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The point I was making is that GLs contract is/was with the BBC, who are funded by the licence fee payers under specific conditions. AS's contract is (I think) with an independent production company who are not funded by public funds. The BBC have a history of broadcsating programmes produced by many different companies from an equally diverse range of political and social perspectives, but their own productions are supposed to be independent from a political perspective.

Not at the boardroom level!

The Apprentice is not produced by the BBC, but by a separate company with another company distributing it. It is effectievly a franchise that started in the US, and I suspect AS's contract is with them. MOTD is a BBC production, so I suspect that is why GL has a contract with them.

Suffice to say I have just had to check to see who Karren Brady is as I had never heard of her!

I think one significant difference is that GL is/was a Presenter - Sugar is/was not

To me that looks like it was a very tall tree for the size of pot when you bought it.

That had me in tears!

Judging by the bollocking I got when I did it with the single stump I don't think I would be allowed near the site again if I did that! We put the rest of the stumps and roots into the garden waste container direct from the trailer, which I can reverse alongside so hand-balling is reduced to a minimum.

This thread has just taken me down a whole rabbit warren of internet research and reading - for some reason I've always wanted to drive a coach!

Not wishing to cause any offence, but I did find this amusing:

Sadly not that far from reality: See the ex-RAF base used by US during WWII that could house migrants WWW.BBC.CO.UK The government is considering MDP Wethersfield in Essex, currently home to military police, as a centre for asylum...

Because they will come out clean with the 12" bucket in about 20 minutes and we are needing to clear the ground afterwards anyway - I can burn them in an incinerator or tip, and will have no shortage of material to make up the ground when we dig the founds for our workshop. I accept that the medium and larger ones will be simpler to grind, but I will still have to remove and burn their roots to clear the ground once that has been done. We have already taken a number of trailer-fulls of stumps down to the local tip - provided we get them out of the trailer ourselves they are heppy for us to put them with the garden waste. There was one really large one which I had to tie to the container and then drive off so it was pulled off the back of the trailer before returning to reclaim the rope!

Without wishing to derail the thread - we have about 35-40 spruce stumps to remove - the smaller ones I plan to dig out with our 2t digger, but I was planning to grind through the larger ones (typically 30 -120cm diameter). Is there a general rule of thumb as to the break point between digging them up and grinding them down?

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Similar question - if using the for comms and music - will it only be the person who is choosing to listen to the music who hears it?!

Can't help so far as housebuilding is concerned, but we use Sikaflex for bedding windows in to boats. There are many polysulphide/polyeurethane (sp?) sealants out there that will do the job. Some also swear by butyl tape which is clean and simple, but I have no experience of that.

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If you are outside a smoke-controlled area does that mean you can still have a good old bonfire? Hope so as we have four trees to take down in my parents garden soon!

Meribel, and skied in the three Valleys. It was during the first week of February when the World Championships were in town and the slopes were in good nick but very very hard and icy - as I confirmed! Thankfully it was day 5 of 7 when I wiped out, but I made the mistake hiding the pain with painkillers for the last two days so I could continue to ski (albeit somewhat gingerly) and am now paying the price.

Nah, it wasn't that - just trying to imagine what a 'Sceptic' tank looks like

I tend to use Stanley/FatMax for general outside or site work, but also have a couple of Stabila ones that I keep 'for best' - iw working inside at home with shelves etc. The stanley ones seem to take a reasonable amount of abuse before they lose their calibration.

If only - you'll have noticed that my profile is somewhat less streamlined! Had to speed it up else people would have died of boredom. Working on my own means I prefer to take it steady - especially when the house is within range if it all goes pear shaped. On that phase about 35 were removed - I have another 10-12 to do as soon as I have recovered from the cracked ribs that are currently confining me to the keyboard. (They weren't from the tree felling, but re-confirming that gravity still works whilst skiing - my wife keeps telling me I should give up but hey ho!