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  1. Simply check the regs for sheds under permitted development. If you can put a good sized shed then I’d just put them in and clad them.  As long as you stick to 20ft and don’t go high cube then it should be fine.  Personally we don’t get condensation issues in ours and we deal with a lot of auctioneers who park them up and store antiques in them so I wonder if they already have a coating to reduce it.  They do make a good secure unit though

  2. On 23/04/2022 at 09:46, nabbers said:

    No thats the next step,  It was my decision, rightly or wrongly to hold.  I wanted to try her on anti biotic for the suspected urine infection first and initially it did appear that was the case.  I had another dog in the past, same age with the same symptoms and that turned out to be a urine infection.    

    I’ve got one that’s getting close as well, to my mind a little incontinence is to be expected with age.  My old girl does wee in the house at times and we thought it might be an infection as well. She seems to have shaken it off and it’s now a rare event.  She potters about and does a morning walk fine but slightly senile.  I’m glad I have a thermal as you let her out in the garden in the evening she just disappears and would stay out. 
    Eats like a horse but is getting thin but not suffering, when she is we will do the right thing.  So basically you give them a chance and I wouldn’t do more than anti biotics for an ancient dog 

  3. 10 hours ago, Vince Green said:

    I don't think the Tories have done badly at all. Boris is a Marmite figure I know but they have had so much to deal with and none of it was of their making. A perfect storm in many ways and its not over yet by any means. I think they handled it pretty well considering all that has happened. Not perfect I agree but we survived this far. 

    Can you imagine if Labour had won the last Election we would have had Corbyn as Prime Minister and Dianne Abbott as home secretary . Terrifying prospect and if they were in power today we would be sending aid to Russia and pulling out of NATO

    Starmer is ineffectual and Raynor just an opportunist. Who can think of a labour politician you would trust to run a chip shop? They are all people who went into politics because it beats working for a living. A soft touch 

    Most Conservative politicians could earn considerably more outside politics, there is the defining difference 

    I’m the same way of thinking, Boris is a little marmite but I quite like him.  For a PM you have to wonder how much more can get thrown at him and you can’t magic up an answer to pandemics and Russians

  4. 9 hours ago, Mungler said:


    Fair play to them. Mind you, they won’t be moaning in 10 years time that they can’t buy a house.

    Another life lesson is to find a wife / partner who will pull with you in the same / right direction - it doesn’t half make it all a lot easier. They don’t teach that either in school 😆

    Isn’t that the truth! Mine came with her own house and we’ve always bought improved/extended and moved increasing our pot while her cottage has been rented out, we’ve had the lot but it’s always been through an agent. In our case the main reason being with an agent and this is sticking my head up in this one is that she is a council housing officer….. So sees it all. We currently have an ok one and haven’t rocked it with any increases for ages but we also haven’t changed tenants every 18 months which we were doing.  

    what I would add on the original topic is try talking to the council, quite often the people concerned are being a nightmare on that side as well and there are funds they can clear arrears from to keep the people off their doorstep, 

  5. On 04/02/2022 at 23:25, team tractor said:

    I use the pump at Bp locally . It’s no dearer . 
     

    I was told to avoid ad blue that’s stored outside as it damages it  
    Im a joiner tho not a mechanic 

    We had a 2k bill on our lorry after a driver filled it from a container bought at a small petrol station, no idea if it’s down to outside storage but made us more careful where it was obtained! 

  6. 19 hours ago, button said:

    What tax breaks are those? BIK is based on emissions and P11D value, based on both pick ups don't score too well! While I like my L200 I won't be sad to see it go this year! Neither will my wallet!

    The one that classes them the same as a van.  Mine costs me £60 a month or there abouts and that’s far cheaper than most cars…..

    as for being a Gardner with one if you have the space just buy an ifor Williams trailer with ramp and cage sides and you are good to go.  

  7. I’ve been impressed with the toyo open country at. The tyre place we use at work recommended them and so far over 20k they look hardly worn.  What’s even better is economy is very nearly the same and the price they are massively less than the bfg’s 

  8. 8 hours ago, Stonepark said:

    The problem is that Western Governments have not been undertaking any other treatments than "vaccination", letting people die than use off the shelf inexpensive treatments of which Ivermectin is one as it invalidates the Emergency Use Authorisation for the "vaccines".

     

    India dosed it's population with Ivermectin and brought their Delta variant to a halt within 6 weeks or so, as did Peru and a number of other countries.

     

    It mainly works by in the period between initial symptoms and before onset of the respiratory difficulties caused by the cytokine reaction.

     

    The media potyray it is as a horse wormer to denigrate it, however Pfizer's new super 'treatment' uses the same method of action but is within patent.

     

    Tell me why you think dosing yourself with an mRNA product that is not fully trialled, deadly to some. (myocarditis and pericarditis), with adverse reactions to many (Covid symptoms), needed every three months for life, causes lower 'Nucleocapsid' antibodies and does not stop transmission or infection, and for which vaccine companies have no liability, and both Western Governments are relying on secret contracts to shield from Freedom of Information on the vaccine contents and safety data is a good idea?

    At least you will know you won’t have worms.  I believe India stopped the trial as it wasn’t shown to be beneficial but I’m sure you will have some dubious web source that will suggest otherwise

  9. On 15/12/2021 at 23:06, Stonepark said:

    Again Lies, Dam Lies and Statistics, this includes the period when there was no vaccinated population, no supposed Covid19 immunity, so the Unvaccinated figures might be representative of the data collected but only because they have stretched the period over such a long time, however they are not 'true' or representative of those who were hospitalised for Covid and not for unrelated or underlying conditions..

     

    Breaking down the 33,496,  it is likely 33,200 were in hospital for Non-Covid reasons.........

     

    Figures over the last few weeks give a very different answer..... and even those numbers are suspect as it is not clear what they actually went into hospital for......... nor do they show how long they stayed, what treatments they had or could have had had we competent doctors etc (could Ivermectin have prevented an overnight stay) etc etc etc

     

     

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    You were arguing well till you mentioned one word.  I’ve a driver who is anti vax and he used the same one.  I struggled to take him seriously after he wouldn’t get vaccinated but was willing to take effectively worm tablets bought off the internet to prevent a bad case of covid.

    The main thing I am interested in is does the jab reduce transmission as well as reducing the risk of a bad case of covid.   A lot of evidence seems to suggest it does

  10. I’m glad to see some sense has come up in this thread. It’s not unusual especially if both are bitches and size is the real issue.  You have to stamp on this kind of behaviour and manage it.  Feed separately and get right on top of the aggressor. It certainly isn’t a sign of aggression to children and family members 

  11. Not much has come out of it. We did a fairly large move of artwork for a jolly up there, it appears the next round of Willy waving will be the next world economic forum in davos, 

    just been quoting for the same art collection to go out there for a week while they party and jet in and out and tell the rest of us how to clean up the planet……..

  12. On 23/11/2021 at 10:27, lakeside1000 said:

    Thankyou all so far, very useful comments, my own research seems to indicate the Navara and Hi Lux as the top two options, now I just need to find a decent one 👍😁

    At 10-12 years be very very careful if you go down the Navara route. That age are well in the rusty chassis side and Nissan bought so many back after the chassis failed. They have stopped doing it now so if you have a problem then basically you have a scrap vehicle. Hilux’s are fine but expensive 

     

    Stumpy that is our findings as well, never had it mentioned but then the pickup is fairly new and not a work vehicle in the tree surgeon sense…..

     

  13. 2 hours ago, Tonka54 said:

    Yes that's true, any pickup will tow a caravan, but there are certain caveats to think about, such as GVW restrictions, suspension bounce and caravan chassis damage due to the trucks harder suspension, caravan nose load etc. etc.

    It is also a fact that many private and CCC affiliated caravan sites will not allow commercial tow vehicles onto their sites, one of the reasons for this is the lightness of the rear end of a pickup truck naturally reduces traction on grass sites that are wet, this same problem can also manifest on wet roads and roundabouts.

    then there is also the fact that some caravan manufactures will void any warrantee if it is found that a defect or damage was likely caused by the use of a pickup tow vehicle, also, some caravan insurance companies frown on pickup's as well.    

     

    Have you had a pickup and a caravan?

    We have for the last 10 years or so, never been pulled up for being a commercial vehicle mine isn’t sign written but it’s never been mentioned. Never struggled due to weight in the back as you gain some from the nose weight and it’s never unloaded when towing the caravan as so much travels in the back. Traction on roundabouts is ridiculous you just don’t find it an issue, if you do you are really towing badly.  
     

     

  14. Ok so if you had a dog chased a hare and nearly ended up on a road and you got hold of it scruffed it and shouted a few things at it but you just had the last bit filmed and then your name put out there, your address and we’re suspended from work and started getting death threats due to trial by media would you think it was justified?  
     

  15. It’s odd on here how people believe footage from an anti organisation and don’t wonder what preceded it or was edited out.  You have a junior school teacher and a female who is into her horses loosing the plot with one.  Did it refuse to box, had it just bitten her what had happened to get this reaction??? I know having been bitten by a couple of these that it is one of the more painful things that can happen to you.   It looks bad on film but what caused it should be the main question like most I’ve seen worse done by good dog trainers on shooting fields just most haven’t been filmed when it’s happened

  16. 19 hours ago, Mungler said:

    I bought a single up and over lock up garage for about £6k in 2014. The garage came with a battered 300SL Merc in it which I immediately sold to a mechanic friend for about £5k.

    I could rent the garage out but I don’t - I store building materials, pallets of amtico and I let a friend’s dad (a now retired plumber) store the residue of his tools and materials in there and he in return maintains it, does odd plumbing jobs for free and was kind enough to sell me his work van when he retired for £1500 (a 1 owner from new Toyota HiAce with full main dealer service history and about 200k on the clock).

    The garage is now worth somewhere between £10k and £15k and the van twice what I paid for it - Ive recently lent the van to a painter and decorator who blew his van up in the heavy rain when he drove through a flooded road, in return for him painting my buy to let in Felixstowe for £100 a day. The Dulux trade paint he is using I bought in bulk off someone on Facebook market place and collected it in the same van.

    None of this is remotely linked to my real day job 😆

    I would urge anyone with premium bonds to stretch their thinking a little further when it comes to doing something better with their money.

    You are sounding more and more like Arthur Daley…….

  17. I went with google nest for ours.  It makes a massive difference control wise. I fitted it to our system and it was relatively straight forward.  I say relatively as it’s daunting as hell when you see the mass of wires and lack of colour coding that seems usual in heating systems. I had a wall thermostat but opted to use the nest one on a stand so it can be moved about as the old location isn’t ideal.  So far I haven’t taken the old one out of the circuit but just left it turned to max. 
    Function wise I haven’t left it to it’s own devices yet but it knows when you leave the house etc so can revert to eco settings when you are out and things like that. 

  18. On 30/10/2021 at 12:45, Wilts#Dave said:

    Absolutely love my series 5 l200…..I’m not saying a Hilux might be better made, but they’re 10k more for the equivalent. 
    The 4wd system alone makes it the perfect shooting truck, but with all the creature comforts you expect in a nice car.
    Real shame they won’t be making any more in my opinion. 

    The series 6 though looks like a backwards step, less power and all the eco gubbins looks to be making them less reliable.  My series 5 has been my best one yet

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