Steven P

Must be a middle of England thing these sealed bags. Sacks are better, reusable, I tend to have a few to carry firewood about as and where I need it away from the house, great for garden stuff, and at the start of the season coalman gets them back again to use for the next season. Few times I've got supermarket coal with plastic bags I end up putting the single use bag in the recycling

You are notably absent with your comments on your Rapist Heros (flawed) tariffs and what their effects will be, hows about some positive input to this thread and join in with pertinent discussion. Now that I took time this morning, and read some of your posts, all I've seen for the last few weeks is JohnsonD trying to throw shit about to see where it sticks... but nothing of relevance... anywhere. So what are your thoughts on Trumps latest? Can you manage that? 50-50 bet on a direct insult response, 75-25 you'll ask me what my job is, 95-5 you don't add to the discussion.

The EU tariffs however have been applied in a considered fashion, Trumps have been applied universally to all off the back of fag packet calculation. No discrimination between which will be aiding the US economy and which will be harming it. The American public will be picking up the costs in the short term at least, 700 billion tax raid effectively.

If it is similar to what we had round here - underfloor insulation in my case - local council had a pot of money to do with as they wanted for household energy efficiency. Used to be loft insulation when we first moved in, then underfloor insulation, double glazing and loft. So depends where you live if you get certain benefits (ours included child benefit - any parent then), illness, have (or more like don't have) certain energy efficient stuff (in my case, underfloor insulation) then they can use this fund as they want and with whatever qualifying criteria. The company will install and bill whoever has the cash directly... if it is for free. Also had a couple round, one was a grant - an interest free loan so they do all the stuff, no upfront cost ('free') and we'd pay them back over the next few years. The other was a sneaky grant - we'd get the improvements but the payback was a few pence added to the electric bill each unit. I think that last one kept with the house so future owners could be doing the payback if it is that... which might affect future house sale. Worth asking them for more details though and to confirm it really is free and not a grant or loan. It is a thing, but got to check it out properly. There will be a scheme name to go with it that you can google. (Our underfloor was going to be proper free but too short a space for 'the man' (by 1 brick depth), for a couple of hundred ££ was a DIY job instead.)

I saw the penguin thing, surprised me since the whole population are wearing the correct clothes, white shirts, black jackets, how can you get angry about that?

Simple maths is simple to understand. Luxury goods or the perception of luxury, will just get more expensive, the rich will just pay more, the poorest might not buy or will sacrifice something else to 'keep up with the Jonses'. A good thing taxing the rich and highest paid more. Not such a good thing that I doubt that revenue will filter down to the poorest, just be a redistribution of tax the rich pay. For the near future prices will rise, cannot ramp up say, steel production over night, goods prices will rise to counter the tariffs... and history tells us that they never really fall again. All good if tax increases are your thing, a slight of hand, akin to Starmer in the UK saying no income tax rises, like Trump did, so the tax increases are taken from elsewhere. My prediction is that the richest will just keep on as they always do, but the lowest paid will suffer disproportionally. A good example is in the cheapest new cars in the US. Apart from an odd exception depending on the list you read all are imports. Add 25% extra tax on top they are all still the cheapest (depending on the list), just 25% more expensive. The richest could laugh off 20 or 30k extra tax for a top model, the middle ground could go down a level but the poorest don't have that option, if they need a car they have to pay a good portion of their income as an extra tax. Noting my point here that sales taxes are indiscriminate, we all pay at the same rate, poorest or richest. If the competition suddenly becomes more expensive there is no incentive to keep home grown prices keen to compete... US made cars will creep up in price to match. Watch this space for me to say "told you so"

Of course, silly me. No longer anonymous.

Don't forget the solders either.

oh, I missed than you should have said

Had a go with Milwalkui kit the other week - drills, saws, all cordless and quite impressive

Got willow burning just now, it burns hot enough because it isn't too energy dense... but because it isn't very energy dense it burns quick. So far I think about twice as quick as the beech I had mid winter. As Steve says, great to get the fire going but unless you are sitting on the stove throw on a hardwood later. Willow is full of water so takes a while to dry. If you have a choice from the campsite, take away the beech first, then the poplar and leave the willow till later - best returns for the amount of effort.

Good to see the results, my job this year is to open up the wood for more undergrowth - years of inaction and it is a covering of brambles, pine needles and fallen trees (tree: bug houses, but there are only so many bugs) - get the wild life back in a bit more, more birds, prepare the ground to replace what fell over in this years storms

The Rapist (along with all his other notable god qualities) was very quick to jump on Zelensky, abuse his guest in his own house on international TV, took about a day from entering the White House to start flinging it Ukraine direction, and now Russia is refusing to cooperate with Trumpy ceasefire (the done and dusted, oven ready if you like, 24 hour in office deal), Trump is getting mildly annoyed. Spin the table the other way, it would be all out hostility to Zelensky. You might have a point that Trumps sympathies are not aligned to his people or his countries history.

Who are you?

For this forum there is of course a related thread "who like Labour", which is a thread for knocking the current democratically elected UK government. Quite quiet over there just now, assuming people are content. This thread, related to the current US president, so knocking Trump here is acceptable. Comparing the 2 though, I cannot see Kier Starmer talking himself into world war 3 and a recession, where as every time Trump opens his mouth.. that is only just around the corner. Going back in history too, Blair was just following the Republican president and supporting the UKs allies - a lesson that the US might remember just who has stood with them.

Looks very similar shape and weight to the ones I got. Throw one at once - can shatter them if you hit each other (best case you need to sharpen them again), or bounce right back at you.

Edity. We do all like a good edit, change the original message completely. You can still have a lot of money and be dumb, just as easily as those with not a lot of money can still very clever. Musks finances are not as rosy as he wants you to believe, this week he has hidden the falling value of Twatter by transferring it to his over valued AI company (worst case it's value is 1/4 what he paid for it) The Rapist famously has had 5 bankruptcies along the way costing the ordinary working man that he champions billions and now has less money that if he'd just left his inheritance and did nothng with it/

Yup, a proper coal man!

Our coalman reckons his 50kg sacks cost less than £1 for him, but can reuse them a few times - think only about 65 to 70 litres capacity, there must be cheaper single use quality bags out there?

25 millions of Musks money apparently didn't make a difference

Second the large amount on lawns - the mower will shred most of the leaves, perfect for the compost heap. Blower useful for paths though.

Biologically he does.

err fact check time.... Look back at all your fresh starts in the post (ie where you are not throwing out the abuse but pasting a link from reliability news source, Linkedin). Why is it that NONE of your making the news reports EVER feature white criminals, despite them committing the same crimes as the mostly Asian men you report on. Fortunately there are members on here who have the ability to use google, do a quick fact check and prevent this forum becoming a cess pit of racist hate that your posts repeatedly are trying to drag it down into.

I've not had a chance but a local teacher was talking to me about it - hard to watch but made her have to stop and think. She recommended it, so I'll try to catch it sometime - kind of conversation we had was that most parents would do well to have a watch

No, wrong one Peds, he's the good guy, not the bad guy!