LeadWasp

On a more serious note, apart from the fact that they are dangerous because they know no better I'd feel really very sorry for the poor N Koreans. More victims in this pointless agression.

It pays to be carefull with radio messages (the old 'send three and fourpence')...but for a burst of static the Russians would have found out that it was crack one off troops they were being offered 😇

He may well mean the parcel courier bombs and the scent of Nina Ricci comrade Pushkin.

Europe has a population of around 740 million and a GDP 8-10 times greater than Russia. If Europe can't step up then it does it deserve a happy ending?

We gave our old heavy lumps away. Rapid, further, agile, more productive and geographically unpredictable are current trends for 'heavier' equipment in the age of systems like Excaliber. Perhaps another layer is about due for the survivability 'onion'. If you must be there don't be where you were a minute ago! Archer is a classic example. The 14 systems are more than an equivalent for the 20 functioning AS90's we donated. We also gave our life expiring stuff away too. Of course none of this is important to those with tendencies towards vassalage.

Note to Putin (and others) - very few dictators live to old age. Their demise is usually painful, humiliating and terrifying for them.

Programming is no different to assembling so we crossed that particular Rubicon 2 years ago. Putin's logic constructs an argument that N Korea Iran and China are targets too now therefore...N Korean and Iran will probably get off on that idea whereas China is the adult in the axis of evil. Trump is a bully like Putin so fundamentally a coward. You could see that cowardice in his meeting with Biden (as in so many actual meetings with people he's previously been vile about). A coward's settlement won't ultimately end in peace.

Of course it's an inconvenient truth that most of that money is spent on US arms in the US. Don't forget that everytime Ukraine fires a shell the Scranton plant makes some money and an employee has another dollar to buy a MAGA cap to shade their eyes from reality. https://www.foxnews.com/video/6350087993112 for example.

Is your land agriculturally rated for planning purposes? If it's not in production could it be classed as set-aside? You won't be able to used red around stables/livery yards or anything horsey other than fodder production.

If the OP meets the requiremetns he won't be 'dodging tax', simply avoiding it as the law allows. Most people practice tax avoidance throughout the year - it is lawful and not immoral. When someone factors, for example, car tax into a choice of purchase that is a form of tax avoidance. Savings, inheritance planning and so on are all forms of lawful (and sensible) tax avoidance. Tax evasion is another matter and increasingly these days people are almost deliberately confusing the two. If someone has a tractor, classed as Agricultural and thus zero rated for road tax the law allows them to use red diesel for agricultural or forestry purposes provided they meet the categories shown in this article. https://www.fwi.co.uk/machinery/red-diesel-rule-changes-hmrc-spells-out-dos-and-donts

As long as you are using the machine for agricultural purposes you are entitled to use red diesel. Making hay? That's agriculture so you'd be fine. The biggest problem is finding red now that plant hire places have stopped carrying 20l cans because construction equipment can't use it. If you have a tank which can take a minimum 500l delivery by tanker then you're OK...or a friendly local farmer.

Hey there, hope all is well your end 👍. Miss those Catton days, not sure when Senny will be up and running but I'm keeping the faith. To keep this on thread 😇 what happened to your mega field stove - last I saw it in Eskdalemuir it was pumping some heat out with a tempting stew on top!?

This might be of interest - hot off .gov.uk. Details arrangements for protected sites and a variable rota for the disconnection of load blocks. Hope for level 1 not level 18. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/electricity-supply-emergency-code your block letter is normally at the top of your electricity bill. There is some good news though to offset our woeful shortage of hydrocarbon storage and refinery capacity in this country: With the usual far-sightedness of our elected representatives (regardless of party), having failed to stump up maintenance costs for the Rough field gas storage facility in 2017 (about 70% of UK gas storage ability) ministers have now **** themselves enough to give the nod for Centrica to reopen it. In 2017 showing their in-depth understanding of geopolitical influences officials at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said they were neither surprised nor worried by the loss of Rough, arguing that the market had coped well without it over the past year. Also Stublach (used to be Byley? - they keep renaming these sites) is now fully on-line I think https://www.hydrocarbons-technology.com/projects/stublach-gas-storage-project/ I'm not sure of this site's relationship to the former GPSS oil storage site just to the SE of Plumley - it may be the same site as the whole area between Byley and Plumley is riddled with hydrocarbon storage facilities. I know there was an oil recovery project at the GPSS site which might have cleared the way for the caverns to be reused for gas. Basically the idea was to recover a huge tonnage of old oil stored since the '50's I believe and to try to process it. The project has been halted now. https://www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/11706894.construction-work-at-oil-storage-site-set-to-begin-this-month/ http://csorp.net/

By coincidence the Beeb played out this scenario during 2017 in Haslemere of all places. Some sensible observations in here about slowing spread by simple handwashing, controlling spreaders and so forth. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p059y0p1

Thanks for the steer - I had seen these but didn't know much about them, so useful to have a 'user experience' so to speak. Like you I'm looking for something light I can walk all day in.......