty can get a job there.. Which brings me to Brexit, perhaps they have the sense to know what they're talking about.... Matelot As much as I agree with you on immigration and the wrong kind of immigrant, the EU we will never see eye to eye.. I wanted Europe to do the right thing regarding immigration, not just Britain... Europe needs a hard border from the Bosporus to the Atlantic, and on into the East... We need to turn Europe into Trumpland...

I get annoyed with the BBC's skewed PC narrative as the next man, but on Brexit they're right to be worried..

The BBC, like passengers on the Titanic telling the captain theres an iceberg ahead.. Meanwhile the captain sails blithely on, safe in the knowledge the ship is unsinkable..

As much as I'd like to see Scotland gain its Independence, mostly to spite the brexiteers for makin it happen.. I just can't see em voting for independence seein as the time has passed when it might of been a good idea.. Oil's down.. and the economic case don't add up.. just as it doesn't add up with brexit coming up.... Looks like we're all going down together...

LOL it was some years back, I never did see the fella again, though a friend of a friend regaled me of a comment he'd made in regards the nights goin's on... for some reason my name was mentioned and the fella stood back, drew in his breath and said, Oh, you know him do you!!!.. F*k, he's a f*in lunatic... Had a good laugh at that when I was told... WRSNI Thatcher had nothin to do with the peace process, its my opinion that both sides on the divide just got sick of the futility of it all... If anyone in particular aught be saluted for bringing peace to Ireland its John Major.. without his facilitation, theres a good chance things might never of worked out as well as they have...

Yea well if you read what I said, I said at the time.... err no I don't get punched in the face, not that I haven't ever been punched in the face.. but that was a time ago, when I was full of beer and bravado.. There was one time I was puched in the face out the blue, followed by a flurry of punches round my head.. All I could think was, if this fella carries on at this rate of knots, this pints gonna end up all over the the floor.. I pulled my whits together, placed the pint on the bar as more punches rained in, and then set to work sortin the fella out... Turns out my assailant was my ex's new fella. he must of thought he was gonna teach me a lesson or show off to his new girlfriend.. Didn't turn out that well for him in the end I can tell you:thumbup1: His brother had murdered a security guard a year or two before, I think because he circulated with his brothers wanna be gangster friends, he thought he could get away with murder... well, he got away with a good kicking... Goin back to Thatcher, no, I never did have that drink, but I still have a seething resentment about her politics.. She did more harm to the Britains industrial base than any politician in the last 150 years...

I'm not, putting aside what he was, its what he did in the end that matters.. He put his own life on the line supporting the Northern Ireland peace process, he helped persuade hard line republicans that politics was the answer not bombs. As to Norman Tebbit, you'd imagine he had a little more magnanimity considering the state of Northern Ireland today in relation to what it was back then... On a personal note, at the time of the brighton bomb I was livid at the incompetence of the IRA.. Such was my hatred of Thatcher at the time, I was as as mad as a wet hen that that they hadn't got her.... I'm one of those those who had a drink on her death.. she was bar none, the worse Prime Minister we have ever had...