39TDS
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quick question.
I want to build a wall, it will be the gable wall of a garage, 5.5m wide with 2.8 opening for doorway, single storey.
I already have 3 walls and there is a concrete foundation for the wall I want to build.
The concrete level does not fit with the existing courses of brickwork.
My question is, can I lay the first course of brick on edge to give the right height and then build up from them using brick and block to make a solid 9" wall.
If not, what do I do instead to get the right height to tooth into existing brick? 50mm layer of mortar or 30mm slither of solid block or something else?
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I recently bought a Gamo Junior Hunter. Took me a while to find one but glad I persisted.
New, about £100.
This was for my grandson who is 7. He struggled to cock it at first but got the hang of it. A tiny bit big for him when it comes to sighting but he will very soon grow into it and it quite acceptable now.
I know you are asking for used but this would be a new gun for similar money and not so small that an adult can't use it. I wish I had bought myself one at the same time.
6ft/lbs and accurate, with open sights I can shoot them all down the same hole at 12 yards. Only in .177
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I don't think any of you have dealt with Water plus. They take incompetency to a level you could never imagine existed.
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On 02/07/2022 at 20:32, ditchman said:
i cant trace my history as it is so complicated...dont know who's where when..
i used to remember in the late 60's and early 70's i used to see loads of badly disfigured faces on the street in Lynn and in the little villiges not far from where i now live...on a sat night outside a pub near here were always a collection of invalid carriges..some motorised...them light blue ones with a 2 stroke engine and a sliding door and a tee bar for a steering wheel...and wheel chairs with bycicle pedals turned by your arms....and sometimes a wheel chair with 2 levers like a skid steer loader.
they used to meet up and get slaughted and play 3's and 2's....some of them wore black eyepatches semi hiding deep crevices slashed across their face and some wore a black leather glove....they all had limbs missing and the replacments were clonky metalic and wooden....they used to walk like they just got off a boat
me and my mate used to drop in the pub to have a swift half and pick some fags up....it would all go quiet when we walked in...and would only go normal when we left.....we were young and in our teens and thought these miscreants ...criples...were just a fact of life and a pain in the bottom...i wasnt well read at that time and just accepted that there were these people hobbling about and getting in the way..smelling of booze and stale tobacco...they seemed to be everywhere........
it wasnt till many years later i realised thro reading and education ..who they were....they were the remenants/survivors of either the norfolks or the anglian regiments from the 1st world war.........these young lads had been brutlised...ripped apart...slashed ...shot...sharapneled..bayoneted..slashed and infected by barb wire
and they survived.........and to this day im utterly ashamed at the way i veiwed them...everyone of them was a better man than i could ever be....they are all gone now...but i will always remember that time in my life
It was the same up here in Cheshire. The bus route home from town took us past what was a sanatorium for ex servicemen, they generally had bits missing and were terribly disfigured.
Must admit to not giving it much thought at the time, not sure that anybody did because it was just how it was. We weren't there and had little understanding of it and those that were never talked about it so how could we. It is only in recent years that it has dawned on me that they never spoke about is as they spent the rest of their lives trying to forget it. It strikes me how we remember them with the phrase "lest we forget" when I think that is exactly what they wished they could do.
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I seem to have an isolated pocket of rabbits on my land. Plenty of them here but don't see them much anywhere else, not even roadkill.
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3 hours ago, toontastic said:
It was front page news, every news station covered it and there was a petition signed by over 1 million.
And No10 insisted it was the Queens decision and nothing they could do about it.
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5 hours ago, mel b3 said:
I'm planning on living at least until I've seen how many potatoes are in these bags that you lot have talked me into planting 😁
Live life like it is your last day, farm like you will live forever.
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5 hours ago, mel b3 said:
I want to plant , eating apples , cooking apples , walnuts, and now , potatoes 😁 , I won't get much benefit from the trees , but my kids , and grandkids will.
The apple trees I planted 3 years ago had pretty much a full crop on them last year. Unless you are thinking to pop off sometime soon you should see the benefit of them. 👍
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I can see 4 from where I am sitting at my pc. Dozens of them here.
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They really have got you by the b**ls.
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If your intention is to site them permanently (as it appears you do) they are no longer classed as a temporary structure and therefore need planning permission.
Whether or not you would get away with it without permission usually depends on how well you get on with your neighbours or anyone else that can see them.
Containers aren't cheap, I heard of someone asking £5k for one 20' container recently. Shanghai has been locked down and they are in short supply again.
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7 hours ago, jall25 said:
Had a mega run on the foxes '
over 40 so far on our 200 acres
I would be thinking someone is rehoming them if you have had that many.
Do you ever inspect for signs of recent surgery? Rescue places have a habit of fixing them before relocating town foxes into the countryside.
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Depends how fit she was.
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10 hours ago, smokingdragon said:
Bleeding Canadas bred with my Toulouse crosses - offspring are so skitish but do lay eggs.
I'm surprised they haven't flown away.
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Dried cat food is good food for your call bird. I don’t moisten it but there is water available of course.
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Spent a lifetime shooting them as pest control but since I stopped growing veg they don’t do me any harm so leave them be.
Happy to say I have dozens of them. 😊 They are on their third hatch this year (I now hatch isn’t the word, is it litter?)
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They are worth more than £60 just for the devilment of setting them off. They are seriously loud and "much louder than a banger" doesn't really cover it, they are more of an explosion than a bang. They make me jump and I have used loads of them.
Good luck with the sale.
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10 hours ago, 12gauge82 said:
How does someone just getting into farming afford to buy a farm and all the machinery needed. I can't see that ever working?
The theory is more farms come onto the market so someone with a small farm is able to upgrade to a bigger farm and that smaller place gets bought by a newcomer. That is very simplified but it is how it works quite often. Even more often the big farmer buys the medium sized farm to add to his collection and it gets sold before even coming onto the market.
As I said, there is no guarantee it will achieve its aim.
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Nothing sneaky about it at all, it has been well publicised for a long time.
Its purpose is to encourage ageing farmers to sell up in order for the next generation to get a chance of buying some land to farm. The reasoning is sound as many old farmers don't really do a great deal to advance their farming while the younger farmers are more enthusiastic towards farming and food production.
Personally I think it is a good idea but whether it achieves its aims is yet to be seen. Can't see why it should affect shooting in any way whatsoever.
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On 15/04/2022 at 23:26, Lloyd90 said:
Couple that with the lessons learned from previous housing prices crashes, I don’t think the banks etc would let it crash again.
I simply just can’t see another crash.
I wonder how many times that has been said over the decades and aren't the banks the ones usually blamed?
Hopefully there won't be a crash but I think there will. Time will tell and I claim no expertise on the matter.
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5 hours ago, markm said:
Closed bids.
Best way and you can reject the highest if you’re not happy.
Recently sold a house and some land this way and we did reject the highest bid. It was significantly higher than the bid we did accept and was rejected on the grounds we doubted the bidders ability to pay.
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My opinion is that we are on the brink of a major house price crash and I would sell now to avoid that. (doesn't mean I am right but that is my belief)
Selling the house you have lived in (for more than one year) is tax free, selling the house you don't live in will be subject to capital gains. I assume it was valued when you inherited it and I would expect it to be worth more now/in real life. The difference in the two will be taxed at 18% or more. (you would need to check that as being true)
A house that needs modernising is attractive to some, either as developers or a foothold for first time buyers trying to get on the ladder.
Most houses around here sell within days and usually significantly above the asking price. A house nearby went on the market for £1m and sold quick for £1.1m, I doubt your house is a million pound property from what you say but that is the type of thing happening here across the board.
The advantage of auction is the bid is more binding than on open market but you have to have the bidders there to start with. I think speaking to an estate agent (or 3) is the best plan and see what their views are.
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38 minutes ago, Lloyd90 said:
My mate who's allergic to dogs had an issue this week where someone golden retriever ran up to him and was jumping all over him whilst he was in his suit for work. He told the owner to get control of the dog, and the owner just said "don't worry, the dog hairs just wipe off".
I have had very similar myself, also a Golden Retriever as was the one I mentioned above but a different one. I am sure Golden Retrievers can make lovely dogs but in my own experience their owners are muppets that have become so used to their dogs being completely out of control they think it is normal.
Any brickies on here?
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Thank you.
I'll get the mixer out tomorrow. 👍