I personally wouldn’t do it due to the risk of injury, but as per myti above will throw in a suggestion to look at garden maintenance and/or landscaping. If you are reliable it’s really a reasonable way to make a living.

I’m taking home well above a national average salary (over a year) working just 3 days a week, pretty much 9 months a year. I don’t do garden clearances or landscaping, just grass cutting, lawn care, general maintenance visits, weed control and a bit of planting. I’ve turned down work almost every day this year, it’s been bonkers.

That was an awful attempt to make an exciting programme from really boring content.

I’d rather be doing the well paid job where the customer is nowhere to be seen!

I’ve been fully booked all year, it gets to be a waste of time answering the phone to say no so I reply via text if they leave a message.

Once I can recall forgetting to turn up to an arranged quote, I got in touch the next day to apologise. When I said I could only do the work in 3 months time she said no anyway.

If I ever hear I’m the cheapest quote I’m gutted, that’s no way to operate.

I’ll be taking on a couple of new customers next year as two customers have just sold up and one has died.

I always have spider senses ready to detect awkward jobs or customers, even if they don’t intend to be. The best ones are those who email/text late at night as they are usually busy working families who don’t have time to pester people working for them. I turn up, do the job, arrange standing order payments over the year and basically never see them, perfect!

To me they’re chav flags. Saw this one being flaunted slightly ironically recently

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Treating the I side of the bricks won’t sort the problem. Can’t you relandscape to take the soil away from touching the garage wall?

Just came here to confirm that yes, it’s the same forum users all over a “sexism” thread! ?

Yawnsy

Family of 4, our weekly shop is about £100 so probably £80 food, plus a wee midweek topup £20 or so.

windyg – Member
I use a Viking for my business and it’s been great for the last 3 years and it has been hammered.
Etesias are great, as above total beasts will mow anything just too heavy for me lifting in/out the van all the time.

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Please don’t lift mowers if you work with them all day!!!

How much do you want to spend? I’ve tried most of them. I would go for a Honda, or other brand equivalent (lawnflite, danarm). Get a hi lift blade and clean the bag regularly and they’ll pick up and pack the bag in the wettest weather, though if it’s just your own garden then you may be someone who avoids the job in the rain.

Vikings and John Deeres have shaken themselves to bits. Etesias (I have had models from 46 up to the old 56… that was the most beastly of mowers I’ve ever had!) get a good reputation but not as good as the Honda machines in my opinion. Masport I refer to as Shitport.

Some truly selfish idiots replying on this thread by the way. It’s reasonable for someone to have a moan about the cost of something going up 20%.

Our 3 year old is at a top local nursery at around £4.15/hr. £6 is very expensive.

But at 18 months old they would be just as happy with a childminder instead. Wouldn’t you consider a childminder until 3? Getting a good reliable childminder will always be a huge asset in life with kids.

I work 3 days a week march-nov now and wife works 4, so the kids only need looked after 2 days a week. For 2 days childminder for the baby and 2 days nursery for the wee boy we pay £450/month plus I get to spend lots of time with the kids as they grow up.

They’re just called pants. If anything more descriptive is required, perhaps “under trousers”. But underpants literally makes no sense, unless you’ve a jock strap on.

For me, Faith No More was Chuck. The Patton band was another band altogether. A good band though.

Can people really not emotionally handle a wee grope in their lifetime? WTF? I must have been groped, like, hundreds of times. Not sure if they were real or just dreams, but they might have happened. And I’m fine.

They play too much city ghetto white kid rap shite for me. And Mary Ann Hobbs is the most annoying person on the radio for me. I consider her worse than Chris Moyles and the like.

My radio is mostly tuned in to absolute 90’s :)

iian – Member
Suits.

7 seasons, 16 episodes per season to binge on and Meghan Markle to stare at throughout.

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You mean Sarah Rafferty / Donna? Soooo much better an actor than Rachel! ;)

We got fed up of suits – the script for every episode is virtually the same and the parade of stupid swaggers, awkward walks and verbal one upmanship wore us out.

Timeless is good though.
Rick and Morty, of course.

We are in the process of appealing our band. Dropping a band would save us £500 a year. It seems the Scottish assessors are painfully slow though.

On at 20 deg 24/7. Not interested in penny pinching…hearing my wee boy come home last week and saying “daddy I love my home, it’s so cosy” means I know I’m doing it right.

We’re about to get a new boiler and I’m wondering about smart room thermostats and fancy controls… what would people recommend?

The last wetherspoons eggs benedict I had was cooked through and horrid. Even when they cook it right, the sauce is horrible. I only get one when we’re out as a family and there’s nowhere else with space for the prams/toys and wild kids!

Pretty unimpressed by most chain food places. I especially dislike the myriad of burger places that are spreading like a cancer. They rely on selling an array of toppings and breads. The actual burgers are totally average.

Last subway I had gave me mild food poisoning. Rank.

About to get a new 35kw combi boiler and the vogue seems to be the one to go for. I do like the idea of a bigger one though as shower pressure is relatively low due to the mains pressure and bumping it up a bit would be great. Would it be stupid to get a 38kw or 40 in a 4 bed house with 11 radiators?

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However, I’d really much prefer a proper extension than a new conservatory – ie something that can be used all year round

We used ours all year for the past year, and I’ve just done this which has made it even better

Yes you can put lights through solid insulation as long as there’s a suitable facing material underneath to attach them to.

Cranberry succinctly sums it up. Society is full of “equality when it suits us” nonsense.

Is there a radiator in there? I’d get a plumber to pipe one in if not.

All the butchers near me are significantly more expensive than supermarkets. Usually better meat though.

The most well known butcher has expanded and is going corporate. The queue goes out the door and staff still try and sell loyalty cards to customers and spend minutes putting every product you buy through a ridiculous individual packaging process. It winds me up so I refuse to use them now.

I’m still trying to figure out why every vegan I’ve met looks like their skin’s about to fall off…i mean, if it’s so healthy and all.

Favourite snack these days is a toastie with thick cut home made bread, nice mature cheese, worcester sauce, bacon or ham, some chopped shallots all wrapped in foil and popped in the oven for 12 minutes. It’s a delight and cooks so nicely that way.

Does your daughter think it’s a travesty, or does she just want to have fun building a cool scarecrow they can burn and win a prize?

We’ve never replaced any toys once broken. I put the majority of toys in the loft and only have maybe 5-6 main things downstairs for him to play with at any one time, swap them round now and then. He definitely focuses better when there are fewer things to look at.

He does love playdo and painting and we have a corner with a wee table specifically for those. But once he gets hold of something breakable, that’s it.

I think we just need to be more careful keeping anything that might break away from him. I don’t like his day having so much ‘naughty time’ in it and would rather be spending it doing fun stuff!

Anyway, after lunch we’re going out on a bike ride so that’ll keep him happy for a while!

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I store perch in my porch. I like to pitch a patch of putty on the wall too.

Actually our utility room does the job of a porch so the porch is a place where the junk mail piles up and we fill a carrier bag with the stuff once every 6 months.

Some people refuse to allow themselves to enjoy the atmosphere and depths of story a d character being built up, so they say it’s meh.

Me? I’m gasping to see the next episode after watching 01 last night

It’s not illegal, just bad practice, and the relative has no come back. They hadn’t concluded missives, nothing was legally binding.

I’ve found a 5m strip of reinforced rubber on ebay at 3mm thick and 30mm wide…I’ll get that and punch a couple of holes and see if it works. I guess the strap doesn’t have to be any fancy shape, just a strip with two holes in the right place.

3mm is half the thickness of what I’ve tried using there (I think the original ones were 5mm), but if it’s tough rubber it should be ok.

I can’t see a way to fix old fashioned toe straps on to the pedals…that’d be a great solution as well!

I’ve tried Neil and can’t get proper smooth cuts so they just tear easily.

A supersoaker filled with weeskiller.

Oh, and cut the branches touching your fence.

Zubat is 2.7m according to google.

I have a Corona one that is 12ft plus the 18″ of the blade. Wouldn’t want to try and use anything longer. It’s awkward at that length but useable.

Can’t you get up a ladder and do it by hand?

Functioning eyes and memory. Fed up of being a blind forgetful fool.