Steven P

He's going to have a surprise, I've been too lazy / busy to make something up - I'll have a think of something suitable, but no dog, so no dogdy pics from me.

Of course, your view, but worldwide the NHS and BBC are still up there among the best... and far better than the US system that Farage would favour. For healthcare we have an option though, free at the point of use and paid for by tax or land you with a massive bill when you are least able to work and pay for it... example here - I think most of us have children, might make you think twice knowing that they land you with a $20k bill just for being born. A good chance a lot of us will get a cancer in our lives... and a US style $100k+ on our doorstep. I'd be guessing that a lot pensioners will not have private health insurance as a part of their pension... so any end of life care and guess what... that bill, again could be $100k+ depends on the care needed.... comes right off the inheritance. So my opinion, different to yours is that the free at point of use model we have is probably the best. As for "don't work"... explain how they don't work - NHS generally works though there are specific cases - always will be - where it didn't work. In politics I think in all my life the politicians campaign on "fix the NHS" - so either the last many years have been led by incompetent health ministers or "fix the NHS" is just another cheap opposition politician line trying to get votes.

I will agree but for very different reasons.... Farages constant politicising and divisive politics jumps on the small boats as a photogenic issue, and the way things are going are going to give him a good chance at power... and for this reason this will not improve things. Farage has all the political competence of a mushroom. Apart from this single issue, he has no policies... Farage in power will lead to a sell off of the NHS, will lead to censorship of the press, will lead to a higher national debt... and from that an increased tax burden on us all for many years to come, pensions will no longer be state funded but follow the US and no state help for those with nothing. Divisive politics has been his life, and in power will continue that way, the UK will splinter further than it is now. Yes the small boats are going to cause many problems and the greatest of these - for us all - is the threat of Farage in power. Take a step backward, away from emotions and ask, in all seriousness, has Farage any ability to lead a country... the answer is no.

Exactly this. They are an easy scape goat, cheap headlines, and nothing more really but to divert our attention by half whit politicians with no clue how to fix what is broken and to improve what is not.

Politicians campaigning in unrealistic timescales - straight out of his pal, Trumps, playbook (Ukraine, Gaza...), maybe Farage has learned... but I suspect it is that the longer the boats exist the longer his brand of divisive politics exist.

One side comment here, then back to predicting Trumps policies via Hollywood US Senator Johnson (? I think): "Trump was an FBI informant in the Epstein case" Also US Senator Johnson later in the same interview: "Trump knew nothing about Epsteins crimes" ... or words to that effect... Bit of a contradiction there, if you know nothing what were you informing the FBI about: "Hi FBI, Here to spill the beans, I know nothing" "Excellent and can you elaborate this nothing" "No, told you everything I know nothing about" "Great, thanks, we'll put you on the FBI Informants list" ...I Suspect what Johnson is really saying is "Trump was fully aware of Epsteins child rapes while he was doing them, and spoke to the FBI later to save his own skin" as you were, what films would make good US politics?

More embedded stuff in the bark.

Apocalypse now, The Untouchables, Rambo next? Sold 25th August... It has given him time to watch them, maybe that's where he was last weekend? Three sealed 4K UHD movies. The untouchables. Rambo First Blood. Apocalypse Now | eBay UK WWW.EBAY.CO.UK The product consists of three sealed 4K UHD movies including "The Untouchables", "Rambo First Blood", and "Apocalypse Now". Each movie is in 4K UHD Blu-ray format, providing...

Harsh Mick, harsh.

Domestic it can make a difference having named drivers or 2 main drivers - the explanation was if you share a car and crash it you have to explain to your other half.... so you drive more carefully. Made a difference adding Mrs P to my insurance and vice versa. Not so sure business wise, but for the sake of paying a real life broker commission or a web page commission, the real life broker is probably the best bet to talk to for your options - yet to see a web page giving advice. Profession can make a difference too "Tree Surgeon" or "Arboculturist" might be a difference in price for example.

Does the bark burn I wonder? (cannot remember but one thing I read once that - was it weight for weight - bark is quite energy rich - I could be wrong though, or it might have been specific trees... weight not m3 though)

Well, that's funny: Trump wants to send the military into Chicago.... "the murder capital of the world" apparently (doesn't make the world top 50, you might be surprised to know.. in fact, by head of population, doesn't make the top 30 in the US either) Trump's Bonkers 'Chipocalypse Now' Post Salivates Over Potential Chicago Takeover UK.YAHOO.COM "Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR," the post read.

If you can get a shot of the full tree, might give more to work from. Fungus won't show that the tree is going to fail this year - might be years from now. An overall shot of it all might show the condition further up. Handy for you n the future if you need to apply to remove the tree you can get some photos over a couple of year (at similar time of year helps) to show the tree declining. Termites... I assumed you were in UK? Highly unlikely if you are.

Oh, was waiting for it all to kick off here last night, nothing. Apparently a 15 year old school girl was sexually assaulted on a train to Aberdeen this week. No reports of that assault on here.... perhaps because the attacker was a white man which makes it more tolerable to some?

Modi - India - is going the same way too over Trumps import taxes

Could always clad the container (inside or outside) in sleepers - thick enough that the angle grinders can't cut through... but if they want in they will... back to the beginning, keep the chipper inside so you arn't advertising what else you might have hanging about.

That's weird.... for one who whose time has been occupied too much, it is still taking up thinking space.

But that is a pertinent point.. likewise those making the most noise about asylum seekers on this forum live a long long way away from where they are housed, and form their opinions as far as I can tell from Farage, the Daily Mail, Linkedin and twatter, rather than going to find out what is happening in reality. It is the singular headlines that are reported here to try to alter opinions and never the complete picture... and those singular headlines are reported from a press with an agenda, with owners who have an agenda )and the agenda is usually make the press owners another billion).

Over time there has been a few threads on container / yard security... to save time in the discussion we usually fall short of wiring it to the mains on an evening. The more you can do the better, you'll know the yard - how would you break in, then add an angle grinder and brute force then work out how to stop that. Best you can do is slow them down really if they want to get in. What is the visibility of the yard like? Out of sight or not? A couple for you to think about - what exactly are you going to keep? Just the chipper and trailers or more? Just chipper and trailer you can secure them individually, but a container full of stuff needs some thinking, also the values - no point putting in £20k of security cameras for £5k of kit for example - but ask the insurers the minimum they will accept too in the case of a claim.

...and yet... the one who brags of the highest wages, 3 or 4 times the industry standard is the first to whinge like a bitch with every tax rise, every penny of tax money paid out, and the ones whose political affiliations are to the centre and left, barely a peep. Are you actually reading the threads in this forum?

Eventually all trees become unsafe, die, or fall over. Are you looking for us to say yes or no? This week, no. In the next 50 years, probably.

Same radical loonies who want to do this: Giuliani, Trumps lawyer who took the hit over the voting machines getting the Medal of Freedom Trump To Award Disbarred 2020 Election Denier Rudy Giuliani The Nation's Highest Civilian Honor UK.YAHOO.COM Past recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom have included Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Mother Teresa all within the realms of possibility given that Giuliani has also been taken to court for sexual misconduct. Great minds think alike and all that..... Woman suing Rudy Giuliani reveals tapes detailing alleged vulgar remarks WWW.INDEPENDENT.CO.UK Noelle Dunphy filed transcripts in court of former NYC mayor allegedly making sexually explicit and anti-semitic remarks

We'll see.... floating voters have to be convinced to go against the grain and vote for a black woman. She does have some of the aggression needed to succeed though

Really? Apparently you didn't spend enough time, came back for a check and an edit: "Posted 14 hours ago (edited)"

We lost about 400 apples in the last storm (sad enough to count them...) - not quite there to eat but stewed they will do for pies and crumbles - and they freeze OK stewed up. Not tried yet, but I believe sliced they will freeze just as well like that.