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Then painting our legs with gravy browning!

The pub is on a working farm. Run by the landlady, son and daughter but still hard times ahead I imagine. They don't do food bar nuts, crisps etc and oddly, homemade ice cream... Pumps are not in use since reopening after Covid. Beer is now just served from polypins/bottle/cans.

This winter I'll be feeling all smug but certainly not snug. The oil and leccy price increases along with job fears are a constant worry. We're going to freeze and live in semi darkness. The smugness comes from my repeated preaching, mainly to SWMBO, about the need to insulate. It falls on deaf ears tbh. Quite what she can't grasp is beyond me. Shows zero interest or support in improving the fabric of the building. At a conservative estimate we'll spend £250 a month on take aways. I'd really rather not and always think how much insulation that would have bought. It turns into a row and I'm accused of "moaning" and get "It's only once a week!" On the back of it all and other stuff I find myself in the pub once a week and now spend I reckon £20 on average. I see that as temporary, mental insulation against everything. At least in the winter they have an open fire and it's warmer than at home! 😂 As an aside I found this an interesting article though not sure if behind it is an ad for heat pumps: "Half of all heat pump ready homes interested in getting one – switch from gas boilers would wipe out gas imports from Russia two times over". https://eciu.net/media/press-releases/2022/third-of-brits-more-likely-to-get-electric-heat-pump-to-shun-russian-gas

Ours have a little open air "workshop" behind the big metal bin. All the good stuff, decent kids bikes, salvageable mowers, cable gets taken there for stripping or "further assessment" aka pricing up. Ask if you can take something though, no chance, rules mate, Health & Safety etc... 😂

Since 2012 my tip has charged for taking old tyres. Think it's £2.50 a tyre. I've a few stacked up in the garden that I found clearing the place. I refuse to take them and pay on principle. It somewhat smacks that my road is full of tyre damaging potholes the council don't appear to want to fix.

Did you measure wrong for the new window then?

I saw a nice load of what looked liked timber trellis fly tipped the other day. I was thinking, they'll be wishing they'd kept that to burn soon!

Folk would just burn stuff in the garden.

Do you have no concept of physics? It was static until it moved??? @SteamyTea will explain it later.

Or a pub sign...tbf the original plan was solar thermal panels:

Yep, 6" long, green and spotty!

Pretty certain I have a green shield bug issue. The pictures above seem to echo those I found here: https://notahorticulturist.com/2020/09/18/southern-green-shield-bug/ Neem oil with a "few drops of mild detergent" in a water spray I'm reading widely. The detergent to help as the oil won't readily mix with water. I don't want to use washing up liquid...need a "natural" soap of some sort. @SteamyTea any thoughts?

Get tinted contact lenses?

@zoothorn I'm putting you on ignore. Sick to the t!ts of the same repeat questions and you expecting everyone to repeat what they've already spent time going over, often more than once.

Like we haven't been through these questions before!

What a generous offer. Any chance of moving to Kent?

Wtf are you on / on about? Earlier you were on about whacking down clay and should you add hardcore as in you hadn't? Plus you've used Postcrete before. Go and look on YouTube like everyone else does.

This drawing of mine from way back whenever. Can't remember if I specifically said but the idea was o take the bottom out if the bucket and use as a former...as I've drawn. I said then to tamp down hardcore in the base of the hole...you didn't but are talking about it now. Get in with it, you'll do whatever you want.

I think it's why the US and Australia have been so strict on telecoms gear from China connected to their networks? Fear of backdoors. Aren't our emergency service radio systems reliant on Chinese tech? Trojan horse stuff. I believe John Deere have been able to disable some highly expensive farm machinery looted from Ukraine. Didn't the Russians give massive support to the UK anti fracking industry? Too many add ups with our politicians turning a blind eye for their own short term gain. I'm fine with being labelled a conspiracy theorist btw.

Just wait until the Chinese control / switch off our infrastructure and telecoms!

His isn't though...

Wasn't the lot you skipped too large / too small? If so why couldn't that have been made to fit.

For once I'd agree. From top of concrete to underside of timber post I'd aim if you can for 150mm. I don't know how long the spike is btw. The reason for this is raindrops hit the ground and bounce up about 6". It's an old rule of thumb that serves well. If not then I'd paint the bottom say 1' of post in black bitumen paint. An alternative is a "wrap" of some sort. Tbh I'd be sitting the post ends in a bucket of preserver anyway so it's sucks up as much as possible.

My house? 😂

Yes, horizontal battens attached to the post low down maybe sat on bricks outside the hole. Then bottom of spike I assume will be hanging in mid air, in the hole? Fill up with concrete.