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Has anyone read the book called the ragged trousered philanthropists? A very old book that was at one time the building trades bible, written by Robert Tressel, it was banned at one time for being classed as communistic. It tells of the hard times sufferered by building trades workers, low pay...

Suicide is the culmination of perhaps many months of thought, lots of people cannot bare their souls so suicide is the only way out for them and yes there is the collateral damage of family members shocked and stunned. The worst part of suicide is when someone kills their kids and then take...

Suicide is not the actions of a coward, who knows what ones breaking point is? your problems can be that you cannot see the wood for the tree's and suicide is the only way out. It could be marital, financial or a painful terminal illness. In 1950 when I was aged nine my dad committed suicide by...

Legally speaking if a tree is overhanging your garden you are entitled to cut it back the same applies to tree roots which can cause a lot of damage, but whatever you cut off you are supposed to give the waste back to the tree owner. First of all have a word with the tree's owner and tell them...

It takes a special kind of man to pull the hangmans lever, Albert Pierrpoint in his memoirs said hanging never stopped a murder.

Murder and rape has gone on from when time began, it will go on for ever.

I read the case with interest, can't understand why the boy did not make a hell of a fuss, apparantly two men have been arrested.

These two blowlamps run on petrol, the Max Sievert lamp has a pump on it to pressure it up, the Monitor lamp doesn't have a pump, both are known as self pricking that is to say they are self cleaning everytime you turn it off, the old paraffin lamps you had to prick with a tool that had a fine...

Having a sort out at the back of my garage I came across two of my old blowlamps a Max Sievert and a Monitor, stripped them down and gave them a clean up, filled them with petrol and lo and behold both in perfect working condition. I bought the Max Sievert when I was 19 so that makes it 51 years...

This is a clock that I made and painted in the Roses and Castles style of narrow boat painting

made to measure window boxes, the backs are made from rough sawn tanalised 6"x1" and the front is from 6"x1" decking

I've opened a photo album and put up a couple of pics, see if you can find it and give me an idea as to what you think of my birdboxes??

A sample, box on the left is for blackbirds or robins, the other boxes are for bluetits

The box on the left is a batbox

In and about my garden workshop.

Although I am a plumber by trade I have always been interested in woodworking IE; making pine furniture and over the years I have built up a lot of machinery and I have found myself a niche market in making garden artifacts such as planters, birdboxes and feeders etc, no problems in selling them...

Anyone out there got a backyard workshop? I have converted my 20'X14' garage into a workshop, dead proud of it I am, spend all my time pottering about in it surrounded by my treasures, got a woodburning stove in it with a pot of coffee always on the boil.

If ever you have any aches pains or any health concerns get down to your doctors right away thats why you pay your NHC for, never say I have got no time I am too busy working. Prior to me being diagnosed with prostate cancer I thought I was immortal I had never seen the inside of a hospital or...

Do you have any experience in spraying? if not you could apply pre cat lacquer by brush, apply a coat of sealer, allow to dry, denib with very fine wire wool, apply 3 or 4 coats of pre cat lacquer denibbing each coat, that way you will "body" it up and end up with a lovely finish, I see that you...

The silent killer is prostate cancer, if you have any probs with the old water works get down to your docs right away, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer 5 years ago, it has now spread to my bones. 2 weeks ago when I went to the hospital to see my consultant I said to him no messing about I...