Doug Tait

The Police search team have recovered a body from the River Wyre, they haven't confirmed ID at this point but looks like Nicola Bulley has been found.

I know what you mean but from my perspective it's not so much about living longer and more about quality. As an example, if we could ask a modern farm animal which life is a happier one, a lifespan controlled by humans that affords it guaranteed sustinance and medical intervention to keep it 'healthy' while it stands in a shed or field, or the life its ancestor led, I believe there'd be a majority vote for the old way. I'm not saying being a hunter gatherer was a blessed life, it was undoubtedly a tenuous and difficult existence and they still had all the problems that life throws up, but it's possible the agricultural revolution wasn't the best long term course for our species (or others).

There's a theory that I find quite persuasive, that future historians will consider the Agricultural Revolution to be the beginning of the decline of our species and the wider environment. We went from evolutionary well adapted hunter gatherers, living a healthy lifestyle within the natural eco system, involving physical exercise that suited us well and a balanced varied diet, procreating at a sustainable level, to the opposite. A species of slave workers tied in to surviving on a handful of average food sources, desperate for more and more numbers to carry out the endless repetitive labour (which affects our health so negatively) in an attempt to continue supplying the basics our inflated species 'survives' on.

I'm sure I knew her once, briefly...

Been known to use it for cleaning bits inside a car too. There's something very pleasurable about giving a saw a thorough going over in a workshop equipped with good lighting and a compressor.

I bought a house with a TPO'd tree in the garden, please please tell me why it shouldn't apply to me. I bought a car that does a 100mph, please please tell me why speed limits shouldn't apply to me.

Do any of the professional tree people (sorry I don't know what you call yourselves) on here agree that Ivy has recently become the most widespread and threatening invasive plant ever identified in the history of botany and will absolutely be the cause of the end of the world and why aren't you doing something about it!!!!!! No it's probably more to do with you recently retiring from the Faculty which means you go outside now and you've noticed Ivy exists, don't worry.

Not seen it that I know of no. It'd be quite a coincidence that 2 died at the same time and place, have they been hunted for sport possibly?

I read somewhere that bird feeders are like primary schools, riddled with everything going in the community.

Absolutely I'd take him up on his kind offer Les, get the feeling we'd rub along just fine. Although saying that, the time I broke down at Knutsford I was working in the Cotswolds and staying in a tent in the bosses family garden due to covid, not sure I'd risk it again now that I know I should've been paying council tax there too...

You happily think you are, but I've just told the council and you're about to get moved on!

Well the Services during lockdown weren't a very appealing place to be for any length of time, and the dog wasn't particularly impressed. If I happen to find myself stuck there for hours again you may get a PM!

I'd think you'll be right. My mates wife inherited the family paddock, just a few acres and a stable block with a lean to for storage. The folk renting it did nothing, place was a mess with fences down, broken gates, the 'grazing' was waist high with thistles and ragwort, the metre wide space between the back of the stables and boundary wall was filled with muck because the muck heap was overflowing. They got their marching orders and my mate and I sorted it out, I got a stable for storage and we made the lean to into a workshop with a compressor for maintenance etc. Wasn't long before the rumour locally was we'd kicked them out to start an illegal business fixing cars, then the threatening letters from the council started. Fairly obvious the previous tennant was suffering sour grapes, seems you've been caught in a similar scenario. All I know of Cheshire is Knutsford Services, had a long, long wait there once for the RAC to take the pickup and I home to the Borders, that was a drawn out journey! Hope you enjoy Cheshire in peace.

Hope you're left in peace this time.

Met Carter today (named after All Blacks player Dan Carter). Big fella, he liked cuddles a lot, and slobbering!

Found the original post, the guy says it's a Nissan Terrano 2 altered to do stuff like that. https://m.facebook.com/100003322849284/videos/check-this-out-this-is-me-in-my-nissan-terrano-2-in-newton-between-fairburn-ings/2681582128629189/ Who'd have thought ten minutes of that would be so riveting, edge of the seat viewing!

Cheers mate, any chance of a sub til wages?

Couldn't do this job without them. Can't get to the top of a stepladder when I'm straight but a spoonful of running shoes in my morning coffee, I can climb anything, SuperArbman. Likewise, there's no way I'd take an overloaded timber trailer back to base without a few toots first, as long as you 'look' relaxed when the feds check you out it means you're legal. And when the 3.5t trailer has 6t chip in it wallowing side to side, being marginally drunk means you sway enough to counteract it, you're bulletproof safe that way. At the weekend though you really have to kick the arse out of it to forget all the sore bits. It's actually a fact that the government wouldn't allow anyone to do tree work until mind altering substances were available.

Was wondering about that too as the OP is doing forestry. I've never touched a full wrap handle or known anyone that uses them so I've no idea what the benefits are but must leave a higher stump. Only heard of them being used on bigger trees overseas.

Bet it missed you when you went to visit the trees!

Interesting article from Jersey, seems Greylag Geese are working with Uber... https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2023-02-12/is-this-the-laziest-falcon-in-jersey

That's flawed then, Wales wore red and had a No.8, leading to a distinct lack of success against Scotland...

It's not the Chinese, it's the aliens getting ready for Independence Day. Has everyone forgotten Roswell!

Don't suppose there's much need for a two day cross party summit with big business to discuss how successful Brexit has been, so can this be seen as an admission that things aren't going very well? Michael Gove's secret summit on Brexit failings WWW.LBC.CO.UK Pro-Brexit and Remainer politicians from both main parties attended a secret summit to explore why Brexit has 'failed'.