Steven P

For him and his German kids, open borders are a necessity. Hypocrisy of Brexit, all for it so long as his foreign family are OK to travel here. His Reform councillors aren't doing so well just now, about half a dozen elected last week are either suspended, defected or left Reform.

Right Freddi.... Appreciating that this might be your first venture into the world of work... and good luck... you are also talking to a lot of grumpy old me (just so you know) and when they get round to it will give some advice but might also start talking utter rubbish, Anyway, 19 words are not a lot for us to work out whether to give up a tea break and give you a call to find out more... so sell yourself! Remember that a few extra carefully considered words could get an interview, a job offer with a wage... a few careful words could be worth thousands every year to you! The world of Arb is quite diverse, what would you like to be an apprentice doing? For example, some aspire to climb trees all day long, some think that running operations on the ground are more their thing, domestic tree surgeons or felling plantations in the wilds of Scotland (weekly commute). Can travel... do we assume you have a little run around car? Do you have any previous experience - not necessarily working on trees, but for an apprentice not so necessary either - the will to turn up each day and put in some hard work is often more important. What about practical skills, can you maintain your car (as the army advert says, if you can maintain your bike, you can maintain a car, if you can maintain a car, you can maintain a chainsaw, if you can do that you can maintain a chipper....) So add a few more words to sell yourself, A lot of people looking to get work fail at the next hurdle... they post here once and never come back, never interact with the thread... don't do that... sell yourself, it might work, it might not. Nothing wrong either with getting your folks to give you some pointers of what you can do and bring to an employer (oh, one thing, don't put too many personal details on a public forum, odd people about sometimes, add enough to be interesting to employers)

Second comment, I saw the news last night of him being offered to the crowds below and to a person, every one of the crowd had their phone videoing rather than living for the moment... almost as if they'd forgotten that moment was covered on every TV channel, every angle, in far better quality than their Nokia will ever record. Just hit record on the VCR and job done.

Sounds like he has his own mind as far as these things go - an organisation as large as his has a certain momentum so I am not expecting him to suddenly make massive changes but small and steady slight alterations. Which is a benefit I think, far less inclined as politicians to follow the 'will of the people' and act rashly, to ensure being elected again, but in it for the long term

That's a point, though my above comments are sycophantic compared to my internal thoughts, does that count?

Ahh, the grim reaper! Though now I've woken up - coffee - looks like retaliation backwards and forwards from the attacks the other week that killed the tourists... and so should settle down in a week or so once that can go back to their people and say "that showed them"

Oooh, you'd think someone would say something wouldn't you?

Always been a bit tetchy at the Indian - Pakistan border but this takes it up a notch I think. What started them escalating things?

Anyone want to guess what film was on US TV on Saturday night....

Reading the reports though, if he recovers fully it is going to take some time - but yes, hope he makes as good a recovery as he can

Ooooh, another comment about me? How considerate, almost as if I am stuck in your head. How did Kylie put it "la, la la, I just can't keep you out of my head".. I feel a bromance!!

I see your comprehension is up to scratch today, BillQ was making an analogy. That is a new word for you for today.

Saw that on the news yesterday but didn't have time to comment. Didn't see it on TV and though I guess the clip is on the internet not inclined to look but sounds like a proper nasty accident.

A bit like Bedlam? Ironically with the current use of the word "a scene of uproar and confusion", reminds me of anyones term of office?

That would be funny, dispense with the trials, invite him to the grand opening "and would you like to inspect your, errr, a cell sir?"

Very relevant statistic for one who claims to have no racial bias and yet only highlights rapes by that 16% and not from the other 84%... as if the crime is irrelevant just the perpetrator. Wonder why that is (he also sees no harm in Trump being a 'little' bit rapey and complicit in the child trafficking that Epstein was fond of, Trump of course 'likes them young'.. but still a hero of the old JohnsonD.. one rule for the white guy, one for the Muslim)

That's what my common sense would suggest too, trailer max load is irrelevant to the vehicle, so long as your vehicle is not overloaded. Might be some mechanics comes into play if it is a silly big trailer for the vehicle (thinking levers, all the load at the tow bar, trailer wheel a mile further back effectively all the load is then in the boot of the car)... but would have to be a sully big trailer and point loaded for that to happen.

House proximity... if it has been there 30 years and the extension for 17 a competent builder / architect will have accounted for it (however....) As above, hard to kill it off, poison, keep going at it taking off all the new shoots as they appear or stump grind the roots and hope. Even the logs taken off will sprout roots and shoots if left in a suitable place. I'd look at managing the tree as well.

Alcatraz, closed because it was too expensive. Nice little earner now from tourism, maybe with tourism plummeting in the US that income is dropping too? A vanity project that will do nothing to reduce violent crime in the US, some might even see it as a challenge to get sent there. Headline grabbing but like most of his headline grabbing not going to happen (build a wall all the way across the Mexico border, all hell breaking loose if hostages in Gaza arn't released, end Ukraine war in 24 hours, take Canada and Greenland into the US, and the biggie, Tariffs to instantly produce all stuff in the US, and the biggie, Make America Great Again)

Making a movie in another country is a national security threat. Cannot quite see how another Star Wars film is going to affect a countries security but he knows these things best, however for the UK having a US made film is surely the same security threat in reverse and all films should be banned for the danger they pose?

He knows that statistic, it has been posted before, he didn't like what he saw and threw out insults. 84% of the perpetrators are not Muslim men

No but there are apparently 11,000 rotating flywheels distributed about the country when the wind blows that will smooth over the chopping effect of DC-AC conversion from solar farms.

Not true, you have backed yourself into a corner that your pride won't let you out of. What are your views and explanation why your favoured fossil fuels will be cheaper than renewable energy?

However rotating machines can and do smooth over the chopping effect of DC-AC conversion which was your point wasn't it? Hinkley will be operational - a new Nuclear power station which is your preferred option isn't it over windfarms

So windfarms, the vast majority of our green energy supply are rotating machines. If wind and solar are both producing the wind supplies will smooth out the DC-AC conversion of Solar somewhat. Rotating machines within the system likewise provide smoothing of the system, both provide some moderation of frequency variations. A distributed system, such as windfarms countrywide are far more capable of nationwide frequency smoothing than a single large rotating machine stuck in the south that Hinkley would be. Industrial, rotating machines by design smooth their supply waveform, heating and lighting systems doesn't matter, any critical equipment (medical, nuclear and so on) will be designed to cope with an impure waveform - safe by design as well as frequency and voltage variations. Outside of the working day - when the largest industrial machines are not moving - and I guess we are talking domestic here - not a lot of critical domestic equipment out there that cannot suffer some impure waveforms. Most domestic equipment is either heat conversion (cookers, fridges, freezers), washing machines and so on where impure waveforms are not an issue, or have internal AC-DC conversion such as TVs, computers, LED lights. and so on, the quality of these depends on the sensitivity of the device. Mind an Electrical Engineer not appreciating this I reckon is on the wind up in the forum.