Great album. If ever you want to sell it let me know.
Yes please, let me know how much.
Just stick something in the AA pot for Jon. PM your address Mick and Iāll stick it in the post on Monday 
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Iāve got a couple you can have Iāll dig them out Mick.
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Discovering a whole new world of faff, in this case the grafting of fruit trees to match soil types etc. All accompanied by typical French over complication and bureaucracy
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You canāt be growing the wrong fruit. Especially if outside of their Appellation dāOrigine ContrĆ“lĆ©e. NON !
Check out your local village/department/region - in Alsace they sell fruit trees very cheaply every autumn to try to encourage people to grow their own & maintain local varieties.
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Taking car to the garage
Filling in around a hundred large hoof prints on the lawn - A cow escaped into our garden.
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Thatās pretty much what this thing was, thereās a local association that tries to encourage people to use heritage varieties. 5ā¬ and they do the grafting right there and then. Got 2 cherries, 2 apples, one apricot and one pear.
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Been to see my uncle Chris whoās just escaped hospital after a week. Heās better than expected Iām happy to report.
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Tunnel?
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Been in the pub since 2 watching rugby and eating haggis toasties.
Discussing ideas for village panto. Oh yeah.
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Are they aware that your Twankey was hailed as a triumph throughout Southern England just a few weeks ago?
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Went to see the last bit of Didcot A blown down. Two small flashes and the thing dropped vertically into a huge cloud of dust. It looked uneventful, in which case the contractors will be pleased.
The wind blew like hell all the way though it, mind.
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Had it not been uber windy Iād have attended that. Missed the cooling towers as well.
This was less exciting than the towers. You couldnāt get so close and though it was taller it was generally smaller. It looked like the explosives were mostly on the inside (or at least drilled deep into the concrete) so the flashes were minimal too.
And nothing exciting went wrong.
EDIT: I was standing about 6ft to the right of the bloke who took this
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Remarkable how long it all took! Hopelessly polluting though such stations were, Iām oddly sad to see them all disappear.
Due to fuck-ups of course. The first set of towers fell fine. But there were indicators even before that that the prime contractors were out of their depth (very reasonably priced though, it seems). Then they over-weakened the boiler house and half of it fell down without warning, killing those four guys. Unsurprisingly that brought progress to a complete halt. They then spent months trying to unpick the wreckage and get the corpses out. In the meantime the contractors were sacked and new ones had to be found. Last year the second set of towers were dropped and this time they inadvertently blew a large chunk of chainlink onto the live 33kV wires. That was properly exciting if you were close in (I was) and pretty annoying if you lived anywhere between Wantage and Wallingford, because your lights went out. Clearly the new lot had significant capacity to put their foot in it too. So the dropping of the chimney was delayed (again) until everyone was sure that they knew what everyone else was doing. This time it seems to have worked.
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