Steven P

I'll put in my discussion point here. We got locked down for Covid, within a month the air quality with fewer cars on the roads was noticeably better. A year of lockdowns and insect life was more. Given our freedom back, insect life has decreased and road pollution has reduced the air quality. If ever there was a clear indication of mans activity on the environment that was is - we are not going to have such an abrupt stop and start again - but it is a shame not enough people noticed to make a difference. Green issues are very important.

You won't get an answer, it is an uncomfortable thing for him this week. Can't blame you though Johnson, D, so many conversations going on your head must be spinning faster than Chuckys. Insects. Conversation was something like this (and I am paraphrasing, you can easily go back to read it): SNP and the Scottish Green party are having an argument, Green party is "next to useless and push their agendas". Without green issues being looked at what will happen to wildlife in the UK, as an example insects and bugs.. where are they all, definitely fewer bugs on car windscreens than usual. In France there are loads (I don't suppose we only used to get EU bigs over here, working?). Nearly up to speed now. So bugs are decreasing, discuss. I'll add, are green issues important or not? I am not holding my breath though. Fully expect the playground insults to continue in my direction but hey-ho, that's the way it is.

For terms of reference "lying" refers to "expressing an opinion that you don't agree with". However if that is what you say then it must be true. Right, off you toddle in your rage, I've got work to do.

Anyway, what I was going to post was this news story is very quiet here, amongst the bickering over 2 words: School girl stabbed others in Wales - not a terrorist thing - not related to much that we know yet. Luckily nothing fatal. For an opinion, kind of makes sense to have decent gun control here, if this was in the US I'd be betting the girl wouldn't have been tackled and there would have been a death toll and many more injuries. Hero teacher ‘restrained teenage girl’ amid Welsh school stabbing incident UK.YAHOO.COM The girl was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after the chaos erupted at the end of morning break at Amman Valley School on Wednesday. School girl s

You are getting wound up by a drop down box on a form... bit of a reality check needed perhaps? Anyway, to wind you up a little more... Your opinion of the Covid measures was that they damaged childrens mental health greatly and yet adding 2 words onto a box that will make some childrens mental health better is a step too much? Granted it is a very small portion of children however for them very important. So for the sake of consistency, is childrens mental health important, or not? Or does that only apply to the correct type of child and not all?

You didn't read the end of the article, the French stopped about 50% of the crossings with the about 250 million they have had in the last 10 years, predicted to give them another 400 in the next 3 years - lets see if that stops the rest before deciding if they turn a blind eye? However that is still only a small portion of immigrants to the UK we are talking about.

You could work it backwards, say retail price of £1000. Half that for the profit and costs to get it sold, half that again for the costs to process it and then take off £100 for the transport costs to wherever it is going to get to. What looks like an expensive bit of wood in a shop suddenly becomes a very cheap bit of wood lying on the garden.

1.2 million people migrated to the UK last year (508,000 emigrated). 30,000 came via small boats. If immigration is the problem, a cause of overcrowding, then perhaps we are looking in the wrong direction and should look to the million+ that are sanctioned by the government? There should never be a small boat crossing at all, the current government have created quite a thriving business out of their policies though, a real success. Cameron is saying that we cannot currently send them back to France but all that is is that the recent prime ministers don't want that as a solution, don't want to work with the EU. Give the French £400 million (like Rwanda has cost so far) and I am sure they will be amenable to some cooperation

Like all 'free' firewood (or nominal cost), how much do you value your time? Splitting a load of hardwood, or softwood is a similar amount of time, is the payback enough for you? Given a choice of a morning out with The Boys or a morning splitting logs, The Boys will win. However if I have nothing better to do (Ha!) then the load of wood is a good fall back and is 'free' to split. I'd pay £20 for it delivered if that is the offer. The other option I have for firewood is to collect from the local tree surgeons yard - petrol money is that alone.

I'd be doubting that a 350 year old tree started affecting a 125 year old building about 5 years ago and suspect something else is going on.

Likewise, I wouldn't stop on a hard shoulder if you can avoid it. Done that once and was straight out the car and 'hiding' safely. Also cycled down a 70mph dual carriageway - all legal - would never do that again either! Scary places outside the metal safety of a car.

Simple google search "Aberdeen Murder" gets a news report from 5 days ago, a stabbing no less: Though the news report doesn't specify her political bias. Just because you don't search for it on your news feed does not mean the British cannot murder, stab, or behead others. MSN WWW.MSN.COM Edited to add this link: Multiple stabbing and I don't think they accused was anything other than a Welsh girl. Teenage girl arrested after two teachers and student stabbed at Welsh secondary school UK.YAHOO.COM Students were held in lockdown in their classrooms during the ‘deeply worrying’ incident

Dig out the weed grass, not just the top part, fill up and seed again. And buy weed free turf next time?

I'm not an expert but going to add this here, maybe that will prompt someone more knowledgeable to answer? 350 year old oak tree How old is the house? When did the subsidence start occurring? For example, if the house is say 50 years old, the tree 350 years old and the subsidence was noticed 5 years ago.... I am guessing that -something- else is the root cause (if you excuse the term), you can trim the tree as much as you like, put in root barriers and so on... but from what I have read here that might not be the cure. I am suspecting that the builder - maybe at the time following the regulations they needed to - didn't build the foundations to take the trees into account. Might be you have to pay for an independent assessment, not necessarily an arborist, perhaps a structural engineer or similar for advice.

"Mighty oaks from little acorns grow".... little bit of work now pays off in the future. To add do dormant trees - if it has leaves, it is too late to move this year (without taking a great lump of soil and roots undisturbed with it).