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French passports are printed in France. One can get round EU tendering regulations on national security grounds. We could have done the same but apparently chose not to.
That's Mrs May bunging another bribe to the EU. 
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Given that we are still in the EU, and that there are regulations concerning procurement of government contracts which still apply to us, did we have a choice? In any case, I hope that post Brexit we will still use EU based services for government projects if that gets best value for money.
We don't let the EU build our warships so why let them print our passports? Does seem a bit ironic though. -
Philo,
Here ya' go. The rules from the EA
http://www.therrc.co.uk/MOT/References/EA_Fisheries_habitat_improvement.pdf
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A long read but very informative. -
I bet theres plenty of dead ones in the crayfish blokes trap ,he ignores my advice hes a 'proffesional' unfortunately he doesnt know where the frogs and toads mate and has put a trap in the spot
It was my last day as bailiff thursday (15 years is enough hassel) so the pond and its inhabitants is out of my hands
Took a dead female GCN out of the pond today, I don't know how many I've lost, shall have to wait until they start spawning. -
I think I'll take dodging the question as being that you didn't want to give the truthful answer.
Birds eat other birds, it's a fact of life (and death) in the feathered community.
It's a nonsense to just kill any bird that eats other birds.
Hawks, Falcons, Harriers, Eagles, Shrikes, Corvids, Gulls, Woodpeckers,(and more) they all do it, and yet their sometimes prey is still here.
Reduction in numbers of some of the prey species usually has other reasons than predation by birds.
Not dodging anything but as she has bird feeders in her garden I don't want to upset her by dropping magpies in her garden when there are "more discrete" ways of culling them. -
Isn't that tantamount to admitting that killing Magpies is what a "bad" neighbour would do?
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over. She has no objection to me killing rats in her or my garden but most people see magpies as feathered friends, they don't know they kill other birds and take their eggs and chicks. -
Still looking to borrow a funnel or Larsen trap for the magpies, I've got a new vegetarian neighbour and I don't want dead magpies dropping in to her garden as I try to be a good neighbour.
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Strange, last year there was a shortage of newt food, daphna and mosquito larva, I had to import it, this year, no shortage, must've been the early warm spring started it off.
Cleared some twigs and weed off the surface today and found a dead frog and male GCN, it must have been the big freeze that killed them off. I hope that's the last of the damage. 
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Anyone have any specific knowledge on the legalities of putting manure into a lake - I'm currently getting 'opinions' elsewhere that are the polar opposite to each other, but none of them are from an educated standpoint ... and trying to contact the EA with a simple question such as this is worse than useless :-(
The EA are fence sitters, they don't commit to anything. When a friend of mine informed them of illegal netting they waited until the nets were pulled then swooped and "gave them words of advice", they weren't charged. -
Philo,
A HORRIBLE idea for a pond intended for sport fishing is as follows:
Cowdung is commonly used as a fertilizer for fish ponds in India but fish production is limited to 15002000 kg/ha. These yields can, however, be more than doubled if the dung is first fed to a biogas plant and the digested slurry then used instead of the raw dung.
MUCH Much much more likely is this:
Excessive algae growth is one of the most common problems occurring in ponds. Traditional mechanical and chemical control methods are not always efficient or economical.
In recent years, the use of barley straw has become more common as an alternative method for controlling excessive algae growth. This method has been extensively studied by Dr. Jonathan Newman at the Centre for Aquatic Plant Management in Great Britain. When applied at the proper time and rate, barley straw has been a very successful algae control techniques.
Barley straw does not kill existing algae, but it inhibits the new growth of algae. The exact mechanism is poorly understood, but it seems that barley straw, when exposed to sunlight and in the presence of oxygen, produces a chemical that inhibits algae growth.
It is likely you can get more than enough information from the highlighted source. I don't know where this Centre is?
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Barley straw is supposed to inhibit algae growth, especially in flowing waters, it's not so good in still waters but does inhibit growth local to the bales. Dung, liquid or lumps is supposed to neutralise the water and encourage the growth of water fleas, worms, larvae etc. which fish feed on and the manure also encourages plant growth, again providing feed, oxygen and cover for the pond life. So all in all a very good addition to ponds, if all can be believed. -
Norm,
What will an English Fox kill and eat that a cat will not?
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Hedgehogs and dried meal worms. -
Norm,
What will an English Fox kill and eat that a cat will not?
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The foxes in my garden eat what the cats won't but they get plenty of choice but the cats get there first and spring the trap and I refuse to stay up after midnight. Lamb fat and ham on the menu tonight. Put a rat I'd shot in there last night but still caught a cat but it didn't eat the rat, just pulled it enough to spring the trap. I'm sure they're teasing me. -
And now they and their hangers on are whinging about it.
the europeon bass ban for anglers will now face it's 3 year. This is what ex m p salter and the ceo of TAT have caused and yet they are still acting as if it's all some one else's fault.
Anything they do with regards to sea ang;ling, always ends in bans, restrictions bag limits and closed seasons. Disgustingly they still claim to govern and represent anglers, yet to date they have never had a sea angling representative on their books.
Read and weep.
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Well, it works. Heard the door slam @ 0510 this morning, unfortunately it was a cat, unhappy but unharmed, at least I know it works. Now had 5 cats and one of them twice, don't they know they're not meant to be caught, I'm after a fox but they spring the trap first.
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TBH I don't think anyone is doing well with the bass ban, except the bycatch winners. Why can't charter boats have a bass bye catch? I think at 71 I'm entitled to take it a bit easier than in the past. That's what kills it for me. 90 minute drive down, 120 minutes back and 8+ hours afloat. I have to stop for a break/kip on the way home, not as fit as I was. -
In the lead-up to, during and after the Live Aid concert in 1985 to raise money for the starving in Ethiopia, you could buy fruit (fresh and tinned) from.... Ethiopia.
Less well known is that between 1974 and 1991, Ethiopia was having a civil war between the Derg and Emperor Haile Selassie, and only ended when the Government was overthrown. Also, between 1961 and 1991, Ethiopia was at war with Eritrea.
(quote from New World Encyclopedia) The famine in the mid 1980s brought the situation in Ethiopia to the attention of the world, and inspired charitable drives in western nations, notably by Oxfam and the Live Aid concerts of July 1985. Funds raised by Oxfam and Live Aid were distributed among NGOs in Ethiopia. A controversy arose when it transpired that some of these NGOs were under Derg control or influence, and that some Oxfam and Live Aid money had been used to fund the Derg's enforced resettlement programs, under which millions of people were displaced and between 50,000 and 100,000 killed.
Instead of keeping the food produced in Ethiopia to feed the starving, it was being exported in order to buy arms and weapons. Indirectly, the charities set up to feed the starving were helping to fund two wars.
And while on the subject, how can countries that can't feed their own people justify growing tobacco to sell in exchange for foreign currency when they should be growing edible crops for their people to live on? 
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I was taken to A&E from work suffering from a suspected stroke, someone from work drove and parked my car at the hospital, paying for an hours parking. By the time my wife arrived there was a penalty ticket on the car. I refused to pay it and received threatening letters threatening increased fines, court action , Bailiffs etc. I explained that I didn't park it, I was having an ECG at the time. They said as the registered owner I was responsible, WRONG, in law the person parking the car is responsible not the owner. Change of tack. Legally I must know who is driving my car, WRONG again. How can I know who is driving my car if I am in hospital wired up to an ECG machine or if someone steals it from my driveway while I'm asleep. Next tack, bailiffs will come and seize possessions from my home to cover costs which are now over £300. WRONG again, they need a court order to enter my property to seize goods. I then sent them a letter telling them they had no legal right to harass me over a debt that wasn't my responsibility and any future harassment and I would report them to the police. Funnily enough the letters stopped but I am very careful when I park at QA hospital, I usually drive my wife's car.
hahaha phone,
someone using two parking places deserves more than a parking ticket.
it's how you deal with parking tickets that makes it interesting. I have just had a hello remember us from a councils debt collector as one of my tickets enters it's second year without a penny piece from me.
They have no chance what so ever of getting paid, even though they allege they have a warrant to collect, there is nothing they can do to enforce it, not a legal document. Most if not all councils act outside of u k law when it comes to alleged parking offences. And the council bailiffs certainly do. It's all about collecting money.
Some are too frightened to challenge them. I haven't found the need to go at them full on yet.
ohhh, one day last year there was a yellow boot on me van,
turned around and the next minute it found it's way onto the side of the curb, dunno how that happened. The next time though, i'll take possession of it and use it against those who think they have the right to deprive me or my family of the right to travel. Much fun and games. 
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Cottage on the coast? Sounds like the Dorset estate agents have a new customer. -
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A few years ago while I was in a tackle shop on a hot, sunny Saturday some scumbag pulled the electric window on my car down in broad daylight and took my wallet out of my jacket on the front seat. I drove straight to the local police station and reported it. A civilian manning the front desk gave me a crime number for my insurance company. No I said, it's a hot day and they won't of had gloves on so there will be fingerprints on the window. Sorry, CID don't work weekends was her reply. On the Tuesday I received a letter from the Chief Constable of Hampshire apologising for me being a victim of crime on his patch and the crime had now been fully investigated and was now closed. Crime on Saturday, letter posted Monday, CID don't work weekends, so how long does it take to "fully investigate" a crime in Hampshire?
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Must have been a windy day.
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Norm B, on 22 Jan 2018 - 19:53, said:
They certainly empty garden ponds of koi. I note the avon gets a mention last time the fish ( roach ) was cleared out according to TAT it was the cormorants fault and they wanted a licence to cull. , yet here we are yet again it's another predator that needs beating up on . BTW the useless cormorant missed all the dace in the avon and just killed the roach, (fussy eaters) how about a fish survey then attribute the blame in the right direction any consideration for old age for example.
BTW one of the best roach and dace fisheries on the south coast, the lakes at radipole, ohhh it's also below many perches put in for errrmmmmm cormorants.
TAT also wanted the beavers removed and the seal culled. Are waters now just for fish and nothing else? Won't be long before TAT want kingfishers culled. -
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Not sure these make a blind bit of difference - and as far as the Kennet is concerned the damage has been done - otters are now being spotted in housing estates locally (Thatcham) - probably as they've pretty much emptied the rivers and canals....
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/209735
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They certainly empty garden ponds of koi. -
Several birds are pairing up and the cock blackbird is getting very territorial.
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Cor your a local Norm, 3 hour drive there and 3 hour drive back. Na my mate travels even further, from the midlands, so we more often than not stay overnight in the sailors and travel back sunday morning.
Skeggs can't be doing too good with the bass ban.
TBH I don't think anyone is doing well with the bass ban, except the bycatch winners. Why can't charter boats have a bass bye catch? I think at 71 I'm entitled to take it a bit easier than in the past. -
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