Moriath
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Wont work if its dark in the autumn / winter. Will need a battery too
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Yeah - was thinking a solar light, attached to a small battery that could give a couple more hours just outside the coop door.
Guinea fowl don't like going into dark spaces - and I want them to return to the coop at night rather than fly into the trees (to get eaten by our resident buzzard).
This cool looking mutha (taken from my bedroom window (hence the blurry). Normally sits on top of a telegraph pole looking at our field)
Moriath
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Cant you clip their wing feathers to stop them flying? Or net over the top of their enclosure?
Embattle
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Gas crisis leaves Europe searching for solutions
Consumers face a steep rise in energy bills as governments try to fund the move to renewable energy.
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Going to actually free-range them. I may clip their wings but other than the run attached to the coop (for when I'm away) they'll be able to wander.
Either way - I want them coming back at dark and guineas don't like going into dark places, so need to shine a light on the coop entrance to make it more inviting.
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It's rarely windy here. Even at 600ft up we're too sheltered by surrounding forest and other mountains
Moriath
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Or sunnyIt's rarely windy here. Even at 600ft up we're too sheltered by surrounding forest and other mountains
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So sunny my stream has totally dried up!Or sunny
Not have had rain of any real note since February tbh.
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Boom, headshot
China declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal
Trading Bitcoin and other crypto-currenices is a criminal activity, China's central bank says.
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Not really. It's kind of been predicted for a long while now.Boom, headshot
China declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal
Trading Bitcoin and other crypto-currenices is a criminal activity, China's central bank says.www.bbc.co.uk
China's communist party want total control of the system of money. Crypto, by design, takes it out of their hands. So what do you expect from the authoritarian asshats?
But you celebrate the communists m8
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Meh. Plenty of cryptos have genuine massive capacity for environmental good.It means you won't be able to gain wealth from Chinese environmental damage any longer
Moriath
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We'll be low on petrol in some garages for a bit. Then we'll train then hire some more HGV drivers (at better wages than they previously got).
It's not like we're trying to train nuclear construction engineers. It's learning to drive a fucking truck safely.
It's not like we're trying to train nuclear construction engineers. It's learning to drive a fucking truck safely.
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We'll be low on petrol in some garages for a bit. Then we'll train then hire some more HGV drivers (at better wages than they previously got).
It's not like we're trying to train nuclear construction engineers. It's learning to drive a fucking truck safely.
I don't think you understand how complex it is to be a truck driver and why the processes are fucked up to do it.
I had a mate who started the process (costing thousands of pounds) and the reputable company he went with has been dicking him around for months.
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I know a few truck drivers, I couldn't even begin to get my head around the spacial awareness they have. It's not just trundling up and down the M1.
Edit. Yeah, wages will have to increase, as with any industry that relied on paying fuck all to foreign workers. All wages are going to have to go up because our unemployment levels are so low. Supply/demand, a great time to be working.
Edit. Yeah, wages will have to increase, as with any industry that relied on paying fuck all to foreign workers. All wages are going to have to go up because our unemployment levels are so low. Supply/demand, a great time to be working.
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The process and getting certified is a ball ache. But lets face it - it's not fucking hard is it. Not really.
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We'll be low on petrol in some garages for a bit. Then we'll train then hire some more HGV drivers (at better wages than they previously got).
It's not like we're trying to train nuclear construction engineers. It's learning to drive a fucking truck safely.
You also need Class 3 in ADR to drive a tanker with petrol.
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I *really* think it is though.
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How long does HGV driver training take? | L&T Transport
How long does HGV driver training take? | L&T Transport Training Services.
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Hmm. Pretty fucking simple eh? But maybe the Tanker Petrol thing?
Here's the syllabus for the Petroleum Drivers Passport accreditation.
It's a half day training course in a classroom and a 45 minute multiple choice ticklist. With regular recerts. Hardly the stuff to break out in sweats about.
This is why it's low paid. Because it's fucking easy. Get a grip people. You can identify as a working class hero all you like - but if it means you start spouting shit to support this stuff then you've failed at rational thinking.
Driving trucks of shit about doesn't require a PhD in Astrophysics.
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Weight distribution, physics, reversing a 16m trailer around a corner, trigonometry. Route planning (yeah not as much these days but still a thing) time management. Actually staying awake driving for so many hours.
It's not as simple as driving your hatchback to Tesco.
It's not as simple as driving your hatchback to Tesco.
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Man has worked in several jobs, including at Unilever where one of his roles was supervising tanker drivers bringing all the dangerous chemicals onto site.
They're not the sharpest tools in the box. Because they don't have to be.
But yes. Now "man works in office because he's got the smarts to do so - and so he doesn't have to drive HGV's around at pittance wages".
Dress it up however you like. You're bare-faced lying if you say it's hard.
And by hard I don't mean "long hours" or "shitty conditions". I mean - hard in a way that significant portions of the population can't do it. Actually hard.
It's "hard" being a minimum wage care-home worker. You work in shitty conditions for minimum pay with wanky bosses and regularly get assaulted by your alzheimers-suffering residents. One of my best friend's missus' was one for 30 years. I know absolutely that it's "hard" - in terms of "it's a tough job".
But it's not fucking hard - is it? Otherwise it would pay.
If an HGV driver can do the well-paid jobs why don't they do them? Oh yes. Because they're fucking hard.
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I don't disagree with that. I can see upward wage pressure because of scarcity of resource.
But it's not scarcity of resource because the job is hard - it's because there's not a lot of people who find the job attractive. Up the wages and loads of people will do it - because loads of people can.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQQgb5hXQGU
Bulgarians, not Romanians, sorry.
Edit: Lol. They do get a mention
