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Ash all day!

Because our side doesn't have swastikas and Nazi salutes and stuff 🙂 Easy tell, that one.

Well... that's a bit shit! Songbirds being killed by pesticides found in pet fur flea treatments | Birds | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Exclusive: Chemical in treatment for pet fleas and ticks is found in nests of blue and great tits, killing chicks Songbird chicks are being killed by high levels of pesticides in the pet fur used by their parents to line their nests, a study has found. Researchers surveying nests for the harmful chemical found in pet flea treatments found that it was present in every single nest. The scientists from the University of Sussex are now calling for the government to urgently reassess the environmental risk of pesticides used in flea and tick treatments and consider restricting their use. Cats and dogs are widely treated with insecticides to prevent against fleas. Vets often recommend regular flea treatments as a preventive measure, even when dogs and cats do not have the pest. But scientists now recommend animals should not be treated for fleas unless they actually have them.

What's the story with that flat you got with your brother?

No surprise there, hydraulic hoses are predominantly Catholic I believe.

^^ bloody hell, he's a sturdy chap. Did he go back in, or is he permanently sideways now? I had a mewp booked for today, but when I arrived to pick it up it was parked in the repair bay, and no-one had told the mechanic. They got it working, but we'd already lost too much time, so I've cancelled it. Shite day to be out working anyway. The customer's poor dead ash trees will just have to wait another while.

Elon isn't happy about it. He's Führious.

Sweden opens inquiry into damaged undersea cable as Nato deploys ships | Latvia | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM PM says damage is probably result of external influence and vessel suspected of involvement is under... An undersea fibre optic cable between Latvia and Sweden was damaged on Sunday, probably as a result of external influence, Riga has said, prompting Nato to deploy patrol ships to the area and triggering a sabotage investigation by Swedish authorities. Sweden’s security service has seized control of a vessel as part of the inquiry, the country’s prosecution authority said. “We are now carrying out a number of concrete investigative measures, but I cannot go into what they consist of due to the ongoing preliminary investigation,” senior prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said. “We have determined that there is most likely external damage and that it is significant,” the Latvian prime minister, Evika Siliņa, told reporters after an extraordinary government meeting. Latvia was coordinating with Nato and the countries of the Baltic Sea region to clarify the circumstances, she said separately in a post on X. Latvia’s navy said earlier on Sunday it had dispatched a patrol boat to inspect a ship and that two other vessels were also subject to investigation. Nato said last week it would deploy frigates, patrol aircraft and naval drones in the Baltic Sea to help protect critical infrastructure and reserved the right to take action against ships suspected of posing a security threat. “Nato ships and aircrafts are working together with national resources from the Baltic Sea countries to investigate and, if necessary, take action,” the alliance said on Sunday. Swedish navy spokesperson Jimmie Adamsson earlier told Reuters it was too soon to say what caused the damage to the cable or whether it was intentional or a technical fault. The Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, said his country was cooperating closely with Latvia and Nato over the latest incident. “Sweden will contribute important capabilities to the ongoing effort to investigate the suspected incident,” Kristersson said on X.

Turns out I don't understand after all.

I understand where you are coming from, but it does go both ways... If someone has paid for your ticket, you are, as far as I'm concerned, honour-bound to stick around until you've made at least that cost back for whoever paid the bill... and there are people out there who will play the game and collect whatever they can before they F off. People just need to have the discussion beforehand, understand what each party expects from the other, and get it all in writing.

I think I understand, and I've put hundreds of hours into building stuff for my kids... but I think backcombing a thatched roof for even a small-ish playhouse would be a bit more time than I'd be willing to donate.

Depending on local laws and how friendly you are with the neighbours, that isn't an option for some people... ...sure would be a shame if some local teenagers were to sneak onto your land and set fire to a carefully-constructed habitat pile though. Ahh, and look at the mess the yobs left... camp chairs, empty bottles of IPA... look, they even left their potatoes wrapped in foil behind in the embers! Dirty bastards. No respect, kids these days.

The BBC was my first computer, it's still up in the attic back in England with all the various actually floppy floppy disks. Paperboy, Suburban Fox, Bomber, Dread Dragon Droom, Imogen... Geordie Racer? To accompany the kids TV series? Have to get it out at some point for schitzengiggles.

Subscribe to read WWW.FT.COM ‘They put two extra dog sleds there . . . they thought that was protection,’ says US president “I do believe Greenland, we’ll get — because it really has to do with freedom of the world. It has nothing to do with the United States, other than we’re the one that can provide the freedom. They [Denmark] can’t. They put two dog sleds there two weeks ago, they thought that was protection,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One this weekend. Yet more nonsense from everyone's favourite rapist.

Google images corrects dubbin to dubbing, and suggests the following. I think coconut matting might still be the winner.

This gets my vote, possibly on top of an old duvet or similar to give it some loft.

Yeah, different people would have different expectations of how to leave it. Depending on the location and land usage, I'd want it, at the very least, dragged into a single pile, not even butt ends together, instead of just left in the crown on the ground. Really not a big job, even for a big tree.

That big metal gatepost and the nest of sheep wire growing out of the bottom of the tree would make this an unattractive prospect for most millers, I'd say. You say someone has already offered to solve the problem for the firewood... I'd seriously consider taking them up on it, if you aren't willing or able to do it yourself. You might ask them if you could keep a few fat cookies from down low on the stem, you could get a coffee table or something out of the deal... but again, that metalwork in the base of the tree means you've lost a meter of it already.

Might need a bit more than that to fill the gap mate. That'd plug the hungry crack. Hungry cranny. Hungry dimple.

Doesn't sound daft at all. Different people have different skillsets, and need to plan accordingly. I can't fly a plane, play the guitar, lactate... I could continue.

Don't know the costs involved for that specific pole, but it's possible you could cobble something together quite easily out of a clipstick intended for sport climbing. Edit: Like this one which telescopes to 6.5m Betastick Evo Ultra Long WWW.NEEDLESPORTS.COM An incredibly long clip stick - an absolute beast of a pole. It extends from 113cm to 648cm.

Haha, yeah, all good here, a lot of damage all over the place but we escaped quite lightly. Just doing a walk-around to assess the damage outside the house earlier, a few little trees down, nothing major... but then I saw our electric pylon leaning a good few degrees off vertical, and a stocky little goat willow fallen on the cable stay, with the top of the pylon swaying with each gust of wind... 800,000 homes in Ireland without power at time of writing, and I just about managed to stop it being 800,001 with a bit of careful snipping, then predictably enough the goat willow sat back down again once about 80% of the weight was gone.