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Mixed bag really. Generally poor although my Grandmother and Grandfather where relatively well off. My Grandfather moved to Trinadad to manage the new Power Station there in the 60’s. My father was born there. My other Grandfather grew up dirt poor in the Slums of Plymouth, got an apprenticeship as a shipwright that eventually took him to Dunfermline. He worked all his life, my grandmother did not. My wife’s parents again poor up bringing. He worked all his life, she did not enter the work force til all four of their children where fully grown and left home. In most cases the father worked and the mother raised the children and was a proud housewife. The fathers wage alone was enough to bring in a wage that allowed them to get a mortgage. General consensus seems to be a tougher time but far more care free. You wanted to eat then you worked. You wanted to get on then there was not much holding you back. But that also meant moving the length and breadth of the country to find the work and not whinging about it. Even working up in Scotland as a Farm Hand my Father-in-law (English) paid his 15% mortgage and raised four children. He’s now living the time of his life on his State and private pension.

I don’t see why that is relevant at all. I know why you’re asking it, but it’s irrelevant. Do you think I don’t have parents, grand parents, older friends and workmates who grew up lived through the 70’s?

I agree. That’s why they have to use word salad like relative poverty instead of actual poverty. But the youth of today will struggle to ever own a house. There is plenty other key indicators to show where we are worse off than the 70’s. Still, we would be far better off if we where not being robbed on a global scale.

You might get lucky. Folk seem to be getting more and more desperate.

I tend to agree with you here but the reality is the transfer of wealth from the average Joe to the super wealthy within the last few years is in the trillions. We’re being robbed right before our eyes and it’s nothing to do with demonising resources. Our standard of living is being continually eroded, we’re now hearing of three day school weeks. The U.K. pension barely covers the most meagre of living standards.

Cant see you getting Sweet Chestnut at Larch prices, but you never know? The Timber alone is gonna cost you your budget I’d imagine. Two days work will get you your £300. I guess you might get cheaper, depends on how folks value their time.

I believe they will struggle as well. £140k sounds like a lot but you’re absolutely hammered with tax on that. It’s highly likely they have cut their cloth accordingly to their wages. So they’ll have a mortgage based on their income, and I’ll assume a house that’s s fairly large size out in the sticks if they’re on heating oil. With Heating Oil trebling over the last 2 years that could make a significant difference to what, if any disposable income they may have previously budgeted for. Every working man is going to be hit hard by this. The green eyed monster is not going to change that.

Its still summer, give it time. Anyway, folk wont really change their habits, they'll just spend the same of frivolities then claim they are drying from not being able to heat their homes, or not be able to afford to heat a couple of tins of beans and some toast then refuse to pay their heating bill.

You would do if you could put a lid on the glass. It would literally make no difference, you're gonna shake the can anyway.

This 'crisis' has nothing to do with dependence on fossil fuels. Its caused in its entirety of pushing and pandering to a green agenda with nothing in place to replace the fossil fuels we currently require. Its the short sightedness (that Trump warned about) that has resulted in Europe paying lip service to Green Energy yet letting Russia do all their dirty work thats come back to bite us all in the Ass. This has resulted in Operators in the North Sea both in the UK but also Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands being given an almost free reign fast track the development of Fields that would otherwise have not gone ahead or would have faced more red tape. The company I work for has been given the contract for 185 new Wells for AkerBP in the Norwegian Sector alone. We have so much work coming up we're no longer looking for new work all the way up to 2025 as we need to be able to supply the contracts we now have in place. Its the new Oil Boom for us. There is no crisis other than Oil Companies using a disruption in the flow of O&G that we already used and required from Russia to hike their prices up. Brent Crude is not even $100 a barrel ffs. We're been punished for strangling our own ability to be self sustaining all in the name of being 'Green' and so many are blinded to this.

Is anyone apart from the Usual Suspects here actually surprised at this? Effects of lockdown could be causing more deaths than Covid | Daily Mail Online WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK The Office for National Statistics' figures for excess deaths revealed that about 1,000 more people than usual are dying each week from illnesses and conditions other than Covid.

Eggs, you speak shit all the time though. So if you think Im talking nonsense then just piss off now then? I never started this convo but Im ending it now. See ya.

Would be simple enough to just pour the fuel into a measuring jug to check.

The fact remains that Mark is a man that advocates and supports higher taxes for the working man to support the lazy and feckless whilst gloating that he does not pay tax. Its disgusting.

This is a man who continually advocates higher taxes and votes for the party that will tax the working man more whilst at the same time systematically goes out of his way to avoid paying any tax at all and then gloats about it. As I say, rank hypocrisy.

Makes for grim reading. Everyone, everyone who is not a millionaire will be hit hard. This twat is suggesting a sliding relief scheme where those on Benefits and Pensions will be given the most relief and those on neither will get virtually nothing. Whilst I dont have a problem with the vulnerable and elderly getting assistance I balk at those on Benefits being given carte blanche to use use as much as they feel like and the tax payer who will not be able to heat their home very much will end up paying for not only for their extortionate energy bills but the lazy and feckless as well. This knobend whilst acknowledging the Energy company's are profiteering doers not suggest that the Government do something about the profiteering instead has suggested for a way for the taxpayer to directly pay the exorbitant prices the Energy Companies are demanding to them. This utter twat is suggesting stealing from the already heavily burdened, to fund those that already do not contribute to society and handing it to the rich. Its no wonder you support this though Mark as you've made it abundantly clear for years now that you're a tax dodger and pay virtually nothing in tax and laugh at those who do then tell them to get a better accountant. Your rank hypocrisy knows no bounds.

We call them Blaeberries in Scotland, Guffies call them Bilberries. The article below says they're the same genus. Flora of the Scots pine forest - Blaeberry - Highland Titles WWW.HIGHLANDTITLES.COM This time of year our volunteers come across a little blue berry in the nature reserve, known to Scots as the blaeberry, a sweet and tasty fruit.

We have one and they really work. Cloud Berries must be coming into season as well?

You need to get yourself one of those Blueberry scoops the Scandinavians use. Brilliant at harvesting them.

Teenage Dirtbag was a banger, anything else in the pipeline?

Im not sure how I ended my post in Breaking Bad style.

The Guide bar will not not be damaged by the act of clamping it to the Mill. A 28" Bar will give you about 22'" of cutting width though, so if you have wider Oaks than this then get the 36" Bar and get yourself an extra few inches. You'll get maybe 30" with a 36" Bar. For Chains there is a whole range of Milling Chain out there. Id get something like this; 3653-36RMX Stihl Ripping 3/8 .063[1.6mm] Chainsaw Chain WWW.CHAINSAWBARS.CO.UK Special Rapid-Micro horizontal saw chain, primarily for use in conjunction with horizontal cutting devices as well as mobile small sawmills. You need to check what pitch that bar takes etc. If you're milling Slabs or beams then its worth using the Alaskan but for Cladding its a waste of time, fuel and timber. As you say, best getting that Bandsaw in. Yo

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Thats Farmers though, right? Not Households. There is no plans for Household restrictions as far as Im aware.

Got a link to that?