Benthejockey

There has been a lot of badger cull backlash from the antis in Derbyshire thus autumn. If they'd got hold of names and numbers then it's easy pickings for them to say shooters XYZ threatened to shoot them.

Father in law always takes at least one spare sometimes a couple if he fancies swapping to his 12 instead of his 20. Sent me merrily on my first driven day 3 years ago. Boot full of cartridges and 2 guns. Set up at the first drive, shoot at the first bird that comes over and the top lever pops off the gun! Didn't lose any pieces and managed open and unload it and nip back to the truck without too much interuption. I didn't know any of the syndicate then but I do now and most of them have spare guns too so I would have probably been able to borrow one but it would have been very embarrassing!

I don't get involved in these conversations because it causes too much typing! We are having our liberties taken away not so slowly! Once they finally get hunting finished and they unfortunately will, shooting will be next. And they will come with more bile and venom than ever before because they'll have had their victory. For the most part the police don't want us to have guns and the anti movement is creeping through their ranks like a virus and the same with our politicians. Our organisations try....a bit...to fight our corner bur it's too little too late. If we're still shooting in 20yrs I will be astounded. We're at the ****ty end of the stick and it's only going to get ****tier.

I found a lever! The house is warm! The wife is happier...ish.

I've got a brand spanking new reciever unit for the thermostat that came with the new thermostat when I had to replace the old unit after small hands made it not work any more. It's tempting to swap that over initially as I've got it and won't have to buy a new one! I am leaning more towards it being the valve though. I gave our boiler man a quick ring because I wasn't sure if he was a plumber or a boiler engineer - he only does boilers unfortunately - but he thought it sounded like valve. So when I get home later I'm going to have a look for the manual over ride lever and set the house to HOT for the evening to keep herself happy and then see if I can find a local plumber!

Yeah red hot water as usual

Pretty similar yep.

Sorry gents it's a conventional system not a combi system so what I'm thinking and called a diverter valve probably isn't actually. It's above the pump and there's a little electrical black box attached with a picture of radiators on the left and a tap on the right and I was interpreting this as a diverter valve but it's probably not called that at all!

Yeah I think so because once it all got going and decided to work it got absolutely roasting.

Weve got a good old fashioned boiler and hot water storage tank. The boiler is a Boulton Bolderus and built like a tank. The thermostat is a salus 310rf I think. Now my limited understanding goes like this the heating and hot water are programmed to come on and off at X o'clock. Once the thermostat detects its Z ⁰c where it is it cuts out the flow to the radiators until it drops below the set temperature then opens the valve again. The thermostat does this by sending a signal to a receiver in the airing cupboard. There's a big red Grundfos pump that whizzes the hot water from the boiler round the system. Hopefully thats right. Anyway before the weekend I'd noticed it getting a bit cold and kept nudging the thermostat up when I thought but finally by Friday night it was 16 degrees upstairs and was bloody cold! Flicked the reciever across to manual mode and the boiler fired and everywhere warmed up but obviously there was no temperature control so it got roasting! Fiddled with the on and off times and tried switching back to auto mode today and were back to cold rads again. A flick back over to manual wasn't enough this time to fire the rads. I turned the hit water off for an hour or so on the control box then turned it back on now and the boiler fires up and the whole system seems to have kicked in (I think, I'm huddled under a duvet so I'm warm anyway). So I'm thinking 1 the thermostat is goosed but it's new ish, less than 6 months old, after the last one fell victim to the toddler. 2 the receiver is goosed. That is older but wouldn't be any older than 2004 at the absolute oldest and I think it's nowhere near that old. 3 the diverter valve is ********. 4 the pump is on the way out. Or a combination of a few. I have a replacement receiver it came with the new thermostat. The pump is about £50 from screwfix. But I'm just curious what the PW plumbers think.

Heard a few people blasting away nearby. Birds will be doing about mach 3!

If she doesn't she can always use it to Bury him with 😂

Shes said she's going to make bacon sandwiches in a minute so she definitely wants something! I don't think I've annoyed her yet this morning so hopefully nothing too exciting. I've only just about warmed up from chasing escapee heifers about in the dark last night at work!

Tin sheet off the stable roof. Graciously Mrs BTJ has said I can wait till the winds drop before I put it back on. Very kind of her!

Stick some photos up. The pigeon watch boffins might not know it but there's bound to be someone who could work out what you might need to do.

Surely if an award is for best X and you don't fit into that category you just don't win? You don't shift the goal posts. I genuinely worry for the future generation they're bombarded with so much **** nowadays they don't know if they're a boy, girl or a teapot. The trouble is kids are bombarded with so much stuff and expected to understand adult issues younger and younger and remaining more immature for longer. I remember being 15, I was working a bit, had a girlfriend, school was a piece of cake, life was easy. 15 year old step daughter gets stressed about being stuck in traffic on the way to school because she won't be 10 minutes early. She lives her life in her phone. Nephew was on the verge of a nervous breakdown over his gcse results this time - even though his teachers had marked them and liked him - because he wanted to go to the local 6th form....their criteria is pretty much you have to have a pulse and be able to write your name in pen not wax crayon. Hes going to have a torrid time when he works out he likes boys - everyone else already knows!

We had a new carpet fitted the other week. Bought direct from one of the carpet emporiums - I forget which one because there's only so many shades of beige with pretentious names I can look at before in zone out. The fitter it a self employed chap that has a contract with them to fit their carpets. He got talking to Mrs BTJ about the prices and what not. Apparently the carpets only have to be listed at RRP for a minimum of 6 weeks and can then perpetually be on sale for the rest of the commercial life of that carpet. I'd imagine its the same for most retail stuff it has to be at a higher price for 6 weeks before it's discounted even if the BF discount is less than a previous discount such as @Aledslowcooker.

2019 China man: I'll eat this raw bat dipped in pangolin whats the worse that can happen? 2021 Nasa: Let's play pool with some space rocks minding their own business. What's the worst that can happen? 😂😂

Potentially avoided an accident yesterday! Me and the farmer both had said we were knackered yesterday. Wed just finished dehorning calves and I went to scrape put before coffee time. He always sets the feeder wagon going to mix the silage and corn for the cows and puts it out whilst they're milking after we've had a coffee. I came round the corner to see him climbing off the side of the feeder wagon after fishing something out whilst the pto was turning. I told him to be more careful and he agreed it was because he was tired he didn't think about it.

I've got a 15mm. If you've never used a thermal before it's absolutely incredible. Pick up heat signatures quite a long way out and although you have to work out what it if its a way off you get used to picking up foxes etc. For the money it's very good and without something more advanced (expensive) it's brilliant. I had the unfortunate opportunity to use a new pulsar Helion this autumn for 8 weeks. And to be perfectly honest it knocks the HIK into a cocked hat but it's 2.5X the price! If you're wanting a ratting toy for an air rifle the 15mm is more than enough.

Farmers wife where I do a bit of milking was putting a kick bar on a heifer in the parlour and next thing she knew she was waking up on the floor of the pit. She doesn't know what happened but she ended up in hospital with a nasty concussion and a bog gash in the back of her head. She either slipped or got kicked and fell backwards off the standing ledge 3ft in the air. She was lucky not to catch the ledge on the opposite side. Could have easily been fatal.

I don't get many chances to go game shooting, this was a day from Mrs BTJ's dad, so I try and watch everything I hit or think I ***** so fortunately I watched it all unfolding in slow motion. I was glad I wasn't on the adjacent peg where birds were flying towards where the cars were parked and manage to land one on someone's bonnet 😂

I was on a nice day on Monday first drive I couldn't hit a cows **** with a banjo. Lots of empty cartridges but nothing fell out of the sky. 2nd drive was a much more snap shooting type of drive and more my style and I got my brain in gear and enjoyed myself. 3rd drive I shot a couple of crackers. Stopped for a late elevenses then on to the last drive. They were decent birds and I was back gunning in a dip so they were even higher by the time they got to me. Even an initially average bird was a decent bird by the time it got to me. And they were zooming along. Again I shot a couple of cracking birds including a partridge that was hitching a ride with Jeff Beezos on the way to outer space. Then I shot a hen pheasant coming straight towards me high and fast. Lined up, swung through, 30g of number 5 flew from the end of my 20 bore and made Mrs pheasants acquaintance. Stone dead. Congratulations from my neighbour quickly subsided to look out. She landed stone dead where I would have been stood had I not been watching her and stepped to the left.

The wife had one when I first met her but it was a thin skinned, neurotic, highly bred pedigree dog that wouldn't stand a long walk never mind a good day's work but that bitch looks a cracker! Game as a badger. You shouldn't have much trouble finding her pups a home.

I'm not a hugger! It's coming up to Xmas and there will be hugging and much cheek kissing going around and I just don't like it! I try and position myself out of reach when I sense the impending unwanted physical contact. A good firm hand shake is perfectly acceptable!