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I need the father-in-law to rebuild the scaffold and repoint the next chimney breast. I’d best forget the automation. 😁

It’s more for aesthetics to be honest. Plus it will keep the wee ones from wandering down to the road when they’re playing in the garden. Will keep the dogs contained as well.

There is braces on the bottom half of the gates in the picture. It rains so much round here they’ll never dry. 🤣🤣🤣

I’ve thankfully resolved most of the issues with my neighbours. We resolved the shared driveway issue by installing a 2m high fence right across the drive. 🤣 He insisted on it thinking we wanted to retain access to his drive. 🤷‍♂️ Now he’s decided he does not like the fence I put in on our boundary. The fence he asked me to build which would (I’m my mind) be the same style as all the other fencing I’ve put around the property. So when I was getting logs in after working away for two weeks I see he’s started to clad his side of my fence with feather edge. 🙄

That’s the plan. A mate is an Oak Framer so most likely get him to do it and swap for firewood. I’ve already sunk in 6” Oak Posts either side of the Drive. Will need to look into them. I was gonna use field gate hinges so glad you mentioned that. Good info there. Can’t see me going for Motors. But you never know in the future I might get sick of opening and closing them.

Good points there. Not the road I want to go down though. Im thinking more rustic. 😁

Times are a changing Mull. I watched the game last night and was rooting for England. Very few in either my social or work circle wanted England to lose, most have little interest in Football of course but they would still be happy to see them win. But then very few in either are SNP supporters so don’t have this pathological anti-English drive that is so prevalent with the SNP and those that support the Party.

Another good point! Cheers.

Good point! Closest I can find after a quick google search is this.

So they’ll move regardless if it’s green oak or seasoned? To me there’s little point in wasting seasoned timber on a project that will move as much (or little) as green.

Very nice!

Says -12. Guys always add a few digits to make it seem more impressive.

Im planning on making, or having a set of gates made with my own Oak. Its to cover the span of my drive which is about 3m wide. Im thinking two gates mating upo instead of one gate to save on warping and twisting. So around 1.5m wide gates. My question is can I use green oak for this project? Im thinking as they'll be untreated and out in the elements it should be fine. And as they are so short the issues of using green timber should be minimised. Any thoughts?

Love that! Very clever.

A ton?

Cheers. We are private through my employer. Thankfully for the wee ones it’s not been tested yet. Mentioning their age always gets you priority with the Surgery. But the speed in the degradation of services offered is an eye opener. I can only assume the other Docs have gone private, they were not retirement age that’s for sure. We’re in a small bit fairly prosperous Scottish market town that is generally trouble free. If we’re seeing this here I can only imagine how it is elsewhere. Thankfully I just use an app that puts me right through to a specialist who basically asks for my insurance number and what I’d like him/her to do. 😁

Both my wee ones down with Strep A symptoms. In and out of serious fever for near on a week now. Put on not the regular 5 day antibiotic course but a seven day course. Our local Surgery used to be 6 full time Doctors. It’s now down to 1 doctor and one nurse, oh, and reception where you you have to tell the lassie on the phone your private details. 😳 And some bright spark stated my daughter won’t get a Mortgage 🤣

Keep in mind you’ve got to look at the fence for the next five years or so. I’d be putting in a picket style fence myself. Or at least posts, rails and 4-6” slats. After 5 years it will be half rotten anyway.

I tip the ash out into a metal bucket and leave out the back door for 24 hours or so. Then bag it up and bin it when I’m sure it’s stone cold. Hardwood ash is supposedly good for flowerbeds but not softwood, so as I burn a mix I never put it in the garden. Not to mention all the other crap I dump in the stove. ☠️

It shouldn’t but to the usual suspects it will. 🙄 So many young adults and now children sacrificing their lives in the name of Save a Grannie. Follow the science, eh? What a crock of shut that turned out to be. 🙄

The 🐓that made this his catchphrase sure looks like a 🏇now.

Those pesky “conspiracy theorists” getting it right again? Say it’s not so?

For every woman in a bikinis you see there’s two crackheads sheeting on the corner. Without a doubt one of the most depressing and fake place I’ve been to in the US.

So we need to get back to Drilling in the U.K. then.

I did not mean to come across as overly factious. I assume from your initial post you question what I wrote based on my stance on not supporting the forced uptake of an experimental vaccine for what was and essentially the common cold. And you’d somewhat have a point. But the rushed through and untested Covid Vaccines could have potentially benefitted the elderly and infirm. With Covid, like the cold, having a higher chance of killing people in these categories the risk/reward for taking the experimental vaccine could put the odds in favour of taking the vaccine. Hindsight has shown that to be a load of bollox as the vaccines and the boosters are all but useless. But at the time we did not know that. What we did know at the time was the vast majority of the population did not need to risk their health and far longer life expectancy taking an experimental vaccine to counter a “pandemic” with a greater than 99% survival chance. So yes, the bloated EU severely hindered the roll out of these vaccines to the vulnerable who at the time looked like they could have done with them asap. The U.K. on the other hand was no longer under such restrictions and could move at a far faster pace and get vaccines out ti the vulnerable in a very swift time frame potentially saving countless lives. What I clearly do not agree with was after all the vulnerable where administrated the vaccine they imposed it on virtually everyone. But say a genuine pandemic comes along like the Spanish Flu with a mortality rate in the 20-40% bracket, or even higher. The risk/reward for someone young, fit and healthy taking an untested and experimental vaccine would make far more sense. I’d most likely be at the front of the line given half a chance. And in line with my initial post regarding being outside of the EU and in the U.K. would mean that I’d most likely get that vaccine long before the EU had finished dithering.