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Honestly, put the word out that's there's grazing available and get someone else to pay you for grazing their sheep on it. *edit* - but give it some thought and if you're still determined then I'll try to answer some of your question. But please, seriously consider what I said first.

Loose, but would be well split and quite tight fitting. Spruce primarily.

Mmmmmm, pancakes!

Yeah, that would be the sensible thing but the weather is decent at the minute and I'm trying to get as much done as possible before lambing starts. But probably best leaving it as late as possible no doubt. Consider the rest of your post duly noted as well. 👍

You should consider switching to organic oats.

Anyone want to offer what would be a fair price (to both parties) to pay for a cubic meter, properly measured, of split well-seasoned softwood? Collected by the purchaser at the place of processing. Thanks.

Once they started putting warnings on "Dads Army" I realised that I no longer lived in a world that I could fully understand.

It's a tricky one. Do you then get to a position where those less crucial to everyday life can strike but those most valuable can't and therefore end up the worst off? I really don't know what the answer is. 🤔

As an impressionable teenager "On any Sunday" had a huge impact on me and I decided there and then that I wanted to spend the rest of my life in western America riding dirt bikes. Unfortunately that didn't happen but I did take up moto-x as soon as I could afford to do so and spent a number of years travelling around and competing in off-road events.

RIP Dickie Davies, for most of us of a certain age he was the voice associated with pretty much any sport which you could watch on a Saturday. Scrambling (as it was back then), bike racing, athletics, rowing, skiing, and many more, and of-course the wrestling. He was even judged worthy of being sent up by the wonderful Benny Hill.

Interesting. Tragic, but nonetheless interesting to hear a local perspective. Thanks for that. 👍

There are such people here???????? Jeez, now I feel uncomfortable!

I've a big twin motor/twin compressor jobby which used to be very busy when I was fitting a lot of motorcycle tyres. Now it's nowhere near as busy but I just let it stay switched on 24/7 as there's always something for it to do pretty much every day and I reckon it'd use just as much electric getting up to pressure 3 or 4 times a week as just keeping it at the pressure. I theory which I think would apply to any size or capacity compressor. But leaky fittings a huge no-no obviously.

Yes that's a fair point too. I guess when there was a higher sulphur content in the diesel it inhibited the bacterial growth in the first place, which is what sulphur does (also why excessive amounts of processed food are so bad for your digestive system). So limiting moisture availability, which bacteria also need, should help as well. We haven't had any trouble in any of the tractors yet, but they're usually run pretty low then filled, diesel storage tanks the same. Have to say though, if I were having trouble I'd tend to look towards either an additive or reduce the amount purchased at a time. Ironically the same decisions as we're now having to make with petrol. Progress!

Our oil man says that since they went to low sulphur diesel you're asking for trouble if you buy any more than what you can use in a year. I guess if you keep topping up you're never really fully replacing and refreshing it? Might be part of the problem.

Is there any danger of silverleaf infection in either plum or cherry if I were to cut suckers at ground level at this time of year? A few at the extremes of the root system I dig up and transplant, but you can't do that with any near the base of the tree as you'd be damaging the root system unduly, and it's much easier to identify them now before they leaf up. They're damsons and all grown from suckers themselves BTW so not grafted and are generally very robust. The cherries are sour cherries and again, all grown from a few suckers taken from a hedge on the farm.

Even by 'celebrity' standards, these two must be close to topping the all time list of maximum attention vs minimum value as human beings. Is there anyone anywhere that in reality considers them to be anything other than spoilt, self-entitled, elitist, whinging brats. Yet publicly they are totally beyond reproach, and anyone who dares is essentially ostracised. Crazy!

Back in the day when a woman either had it or didn't, it couldn't be manufactured.

Absolute scum of the earth both of them.

A man near here disappeared a few years ago, found personal belongings on the beach and a huge sea search ensued. He was never found, no body was ever found, and after having been headline news for several days the story dropped off the radar over the following weeks. He had a son the same age as our boy, they'd been to primary school together, and a year or two after it they bumped in to each other somewhere. No sure how the conversation came around but it turned out the father had done a runner and was alive. Our boy wouldn't be one to get involved in other peoples personal lives so didn't ask much, but they knew he was alive and wasn't coming back. So as you say, it happens. "Now't as queer as folk".

They announced early on that they were absolutely certain she hadn't left the area as it was all covered by CCTV. I thought at the time that was a big statement to make. My own notion is increasingly that she's done a runner, for some reason.

Fully agree with that approach. In fairness, most on here are essentially contractors, get a job done as cost effectively as possible, maximise profit. Which is fine from a business perspective, that's how such things must be. But your problem will be best sorted with time and labour if you can arrange it.

Firstly, oaks are incredibly slow, but they are also incredibly robust. I planted around 3,000 of them, and for years you could see anywhere that the oaks were as it was bare looking. But now they're getting in to their stride and they stop for nothing. I have bramble which I actually planted purposefully a few places to provide an understory and it's worked out in all but one area as the trees had a head start, and even when the bramble spreads it is being controlled by light availability. I assume your problem is that the bramble has the head start, what with the area having been planted previously and it's now having the opportunity to choke the trees, especially the slow growing oaks. I'd target any whips that are in danger of getting dragged down in to the mass of bramble and cut around them with a brush hook. Also, anywhere that you can see a bramble root feeding a lot of growth, get in with the brush hook, or billhook for extra reach, and cut if off flush along the ground. That'll hold it back for a year or two, which is all you need to do until the trees get in to their stride and then they'll do the rest. A big bramble clearance I think is unrealistic by the sound of it because even with the best will in the world you'll end up damaging too many of the new trees/whips. Possibly even more than the bramble would take out if left alone.

Maybe better when it goes? Anecdotally, seems to be more warranty claims on them than would be ideal. After all, what's still being made as well as it used to be!

A Scottish/Welsh dispute? Hope the one on the rugby pitch tomorrow is considerably more entertaining.