Thule 591/592 will work fine. I used to clamp my kid’s Isla 14″ to a 591, clamped one wheel and strapped the other to the bar bit with a cam strap

rossburton yes that scene, but it doesn’t seem to be that episode. Just scanned through it on 4od

I’d make sure you don’t drive, don’t use fossil fuels and don’t eat any food grown non-organically or transported by pollutive means before worrying about a bit of weedkiller!

Less than 2% of the UK land area is private garden. If 30% of those use weedkillers, on 20% of the area of their garden, what impact is this having on insect numbers?

Is anyone who sits down for a living (drivers) really an athlete?!

I can’t stand the pole vaulter Holly Bradshaw. She’s a dour-faced grump who can’t even decide for herself if it’s too windy to jump (looks at her coach away in the stand to tell her when to jump between gusts).

I cut hedges Jan-Dec, though if I saw a nest I’d not disturb it. Spend any time on the gardeners world facebook group and you’d think it was illegal to touch a hedge in spring. That and use weedkiller!

Thing is, Simon, you can’t guarantee reliable motoring at that age of car, and I’ve no time or interest in visits to the garage so want to minimise the risk!

Aren’t Audis and VW money pits to maintain?

Drawn towards Ford’s here, SMax, Grand CMax and Mondeo hatch.

Fraz I’ve done Binnein Mor twice. Once was the same, blown on our asses on the saddle. Secnd time was one of the most glorious days on a bike I’ve experienced and the views were amazing.

One of the best hills I’ve been on with a bike.

How did you get on?

The mountains above the trails mentioned offer FAR superior rides, and you can still finish off on those daft trails at the end

What about those with big rocky technical descents? 😎

The rear mount bolt is 12.7mm so there’s no space for a bush sadly, plus I don’t think it would provide enough clearance even if there was.

I’m reading that some coils (e.g. fox) may be 52mm outside diameter so maybe a coil shock would work. Looking in to it!

Greg, did you get the MX20? I’m looking at it for boy’s birthday in May.

I’ve genuinely thought about binning the bike, such is my “can’t be arsed with this”-edness! Thanks, I’ll try some of the above. I’ve got a 4000psi commercial jet washer, I’ll probably end up blasting it to kingdom come in anger!

In publisher, insert picture, when the picture has just been inserted go to picture tools, recolour, set transparent colour. Click the white background… that’s it. Too easy really.

Of course you can properly sear on an induction hob… it’s just slightly different.

My uncoated Judge has been going for years and looks good as new.

Snowmageddon…. is THAT what the BBC means when it says 20% chance of precipitation then?

Healthy grass doesn’t need fertiliser 4 or more times a year and a dozen mechanical treatments to keep it artificially green and cut way shorter than it should be to maintain a strong root zone!

Golf courses aren’t good examples of healthy grass though!

I only cut my back lawn about 8 times a year! It lools great and is perfect for the kids. The front is kept slightly long and stripe cut maybe 15 times a year. I won’t need to do it until April. My clients lawns start on 9th March though

Skeleton’s a race? I thought it was just a lie down between proper sports…

Elise Christie WHIT?!?!

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Berlin’s probably one of the worst places in Europe to do a British stag do it unless you are a group of uber cool hipsters. The locals have zero tolerance for ‘ladish’ behaviour.

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That’s total balls, and possibly only applies if you’re a group of absolute neanderthals without a dozen brain cells between you. I had my stag in Berlin, 10 of us, and it was epic. And we didn’t stop drinking.

The bus bar in Kreutzberg isn’t there any more so I’m told. The amount of small hidden away bars that were welcoming and served superb beer was just staggering. We had an awful but great night in the karaoke bar in the high rise car park. We got into Tresor no problem and it was worth flying to Berlin for alone. Segway tour with a chap from London guiding us, his stories were cracking.

We stayed at a huge youth hostel. Got back one morning at 3am, lights on in the room, a load of drunk pish and banter, got to sleep and a wee while later saw 3 wee girls that had been sleeping/hiding in 3 of the empty bunks slink off out the room, I guess hoping to find somewhere less sweaty and stinking to sleep for the night, poor things!

I came back from Berlin a lover of Techno and get a warm cosy feeling at the thought of going back there again one day for some hardcore drinking. We ended up in so many little cool pubs. I guess we are a cool bunch after all!

I’d feel safer with a diy swing than a shop made one, given the corners they cut to produce things cheaply.

Yes, I built this on it’s side then tilted it up. But holy mnackerel was it a task and a half! I couldn’t lift it on my own and didn’t have help other than my feeble wife, so her job was to shove things under the brace as I deadlifted it a few inches at a time. Eventually it started to get high enough that the weight lessened and I got up a platform ladder to heave it more. All seemed fine until it decided to do a twirl onto one end and take me with it! Injury averted though and I got it into place, used ground anchors screwed down into the turf and built the slide platform once the swing was done.

For the price of ready built ones I;d definitely suggest DIY. If you spent the £600 and a few days work you could have something stupendous that none of the other kids will have!

I’ve just built a pond and bridge where that photo was taken from, and this summer I hope to do a climbing wall on the side of the slide platform. I cut down a 40ft pine near the house and left a 7ft stump which I’ve screwed little branch stubs onto as climbing holds. It’s definitely a kid’s garden!

Can you DIY? The crossbar of ours is 11ft from the ground, it’s a beast, made with 4″ 3.6m posts, stainless hardware and bought swing seats/chain.

Cost worked out about £250 all in, including the second hand 3m slide, paint and bits of wood for the platform and ladder to the slide. I expect this will outlast us, and it’s certainly a far sturdier structure than any of the ones in my customer’s gardens.

I hate decorating with a passion, painting anything in fact. And sanding stuff.

But building things using wood… yes please! I’ve done a nice gate, a stud wall, a door and frame from scratch to fit the stud wall, a behemoth of a swing set, currently doing a bridge over the pond. Various shelf units and the like. Those wooden structures will be there to enjoy and function for decades.

Painting the outdoor ones every couple of years though… shoot me!

£360/day for 2 bathroom fitters sounds ok. I’m a gardener and that’s a familiar figure for me, on my own, working 8-4 in the summer.

For what it’s worth i have bought 6 fruit trees and about 300 bare root hedge planta from Scot Plants in the past year and not one has died.

Whereabouts are you?

I’ll put in at least two cross braces to stop the twisting, it’s something I hadn’t thought about before.

We still don’t know what type of hedge you’ve got?

What tools will you use to keep it trim? A pole trimmer makes it quite easy. And what species is it?

A 7ft hedge is quite a bit more effort to trim than a 6ft one.

I assume it’s already converted?

Can you crawl into the eaves space? I’m going to be doing the same in my attic room, and will crawl back there with some kind of insulation and screw it over the joists rather than try and fit it between them.

It’s a 2ft deep pond. Big enough for some smaller shark species, but no great whites or hammerhead.

I’ve decided to keep the bottom flat but arch the top side either end down to 180mm. So a very shallow arc and there should be plenty strength in there.

It’ll all be getting painted with exterior paint before being assembled.

Cheers

I know keeping it straight will be more functional, but curves would make the bridge look so much better! I may cut the bottom curve out then glue and screw it to the top, so at least the load gets more spread out and the overall height of the joist is a bit more.

That says “the imposed load will not exceed 1.5kN/sq.m”. How does that relate to the weight of someone standing over a 30cm section of the joist? Or two people standing over 1m of it?

I’ve left mine alone at 4 for 10-15 mins while I’m in the (attached) garage, when i know he’s settled with a cartoon. The baby at 1 I’ve left for 5 mins if i have to run to the shop while she’s sleeping.

Terrible father that I am

I was gifted some of this from the continent and boy did it hit the spot! Absolutely spot on, top notch stuff
https://www.sterk.amsterdam/lindt-creation-moelleux-au-chocolat.html

Xhaps2 = chaps, damn blurry eyes and smartphones.

I use a petzl vent with ears and mesh visor, but for stopping woodchips in the eyes goggles are much better.

I do a lot of hours with a saw in various domestic gardens every year and still feel the fear! Had a very tricky 35ft multi stem conifer to cut down last week that could have gone so wrong but it all came together in the end.

For processing logs… get a sawhorse, never cut a log that might roll back toward you, use the near end of the chain with the bumper spikes against the logs. Steel toes, chainsaw xhaps2, gloves and goggles.