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  1. storing logs

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    Just to carry on with the Pallet theme, go to your local Builders Merchant, (I got mine free ) this was work in progress

     

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    Job done, don't forget a big enough overhang or some guttering, don't make them too low, makes it awkward to load and unload

     

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    When checking for the MC (moisture content ) with MC gizmo, take a log and split it, then take a reading from the freshly split face, taking it from the end will give a wrong reading, drier at the end, wetter in the middle

     

    I have 6 stores, each store holds 1.75 m3

  3. cattaracs

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    All you guys that have had Cataracts done, what age are you?

     

    Reason for asking, when I had my eye test for new glasses earlier this year, Optician said I have a very small bit of Cataract in one eye, nothing to be concerned/worried about.

    I'm 64

     

    Brian

  8. EU In or out

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    Just come across this on FB, thought it was worth putting up: in the comments section

    https://www.facebook.com/leaveeuoffi...type=3&theater




    FCO 30/1048: Heath knew it was treason

    This classified government document dated April 1971 remained secret until it was released under the 30 year rule. It proves Heath's government knew the 1972 EEC Treaty would lead to the loss of sovereignty, and was therefore treason. They had a stunningly accurate picture of the EU, which never was the EEC (an Economic Community), expecting Britain to be abolished after the turn of the century.

    The authors, all civil servants or ministers, are very pro EU, their intent is clearly to conceal the loss of sovereignty. But they understood perfectly it would all be abolished.

    In public Heath's government all lied the treaty would not affect our sovereignty. This includes Douglas Hurd, still an active senior Conservative, who is also both a liar and a traitor, a point we put to him at the Conservative Conference in Blackpool. He assured us his connections in the legal profession would ensure he was never convicted.

    Here are just a few of the damning sentences:

    Parliament controlled

    11. Membership of the Communities will involve us in extensive limitations upon our freedom of action.

    For the first time. Parliament is binding its successors.

    Increasing loss of sovereignty

    The loss of external sovereignty will however increase as the Community develops, according to the intention of the preamble to the Treaty of Rome "to establish the foundations of an even closer union among the European peoples ".

    Small threats to sovereignty, like Burgess, Blunt and Maclean's selling secrets to the Russians, attract 30 year jail sentences. The penalty for actually loosing even small parts of it until 1998 was "to hang by the neck until dead."

    King Charles 1st was executed for treason that was, by comparison, relatively minor.

    Lord Haw Haw (“Germany Calling” - William Joyce) was hanged for treason on 3rd January 1946. His efforts on behalf of Germany were tiny by comparison with Edward Heath’s.

    Our law subservient

    12. (ii) The power of the European Court to consider the extent to which a UK statute is compatible with Community Law will indirectly involve an innovation for us, as the European Court's decisions will be binding on our courts which might then have to rule on the validity or applicability of the United Kingdom statute.

    The writ of a foreign power is not allowed under the British Constitution, which Heath was breaking.

    Predicting monetary and military union

    18..but it will be in the British interest after accession to encourage the development of the Community toward an effectively harmonised economic, fiscal and monetary system and a fairly closely coordinated and consistent foreign and defence policy. If it came to do so then essential aspects of sovereignty both internal and external would indeed increasingly be transferred to the Community itself.

    No withdrawal, sovereignty diminished

    22. Even with the most dramatic development of the Community the major member states can hardly lose the "last resort" ability to withdraw in much less than three decades. The Community's development could produce before then a period in which the political practicability of withdrawal was doubtful. If the point should ever be reached at which inability to renounce the Treaty (and with it the degeneration of the national institutions which could opt for such a policy) was clear, then sovereignty, external, parliamentary and practical would indeed be diminished.

    Disinformation

    After entry there would be a major responsibility on HMG and on all political parties not to exacerbate public concern by attributing unpopular measures or unfavourable economic developments to the remote and unmanageable workings of the Community.

    Transfer of the Executive

    24 (ii) The transfer of major executive responsibilities to the bureaucratic Commission in Brussels will exacerbate popular feeling of alienation from government.

    Erosion of sovereignty

    24 (v) ...The more the Community is developed ... the more Parliamentary sovereignty will be eroded. ...The right ... to withdraw will remain for a very considerable time. ...The sovereignty of the State will surely remain unchallenged for this century at least.

    The EU Bureaucracy will rule

    25. The impact of entry upon sovereignty is closely related to the blurring of distinctions between domestic political and foreign affairs, to the greater political responsibility of the bureaucracy of the Community and the lack of effective democratic control.

    The writers understanding of the future of the EU was bang on. They wanted the bureaucracy to take over from the democracy. The loss of sovereignty was desirable for them, legally traitors working deep inside our government.

  9. EU In or out

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    Something else to think on

    http://www.atangledweb.org/?p=62780

    Unelected "people" deciding that a democratic decision (referendum vote) is not to their liking so will be ignored and over ruled

    The "other" side of the Governments dubious propaganda leaflet
    http://leave.eu/news/2016-04-07/why-...aflet-is-wrong

     

    Apologies for the below links

     

    Britain's "Better of IN"!!!!! with friends like these who needs enemies

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/politi...escue-UK-steel



    More migrants anyone?

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/...omic-migration

  11. EU In or out

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    Hopefully UK PLC will be the spanner in the works, and bring the gravy train to a halt, would like to see those involved in trying to ruin this country (taking it into the eu) tried for treason, unfortunately ain't gonna happen

  17. EU In or out

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    Just a few links for you to have a ponder on.

    If Turkey joins and we are still in they will be entitled to get the same as this, with us paying the bill



    This I copied from under the video

    "Viktor Orban, Hungary’s Prime Minister, has told his parliament that Cameron got nothing and reassures them that Hungarians who have not paid contributions will still get UK benefits:"

    “the real debate was about there being benefits which workers do not pay for, but for which they are nonetheless eligible. The question was what should happen with benefits paid to third-country nationals, for which no contributions are paid in Britain. Here, too, we have succeeded in ensuring that these social benefits cannot be taken away… This means that we have even succeeded in protecting benefits which people working in the United Kingdom did not pay for in the form of contributions.”

    More bad news that the EU doesn't want us to know about until AFTER the referendum, in case we learn the truth about what will happen if we should vote to stay IN

    http://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-presses-brexit-hold-button-uk-referendum-campaign-eu-legislation/


    An article on the IN campaigns arguments for staying and the countering of them

    http://thescepticisle.com/2016/03/08/europhile-myths-debunked/#more-2685

    All about getting Britain out
    http://getbritainout.org/

    Taken from the above


    “Not 1 job is at risk from Brexit”

    This was forcibly stated by Lord Digby Jones, the former Director General of the CBI and ex Minister of State for Trade and Investment.

    He observed how Britain will secure a free-trade agreement with the EU immediately following Brexit ensuring no disruption to trade. (Sunday Politics, 31st January 2016)

    This is the FB page to the above link
    Lots of articles in here, you don't need a faceache account to read it

    https://www.facebook.com/GetBritainOut

  18. Dementia

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    My sympathies to the OP, know what it's like.

    Wish your father and you, and your family all the best

     

    I lost my Dad several years ago to this horrible complaint/disease, like several on here had to do a lot of fighting on his and Mums behalf

     

    He was a very clever man, Marine Engineer by trade, Model Engineering was his hobby He built a working model Steam Lorry (about 4ft long and 2ft 6" ish high)

    all out of scrap he got from the breakers yard, making tools he needed the same way, made the condenser by drilling out a solid block of metal with tiny drill bits.

    It took him a long long time,(around 40 years) he started it when I was very young, and finished it (and drove it, sat on it, under steam down the road and back) when he was about 80, about 2 years in to Alzheimer's.

     

    It tore me up when I used to phone him, and the way the conversations got worse over time, to the point where I knew exactly what he was going to say, and how many times he would repeat it. When he was working he was repairing the London River Tugs, so would talk about how they removed the prop shaft, and what they had to do, in a 40 min call, he would repeat that 4 times, Think I could that job blindfolded now :)

    He couldn't remember 5 mins ago, but could tell me in detail about his childhood and life before WW1

     

    I cried when I first saw him in the Mental Health Unit, sat in an armchair looking haggard

    There are lighter moments though, if any of you been visiting in the Mental Health Unit in the Hospital will know how difficult and secure it is to get in and out of, a member of staff to open the inner door, lock it then open the outer door, he got out 3 times. made me smile

     

    Then he was put in a care home, age 87/88, he looked and sounded better there, where he stayed until the end, at 92

     

    Plus side he knew me right up till the end, I visited him about 3 days before he went

     

     

  25. Log burner question - again ?

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    When I light my fire I use a firelighter, a briquette, and a couple hardwood logs, put the kettle on, time its boiled, the fire is going well, chuck some more logs on

     

    I've just bought one of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/Forest-Master-Electric-Splitter-Complete/dp/B00EAOVJGQ

     

    Which you can get a kindling attachment for http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/KINDLING-MAKER-ELECTRIC-LOG-SPLITTER-ATTACHMENT-WOOD-AXE-HATCHET-/310940310597?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item48657c9c45 (if you use kindling)

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