Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Exec.

Are you sure?

I thought they were standing for leader and deputy leader of the Con party.

High pollution levels ‘causing huge reduction in intelligence’

Air pollution causes a “huge” reduction in intelligence, according to new research, indicating that the damage to society of toxic air is far deeper than the well-known impacts on physical health.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/27/air-pollution-causes-huge-reduction-in-intelligence-study-reveals

Just ordered up some 'Easigrass'.

Installation Method as per: How to Install Easigrass

Our lawn is not exactly 'doing a bomb' but these people are. In fact, despite using a lawn care service, fertilizing, weed killing, hollow tine aeration, scarification, opposite direction mowing, etc., our lawn looks absolutely crap. So we are both fed up with trying so hard and have decided, "To hell with it!".

Anyone else on here used them and got any comments?

Try having a clover lawn.

At least you will have a chance of better luck.

But there again Moss lawns are easier to grow.

;-)

Bloody French, eh? "God save the Queen!" "Le jour de gloire est arrivee" etc., etc.

From the FT at https://www.ft.com/content/7a22c094-ab64-11e8-94bd-cba20d67390c
by Naomi Rovnick in London and Harriet Agnew in Paris AN HOUR AGO

What caused the ‘scallop war’ in the English Channel?
French and British scallop fishermen clash over rights to harvest prized molluscs

The two countries' scallop fishermen are bound by different rules

In the early hours of Tuesday, fighting broke out between French and British fishermen about 12 nautical miles off the French coast, as seamen allegedly hurled rocks, smoke bombs and other projectiles at their adversaries. The British boats were reportedly outnumbered seven-to-one by French vessels.

Why did the fighting start?

The violence followed a long-simmering row over the rights of fishermen from both countries to harvest scallops, with the French fishermen protesting against what they see as British overfishing of the prized Normandy scallops known as “coquille Saint-Jacques”.

The large molluscs are considered such a delicacy in France that local media outlets often report the first day they will be on sale. The scallops are sold with a red label that verifies them as being “the real Saint Jacques” from the waters off the coast of Normandy, Scotland or Ireland.

What are the rules surrounding scallop harvesting?

French and British fisherman are bound by different rules when it comes to harvesting in the English Channel.

French fisherman are only permitted to harvest the molluscs between October 1 and May 15, beyond a 12-nautical-mile exclusion zone off the coast, in accordance with environmental rules designed to maximise breeding.

British fishermen do not operate under the same restrictions, but generally agree not to raid the scallop stocks when the French are restricted from doing so.

Dimitri Rogoff, president of the regional Normandy fishing committee, told French media that the French boats had “gone out to meet the British to stop them working”.

“Rocks were thrown, but no one was injured,” he added. He did not respond to an emailed request for further comment.

Has this happened before?

In 2012, British fishing boats also found themselves surrounded by French fishermen, who complained that their counterparts were attempting to fish the molluscs too close to the French shore. The British fishermen claimed to have been insulted and pelted with rocks, and later requested protection from the Royal Navy. The French media dubbed the incident “la guerre de la coquille Saint-Jacques”.

In the four years that followed, representatives for the French and British scallop dredgers struck informal agreements over British access to the coquille Saint-Jacques outside of the October-May period.

“Until 2017, the French granted some fishing activity for our smallest vessels. In exchange, we promised that our bigger boats did not go in,” said Jim Portus, chief executive of the South Western Fish Producer Organisation, a British trade body.

But too many of the smaller British vessels, which comply with the previously agreed criteria for year-round access to the scallops, were now entering the fishing zone, said the Regional Committee for Maritime Fisheries and Marine Farms of Normandy in a statement.

“The resource is plundered by the British even before the French open fishing,” the committee added.

The French fishermen want their British counterparts to agree to a common period for fishing for scallops, creation of a defined fishing area, and for gear used by both nations’ boats to be harmonised.

What happens next?

Mr Portus said British fishermen who enter the disputed waters needed government protection to continue going about their business.

“I want boats back in that area in the next 24 hours,” he said. “They are entitled to be there and they shouldn’t be harassed or in danger. So we need protection resources in the channel.”

Dale Rodmell, assistant chief executive of the National Federation of Fishermens’ Organisations, a British trade body, urged for calm negotiations by fishermen on both sides.

“The British and French sides now really need to talk, as these matters are always best resolved by everyone getting together around a table,” Mr Rodmell said.

A European Commission spokesperson said: “We saw the reports involving French and British fishermen off the coast of Normandy. The scallop fishery is regulated at the national level and over the past years common management measures have been agreed between France, the UK and Ireland.

“So it is in the interest, first and foremost, of the fishermen that this agreement is in place and we invite the national authorities to resolve any dispute in an amicable way, as has been done in the past.”

The key paragraphs to me are:

French fisherman are only permitted to harvest the molluscs between October 1 and May 15, beyond a 12-nautical-mile exclusion zone off the coast, in accordance with environmental rules designed to maximise breeding.

British fishermen do not operate under the same restrictions, but generally agree not to raid the scallop stocks when the French are restricted from doing so.

If there is a no deal situation....everybody returns to their own hunting grounds…..ouch !....that situation would probably better suit the British fishermen than the French......hope this is sorted.....crazy situation having a battle between fishermen....

I wonder if the EU will ban English "Fish" products.

On what grounds?

About as likely as us banning German cars.

Tighter regulations to protect EU fisheries and fishing.

Dil [Send an email to Dil] [View Dil's profile] - 30 Aug 2018 10:27 - 81150 of 81152

About as likely as us banning German cars.

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Not banning, maybe burning them like an English owned cottage.

Cheers,
KidA

Easigrass, Doc?

Sounds like something you'd buy in an Amsterdam coffee shop.

:o)

:-)

Maybe at Euro prices too.....

Changed my DNS to 1.1.1.1 recently following lots of various online tips to do so.

Made a note of what it was previously, of course, so as to change back again should the need arise.

My PC seemed much faster and happier than before, as did the downloads

....and then....

My BT online e-mail has been hacked with an unmovable advert in and amongst the regular e-mails in the Inbox.

The Spam box got one of these too, but that disappeared on deleting all the spam.

I do believe, that BT are responsible for the hack.

Aha!

I've just updated ALL my software using 'PatchMyPC'. I did this because there is a new version of CCleaner. Then, of course, I've run CCleaner.

CCleaner seems to have shifted whatever it was. The advert is now gone.

"As long as I can say what I want, vote as I wish, and I am getting my own way I don't mind what I have to do."

Any target will do.

Come to mind.

Wrong thread!

Dum, dum, dum, dum, d-dum, dum, d-dum. Oh, I'm afraid the NEC will be quite operational when your friends arrive.

except fred that first you actually have to vote!