Jim Neal

Probably a bit late but...You can just open a PDF in word which will convert it. Then it's an editable word document that you can save in whatever format the program allows you to.

A perfect example of moronically guided fake environmentalism. What is the probability that the wood used will not ever rot or burn, for all infinity? Zero.

Ok thanks everyone for your input. Really appreciated. I think I’ll advise as I stated above, I’m not going to get involved in shooting, it’s not really my bag and I don’t have time…. thanks again!

The site manager at our village school is at his wits end with the feral pigeons that congregate on the roof and tower. Apparently the guano is over a foot deep in places 🤮 He asked me if there is any viable active control method I could think of. Obviously shotguns are out. The only shooting I guess is possible would be a low power (?) air rifle but a bit dodgy safety-wise; you'd only be able to shoot in the direction the photo is looking towards, and obviously upwards with no backstop, which takes you over the newer school building roof and to the playground some 200yds back. I don't think it would be wise or achieve anything trying to do that, plus you can't retrieve the birds very easily but that's not really a problem with 50+ red kites visible in the sky at any one time round here! I'd personally look at preventive measures such as meshing the slats on the tower and fixing spikes on perch points, but he seems keen on some sort of culling so I said I'd see if I could maybe locate a local falconer, or at least someone familiar with the sport, to see what they think. Can anyone help? Thanks

Very obvious when you look at Diane Abbott, you just have to put 2 and 3 together to get 4........

The affected plant is on the right. Different angle Seeing the wider pictures of the plant… Would you say my problem is blight? The leaves look fine

I’m amazed that a gent with so many strings to his bow (and candles on his cake 🤪) is a first timer to tomato growing! Looks like you’ve done well, keep doing what you’re doing 🙂 I’ve got a random surprise beefsteak among mine. It was given to us by some neighbours as a seedling, among a batch of five, supposedly three sweet millions and two gardeners delight. The biggest fruit is now approximately 3 inches in diameter. I’ve let that plant go a bit haywire so might end up with half a dozen canes and a mile of twine holding it up!

Pretty sure it's not that. They're against a south facing wall, I normally water first and last thing, but anyway I use a watering can with no rose and just wet the compost. This one is in a manger up on a wall. I don't think it's blight, doesn't look like the pictures I've looked up, the leaves aren't suffering. None of the other seven plants (I miscounted before) are suffering so surely it would spread through them? This plant is in the manger next to a yellow tumbler which is perfectly healthy (albeit being hammered by something which gets to eat them before I do!). I lost my tomato guru (Dad) last year before I'd managed to learn a great deal from him about cultivating tomatoes. So I'm learning on the job by trial and error. I know about nipping off the errant shoots at the junctions, and there's a rule of thumb about maximum 5 fruit trusses per plant, however I was a bit too severe with a couple of this year's when they were quite small, and maybe not severe enough with some others! I'll grab a pic when I get a minute. Thanks all....

I’ve got one out of my five tomato plants with something affecting the skin in the fruit. It’s a tumbling Tom Anyone got any ideas?

Apologies, I'm a bit of a nerd on these things For air-to-air combat, the ME-262 was fitted with four 20mm cannon as standard, although rockets could be fitted and were used, but to a much lesser degree (possibly due to production/materials limitations). They were fired from outside the range of the bombers' defensive machine guns but were not terribly accurate in their deployment. The 20mm cannon shells only needed one in the right place to put an allied bomber in a difficult spot, and a decent bunch of them in the right place saw the plane going down. These were best delivered from a much closer range, but the problem was the closing speed of an attacking jet on a lumbering piston engined bomber was quite significant. The 262 pilots developed tactics whereby they tore down through the bombers from height, from behind. The Mustang pilots escorting the bombers cottoned on to this and used to wait at very high altitude for the 262s to arrive, then would convert height into speed to get on their tails to see them off. A few 262s were maybe shot down but this was probably more of a deterrent. Sources vary, some even dispute this, but it's generally believed that the first recorded victory for the 262 was against a DeHavilland Mosquito which was damaged during the engagement and reportedly crashed and was destroyed, attempting to return to its base. The ME-262 project was (as became typical later in the war) ruined by Hitler's constant meddling and interference. Despite its original design intending it to be an intercepting fighter to take down the enemy bombers, he wanted it put to use as a fast bomber, to pierce British defences and hopefully abate the impending invasion on France. All this did was delay the project and save a lot of lives and planes of the RAF and USAAF who could well have been hit much harder, much earlier. Eventually, Hitler was persuaded to let the Luftwaffe use the plane how it was intended. This was helped by another model of fast jet bomber being brought through the design/prototype stage to satisfy Hitler's demands. The biggest bag of allied planes destroyed from one raid as far as I recall reading about was around a dozen, for the loss of three 262s. Sources for thsi sort ofthing vary greatly. Claims were wildly exaggerated from Luftwaffe pilots towards the end of the war, or more likely the propaganda wildly exaggerated them. The Luftwaffe really was a spent force by the time the jets came into use though. Germany couldn't manufacture the new planes quickly enough and they had virtually run out of any good quality pilots to fly them. The 262 itself killed a fair few of its pilots due to engine failures. Being such a new technology, and with Germany unable to obtain the ideal materials to cope with high fatigue & stress, the engines had to be changed/overhauled something silly like every 10 hours of flight time! I find the ME-262 a fascinating story of what could have been. @TIGHTCHOKE I have no shame admitting when i scrolled to that photo I nearly wet myself because I was unaware there was any airworthy 262 in existence. With it being a replica it's obviously not going to evoke the same emotions as an original airframe, but I must say I have a massive amount of respect for the guys who've built it! I agree, they should have ragged it! After all, if you break it you can spend your next lifetime building another one 😅 Thanks for the pics 👍

Stihl Super or Husqvarna XP (both green colour, the higher performance grades). For the price difference it's false economy using the cheaper stuff. Don't do what I did years ago and run a high performance machine using moped additive which burnt out the piston & pot!

Thanks everyone for taking the time to reply. That's some great advice, I appreciate it 👍 In buying this house, I've inherited a lot of workmanship that's "interesting" to say the least! I'll eventually rent the house out so it will need to pass the recently introduced electrical test - which it won't at present! The biggest nightmare I've got is I'm going to have to lift a load of patio slabs and do some digging, then reinstate afterwards, to run an armoured cable to the outbuildings. The previous owner's attempt at supplying the outbuildings was to run a not very thick twin & earth spurred off the house ring main, inside a plastic conduit, just below surface, which I put a garden fork through the first time I dug the weeds up in the flower bed by the house! To be fair it runs a fridge, freezer, 4 strip lights, battery chargers plus whatever else I'm using and it hasn't caused fireworks yet.....

I'm sick of buying flimsy rubbish from DIY shops & screwfix etc etc that doesn't work properly and fails after 6 months. I need to renew some outdoor lighting and wondered if anyone could recommend somewhere to purchase from that's not rubbish quality. I'm looking for a corner PIR detector, standard PIR, a few standalone manually switchable lights, that sort of thing. Thanks!

"Take it off of there" My mrs says "off of" and now my young son does too. It drives me potty.

You must have very thick fingers 🤣 Sorry can't help on the barrow front