Steven P

"Your so vain, I bet you think this thread is about you......" Just to reiterate for the hard of understanding. JohnsonDs 'making the news' today was highlighting his views that only Muslims can commit crimes, I merely highlighted 2 similar crimes showing that all races, religions and nationalities can commit very similar crimes. The comparison was lost in translation I think. I am willing to accept though that JohnsonDs news fed doesn't show others, but have to ask, why is it his news feed defaults to crimes and bad news about Muslims and immigration rather than a balanced news feed, wonder why? Oh, and Morning!! Last day of the holidays!

See you need to clear out your cookies - you are only get bad news stories concerning non-whites and Muslims - clear your cookies and you'll see the same news stories happening but also perpetrated by white people. As highlighted above. Why is it that your news feed only gives you bad stories my Muslims and non-whites and not the whole population by the way? What are you searching for that I am not?

Well look at that, a US veteran, green beret, top of his class: Who was Matthew Livelsberger, the US Army veteran named as a suspect in the Cybertruck explosion? UK.YAHOO.COM Local media identified the 37-year-old Special Forces veteran as the driver of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day

I've always reckoned though that to move countries or as it would be states, you need a 'pull' to decide where to go to, so California for the hot weather, more liberal outlook, surfing, and so on sounds great but you also need a push to make you move - could be jobs, no opportunities, discrimination, politics (though US state to state, it isn't a factor), and then there is an anchor holding you back - family, having a job, knowing the rules, and customs, age and so on (sorry, granny sucking eggs!). Not sure if there is enough to move Greenalnd to another state... and if it was I think that Greenland to the US is fairly easy, would be done already (a bit like Canada to US).. but I get your point, there could be benefits to be sold to them. Would they be enough though? For my my preferred move would be NZ, though other half would say Canada.. we can't agree so a happy middle spot of UK (not quite, 1/3 of distance West to East)

and yet, the gang in Glasgow that were jailed last week... suspiciously quiet about them weren't you.... or was it just that they were Scottish and white that the -exact same crimes- made you go "M'eh" compared to the Oldham gang? Why so quiet on the Glasgow gang then? What's the difference between the 2 that makes you angry enough to comment on one and not the other?

Change for the sake of it but I feel that they are more aligned to the Scandinavian way of life rather than the US. I'd guess that the impression of the US is what they see on film - same as mine often - which is a complete contrast... I'd say they'd say stick.

Hawthorn has a nasty bite in it's thorns but I'd take it any day. I think all thorns are the same. Made a great spatula with some last year - the colours of the wood once oiled up were stunning (small spatula for camping, last seen heading up the West Highland way to Fort William)

One thing that has intrigued me to make - but not yet done - is a stick fence if you want or need to segment areas - like a hazel fence, a few strong uprights and in filled horizontally with brash, small logs and so on, as it rots it needs topped up, some of the logs might sprout into a hedge and is a fairly space efficient wildlife reserve. Roys comment about brash piles made me think of that again. My wood isn't near that but the few paths I've mown in (bramble city) are well used by the deer, badger and fox (and maybe a theoretical wild cat but yet to catch that one) - a handy and safe cut through from field to field for them now. This year going to build them a bridge, I'll use it once a month, deer will use it all the time. Some management like that can be beneficial. As for firewood, 3 acres / hectares (?) should give you enough firewood as above without cutting too much down. Not sure if you have looked - are there many self seeded saplings growing for regeneration or will planting on the wood be something to consider once you have worked out your management?

adding to this, young silver birch grow fairly quickly (slows as they get older), if you want to replant with the same you won't have a gap in the garden for too long

and we're back in the game... Pleasant while it lasted

Only 400kg...

Taper - widest at the rake end, thinner at the hay end so dragging it pulls the teeth in?

Not jealous - looks a great run but I can live without the bear hiding behind the rocks.

Thanks Sime, I'd commented as well - early onset of being senile? Full senile by 2026 maybe?

Whoops - missed that thread. Anecdotes would be good, and a lack of anecdotes probably caused by a lack of big cats?

Likewise, you can't just leave that hanging there!

That was kind of my view of the big cats, some dumped in the wild when the various laws came into place, sets up an urban myth 60 years later. Was some suggestions that they bred with Scottish wild cats, personally I think they'd see them more as dinner than a mate; Loads of phone footage of big foots... from a distance, behind a tree, in the night, a recording of a call, but the recorders never go close (especially in the winter) to get any footage of tracks...

Relevance? Or can you just not hack a discussion not involving you? How about back off and let others have a voice? or just keep being an arrogant arse and monopolise every thread? Right, back to cats and big foots....

That's always been my thoughts but the blokes the other week made me think, plus over the years one or 2 others. However some of the members here spend days out in the forests, on the big estates, working or shooting, might know something more concrete than rumours. (for big foots, to get a big foot carcase would be worth millions "I thought it was a bear so shot it", live even more, if there was anything out there big money would be in it rather than 2 blokes with a dodgy phone camera. UK wild cats not so much money to find one "So what, you have a European Lynx carcase" type of thing, rumours being rumours that farmers shooting them just bury them else they get all sorts walking over the fields, dogs in with livestock, crops trampled)

and the cats? See why this thread is kind of dying and frustrating... you should create your own thread the JohnsonD Spamming Thread. So to catch up before he went off on one (again) - news story Today... couple of US 'big foot hunters' froze to death.... is Big Foot a thing or just a handy myth to let (mostly) US blokes have a good excuse for a weekend out in the forests (not shooting) and what about more home grown things in the woods, are there UK wild cats out there? (edit: The big cat thing.... had a couple of conversations over the last couple of months, a couple of serious blokes (by their profession anyway) have been convinced, one by a 'dog walker how knows his stuff' and another by the local council tree man contractor with scratch marks on trees that were 'claws' (not deer horns). Always been sceptical but I don't spend all my work time out in the woods.)

How very true.... And now onto a fresh news story? Big cats and Big Foots... far more interesting.

See... trying to change the subject, a fresh perspective on making the news today and yet, paragraphs of the same thing you said last week, the week before, July, 2023, 2022, 2021.... How about Big Foot and UK wild cats... far more interesting to most I think?

But to change the subject... saw this last night and set me thinking, 2 men in the US froze to death searching for Big Foot. For all the high tech equipment trying to find a mystical being is done by crashing through the trees on foot (how about a plane with police style thermal imaging... could cover miles and miles an hour, pick up all unusual heat sources). What do you reckon, big foot or no big foot? (I am going probably not)... and then for those who spend their working time in UK woods and forests.. what is out there in the UK that shouldn't be (thinking more big cats rather than Albanians of course!). Rumour is we have a European Lynx round this way, got the trail cam out to see what there is. Two Oregon men found dead while searching for Bigfoot WWW.BBC.CO.UK Officials started searching for the pair on Christmas after a relative reported them missing.

That was from memory, and I can't remember the numbers - granted there aren't many, from what I remember they were for opposing the Rwandan government - speaking out against them and 'disappearances'. Personal opinion is that it is a very flawed policy, but if it appeases Farage then so be it. More concerning if your thing is immigration are the million flying in every year (economic migrants - the ones Government sanctioned to steal our jobs). However photos and videos of them leaving the airports looking like any British holiday maker doesn't make good news coverage for Farage, no money in that. Asylum seeker - often fleeing for their lives - are much easier targets. And before you all go shouty (well, not all), standing on your little hill shouting "you shouldn't be here" is going to do nothing, if you want the system to change then you have to engage with the system. 500 posts here saying "there are migrants" has so far reduced that number by, errr 0.

Very much for that idea else we get to morning coffee time, everything opened, sat thinking "now what do we do", the stocking gifts are discarded in favour of the bigger tree gifts.