Steven P

I can understand the logic behind them, have a system of reviews and perhaps targeted to a profession, then anyone can have a look and see who appears competent and who doesn't... but the whole system falls down when they ask for a payment to be listed. No Pay, no listing. Then the dodgiest of the dodgy can pay and get work. All the while a computer programmer... with no professional knowledge of the work but can use a computer... is raking it in. For companies often contracts are let by a finance manager, sometimes at the advice of an technical person, sometimes to the lowest bidder, and their checks are often "did they get a good review".. and so the dodgy keep getting work if they also pay for the reviews.

Fck... I'd better have a quiet day tomorrow else I will be missing work to do just this!

It just doesn't quite read right to me, I've had a look at this one yesterday and again today, and the gut feeling is there is a little more to the story we arn't being told. Pics 2 and 3 go the other way round, ladder photo the night of the 'crime' and daylight the next morning. Coincidence maybe. To me the hedge (between the trellis and the semi- house in the background) looks like it has had some attention at the same time too... but that could be incidental to a limb falling on it from the tree. Owner has had the house for 3 weeks - so photo 1 from the estate agent, or they really really loved the tree from day 1 to photo it? My feeling is the story "Was tidying up the (new?) garden, trimmed the tree, think I've messed up, can I save the tree"

I suspect that there have been ways found over the years to shorten the suffering - weaker medicines or 'forgetting' to take them, 'do not resuscitate' instructions (when doing so could give a longer life), and perhaps the odd overdose (which any doctor would never say "Do not take this whole packet, it will kill you painlessly, it is meant to last a month"). Reading the articles earlier, 2 doctors to sign it off a week apart, a judge to check it over, the patient takes the medicines, looks like plenty of checks in there so you have to be sure. Can't comment on the morality though, never been there but... I think individuals need some self determination of their fate.

Looks like the 'neighbour' also had a go at the hedge at the back on the right as well and left his ladders handy in the night shots. Garden furniture, the shelves, look to me like they have bedded in really really quickly in 3 weeks - but the last owner might have left them of course. Cynical me, but the story isn't quite adding up right.

Forgot to say, can I bring you anything?

Tuesdays? I am a Butler to the poor and insecure, but thanks for asking.

Daily Starmer! The unemployment figures are for July - September so just after the general election and well before any new policies are able to be effective... so posting is all bluster from a sour looser I suspect. 4.3% pretty much the same as peaks in Jun - Aug 2023 and Feb - Apr 2024... but I didn't see you whinging then... Way off the 12% peak of the Thatcher years, the 11% of the Major years, and 8% of the Clegg-Cameron coalition of course. Your pal, Blair saw unemployment rates drop (though they rose under Brown)

I got 'a man' to deal with one before I got the roofers in - I thought if they see a nest they'll be off and weeks before I can book them in again, Usually they will die off, cold, but occasionally will survive the winter.. particularly if they have a warm nest. The will need a purpose in life (a queen) usually, rare but some queens take over where the old one died and a nest can be reused the next year. In mine the new queens were good and took off into the wilds apart from 1 lazy queen each year who nested in the insulation and made a new nest in the loft. I know it is a cost but for peace of mind if I was getting work done again I'd get someone in to deal with it if I saw wasps in the loft. Depends on the loft, I'd consider long stick and prodding it - with a quick escape planned just in case and do to sure (stick, kids arrow, tennis ball....). Wasps also fly towards light, stick the loft light on and any wasps will fly round it - curious - and another test, put the light on come back 10 mins later and see. My 'man' spent more time telling me wasp stuff than he did squirting powder at them!!

Open forum... we can all look, all answer. 'Irrelevant' because.... you are banging on about them on another thread and am dropping subtle hints to keep the threads on track, not just spamming the world. Guess that went right over your head?

Smoke n mirrors... cannot argue your case so let us move on eh? POTUS... irrelevant to UK asylum seekers POTUS... again irrelevant to my background or current life. POTUS... rapist who you seam to look up to and apologise for.

Could look at the very richest - Bill Gates, philanthropist, gives away and cares for society, Elon Musk, also very rich, self centred. Both opposing parts of the political spectrum and highlights that cash is not king at the ballot box. I could be earning another few hundred K and would still have the same outlook on life and voting intent, I could also be bankrupt and still have the same vote intent. EDIT.... However broadly true though, the poorer tend to vote differently from the 'low level rich' (not the stupidly loaded but those with some cash to burn at the end of each month)

Never cost the state a penny is kind of pushing the definition then isn't it, the state reached into their coffers.. the state that we all pay into.. and paid out when they needed to. There isn't some magic "JohnsonD" pot, it is all one pot. At the start of our lives we tend to dip into it, mid life we tend to fill it and then take out again near the end. As a blanket statement to the effect of the state has never paid out for my kids is not true and either shows your blissful ignorance of how the system works or your over eager desire for an argument and offloading whatever is pent up inside you. Neither of them make for a productive forum to be honest.

Probably true but is also getting very angry with the suggestion that his kids have taken anything from the state in their lives. Simply pointing out that is not the case, so he can wind his neck in a bit and stop posting just for the sake of getting some of his pent up rage off his chest. Bringing some relevance to the the thread though POTUS, politics is close enough, the amount of taxes you pay is irrelevant at the ballot box. However I would also suggest that in proportion to earnings you will be paying far more in taxes per pound than he does.. and if it isn't the case he needs to sack his accountant.

Private medical insurance all the way? No NHS birth, GP, local schools, never been to a library with them, or the public baths, local parks, ... I could go on... Never cost the state a penny? Very very much doubt that. "Worlds richest man who happens to be good mates with the worlds richest rapist" - corrected you though it doesn't read any better does it, still sticks n the throat?

I wouldn't be too surprised, the American dream is that a rapist can be the leader of the free world. No surprise that a man who holds half the population in such contempt is going to take control of womens reproductive systems

I think understand your point Mick, it should be a voluntary mark of respect to do whatever you feel appropriate. It doesn't have to be a competition to be who is seen to be the most respectful - biggest brightest poppies and so on. Personally paying respect rather than obliged to do so, but because you want to.

Can you find a parts diagram or similar? I know for my small tools the parts diagram sort of shows it exploded and gives an idea what to take apart where. Sounds like brushes, most brushes are generic so spares should be available if you can find the part number (couple of ££). As always I'd give it a once over clean too while it is apart. You might have some temporary luck cleaning the rotor (brass part) and the brush with some electrical contact cleaner.

At the pointlessness of a circular conversation, you first... I asked first you see... Else I'll just continue to pick up on your racist rants and overtly political points... on a forum for Arborists...

Not forgotten at all, but the numbers thrown around are 30,000 'military aged' young men suggesting that there is some kind of military force, increasing by 30,000 a year hiding out in the UK. Simply asking where they all are. It is perhaps an uncomfortable truth to some that 29,999 of them are just here trying to make a better life for them selves (ie, not get killed / tortured / imprisoned in their own country) and have no military desires at all. Not sure I'd believe the cold war threat to be over with Putin in charge either

However we managed to afford billions to Johnsons pals in useless Covid measures... which would look after all asylum seekers for many many years after we are dead. Stop some sanctioned migrants, asses the asylum seekers quicker and let them work instead. As for figures, not sure you ever looked how many health care professionals come here seeking asylum (at £25k to train them to UK standards, or 200k to train anyone else from scratch, why not let them work?). Let them work quicker, once it is accepted that they have a case and then suddenly we don't need to give them pocket money, we don't need to give them housing, rather than waiting 4 or 5 years for their case to be fully settled. Simple solutions.

Just to reiterate, again, asylum seekers make up a tiny of the UKs immigrants. There are 1,000,000 every year (give or take a few) - government sanctioned immigrants (i.e. authorised and given work permits), Worried about immigrants and the effect on society, then that is the population to look at and a much much easier problem to deal with - in fact almost easy enough for a politician to deal with (any politician, apart from Liz Truss maybe). Not sure about the US but probably the same that authorised migration dwarf the numbers crossing Trumps wall Quick note about house prices... asylum seekers get given £7 a day or there abouts to live on.. that will never be enough to push up any house price.. it is not them. Legal immigrants maybe.

As Mick, no law about what you need to work on a tree - homeowners can chop their trees down if they want - the issues will be with the insurers to show that you are competent - and only when you are making a claim and want them to pay out (they'll still take your money). However if it is going to be a large part of your work the more training you can get the better.

He said he would, Trump'll fix it. Not sure I like the suggestion that Trump is spouting rubbish (again) and is dishonest (still), not going to make many friends around here stating the obvious about the rapist-ion-chief!.

I'm finding this hilarious this week, 20 name checks, bleeting "SP please answer me, please" and then "SP why a you ignoring me, please answer me" (paraphrasing). Did you listen to that Kylie link I sent you? She is a bit of an icon, little bit camp but you might like her.