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With the American police record with their weapons, for their own safety, they definitely shouldn't carry them.

Not just nuclear plants have armed guards, oil refineries and gas refineries have too. But they're in a 4x4 with the weapons locked in a boot. Not sure i fancy being in a gas works when someone starts shooting.. 2.5 hours rebuilding lawnmower deck, took the time to also sharpen the blades, tidy up and find... Yep two bits left over under the spanner roll, deck off, bits fitted, Deck on... 3.5 hours total spent. Then a couple of hours mowing, did most normal areas on highest cut, and a couple of cut throughs through the jungle. Then set to mid position height, and mowed again the main walkway from house to mobile home / muddling shed. That will do for the day, I'm off to get our pills, as the doctors pharmacy will have reopened after lunch.

Very few farms here have much in the way of machinery, one old battered little tractor is about it. They contract out Labour if farming the field themselves, you call in a ditching company or a spraying company, the harvestors tour the area going field to field. Or the contract out the entire field, birds eye will organize planting a field of peas and a few months later organize harvesting it.

Mooring Awl, Couldn't get to sleep, then started falling asleep and waking up almost immediately.. then finally had 5 hours solid sleep, woke due to bladder control, returned to sofa, said to Ben not yet. Woke nearly 2 hours later... Been out With the Ben the nice Collie who let me sleep in, grass very wet after yesterday's rain, he had a good wander around. He starts his new pills today, like now , swmbo has just walked in with his pills hidden in something he really scoffs down, we'll see what happens with that. Major crime in this area is rare, most often it's out of area gangs seeing local shops / cash machines as an easy target and county lines drug gangs. Though with the aged population round here there cannot be much of a market for drugs... We're already prescribed them!! Plans for today... Lawn mower Muggacoffee to finish Then Time to put the overalls on.

Mum was brought up in a house with outside loos, and a well about 50 yards away that was shared between 4 houses. I can remember when we temporarily had to live in my grandparents house in 1963, the new bathroom just off the kitchen had just been fitted. That grandfather's work was a ganger had 3 of his 4 children get their degrees, two became teachers. My wife was brought up in a house with outside loos and a tin bath in front of the fire until the early 1970s. I rented a cottage in about 1980 that had only got mains water / indoor plumbing in the early 1970s, the former gamekeepers house on the edge of a big estate needed to wait until mains water came half a mile down the road to the solitary house. This house got mains water about the same time, late enough to have had an electric pump mounted in the well to pump water up into a barrel up in the loft for probably the previous 20 years. As for alcohol free, I became very partial to Heineken lager zero with lime or lemon out in Saudi , that really suited the conditions. The rich locals could of course get smuggled whisky, the poor often drank alcohol based perfume!!! You'd find empty bottles of it behind dunes just off the main roads. These days, for me, it's alcohol with beer or whisky, but not much, rarely do I have a coke.

Some years ago here someone living well inland decided we no longer need flood alert sirens. Texting/ phoning landlines / calling mobiles would work they said.. Along came the next storm, landlines were down, mobiles don't work on the coast, and several families were left in chalets hit by big waves...

I recognise that fret!! I've used scale link several times before good they are too.. But in this case there's in excess of 20 window doors.

Try talking about cigarettes and waterways on an American site.. Fags and Dykes..

Now gusting 38mph at a massive 8C, retiring to the living room was a good idea... There are a lot of mallard cross eider and other escaped farmed ducks on the broads, that gives a few strange colours..

The club layout previously mentioned, failed at its next show, as a section of track disintegrated with temperature changes in the hall. It has now been stood in a corner in disgrace facing the wall.. It will be stripped for recoverable items.. Meanwhile not a lot has happened to Decoville for a variety of reasons. One of which was the "window doors " that open from the hotel rooms to the balcony, I couldn't find a suitable art deco style type to fit... Then I suddenly thought this afternoon.. print your own on acetate film... Film has now been ordered I will start designing on the PC, do some prints onto paper, once I'm happy then use acetate.

Saw some ducks at the sailing club, mallards... They were floating about in a puddle in the car park.

Err not quite, it's manufactured coal now, which has some coal in it, but has a high percentage of " renewables" in it . I note one version uses Olive stones !! https://www.wickes.co.uk/Homefire-Ecoal-Smokeless-Coal---10-Kg/p/151160?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw57exBhAsEiwAaIxaZqBM-_Ehi_5N_vX5BtZWQTsVmqC3mmGOrl95CLHUfQF-k6Mxs87eLRoCr98QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds We had a ton delivered a few days ago as it was on sale, which means we have about 2.5 tons out there. All delivered in plastic of course, they will open the bags and dump them in the bunkers, but I just bring a bag in when we need it.

But the RAF only issued rum on special occasions, such as after snow clearance duties. I was twice issued a tot of rum from the container in a basket kept in the safe. That was around 1982..

We can only get a mobile signal up at the top of the stairs in the bathroom. Not a good place to be in a fire.

Mooring I went to, had a bacon roll and muggacoffee.. looked out of the window and thought...... Nahhhh.... Too windy, too wet. So went to the Big orange shed but.. Going up a hill the landrover coughed..? And coughed again and slowed.... Then we got to the flat bit on top and it picked up.... Hmmm I think the fuel gauge / wiring to it, is stuffed again Big tes and coe 1/2 mile ahead, stop at round about , on accelerating cough cough die, pulled off onto verge using momentum. Not far enough off road causing cars to swerve. But landrover is on the flat now, engine starts, I drive completely off road engine keeps running.. so I drive back on and make it to the petrol station.. 75+1/2 ltr diesel, it's a 90 ltr tank but it's very flat, so the last 15 ltr must have been sloshing around down there... Missing the exit on slopes and acceleration. Refueled no problem since. Had to pull over to let ambulance through from behind.. Collected sand drove back different route no less than three sets of road works and a ford transit driving slowly marked horses... Must be small horses.. Surprised swmbo and Ben just coming out for long walk, I spread the sand... Ben and swmbo are back from a shortened walk, Ben the meteorologist Collie said it was going to rain, and just after they got back it did... Big time, full fire hose soggyness.. 633 squadron.. I have to remember that. The range of the land Rover is 90ltr x 32mpg, thats about 635 miles.. so odometer when I fuelled up was 433 miles.. so first opportunity after 633 squadron that's 200 miles I'll refuel again.. When this muggacoffee is gone I'll go pay some MRC bills... Oh on the way back I saw a sign for.. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chox-con-chessboxing-festival-tickets-732798017597 Weird!!!