Annual sign of good weather .. last weekend bricklaying, and just booked tracked digger & dumper for a weeks hire next week ..... Big Boys Toys :-)
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11 years ago
Annual sign of good weather .. last weekend bricklaying, and just booked tracked digger & dumper for a weeks hire next week ..... Big Boys Toys :-)
Not here - the ign key snapped in half
£100 to replace itIf I hadn't had the spare, it would have been £700 for a new lock set (installed)
In message , Owain writes
I'm up to 14 plus 1 probable (hit on the wing). The Queens love Contoneaster blossom and we have two bushes on South facing walls. Sunset is the best time:-)
Mary will tell us they are important and loveable beasts but they insist on nesting in our eaves and frightening the window cleaners!
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Oh, well reminded - there's one in our basement which I forgot to get rid of yesterday. I've been seeing wasps for a couple of weeks over here, and bees* for maybe three.
cheers
Jules
They are all but absent in agricultural areas, but doing well in towns and the wilderness areas.
Last evening and this evening there is that other feature of a warm spell. The acrid smoke and distinctive smell of cooking by those hit by a sudden desire to abandon perfectly good kitchen facilities and cremate food on a barbecue in the garden amongst the flies and wasps. Vehicles have their emissions controlled,pity these anti social show offs can't be.
G.Harman
That's because the farmers are hunting them down and killing them. Someone needs to tell them badgers aren't black and yellow.
Yugh, agree brings back nasty memories of smoke and stench filled summer evenings in St Albans. Up here last time we smelt BBQ was during the F&M outbreak in 2001 and then is was coming from about 30 miles away...
In message , "dennis@home" writes
Bit of BBC news conflation yesterday... *Nicotinoid insecticides reduce the Bee's immune system* coupled with *large areas of Oilseed Rape grown*.
The point is that rape needs insects to pollinate and farmers often invite local Bee keepers to bring in hives for this purpose.
For many years, it has been a requirement for crop sprayer operators to notify a local *Bee* co-ordinator when known harmful sprays are in use.
I note the local police have taken out an order giving them powers to control trespass at the Rothamsted GM trial site.
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Why is this group so full of Luddites?
Don't like decking, BBQ's, WD40.....
In message , The Medway Handyman wrote
Luddites? Surely those were only popular in the previous millennium?
They're not getting poisoned by Monsanto in those areas.
All (with the exception of WD40) ersatz approximations of the real thing, and an urban disease.
WD40 is an ersatz lubricant...
(ducks)
I hadn't even got around to classifying it. An expensive way of buying paraffin, for sure. My WD40 (or GC74) is a dash of motor oil in a squeezy bottle of diesel/kero mix. I've been using it for years, it's great for penetration and cooling, drilling, cutting and leaves behind some measure of lube. Shit, if I used de-ponged diesel/kero and added some perfume, I could sell it as a poncy urban all-jobs lube.
Useful when you need your ersatzes lubricating ;)
JGH
Are your neighbours tunnelling out?:-)
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