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Steven P

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  1. Likewise, similar 1/4 mile walk from the house except mine is MuckyDs wrappers and Costa cups (and one block who discards his cigarette box every other day). What annoys me is the litter bin is about 5m from where they throw the packaging out the window, fag packet I suspect comes from one of the workers at the yard down the road.
  2. Good money inchip...
  3. Sounds like the above was true and 6 months seasoning isn't enough for oak... 2 years is better. I assume you are storing it outside or somewhere with a good airflow at that too - a mostly sealed garage will get damp inside for example, difference in air moisture and log moisture is reduced and drying speed slows. Don't stack drying logs to close together either, the stacks need air gaps for air flow. Last comment, taking a bucket of logs off the top of a wood pile will also take last weeks rain with it, taken from the middle might give better results.... but you'll knock the wood pile over trying to get them.
  4. I wasn't going to respond, however if you post posts as bait but cannot take the replies - noting you were getting increasingly agitated last night when we did reply - then perhaps.. just a suggestion... perhaps stop playing silly games and posting links as 'bait' (however I don't believe you did post about Trump as bait, I believe it was your sex-abuser hero worship coming out). I'll also note that for a couple of weeks you didn't post in this thread and there was a marked decrease in aggression and bad humour too. Coincidence? But the take away from that, posting links as bait is bad form in a generally friendly forum. Take note, and have a good week.
  5. Ahh, is that what you say, must be true that.
  6. Aha!! Another post straight after my last one.... lucky sod you are getting my attention till the gin cools suitably. Thought you'd realise, I have no embarrassment, that is just you making assumptions. Wouldn't want you to fall into that trap, it is bad form old chap.
  7. Oooh, someone is pissy tonight that tomorrow is a school day.
  8. Firewood is generally a retail product so the price is for domestic - small deliveries, no incentive to negotiate the price down. Chip is generally a commercial product with large deliveries, enough money in that to make negotiation worth while, even a couple of ££ at 44 tonne deliveries over a year can be worth chasing. Domestic firewood will always be the premium product... else the power stations would be buying up all of that to chip themselves and not chip
  9. See... every post I make, every step I take, D'll be watching you. Oh, can't you see.....
  10. 2 posts today about the Rapist, serial voyeur (including children), President-Elect, and I guess you could add contempt for the law for not speaking up about his child sex trafficking bestie. Your Trump bromance is clouding your judgement such that you think he is a good man worthy of our respect. He is not a good man.
  11. Quick look online suggest £120 retail / m3... so if we half the cost at each stage of the process to give a profit margin... £120 delivered, £60 for dried chip, £30 for chip, £15 for arb waste / m3... tops. Bulk, probably 2/3 of that
  12. See... sniffer dogs can be trained for all sorts, JohnsonD nicely trained to react to every post I make now I see. La la la,
  13. Sniffer dogs can smell all sort, just got to train them to be excited by the right smell!
  14. ... all politicans, not just the current government of course. The higher up you go the larger the bung. Remember the £15k wall paper that a prime minister didn't want to pay for?
  15. Yup - my next one will probably be the 110 ! (£20 for the phone, if I am out and about I am not interested in internets, at home I have a more powerful computer to do all that, it's all I need... and I can trash it weekly at that cost)
  16. As above, pragmatically, the 2 'evergreens' are quite tall from the photos, and it might be a blessing to have them removed at someone elses expense... especially if you can wangle some other form of barrier there. Not sure about the other 2 trees, however if they weren't my thoughts would be "prove it" before they do anything. Do you have any fondness for the other 2 trees? Would you be upset if they were to be removed at anothers expense? If not for neighbour relations go for it... but fight to maybe get the fence renewed and some other form of barrier planting? Second opinion and so on might give you some room for negotiations. However a few times over the last few years "foundations cracking... on the new extension... old house is fine" story (might be wrong but that's how I am reading it)... points to the buildings lacking with foundations given the neighbouring trees. What is the time scale for the trees? Which came first, pool, extension, trees? End of the day though, what would be your best solution here? I think from your original question you might have grounds for some improvements - screen or whatever, some landscaping - as compensation for the 'lack of amenity' from loosing the trees
  17. Step away from the keyboard, SP, step away... all I'll do is wind folk up.... but this is a good start from Labour isn't it, better than the Tories.... Going to the source rather than reacting to the symptoms. UK signs deal with Iraq to tackle people smugglers in Europe UK.NEWS.YAHOO.COM Yvette Cooper says deal means cooperation with Iraqi security forces and faster return of refused asylum seekers
  18. Yes but a quiet news day they pulled an old story out to fill the pages
  19. Might be a start though
  20. easy...
  21. From the video, water was only to axle depth, bow wave and wash made it look deeper. Easy for a tractor at slow speed too. Farmer out for a bit of a laugh that went wrong.
  22. We make a judgement though, the manifesto isn't a promise, more guidance of what they would like to do - I don't think a single one has ever been completed. From that I make a judgement - are their broad ideas aligned with my values and what future I want to be a part of. The closest match wins. But I wouldn't take any of it as gospel truth else we would be getting 10,000 extra police, nurses, doctors, 10 new hospitals, every 4 years (that might be 500,000 extra police and nurses in my working life!) poverty and small boat crossing eliminated. Accountability is every 4 years and for as long after till people forgive, or until they loose enough seats through local by elections.
  23. He took the tractor, would be OK in that
  24. You have a little time them. Can you get an aerial photo - internet satellite or something - to show the rough distances involved? How far are the offending trees to their house? Might be enough to ask for an independent second opinion. (looking at the top photos if it was my garden, I might not argue if they take down the evergreens, replant with something a bit smaller and - to me - nicer looking, could get a couple of smaller apple trees, nothing too large, but ask the questions and see what you get) Edit: You'll also want the stumps ground out won't you so you can use that flower bed? Now stump grinders, is that fence in danger if you do that? Damaged fence needs replacing..... (first part of edit was serious, second part of edit was hopeful)

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