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Yes easily. Same for Wales, there are many successful smaller countries. For us, it is water and energy that we'll be exporting, and I guess we may charge for running DVLA and so n as well but we'll see. I'd rather live a gov't that makes well intentioned ****-ups than one that doesn't give a...

Except animals don't have 'rights', in the true sense. Rights come with responsibilities, something that many folk who demand 'their rights' seem to forget. Animals have no responsibility towards us at all, they owe us nothing and hence have no rights. However, we have a responsibilities...

Nope. Have a perfectly good ex-restaurant6-ring LPG cooker that you can get a swan in and a fairly new-ish multi-fuel Rayburn. Why would I bother?

Oh, hec, so many over 45 yrs+. Perhaps one of the daftest was cutting my belly open with an angle grinder. I was holding a piece of chain against a vertical surface to cut it with said grinder. It kicked and went straight through the T-shirt I was wearing and removed skin etc leaving a deep...

A bit like president Clinton "did not inhale"! lol

Fascinating! Etymology is just so full of interesting tales and almost like 'word journeys'. Thanks/Diolch

The 'grenades' are fantastic, but I advise getting two. On the very very rare occasions that one get stuck, using another one, sometimes from the opposite end, is the way to get the stuck one out. But yes, for splitting gnarly cussed logs, they're often the only thing that'll work short of...

What do you all do with the waste, as in all the twigs, needles etc? We're thinking of buying or constructing a briquette machine to make composite logs. A bit pricey to buy, but if you have access to a lot of brush, sticks, needles, bracken soft rush, sawdust, paper, horse ****, etc. I've...

T'is indeed a miracle many of us have made it this far. ind you, I have few issues with scar tissue and other bits of damage that never quite fixed 100%

In the very early 80's, I was employed in a garage that was fitting a 2ft+ diameter extractor fan to the building used for spraying. I was handed a pair of goggles, a marker pen, a template and an angle grinder; I sat on top of the cage that held the gubbins of the fan and cut through the...

When what you give a damn about the most when the world is looking like it is going poo-shaped, is not what it means for you or 'our lot', but how said poo is going affect our kids and grandkids. Not just relating to the recent poo from poo-tin, but the seemingly inevitable slide to massively...

We're having similar thoughts because of where we live (Welsh mountainside, overlooking the Irish Sea) as we have frequent outages of phone/internet and electric. However, what with fuel prices and possibly even that weird bully from Russia (you know, the one that thinks it OK to target women...

Well laugh! That is such a comical, and likely prophetic image and had me guffawing for ages. Not only that, but we'll be running said Perkins on recycled/re-purposed animal fat!! I'm not anti-change, it has to happen and happen soon but the point is well made. I fear that 'the system' is...

Actually, pure heroin is not a drug that normally kills. A greater percentage of alcohol drinkers will die from their addiction that smack heads. The City is run on heroin and amphetamines which is likely why they won't introduce testing. The biggest societal problem with heroin (IMO) is poor...

"They knew their beat and the people, they would be in a position to curb criminal activity before it got big time" The Krays et-al? It didn't seem to work for them. Awful people have been around for ever, be they gangland criminals, child-abusers, (now more openly discussed thankfully)...

Wow, thanks folks, Not quite sure how I'm ever going to contribute to this forum with the amount of knowledgeable folk on here. I was aware timber needed to settle after cutting, but the inch per year is a great 'rule of thumb' to remember. A friend, who is more of a wood worker than I am...

Thank you , all very useful information. I'm happy to use re-purposed wood if I can find it, but am concerned about below-surface nails and the like, wrecking tool-edges.

Thanks and interesting, I hadn't though of doing that but it has merit, certainly. Yes I do intend to paint them and with oil-based paints. I am concerned about environmental issues and have planted over 2.000 trees on my land, refuse to fly etc-blah, will take electric cars etc-blah, but modern...

HI, folks. Just joined the group so please see my 'hello intro post for a background of my skill levels and approach to making things. I am an OK steel fabrication chap, pretty good in fact, and am a dab hand at site joinery (nails, plates, screws and lap joints but not so good with the...

Thanks/Diolch all. Love the millionaire observation Quintain. Just need to find out how to upload my drawing of an internal door that I want to make by the end of 2022, to see if I'm living in fantasy land or not! I 'm obviously starting with simpler stuff first but here's hoping!