Steven P

Slight detraction, you'd be very surprised what is added to foods that shouldn't be there - had to look out for Soya as an example, Bread (Flour, Yeast, Water, pinch of salt) - couldn't get normal bread without it, chocolate (soya emulsifier), airport grill - soya oil.... had to ask about everything... but was told you couldn't get prescription until you have a bad reaction and that exposure over time increases the reaction Increasing the reaction over time with wasps - the more you get stung, the more chance of a bad reaction next time

She was being honest and he is only there for what he can get rather than for any loyalty to Trump. Might have been a better conversation than you think.

However "what do I puke" is a far better use of a picture, conversation will go down a much better alley than bitterness and division.

Learn something new every day, not puking, thinking. Never did hieroglyphics in school you see, we did English, German and French, much more useful for communications.

Daily Starmer going mad today!

He was quoted as suggesting 30 million migrants will be expelled... or near 10% of the population. Fairly sure that would trash the economy there. I imagine these 30 million will be the lowest paid, I wouldn't stay at his hotels then, no cleaners left, Elon Musk will have to wash his own toilet, repetitive factory work - China gets it, farm labourers... no, Uber Eats... collect your own take aways. The rich migrants (paper billionaire property developers children perhaps?) would be OK to stay I guess. No double standards.

Perhaps I need stronger glasses but is this the puking emoji? "I neither smoke or do drugs , never have, I don’t drink nowadays and what do I puke"?

Trump is best mates with all the good people as well, Putin, Epstein (is he the most famous paedophile in the world now? Jimmy Savile very British, but Epstein story went worldwide.... besties with the Rapist-in-Chief), had a thing for Kim Jung Uh, loved the Chinese. However if one was to think there is a power behind the throne Trump is a convenient scape goat, he will last this 4 years (apart from normal ill health). If one doesn't subscribe to that, Trump will still see out this term as president. He is a blip on the political landscape but we need to worry about the damage and costs to the world to fix his lunacy. He isn't in power yet, lets just see how many of you are singing his praises in 4 years time... All well and good saying how a proven liar has said the right words, but actions count for more than the words of a liar. Looks to me a lot of comments above are 'Don't worry, Trump'll fix it', pinning a hope for someone who won't.

Windmills cause cancer, well known for it. Better drill for the - definitely never carcinogenic - oils

Not to worry, Trump'll fix it. What I mean there is the smart money is on forcing the Ukraine to surrender and accept that the aggressor can take what it wants at will. Again. A big 6 billion dollar arms shipment on its way before Jan 20th the 'within 24 hours' will be when that runs out or Trump turns off the controllers rendering the good smart weapons useless. Europe will have 2 options, to go it alone without the US backing, or to bow to Trumps lead and also accept Ukraine handing land to Russia. Go against Trump and he will have a biggly strop with retributions which Europe might not be willing to risk.

Epi pen - thought it is a few years (10 springs to mind.. but it can't be that). As far as I can remember you need a prescription generally and to get that you need to have had a severe reaction first. A quick search suggests that schools can buy them without prescription, would it be worth talking to a local pharmacist and see if they can acquire one - emphasising the potential for a whole nest attacking and to put it in the emergency kit

Affect the resale value... are you buying this as an investment property or as a home? The value in an investment property is the resale value The value in a home are the memories you make in it.

(Rarely re-use an old nest but they sometimes do, occasionally a new queen will dispatch the old one and move in... nut that is rare) Yup by now the nest should be finished - the last wasps of the year will be dying, hungry and without purpose now the new queens have gone so can get tetchy. The new queens will be out there hibernating till spring - might not be too far away though. We had one nest in the loft, and had a new nest in there for the next 3 or 4 years, that's how far the lazy queens went. I'd rigged up a can of wasp killer spray, on a pole to reach their entrance hole - spray them daily as they are in and out, also they love light so turned loft light on, they pop over to investigate, and a quick spray. However my pest controller - loved the pole squirter - strongly recommended powder - the wasps take it into the nest (as above). Spray, flame thrower, and so on only kill a few, weakens the nest a little but the eggs are still there being looked after... so powder to kill those in the nest. Petrol down the hole kind of worked in another case. You do get angry wasps coming to look for you after though. Not sure, if this is an old animal hole - would it have a rear entrance? So for now, I'd leave it if you can. After that wasp powder, and if you can catch it early season better results and fewer angry wasps... if it is not convenient to leave them. I tended to leave mine alone, eat the aphids on the roses and apples, good pollinators (better than bees apparently). Ahhh, one I did do, maybe not my greenest moment, the windfall gooseberries, gathered into a baking tray to ferment a little - they loved that one - secret spice of wasp poison added - but it also got a few other insects who were similarly pissed up. They took that mix back to the nest.

Yes.

If that is what you say then it simply must be true. Love the use of the word Military.. right from Farages mouth... and yet, hundreds and thousands of them.... are not fighting, have no military interest. I see you dropped 'fighting age' after I asked where they are doing all this fighting, so I'll ask, where are they all doing this militaring?

Not at all. They tightened the rules so that they couldn't walk onto a ferry and come here. So they hid on in the back of lorries They tightened the rules so that the lorry drivers were penalised if they did So they hid on Eurostar trucks They tightened the security at Eurostar terminals So they started coming in inflatable dinghies They tightened the rules.... So.... See the pattern here, the rules are tightened and they come by a different method, usually a lot more dangerous than the last. More are killed in the crossings. Not forgetting of course that these 'illegal' immigrants often claim asylum, these are the humans who have been persecuted in their own countries to the extent that a quick death in the channel on a small boat are better odds than staying at home. Send them Rwanda - despite the cash spent so far there has not been enough cases to show that this works and that they stay in Rwanda as opposed to starting off again, risking death at every turn, to try to cross the channel a couple of months later (noting that Rwanda is not a safe country despite Sunak changing the law to say it is, words don't make it safer) I would give you my thoughts for solutions however you would pop up your usual laughing face when your comprehension is lacking and pick me up on semantics instead. Suffice to say, we should show our human side to the desperate and look to the 1,000,000 economic migrants (the ones coming here to 'steal our jobs') and not the 30,000 seeking help.

Serious question, you keep quoting military age young males.. as if there is a hidden military force out there... so where is it hiding?

This is true, however telling an arborist forum the daily tally isn't going to change a single thing though is it? Winds up a few folk in the morning to improve their day... but nothing we read here will change anything really will it? For that you need to be putting pressure on the politicians, perhaps giving them suggestions for solutions, looking at the issue in depth rather than what the Daily Mail and Farages sound bites allow you to know. I'd be very surprised if there is anyone who reads this thread isn't aware of the issues surrounding migration. So perhaps change the tune, highlight 'making the news today' with something we might not know about - whether it is serious or funny stuff.. but the same story again... and again... and tomorrow as well... Something where I can say to my colleagues "Did you see this" rather than "did you see this" and they push me out the van "Yes, you read that out from the forum yesterday as well, and every day last week, find something interesting to tell us"

No the point I am making is the constant and incessant posts, every other day, 'making the news today' "Illegal immigrants have come", which in this thread is often at the expense of any other discussion. The repetition deserves the contempt he gets.

However I can see the thrill in the D household on a Monday, just after you have finished knocking one out when your 2 favourite topic appear on the same news story "Hey, D, can you take the kids to School" "In a minute Mavis, I just have to post this on the Arborist forum, the guys will be as excited as me to know that Kier is going to do some effective border controls.... Yeah I know most will be setting up on site for a days work just now, it will keep them buzzing till lunch! So excited today Mavis with this news, I could squeal with excitement" However I do think you are posting this on the wrong thread, try the Employment thread - always posts asking for groundies - 30,000 'military age' - so lets assume you know more than me that they are also fit and healthy - would cut the shortage in workers here in a blink of an eye. That would be good wouldn't it?

'Military age'...so where is this army that is being built up over the years? Hiding out on the moors somewhere training up ready for the war to start.... or perhaps trying to build a new life and working in normal jobs, raising a normal family when they are allowed to do so?

You should try dick sometimes, you might like it.

Maybe you should be more eloquent in your rage? FYI though, Fanny is quite outdated round here, usually I get a bit a of dick.

Find it incredible that Trump, besties with Epstein, didn't know of Epsteins preferences, and if he did that means he is complicit in the crimes. Any normal human would have reported him. Worse that he was sampling Epsteins preferences at the time and couldn't say much himself. Also from the tapes was Epstein suggesting that he was only investigated after the pair fell out over a property deal, the timing being a massive coincidence. Perhaps Trump did report him... but years too late. Noting here that his campaign are worried that women are daring to go out to vote, perhaps scared that his various crimes don't go down too well with women (Rapes, sexual assaults, voyeurism (well reported) and as above but from a single source, sleeping with his friends wives). Apparently some American 'men' are willing to forgive him for this and still vote for him... worse are those that selected him as the Republican candidate, fully knowing his past yet selected him raising him up as the only option against the Democrats.

That's hilarious from you - the article starts by slating them for having a petrol car business renting land from them and not an electric car business... what are your views on electric cars again? Impossible to justify?