Nik_B
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Thanks Socks I'll do that
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Yes its a cheap box we drilled into the wall and that describes it perfectly.
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Just wondering if anyone has any ideas about this. We put a couple of bird boxes up on the wall of our house, we got blue tits nesting in one of them which was pretty cool and we enjoyed listening to the chicks chirping away when we went out side. Yesterday morning the missus went out with the dogs and found two nestlings dead directly below the boxes. She didn't want to touch them so I went out and threw them in a bush, one seemed to have had some injury to the back of it's head maybe missing a small patch of skin but nothing on the other one. It could have happened after death I supp
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Sorry for the spam, that stuff at the top is what is called Riprap I think, it is a way of protecting the structure against erosion, there is the same at the bottom probably, built with rocks, stones and maybe cement, directly below it to stop the falling water from excavating a deep hole and undermining the dam. If you are interested I found this paper from 1975 which has all kinds of info but your dam seems quite interesting, it really does look like it was built with sacks of cement as previously suggested. DESIGN OF SMALL WATER STORAGE AND EROSION CONTROL DAMS https://dspace.li
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blake hydram pictured in hydraulic ram pump on wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_ram http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/John_Blake
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That looks like rock maybe cemented in place so the edges are pointing upwards, I think it might be a kind of baffle to dissipate the energy of the water during flooding? P.S I've seen something like that before and thought it was just a rock outcrop in the stream bed but there were small weirs there.
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When you think about what they are able to do it's pretty amazing. Dogs that can detect cancer has to be at the top of the list. I watched a program about dogs where they were trying to figure out how some dogs know when their owners come home from work, they tested the theory that the dogs nose was able to detect the owners smell fading away through the day and when it reached a certain level they would get excited, by putting recently worn clothes on the same room they were able to fool the dog and it didn't bark at 5pm or what ever time it was. When humans communicate with each oth
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They are amazing animals and taken for granted a lot of times. We're taking ours for a very expensive (that we cannot afford) CT scan tomorrow, he's been a good dog (and a little b*****d at the same time) we feel we owe him a chance at a few more years of being able to run round. That is my dental treatment put off another year After years of him driving me insane he has earned his keep as he's been amazing with our new pup.
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Or not... That's the real travesty. The billions spent on incompetence. We can discuss the working benefits of the minimum wage, taxation, etc, but the mastadon in the room is the local authorities, and their cost to value ratio. The amount of money pissed away by the public sector, if accounted for and promptly distributed in the correct fashion, some of it returned to the taxpayer, would revolutionize standards of living, in the UK, IMHO. Totally agree with this Some very advanced countries have zero (or extremely low) tax, there have been several studies that show a low tax
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Is this the BBC program?
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It could well be, Nik, but what is significant is that his own party are now paying full attention to what he's doing. I know you don't have an issue with the Russians but a large section of American voters really do! Don's tax returns, and his connections with Putin, are a real source of interest that transcend tabloid speculation, over here. A lot of his voter base go back to McCarthyism and don't see any difference between Russia pre and post 1989. If Don hasn't done anything wrong, and there is currently no public evidence to suggest he has, he could end this hearsay by appointing a de
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Porcelain bowl with drain and using a Blake's Hydram we could pump water up in to it to flush it away
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I don't like to see social messages in adverts, they're about selling a product which is fine but they should stick to clowns. Of course this has probably had the desired effect which is to make people talk about the advert and watch it, cunning PR companies. It reminds me of those BT adverts telling a story of the divorced mum, useless ex and cool new step dad full of very obvious messages some of which are quite harmful.
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Mcdonalds is child abuse
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Come over to the dark side, with me and WILF! Be an economic migrant! Well technically I am lol...we are English refugees in Wales, I get free prescriptions now
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Oil spills look very unsightly and are damaging in the short term but bacteria works relatively fast to break it down which eventually leads to a bloom in other organisms, obviously no one wants them but while unsightly over time nature fixes the problem. The UK & Europe are facing an imminent energy crisis due to over regulation we can't even get a couple of shale wells drilled here. I'm sure the US can improve on it's environmental record (you should see how bad it is in Africa etc) but the shale revolution is a massive economical blessing and while you should always look after your
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Looks like we have something we can agree on lol Sorry Kanny I f*cking hate people/TV shows like this I liked the good old fashioned wildlife programs without all the action and dramatic music lol
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Another tax increase and we will probably leave the country, it's easy for them to talk about taxing the rich but what they really mean is screwing those who are at the peak of their earning potential i.e. middle aged home owners and most likely with kids who might be heading off for uni or college, when Cameron lowered the 40% bracket and took away child benefits we ended up about £5000 a year worse off....yet most of our lives we lived hand to mouth through Uni and in the early stages of our jobs just so we could buy a house and at the time were paying most of our earnings to pay back our st
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They're saying on the radio that they wont release his ashes until they can know for sure he hasn't left wishes that they're scattered on Saddleworth....It might not be true but what a sick f**k if it is.
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I can't argue with that but as I said to Nik earlier in the thread, she didn't win! She's not relevant any more! She's a has been... If she'd won she'd have her own thread! But she didn't! Trump won, but he hasn't done anything other than repeal a lot of environmental protection laws so that certain people can mine/drill for certain things with fewer consequences. Well as someone who works in the US shale industry I think that the regulation needed cutting back as it was finishing of an industry that was crippled by the low oil prices, same with mining. Oil companies work hard
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I think Katie Hopkins sums this problem up quite well http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4194048/KATIE-HOPKINS-liberal-brainwashing-schools.html
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Some food for thought, saw this the other day. Youth unemployment (16–25 yrs): 48.0% Greece 40.5% Spain 34.1% Italy 30.3% Cyprus 27.1% Croatia 23.7% France 23.3% Portugal 20.0% Finland
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A reason to get offended because someone used your incorrect pronoun The Guardian published a survey asking for people to fill in forms about their gender and how they identified. Lauren Southern spotted it and posted it on Twitter, the trolls got to work and needless to say they didn't publish the results, the top of which was probably 'I identify as an AH-64 attack helicopter' Nothing beats triggering social justice warriors
