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Only broke two windscreens and one wing mirror today, too! Result.

Haaaaaa. Very good.

I know, sorry. Don't worry, there's one stem out the back I couldn't reach with the machine, so I threw a rope up into it to climb first thing tomorrow morning. For anyone walking by tomorrow, it'll look like I did the whole job climbing! Shameless.

If you don't know the answers to any of the questions, you don't have to reply. Perfect, thank you.

No lawn for me to damage today, I just had to aim in really carefully straight in the back of the hilux...

I was driving from Belfast to Sligo on Sunday evening, in the dark... 2hr 30m, if the wind is behind you and there aren't thousands of people driving 45 in a 60... after wrestling Birmingham airport. I was a thirsty fella. Two bottles of fizzy water and a vit hit for me, 30 litres for the car, and off we go again. As I unscrewed the lid on my first drink, intermittent and unnecessary brake lights of the car in front of me doing nothing for my stress levels, I realised, quite suddenly, that I don't have to pay attention to what I do with this bottle cap. It can't escape. I can slake my thirst while still giving my undivided attention to the prick in front of me, then when I'm done I can simply flip it back, screw it down, and carry on. The whole operation has become infinitely simpler, safer, quicker, and overall, a less stressful experience. This is what progress looks like. This is life in the future.

Wet and windy here today, day two of reducing 5 sycamore back to monoliths... good thing I'm a masochist! Enjoy the day team, stay dry if you like that sort of thing.

Who's ready for a really unpopular opinion? Those caps that stay on bottles when you open them... Huge improvement. Colossal. Immense. We've been living in the dark ages until now, and all of you complaining that the cap hits you in the nose when you take a drink because you're too f*cking retarded to rotate the bottle 30° can go cope and cry. Fight me.

Here's an interesting one... an orb seems to dispense several other objects... then explodes. CIA secret surveillance cluster drone being shot down by a USAF F22? Or is it just a roman candle strapped to an over-the-counter drone by some cheeky member of the public... and one got stuck in the tube?

This godsend button... what if you've got it in tight between a building and the stem and you've had to rotate the boom 180° at full height to squeeze the lower elbow of it through... or if you've snaked it through the gap of a couple of snipped branches and you're curving around the stem a bit... Does the godsend button remember the route you've taken, or is it just looking for the quickest route from A to B, regardless of the obstacles it doesn't know are there? Seems like you could get yourself into difficulties...

Great film, brilliant book. Not quite so brilliant excursion into Mogadishu... but good gosh, they pulled it off rather well, considering.

2m³ over the year... not an awful lot! Can I ask why you don't want hydraulic? 2m³ is not a big ask for even a cheapo hydraulic... and they seem so much more finger-friendly!

Very tidy!

The obvious answer to my mind is... they aren't. They are making an announcement. "Yeah, we've got these fancy drones, look at our next-gen tech. Nice, innit?"