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  1. your ok now add a bbq and you are golden
  2. cant post a link rock and blues weekend Derbyshire next weekend custom bikes rat rods etc about 1/2 hr north of derby from Thursday evening onwards a neighbour rattled my cage rock and blues and a burger living the dream
  3. history has good and bad in it to remind us not to repeat bad daylight robbery come from taxes on the size of windows in thatched cottages usually two very small ones while the aristococarcy lived in grandeur huge everything my grandparents in Ireland on both sides lived in thatch cottages until the 70s and after inc out side privy and water from a well worked hard manually every day to survive as subsistence farmers running water in house was unbelievable to either grandmother cold i dont read and right verry well was not through lack of trying the rest of my family got it i just got beaten more and more every day while grandfather could copper plate wright coach me and wrote beautifully i didnt get it not stupid good with my hands and can figure things out but beaten every day school was not a pleasant experience for me dyslexic was i wrong or teachers who couldnt help me who can only read a book but i can build the house they live in and possibly repair the car they drive and what doesnt work in their home i can fix who was stupid nowadays help is available (so from history we have learned ) the good or bad can be improved history is a reminder learn and go forward when so called students who protest who affords the lifestyle from overseas or daddy while others work their buts off it frustrates me soon we will be bllllaaah history will begin at the snowflakes birth self important gob****es an irish word and unless they are called out on their **** or told to **** off if they dont like it you come here to learn
  4. if in doubt pop the sump off about 10 min clean all the junk out with parafin or jizer or similar and a scraper check pickup pipe and strainer is clean and if not remove and clean refit new filter and cheap oil run it up hot drain and redo filter and good oil you should be good the diesel side clean tank pipes taps etc and new filters water wrecks injectors
  5. add a baffle to the back and side to direct grain similar to a fertilizer spreader
  6. battery angle grinder would be my go to if a lot to do or a KNIPEX 200mm Steel Fixers End Nipper Twist Cutting Cutter Wire Plier,KPX-6801200 4003773011699 | eBay i use both
  7. I'm Irish we normal stay with mother and buy grub and a meal or two out for hosts extended family included Ireland has usually double the uk re cost of a holiday i have just been looking possible break for her indoors in September off peak sweet mother of god Ireland inc travel is half the price inc ferry to trot up and down the shannon on a boat for a week fishing go to Galway city not to mention b and b even cheaper i have just been looking at holidays whitby to norfolk devon to barmouth 4 nights self catering again sweet mother of god 5star would be cheaper we are not sun worshipers i like to explore old buildings arcetecture history steam ralleys muckelborough collection etc and similar mrs fed up aft a day on the beach wants to explore what was ยฃ600 last year is now ยฃ1800 for 4 nights what are they going to do next year when the uk tourist can go anywhere remerging being ripped off at home my daughter two nights camping 2 person tent ยฃ130 was 30 quid 12mts ago you can only rip someone off once holiday gazumping is now popular then your on your own home grown holiday industry has ripped off home grown support instead of promote it in tough times they will pay dearly in the future rip people off they can buy a holiday cheaper anywhere else next year good luck to the uk holiday industry what a disaster so much to see and do here and explore rip off Britain im not going anywhere this year mrs and i will have days out i shouldn't doubt a uk holiday next year and the years after will be a struggle to sell anything good luck
  8. they do put the steering wheel on the right side were about years ago a bit underpowered however driven right could hold their own used to wrote like a pear but at 12k its less than depreciation on other vehicles in 3 yrs
  9. he kissed a college with a bit of grab **** thrown in implied affair media beat it to death there are two families involved in this his wife and kids her husband and kids are victims it may have ben innocent or not and yet the media run the country labour dodd if you want election stop being a spitfull corbanite sort your own house out with hate speak tell us what you can do you are a whiner after the event nothing posative i could never vote for labour with spitfull ******** who whine tell me wgat you are going to do and do it borris said he did and wants to do more has my vote build it they will come without building the country is on its knees the knock on helps everyone labour cant fix spitfull bitch and whine anti Semitism hate speech so if borris keeps his **** together he will win stama is a whiner after the event i want the best for the country going forward not party
  10. i know of nurses denied time off and eat an orange do a test two weeks off with pay go figure and they are not at home and holiday pay is still there when needed its ripping the ****
  11. Dave thank you being dislexic have read some of the basc blurb and got lost not stupid it takes so long to read and understand inc re reading you highlighted points of interest i agree with behind the scenes paid or voluntary and after dark predator control cover crop cost and plantation inc the benifits to ground nesters and other species thrive because of good management in the past have had a chat with connor o gorman not dumb it down but bullet point still lacking many shoot clays many shoot pigeon many shoot all game and vermin etc and yet none support each other why divided we fall if you chip away at at a massive tree it will fall
  12. birch tar soap works a treat Natural Russian Birch Tar Soap Antiseptic Acne 140gr Original Nevskaya Kosmetika 4600697101934 | eBay it has a waft a bit like old carbolic soap
  13. if you are working in a venerable community a jab needed well bodied maybe asymptomatic remember typhoid Mary to protect others jab and jab
  14. hs 2 is coming right through our area inc Stoneleigh showground Warwick uni a46 new junctions that i know of some outsiders and a few insiders protest Cubbington woods cur through not cut down the majority in the area more jobs good pay ๐Ÿ‘ other business ๐Ÿ‘ independents mots ๐Ÿ‘ car servicing ๐Ÿ‘ food๐Ÿ‘ fuel๐Ÿ‘ too hire ๐Ÿ‘ heavy plant ๐Ÿ‘ concrete suppliers ๐Ÿ‘ timber merchants ๐Ÿ‘ on site full breakfast ๐Ÿ‘ other builder suppliers of a national importance to builders what you want we have all the big names to supply the gravy train and ****** everyone else in the last 30 years i have only used independent or family businesses a mutual respect and help / work with each other or i walked away i dont need an account to spend money never did no one getting ripped off i barter a price on the counter even on 70% discount still 25% dearer than independent supplier they are worried re supplies getting guinn cement from ireland "ยฃ4.25 a bag and rugby cement works is 15miles away cant supply for 6mts ยฃ6. 25 now i cant even get a price list for materials as going up every delivery 40% in two weeks my labour cost is the same as before covid materials you supply or reimburse inc standing time while you make your mind up or indecision it costs you money its not getting cheaper or change your mind it costs you more money my labour costs are the same materials is anyone's guess i cant call this one after 40 yrs go now and pay or wait a year or two for all to settle i dont know its getting stupid so mark my words in two years its tits up time
  15. Saltings

    Cam netting

    glad to help looks good
  16. you can remove doors blender panels plinths etc and have them resprayed to any colour or limed to lighten you will need someone who sprays furniture / timber as methods and paint is different than bodywork there are companies who do this kind of work
  17. i like unusual hand crafted one offs all of the above got my attention ๐Ÿ‘
  18. i am a farmers son we never did intensive anything and i agree with you we produced quality not quantity some 40 + years ago pissy pork yellow eggs rubber meat flavourless chicken rotten veg in two days the big four have made **** produce acceptable not to mention fish farmed where ever fish called Scottish inc Aberdeen angus beef they are a rare breed we dont have that many in the country its BS i hunt i kill but i would not inflect suffering on anything or want a substandard product imported from overseas packaged in norfilk for xmas with the red tractor symbol a farmers market local produce seasonal produce with foraging or an allotment you can live like a king wool is a bi product leather the same animals are kept for their value and a lot of ground cant support anything other than animal the soil is not good enough and scar felt pike does not lend itself to arable produce so farmers have to diversify to live criticise when you live the life and walk in their shoes two pay checks a year **** or bust when you get one every week or month a regular pay check determines a lot you can have holidays meals out have jollies follow the football overseas this cant be done on a farm family security food and education if i am wrong and im not try farming try working with supermarkets i lived the life inc subsistence living a regular paycheck is a godsend farmers have to diversified a couple of years ago bambi farming / ostrage farming / alpaca farming / milk produced for less than cost as prics held down to 11p a litre the butter the cream taken off and low fat milk ยฃ1.30 for 2 pints about a liter we called white water worth nout buttermilk had a value we made bread with it soda bread / brown bread dont knock any food supplier blame the supermarkets any Asian community will sell meat or veg fresh cheaper than any supermarket and home grown i now shop there for a better produce quality most of the lamb is irish veg home grown if i have gone off on one forgive me i like good food i dont like someone ******* on my back and tell me im sweating green foods from overseas under a heat lamp for colour and in the bin within two days rotten 40years ago we didnt have this problem food lasted weeks without fridge or freeser we had neither
  19. a mates dad when i was a nipper they always swarm on a hot day you can hear the hive early doors when they swarm spray them with water every hour or two and in the evening put them another hive they wont leave if its going to rain
  20. i have only used normal flour / brown or white bicarb of soda is bitter hence sugar to sweeten up put some in a live catch trap at about 7am caught about two hrs later dead it works other animals and chucks are safe i live outskirts of cov takeaways macy d burger k kffc inc neighbours bird tables etc a neighbour opposite and i use said concoction and it works and fast shop bought they have to eat for about a week and get immune the concoction once job done had a problem not ant more
  21. mrs banned 303 oil 30yrs n ago it stiinks edds red has saved a marriage it dont stink and does the job everyone happy no dramas
  22. carcases are carcases 18mm or going back to the 70s 15mm as shed diy are doing now cheap junk chipboard compaction quality is also junk 18mm chipboard compaction is better quality if it looks smoother rather than orange peel finish in the sunlight its better quality its the bling bits on the front you have to choose carefully re quality and drawer boxes metal frame and solid base or cheap junk getting a replacement door in two years dew to shrink wrap failure from sheds impossible not interested companies who supply the trade have a good rep i have replaced doors dew to failure of bonding and delaminating of wrap ( not solid wood ) 12 yrs after fitting no dramas if it looks good without a badge it is and pay way way more for a designer badge its all bought in from different suppliers / manufacturers and the fitter puts it all together been there done that many many times you could always look on evil bay face ake book somebody removing a 30k kitchen now 1k or less work out what you need 60% may fit and look the dogs danglies grannet tops can be cut to fit and joined to suit your needs good luck if in doubt get in touch pm your number what takes me hours to write i can explain in minuets
  23. the irish post and the connact tribune has a different take on this
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