Battered Haggis is a wonderful thing 🙂

Haddock, but must be fried in dripping

It sounds like the size of lawns you have will be more than one charge/battery. For this reason alone I would avoid the battery option and go with the petrol mower. It will be simpler and is easy to get serviced/repaired etc.

For smaller gardens the rechargeable stuff is fantastic and is getting better all the time and is probably the way to go, but it is an expensive way to get rid of the dragging cable.

Must buy good the stuff though, Langley Farm’s is fantastic but the mainstream supermarkets stuff is appalling. Lidl do a good one too.

Cottage cheese and bacon with Brown sauce in a wrap/pita mmmmmmmmm

I was so impressed with the board with just the hammer and duck tape, perfect 😀

Try some trellis, can then grow various climbers and also use to espalier fruit trees along. I wouldn’t bother with the raised bed just plant a good mixture of shrubs and trees to vary the height and create a bed of varying depths/distance from the fence. A good local garden centre will be able to advise on plants. It may be worth waiting until the development is nearing completion before so you can plant to block some views from neighbours windows into your house and parts of the garden etc. Don’t over fill initially, but build up over a year or two so if things don’t work(or do) you can change without having to do too much to change.

Just mix things up and try not to be too regimented as formal needs to be done really precisely and is not so flexible if you need to block a view etc

Hope this helps

Nick

Had this last weekend, clear filter, tip on side get underneath and take pump off and clear out, take black tube from bottom of drum off an clear anything out (leave ping pong ball in) put back together and test. If still faulting take top off and look for tube to pressure switch, pull off and blow through, suck blow into pressure switch, test again to see if pressure switch is working. If still buggered call a man or start buying bits 🙂

The best thing would be to start with someone established get some experience and idea of if you like it and where you want to go with it. Expensive to train and set up properly. It can be a very quick road to the hospital and the last thing the world needs is another uninsured weekend warrior knackering trees undertaking poor unnecessary work, running away when it all goes wrong etc etc.

I mentor apprentice tree surgeons and we try them all out thoroughly first as it’s not for everyone once you start actually working for a living. Lots of being wet, cold, to hot and uncomfortable with added thorns and sawdust, I think it’s the best job in the world and have been in trees for 20 years now.

Find your local agricultural college, go to the nptc website, read lots on arbtalk and ask a few questions on training in your area.

Read lots on trees as it’s best if you like them and know a bit

I could go on

Best of luck

Nick

Big hammer, cover yourself from head to toe, gloves, eye protection and just keep swinging till the bugger breaks or you are deaf 😕

Just politely reply that you are more than willing to allow them to undertake minimal pruning works to facilitate the cable at their cost. Or suggest they could place it underground. If you like your neighbours and neighbourliness then getting some pruning done to ease the way may be simpler in the long run.

I manage 80000 highway trees and wedo not undertake pruning to clear wires.

Good luck

Nick

Go with 6 tooth and no more than 14″ bar cracking little saws those

In this situation bacon is always the safer option. A good snooker sarnie is a rare thing

We bought our twin 4 year olds cheap android ones. They’re OK but the leap pads etc are better and we may get those instead. Either way is better than them wrecking a £400 phone or ipad.

Fantastic stuff. My folks own the shop in Ardfern a couple of miles north of Ford. It’s great to see this part of the world from a bike

They are also great clearing snow 😈

I have a Roughneck Kindlimng Splitter £20 odd from Amazon.

Fantastic thing, has an offset wedge shape and really splits stuff apart and dous not get stuck in knotty twisty wood like an axe or billhook. Its the best thing |I’ve used and I’ve chopped kindleing with everything from a butchers knife to an 8lb felling axe

This stuff is brilliant and perfect for this

http://www.kbieurope.com/index.php

I’m an ex BCC Tree Officer, email me with the details and I’ll let you know what the situation is likely to be.

Email in profile.

Nick

Have you tried new brushes, as they are turning and not picking up?

Did this to ours and returned performance.

After 18 years as an Arborist all I can say is go for it. If you want it and enjoy it you'll do ok. Where are you based?

Well it's cheaper and better than moving the shop into town 🙂

MF-the two little darlings have destroyed us by teaming up to cry and feed all night twice now 🙁 but mostly they're on a 3-3 1/2 hour regime wth the bigger one going longer. I now have a couple of beers to take the edge off after monstering the coffee all day. It is the best thing ever though and thanks to the Mrs I got 6 hrs sleep last night 🙂

A dried out cheese sandwich dipped in mug of tepid thermos coffee has been my favourite for some years now 😕

Two week old twins here, don't worry you'll soon be too knackered to be bored 🙂

mmmm tasty 🙂 Beefsteak fungi. No idea about the little gauls though

A plum

Looks as though the new Lidl being built down the road may not be such a waste of a development after all. Hopefully It'll be open before the twins arrive 🙂

Tree shopping at Aldi?

They're ok for a bit of fun and not going very far. The worst bit can be the cold, being exposed to water and wind especially in the spring autumn when there's often great weather and less people getting in the way etc.

Some nutter went round the world on a fireblade, through deserts the lot. The bike geeks at work have been getting all giddy about it 🙄

“I’m home”

Report it then they’re liable if they don’t reaact within a reasonable time – get a reefernce number for your report/complaint. the actionable levels for things are suprisingly high 60m square edged feature in the carridgeway an 20mm in the footway iirc oh and some stuff is discretionary. But don’t expect too much, your local council is probably on its arse as far as highway refurbishment goes 🙁

Reading 92 too 🙂 and Rock City before. They were outstanding! Ah to have that liitle to worry about again

Dave – Moderator
The drug dealing, benefit fraudulent, thuggish softer side?

I think the idea is to return these activites to their voters 😀

Take the cash its only gonna get more expensive from now on

If thats your shed and the rest of the house is a wreck you married very well 8)

We just ordered one of these for when our twins arrive.

Leebruss Zoom

Went to the Baby Show and fiddled with most of the twin tandem ones and this was about the best, not the smallest but then that means that the kids at least have some room. Does from birth to 3+ and both can face either way at rhe same time. Made by the same people that make the fancy folding one on the aprentice this week

The Bourne Trilogy

Find something worth worring about and move on 8)

2nd what leebaxter said – get below blockage and give it a good rodding 🙂

Had a clay pidgeon trap go off in my face once (well its not something you want to repeat 😕 )

Got hold of the wrong end of a chainsaw on two occasions.

Only ever grazed myself falling off the bike, although I do appear to bounce rather well 🙂