Steve Walker

I dispute the statement. Toast is nice.

Without all the 'old aht yer 'ahhhnd fake selling charade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaW9Sg5NPyE

You could make boilies out of it and then use this line. http://www.assouk.co.uk/ Then you would have some shito on your asso.

Don't know about hornets, but in the case of wasps while they won't reuse old nests they will happily build new ones on top of them.

Yep. Though I expect some of the carp boys chucking big leads 150 yards are using variants of beachcasting "power casts". For most coarse fishing the overhead thump does it. For what it's worth, I was fishing 2oz on 10lb line on the estuary the other day. I fished it with my beach gear earlier in the week, which allows me to cover most of the width of the estuary, but found that the fish were close in. So I got the coarse rods out. Much nicer for a short cast, better bite detection and a bit of a fight from the flatties! The beach rods have 35lb braid to a tapered 60lb mono leader so they'll chuck 6oz a long way, but it was just overkill for close in at slack water.

A length of mono will add a bit of stretch to the setup though.

Yeah, that's what I thought. Well, I guess the question is really "how light do you need to go?" Assuming you're going to be able to go to a lighter hooklength if presentation is an issue, why not go 10lb?

Nah, you have to let them grow first.

Surely we should be harvesting them for chub bait?

What size of lead will you be casting, and how hard? Sea anglers usually reckon on 10lb/oz, but that's based on power casting. I'm happy to lob a method feeder weight two or three ounces on 8lb main line, but that's a gentle lob.

Sorry, I took your post to mean that cover for cars which are themselves not insured is only ever available on trade policies. I have never had a trade policy, but nor have I ever had that stipulation on driving other cars cover on my normal insurance. It does happen, some insurers do have that policy, but it's not all of them.

No, I mean standard personal insurance. Some policies state that the other car must itself be insured. Some do not. You have to check the small print.

I do remember reading an article in one of the magazines where the author mentioned that someone had done that, and subsequently had mental health issues.

Terrible news.

Not so. It is sometimes a stipulation of such policies that the other vehicle needs to be insured in its own right in order to be covered, but it is not always the case. It is not the case in mine. Always check the fine print! There are issues in driving something under your own policy which is not insured in its own right, to do with the meaning of "using" and leaving the car parked on the street, but that's a problem for the registered keeper.

Unfortunately, driving without insurance is an absolute liability offence. If you drive without insurance, you commit the offence, even if you do so in good faith believing that you are insured. I don't suppose you have a personal policy which includes cover to drive other cars?

Oh dear! Hope it all gets sorted out.

You would not want that bugger sticking their claws in your tits!

We have a lot of flavoured ciders here. I dont much like them! https://groceries.asda.com/shelf/cider/flavoured-cider/_/102516

The extracted toxic oil has some uses, though - it's used to kill termites, and there is now some interest in developing pharmaceuticals from it.

You have definitely been to places they grow, though? This was St Lucia. We rented a little house in the rainforest, absolutely idyllic. The owner of the property arranged for us to have a day out with her neighbour, Melvyn. Hes a botanist by training but has a little farm. We spent the morning on the beach, down a dirt track the tourists dont know. Theres a sea moss farm there, which I found fascinating, its grown on ropes, like mussels. He lit a fire when we got there, and put some sweet potato and taro on to boil in sea water. Then he gathered hermit crabs for bait and we went hand lining off the rocks for little reef fish. That was quite challenging, I had bites every chuck but most of my bait was stolen off the hook and I lost a few. Eventually got the knack, and between Melvyn and I we gathered enough little fish. Melvyn cleaned them, floured them and fried them over the fire in coconut oil before making a sauce with chilli, garlic and spring onion. We ate off big leaves with our fingers. It was delicious. Afterwards we went for a snorkel and I checked out what I hadnt caught - nothing of any size down there. Afterwards we went up to Melvyns farm. He picked the cashew fruit for us. The fruit is cylindrical, a couple of inches long and maybe an inch thick. It has the consistency of a ripe peach and is sweet, sour and astringent. Really delicious. The nut is attached to the end of the fruit. Wish wed dropped them! Then he showed us some coffee berries and picked a ripe cocoa pod. The cocoa beans are inedible until processed, but the pulp around them is edible and good. A bit like custard apple, though not really similar. Then we had a tour of his herb garden. Cinnamon trees, different sorts of basil and mint (including one so pungent you could use it instead of Vicks), lemon grass, and some local herbs I didnt recognise. All incredibly strong from the hot sun. Then we went home, had beers on the veranda while the crickets and frogs started up, and I had a very bad idea about trying the cashews!

What is a bit annoying is that we were on a tour with a local guy who is a botanist and expert on the island's plants. He gave us the cashews without mentioning "Oh, don't try to open these". But I guess every kid there knows that and he didn't think to mention it!

Also glad that I didn't do it by the tree, but back at the house. So I had running water, toothpaste and rum to clean the oil off my skin. Still managed to contaminate my forehead, which blistered a bit and peeled. I thought it was sunburn at first, but not for long. The very top layer of skin came off my thumbs, index and middle fingers but no real irritation (though it did cause a bit of trouble trying to transit the US, where their fingerprint scanner needed a bit of fiddling with to get a read). I was rather glad of the fact that my girlfriend is a GP, though, as much for the reassurance as the treatment.

Rubbing tummy / patting head. It's easy if it's a simple strum to the same rhythm as the vocals, but any rhythmic mismatch or complicated picking and I lose it. So Sound of Silence is picked intro and then straight into strumming when the vocals start