Steven P

I compare firewood prices to smokeless coal - if it's cheaper I'd consider it - prices went up last year but all the same, near £300 of firewood, about 10 bags of coal, or near 2 months heating - I think that crate is a bit much. However working it backwards, Garden centre takes 20%? retail to them is £230 for oak, which I guess is the same as if you went direct

That would mean we have to cooperate and talk to the French and Belgians, don't forget that we don't like them now since Brexit.

To be fair to the Mods here they let the conversation take it's course - if someone is being particularly obnoxious they'll react but different opinions are generally OK as is 'banter' or subtle name calling. Much the same if we were in the pub, the bar staff wouldn't throw you out for name calling.

Maybe we need an 'Immigration' thread for those who get overly excited by this. Going around in circles again and again. Go back a few weeks, I am sure I posted all the numbers which show what you say is a very biased -Daily Mail- view of immigration where the actual figure (if you care to look) show a different picture. Anyway, I did that to death here a short while ago - go back and read that, or maybe start a new thread and knock yourself out with the view of the world according to Nigel Farage and the Daily Mail.

I've been curious what the taste was like - got to strip the flesh off a lot of them to make anything worthwhile so I haven't got round to it yet.

Offering yourself to farmers and so on might then need insurance though. Catching up on this thread but the personal touch is always better than an e-mail. Might be that the owners read the e-mail in their lunch break, thinking "I'll reply to that later" and of course get home, home stuff happens, e-mail gets forgotten, the phone call, could get your name written on a handy scrap of paper in the van depends what they are doing at the time, the face to face is almost a part on an interview and harder to ignore - the type of thing that gets commented on at home "Had a girl come to ask if she could work today", where as unlikely conversation starter "Had a girl e-mail today". Luckily for now chainsaws are quite noisy - said before in the firewood forums that I can take a lunchtime walk round here and usually can hear work going on - which is ideal for the "Hi, I was passing and heard your saws..." approach. Similarly petrol hedge trimmers. Might be on a big job you could offer "I can come back tomorrow, do a shift and you can see my work ethics if you want"

To note for a garden though, Yew trees - the seeds and needles are poisonous so you might need to be aware of that if children visit.

Bark maybe? The thinner stuff has more in proportion to the overall wood

Not sure he will have the time left to do so - I know they can push things through quickly but to do the checks they need to stop them being taken to court -again- is going to take some time. With a General Election coming soon, and this idea is going to be unpopular with many, it needs to be done by maybe January so that the voters forget about it a bit, otherwise it will harm their election results.

Though all they might have needed was the invitation to go to London for a fight with the police regardless.

Called for the Demi-god Johnson to resign, Home secretary for Liz Truss, broke the ministerial code, resigned before being sacked, home secretary for Sunak, sacked for undermining him. A blemish free CV then? I was going to leave politics alone for a while and then look what happened, they reverted to form and their preferred competency levels.

Probably but given the whole country are aware of her views, and Sunak was no stranger to her or her opinions before he appointed her then the only change is the last week.... expressing her well known views isn't a sackable offence but undermining the boss is.

Nah, might be something to do with her being "compassionate" and yet wanting to take away the only shelter that the homeless have. Or might be something to do with her comments undermining the police over the weekend and encouraging the extreme right wing to gather in London to attack the same police. Her views are well known the reason she was sacked this week is incompetence. Oh, nearly forgot, sending a piece out to the press that wasn't approved by Number 10 and undermining her boss.... that might have been it

Problem with chatgpt and generic risk assessments is that they bypass the brain. "Have you got a risk assessment? Yes, crack on" is a very different question to "Have you got a risk assessment that you, and your team have read and understood" can be very different

I'd love to be the journalist making that phone call "Hello High School, can I talk to the head teacher? Yes, sure it is about cat litter. Ahh, head teacher, can you confirm that you supply cat litter for pupils who identify as cats? No? What about trees for those who are dogs? No? a tank for the mermaid ones - what do you call them? No?" I bet I could phone any school and they will deny that LITTER BOXES are PROVIDED for the STUDENTS. Curious use of capital letters..... Capitalise on the rage of those who skim read the headlines as they pass the newsagent in the morning

If only Lidl had some sort of machine this week that could brush away the leaves by some sort of magic.....if not brush them away, perhaps blow them into the neighbours - that I don't like - garden (would I ever...). Might not get a sensible answer from me when I can't see a blade of grass in the gardens, or anywhere for wild life to make a reason to visit, the only pew for birds are those 2 trees in the video Pruning or pollarding will need to be repeated else the tree will regrow more, once started the landlord will have to account for that in their maintenance plans. Catching up on this, did the HA plant the tree or was it as some ones garden at one time? Is it a part of the property or a 'garden plant' perhaps you could find that out - it might be a garden plant to do what you like with (legally), much the same as a rose bush or if you wanted a lawn - tenant looks after it? Don't it always seem to go, That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone....

Interested to see a comment on Question Time last night that the Palestinian march is going nowhere near the Centopath, and yet..... some press would have had you believe they were going to barge the King out of the way, and that is why Tommy Robinson is getting involved. If the story had been all about Armistice day with a side story about this march then all would be peaceful - got to lay some of the blame on the right wing press.

Think we'd have to go right back to the source for that one Sime, suspect the original story started as a half story made into something by some UK papers who are renowned for giving all the facts. After it is in a newspaper it is true of course

£200k houses, they are building the wrong types for first time buyers - round here it is all 'executive homes' with 2 or 3 'affordable' houses thrown in the mix. I reckoned on paying double back, borrow £100k, pay back £200k. For a 200k house with that you need to be earning about £24k (before tax) just for the mortgage, leaves you with about £100 a week on an average salary for everything else. It is affordable if you only work to pay the mortgage. My other assumption was that there would be times when only 1 of us is earning, have to cover all the costs with 1 salary. I don't own an executive home - we could - but would be screwed if anything went wrong. First time buyers need something priced at about £150k max.

A quick wipe with newspaper in the morning before use it to light the stove keeps mine acceptable - but if I didn't it would get dirty

I don't know these things but how far out will tree roots spread at least the tree roots with potential for damage? T'internet reckons 2 to 3 times the radius of the tree, 7 1/2m from the house, that would give the canopy radius of 2.5m 5m diameter), that would be quite a big tree then, many years from now, but not sure, would those roots be the ones that might cause any damages? Second thought might be whether it will affect moisture in the soil, which all depends on the location, hard to tell though. Above about suggesting tree gets damaged, I would not be surprised if there were a few council tree officers read this forum - you get good advice on here, so if you were suggesting to damage a tree be aware of that.

She says that the British People are very compasionate. So either she is lying about the British People, or as a minister, she is not representing the views of the Britsh People

Shaking my head in despair, seams like anyone who doesn't conform to the thought police idea of normality are going to be breaking the law one time or other. Post on an internet forum social media or wherever something that doesn't quite fit our Orwellian future, then expect a knock on the door (AI can be used to monitor what we write). Become homeless by no fault of your own (failed business maybe?), and want a tent to sleep in in the winter, live outside the norm, off you pop, jail time. However buy a nice new 5 bedroom 6 bathroom Barrat home, you should be OK so long as it is a Nissan Cashcow on the drive. A very vague description of the crime means a very broad scope to arrest anyone they don't like.

Surly with all those fans going that should make a pleasant breeze to dry the logs with?

Is the tertiary air via holes in the brick? I wonder whether you can just drill a few holes in the next ones to do the same job? Probably all scientifically designed but drilling a few holes might be better than nothing? (though half of my suspects someone in the factory just poked holes in the template and it worked)