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So there's a problem. Do you have a solution or are you just going to sit in your ivory tower and blame 'the farmers' like everyone else does? Personally, I haven't used chemical fertiliser for over 10 years, most of the land is now down to permanent pasture, and the only weeds I kill are the thistles which the sheep won't touch and I spot spray with a knapsack using approximately 200ml per year of a chemical which the EU banned from being used in a knapsack and would prefer I sprayed the entire field with killing everything other than than the grass itself. I farm like this because I think it's the right way to farm, I've few financial responsibilities any more, and they can't threaten me with taking my farm payments away because I don't claim anything from the b@stards. However, I'm not going to point the finger accusingly at anyone farming 'conventionally' because many of them are younger, have financial responsibilities, and what consumers, including yourself no doubt, pay for their food simply would not sustain my farming practices to be scaled up across the land. I wish it would change but all I ever see is gurning, griping, and sniping from people like yourself (and George f**king Monbiot!), and never see any positive input about how to change it. Far too easy to accuse when you've no skin in the game. *edit* - for clarification, I farm grade one arable lowland, not upland.

He's been getting a good old (and well deserved) kicking over on the farming forum. Enjoy! https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/moonbat-now-after-woodburners.382643/

Might be too wee but if Echo is your thing see if anywhere still has a new 390esx. On paper it looses out to the 501 being less powerful and not much lighter but they get a good rep on here and my own is just coming up to 2yr old and I can't fault it (apart from lack of a primer bulb!) Non-strat engine, standard carb, light and handy, but 15in bar is as big as you'd want in it. Any bigger than that and look elsewhere.

Our 8kw Burley is in to it's tenth winter of service, lit comfortably in excess of 200 days per year, and we cannot fault it in any way. Nothing has broken, nothing has worn out, nothing has distorted, just flawless. Needless to say I strongly recommend.

.............or someone needing a rocket up their ass!

Sadly, I think that is pretty far off the mark, I think capitalism tightens it's grip around our throats further and further by the year. I'd like you to be right, but can see no evidence to support your assertion.

You seriously think he's the first to have had a nap in the commons? And actually there'd probably be more of them doing so if they weren't out in the bar getting pissed, or shagging their PA in the stationary cupboard. And actually, working class people frequently catch a few winks while getting paid, I'd like to see anyone who hand on heart has never done it. You don't like the guy, fair enough, you're just the type the media was feeding.

No, I think you'll find it's those who are so quick to apologise every time a bird shits on someone's house, or some other event, historical or contemporary, which they plainly had no influence or control over and is only being done for optics, that are the pricks. Why should someone in any walk of life apologise for something they haven't done. JRM has had a hit job done on him by the media because he's such an easy target but primarily because those pushing the 'progressive' agenda are terrified of him having any real power.

Sorry, but what part of that phrase is incorrect exactly?

Then it should have been nothing. Russia would still have an illegal drug smuggler in custody, and an illegal gun runner would have continued to serve his sentence. Society lost out with both sides of the 'deal'.

Although to be hard nosed about it, you do have to wonder if getting her off a drugs rap truly justified the release of an international illegal gun runner. Indeed why give up anything to facilitate the release of a self-confessed drug smuggler?

At first glance they look similar but when you look closer they are quite different, and going by your experience, plainly nowhere near as good.

"Discontinued", WTF!!!!!!!

No idea, they were given to me by a mate and they were standard supply at his work. Mine are eventually getting pretty worn, I'll be gutted if I can't find them anywhere and he has since changed jobs.

Never been a glove wearer for the simple reason that I never tried any that I was happy wearing. Then a friend gave me a pair of these PowerGrab® Thermo (Orange) 335 | TOWA CORPORATION TOWAGLOVES.COM which being a hard as nails farmer I totally ignored until one day I was knocking down concrete mangers and my hands were struggling with both the cold and abrasion and I decided to put them on out of desperation. I was mighty impressed with them as they are warm, light, comfortable and useable for all but the most precise of tasks. I now find myself using them much more often than I ever thought I would. Highly recommended.

Just to clarify, it was the last line that made me laugh, the first paragraph deserved a trophy.

I put it on the dung heap after trawling a magnet through it to get any nails out. If your local council have a composting bin scheme on the go, I think it should be perfectly appropriate for that. I'd be wary about using it around fruit trees/bushes, etc as it's not a balanced feed like manure and may cause a localised mineral imbalance in the soil, which is not a good thing. Scattering it lightly over grass occasionally would probably be ok though.

Our eldests mother-in-law was born and raised in California, then moved to Texas, and now lives just on the Florida side of the state boundary with Alabama. She says her path of movement is becoming increasingly common, the difference is that she is very conservative and would like all the liberal/'progressives' to stay there.

The problem with this is that the Californians are bailing out of the shit hole that they've created in their own state, but haven't learned anything from the consequences of their own stupidity so are actually just spreading the ruination by voting in the same type of people in the neighbouring states. Watch and listen.

Hand tools are the future!

Hope any Scottish readers take this in the spirit intended.

Hatred of the English seems to make up for a lot (a helluva lot!) of real world short-comings regarding the SNP in the Peoples Republic of Jockistan, as Al Murray named it.

I suppose the big question is, at what stage of the analogy are we currently at?

I see the latest being wheeled out is that having covid actually suppresses the immune system and makes you more vulnerable to subsequent covid infections plus cold or any other viruses doing the rounds. Errr, wasn't that exactly what Professor Cahill and her colleagues flagged up as a major concern with the mRNA vaccines when they were being proposed, and they were thoroughly cancelled for doing so? Namely, that they may give a short term boost in immunity against the specific variant of virus they were designed for, but at the expense of greater vulnerability to any further strains of it and/or any other virus.

Is the issue with ethanol in the petrol not that previously at least the water stayed separate from the petrol and was visible to the naked eye? Now, it mixes with the ethanol in the fuel and is carried through the entire system unknowingly. And with double the amount of ethanol, there is now the potential to carry double the amount of water in the fuel. Of-course this all depends on there being an opportunity for there to be water present near the fuel in the first place. If cans and tanks are kept well sealed and used promptly it's possible there'll be no bother at all.