I would just like to say

Morning All.
Another day begins. Great to be alive isn't it?
Have a great day!

Eye is alive.

What wood and preservent would yer use to build a hedgehog house?

Hippo said:

How deep are the footings?

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12-15" deep 12" wide, sub base is 2.5 ft feet of hardcore.

Hippo said:

What wood and preservent would yer use to build a hedgehog house?

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I used sarkin board cause it was already treated didnt bother with treating it with anything else in case it harmed the hogs
we have a wire one now with imitation foliage over it.

Moring all tis over case here atm still warm though. Off for a wee walk aboot ootside.

Suns oot

Hippo said:

What wood and preservent would yer use to build a hedgehog house?

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Plywood and cover it with cold bitumen paint and roofing felt.
Or, shiplap boards that have been around a bit to dry out.
Unlikely the hog's will try to eat the wood if you are providing other tasty treats.

Glasgie said:

Its hot hot hot
Tapps oan as its too hot !
Is it to early for a cauld beer ?

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Lucky you!
We are going through our second day of thunderstorms, yesterday's put the lights off once and the whole power down twice.
Right pain.

My "driven hubs" project for the trike has ground to a halt.
In their infinite wisdom the nice folks at Sturmey Archer (curse them) have ensured that there are no perpendicular/right-angled faces against which to trap a drive-dog. All the possible faces I have tried are at sloping angles which will have a drive-dog "climbing" up the slope. I may have to resort to making holes in the hub to drill & tap in order to affix a drive-plate.
I had hoped to avoid doing anything that marked the hub as non-standard in any way. Ho-Hum.

Stanleysteamer said:

Lucky you!
We are going through our second day of thunderstorms, yesterday's put the lights off once and the whole power down twice.
Right pain.

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Shouldn't live in a 3rd world country then.

marjon said:

I see no pit?..

Lift or pit, your knees and back will hate you if you don’t .

J

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We had this discussion before but I think the outcome was "I have a mate with a hoist so I don't need to worry".

kevstar said:

Lift init bro

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Hmm! will teach me to read to the end of the thread. trubble is I'm in a hurry as there is another thunderstorm around and I'm only on line as W has some Zoom thing on and she'll be Miss Depressed 2023 if she can't do it. so we are playing Russian Roulette with the Sosh box.

Hippo said:

The nests are under me block paving. Eye have sprayed the area and put powder down but injecting it will make it more precise. Eye dun't want to contaminate the planet too much. Also me deadded hedgehog was a worry as it were 2 meters away from where eye was killing ants. Turns oot it is unlikely to be the cause of the deaddedness. But still got me finking. Today eye checked all 12 ant nests which have little holes in me block paving with a pile of sand removed around them. No activity after squirting the ant killer liquid down them. It's called Defender Defender. Yer can gerrit from bnq. So that be good news. It's near doubled in price so eye will inject it down the holes next time. Me syringes will make it easier as the bottle dun't wurk propper on it's side. Means eye will use less anorl.

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Good for you!
Obvs we can't get the same stuff but we are not overun with the little critturs.

derwendolly said:

We've had wall-to-wall sunshine for the last two weeks and it has been very, very warm.
'They' say we are going to have another 10 days of this so it is watering, watering, watering non-stop - we're not used to this!

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Ill send you a cubic metre or 300!!!

DanClarke said:

My "driven hubs" project for the trike has ground to a halt.
In their infinite wisdom the nice folks at Sturmey Archer (curse them) have ensured that there are no perpendicular/right-angled faces against which to trap a drive-dog. All the possible faces I have tried are at sloping angles which will have a drive-dog "climbing" up the slope. I may have to resort to making holes in the hub to drill & tap in order to affix a drive-plate.
I had hoped to avoid doing anything that marked the hub as non-standard in any way. Ho-Hum.

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That's a shame. Have they changed the design and if so can you get hold of second-hand ones?

Stanleysteamer said:

That's a shame. Have they changed the design and if so can you get hold of second-hand ones?

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I dunt unnerstan the original posty

Afternoon folks .

Well it seems the rain in the afternoon has stopped, we have been on mornings only for the last 3-4 days, like being back in SG again.
Working on the list of pool chemicals probably going up Monday for these.
But a slight glitch in plans has appeared, Mums in hospital with Pneumonia, so we will see how it goes, maybe fly back Monday.
Spoke with her today(facetime, tech is great in the right place) and she seems perky, but I have an excuse as I need to renew my passport this year anyway, worry about Dad too, so I can see flight tickets in my future.
Luckily, My late brothers partner is a real gem and has been taking Dad over to visit and sorting him out. Just wish he would put his hearing aid in when he answers the phone.

Apart from that the bloody grass is going nuts, cant wait for it to be burnt yellow.
The birds are flying around with beakfulls of bugs to feed their young.
Just fed the cat the last chicken leg raw, believe it or not as he eats it all it works out cheaper than the processed pouches of rubbish.

J

Turktowner said:

I dunt unnerstan the original posty

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Without pics nor do I. Can I join your boat.

J

Turktowner said:

I dunt unnerstan the original posty

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Nor did I reeely, but I thort the question made sense?!!!