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I just think it's funny how you can't imagine there being any scope for gender variation on a planet with 8 billion humans on it. People like yourself also seem stuck on the idea that gender fluidity is a modern phenomenon, a recent trend brought about by too many of us washing our hands or eating too many lentils or other girly habits like that, when it has actually been a regular feature among our species since the dawn of history, and as far as we can assume from observing similar behaviours across pretty much every other species on the planet, since the very origins of life on Earth itself. There has always been a percentage of people who seem to turn out a bit different to the norm, in varying degrees, and always will be. The only thing that changes is how a society chooses to perceive and tolerate the individuals who are born different, and how they treat them... either with electro-shock therapy, death by hanging, rabid persecution, that sort of thing; or with a friendly handshake and an acceptance of the various ways they might benefit society. Some of history's most intriguing stories have come from such people. Now, I'm left handed (except for chainsaws). I assume you are right handed. I'm curious, where do you stand on the concept of ambidextrous people? Hang on, no, that's a lie. I'm not curious at all. I don't give a tinker's cuss for you or your inconsequential opinion.

Bit like the space between your ears.

Chilly enough out here on the west coast, not much of a thaw planned until the rain at the weekend.

Dust bath for the hens, scattered along the hedge, and tossed through the finished compost heap as it ages, not onto the active pile. I get the feeling that the creepy crawlies aren't keen on big loads of ash. My bloody mother-in-law cleaned out the fireplace yesterday and removed the bed of ash from the hearth, not just the space underneath. She didn't quite hoover it, but almost. The fire is not burning happily today. Tomorrow I'm going to tip a load from the ash bucket back into the fireplace and tamp it down.

It's funny listening to you two.

Nah, that's bollocks. You've got a responsibility to tell people who haven't got a f*cking clue exactly what's wrong with their ideas and why they should be ashamed of themselves for wanting it. The transformation between the two pics above is absolutely criminal, you should be mortified that you helped facilitate it, and the client needs a solid smack over the head with a loy spade. Disgusting.

Try putting a tire on your (waist height) chopping block. Swap the impact for a nice soft bounce. Also catches your splits and keeps them in place, no bending over to gather them up.

Dick pics, apparently. A form of revenge porn. Not checked the details myself because I can't see past my woke leftist blinkers. Plus it's all pretty dull. Speaking of blinkers, how can a rooster turn into a jockey? I know they've got spurs, but...

Sell just 7 trees a day... 450 x 365 = upwards of 160,000 per year!

I run Aspen because I like the way it smells.

I might be a while, I'll keep you posted...

Just dig a trench instead buddy.

That reminds me... does anyone know if blackthorn seeds are still viable after 12 months in a bottle of gin? Seems a shame to waste them...

I just think it's a shame that hedges across most of Ireland are mown, rather than trimmed, with no opportunity given to young trees to grow up and replace those lost to storms or die back. There needs to be a selection made for succession, and any tree lucky enough to be chosen could be protected with a length of steel tube, roadsign style, with a small sign on top to prevent accidental mowing. A hedgerow is a fine thing, especially when managed sympathetically... and not just mown into the ground.

I reckon a length of steel tube is more likely to protect from the flail... Tempted to hide a few lengths of scrap tube I have in local hedges to protect them in cutting season.

Spoiler alert?

That's why you should spread them far and wide and, like everything else in the natural world, try not to be too sentimental when they don't make it. I lift as many seedlings as I can from paths and pots and move them somewhere better. They might still die, but it's a better chance than they'd otherwise get. Like corralling turtles into the sea, protecting them from hungry seabirds on their way to the waves... most of them will die anyway before they get to adulthood. You've got to try anyway.

Andy is absolutely right, you do need to get out and do more tree planting. Great stuff, carry on.

Shhh, they don't like that question. They'd rather answer the question about how it could be better if it had been done differently.

I think it's going rather well.

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So we are all in agreement, we need to tax the rich and put all the freeloading politicians up against the wall to be shot. Viva la revolucion!

I think it's adorable how you seem to have convinced yourself that you are a higher earner. In their eyes, you're down here in the muck with us plebs, buddy, and they laugh their dentures into their cinzano rosso every time you defend tax cuts for the wealthy, as though you're the one being talked about. The wealthy wipe their bottoms on your paltry little tax bill.

Lots of ways to measure it really. If you can afford a slightly-smaller megayacht to follow around and carry all the toys (the jetskis, the scuba rib, the helicopter, etc.) for your everyday megayacht, you're unreasonably rich, and should be paying for things like hospitals, railways, universities, that sort of thing. Instead of the second yacht, you get a medal. **************** it, you get a medal for every single billion you give back to the society you benefit from, and a little folder to display them in like a world cup coin collection. I couldn't say for sure, but I don't think anyone on here qualifies. Sorry. (I once saw a megayacht called Lady Lola, forget where, Nice or Marseille probably, with another little tub parked nearby called Lady Lola's Shadow, with all the toys alluded to above plainly visible. I promise you that money could be better spent on... well, anything, really.)

So we are all in agreement... we need to tax the rich.