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rgr My feeling on the "bankster crisis" is that it was pressures outside that revealed the issues that then cascaded into the crisis. Any rapid price increase that affects so much of our society can have a disruptive influence on the economy, and that may result in a tip into recession, so...

Only 50 years? Horses have already lasted a few million years, periodically renewing themselves. as John Seymour said, tractors don't heal or reproduce. It also strikes me that if you are spending 30 times longer ploughing with a horse, then what it is doing on the "off" days in immateria...

RenewableCandy wrote:They regularly get defenestrated as we drive past promising-looking bits of verge.

love the use of the word, A+!

RenewableCandy wrote:...or they can't, in which case you can't be expected to employ them. Same as anyone else, really.

yet we as a country are expected to carry them? (devils advocate)

this whole southern cross care home abuse thing gets me too, people outraged that those they off loaded their unloved ones onto ....

johnb

I would like to find out more, we are currently in welshpool, and are undecided about where we want to be, as we can't afford to go it alone.

i will PM you.

Brandon.

we have a local bunch of feck wits that claim to be eco gurus who are selling this tech and claim (erroneously) that it has a COP of 3!!

name and shame ken?

and the dollars...

well, still not been back to do unit 6 yet, so that was November 2006 i was last there to study, it just struck me that it held little relevance to my work or forward prospects, and was becoming ever more social worker like, and rather wishy washy for my liking.

kenneal wrote:Collect some ash keys and plant them. They will take and grow much faster than whips.

Why is that then ken? is it due to the whips being transplanted and having to recover?

will there not come a point when the unemployed masses will end up working he land in exchange for food as the oil to work the machinery will not be available?

couldn't agree more!

thought that i would seek the advise of the assembled gurus... I am embarking on externally insulating my house with 100mm of kingspan, (or other rigid board) then a 25mm cavity, felt and then the crunch, what would be the best form of boarding to use to allow for lime rendering onto? all your thoug...

JohnB wrote:It's a less risky situation than owning two houses at once in the current market,

I would argue that there is nothing risky about owning houses in the current market, but rather the risk of being a slave to the bank who own the house that you believe to be yours.

I happened upon a great pile of organic garlic in sainsburys a couple of weeks ago, knocked down to 10p a bulb, it's growing strong...

I have the second lot of onions to go in tomorrow.... yes, I know I'm late but things happen