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No idea of course, but hasn't he said he's going to declare a national emergency against the immigration crisis - maybe that would cover it?

I'm not so sure, the only people who've said they want one so far want them to be 20 - 30 years old..

Although, I'm becoming quite attracted to a S-Type V8... the car is so deeply uncool and unattractive yet the idea of it having a big engine stuffed into it is quite cool to me.

Ok - that's a reasonable explanation that wasn't clear to me, thanks.

That is tricky then. I'd have to be convinced that it's enough to warrant exemption vs a special (and possibly, very special) treatment of paying the tax due - it's only a once in a generation tax after all.
I can see a case for government interest in farming given the food supply just going out of business is not a viable proposition.

However, I'm now out of my comfort zone of making sweeping generisations about farmers :)

What do you think is amiss about the idea of one farmer single handedly farmings and then passing it down once they die to one successor?

Seems fine to me, but I'm still not sure why farming (as opposed to a father who ran any other business type) would be exempt from the inheritance tax. I imagine a construction company is also hard on the body and people could die suddenly for example if that's really the cause of concern

Would that help farmers? It might drop them below the IHT threshold and make it easier for them to buy more land to farm.

Maybe getting the value of the land in line with the income you can gather from it would be a good thing. However, I bet that may farmers also like to see / rely on land assets worth £8m and would rail against anything that decreased the value of that as well.

I understand that their being excluded from inheritance tax originally was not meant to be forever - is that correct? I think also that they're now going to be taxed at 20% instead of 40%.

I've not seen (though I've not closely looked) a justification for the original exclusion, nor a reason for them to benefit from the lower rate of tax now, let alone for a total exclusion. Is there a reasonable justification for their exemption other than "just don't want to pay it / asset rich cash poor etc"

I'm guessing it's intended to go to show how they're all such regular guys that us plebs can totally relate to

Trump loves mcDonalds - he served it to whitehouse guests last time.

He's served it and the others are eating it like it's some delicacy to suck up to him.

I always thought of Starmer as more RAF than Army

So the debate is ~£40 on tools

I'm terrible at fret dressing, and usually go to the Boatyard guitar workshop to use their skills / equipment when I do do it. However, Dave there put me onto the Stewmac fret Kisser to use when doing this, which is great to use after minimal levelling with a beam.

It's a bit pricey, but much easy to use. If you find yourself doing this often it might be worth a look.

This is awesome - really look forward to seeing how it goes.

What's the time scale of the course, or rather how long do they typically reckon you can get one built.

Have you started to plan your rosette yet?!

I'd have thought it was pretty obvious that the Russians, ie their government, wants peace, but on their terms.

I think this is a fairly obfuscated way of saying that the Russians want to win the war they started, and be at the point after - where they've got want they wanted and there's no longer any fighting.

You're right, that probably is obvious. Phrasing it as 'they want peace' is disingenuous and not how most people would describe the situation.

It must be that one given the location - can't be too many of them around this neck of the woods.

Regardless that it's a kind of an advert for him, it's pretty cool if it gets enough use that he's comfortable popping to the supermarket in it.

Just saw this parked outside the local supermarket . I don't think I've ever seen one before in the wild - great colour (presumably not original) and pristine condition

Yeah, it was like a short four year change of pace in the lunacy. Maybe you could be generous and say he perhaps he was running the presidency for the times that he would have ideally suited to it - 15 - 20 years ago and when he could have reliably expected 8 years at it.

I still can't help but blame the voters. The French seem to manage this every time they have a presidency election, it's always some right wing loon vs someone no-one really wants but the entire country manages to come out and hold their nose to make the vote. The Dems didn't help themselves, the choice wasn't good, but there's no excuse for failure to vote.

It's the same as Clinton in 2016 I guess - she got to run because it was her turn, no one noticed that she'd been kicking around politics since the mid nineties and no-one liked her.

I thought when Biden was elected, he was meant to have been elected to beat Trump, that would be his legacy. In the meantime the party weas meant to expose and groom his sucessor.

It's mental, they did very little it seems. I heard all kinds of stories - more supreme court judges, more elecotral college votes in various places. I don't follow US politics that closely, but I'm not sure that anythings been reinforced to stand up to someone like Trump a second time.

I can't remember if I've already asked this.

We're looking to get a new kitchen installed - has anyone got any recomendations for a kitchen fitter around Sheen / SW London?

That Iowa poll looked so hopeful the other day - Harris +8 I think? Trump won it by 12.

Tried not to engage in this election too much, but I had found myself starting to get somewhat optimistic the past few weeks - instead it looks like he's walked it.

It's amazing, given the shit they're about to knowingly be served and swallow up, I don't know what you could offer American voters or what they want to change this.

I had this when we started walking my puppy - he sort of didn't know he had to move and just used to sit like a little anchor.

I used to carry a handful of really little treats, like large crumb sized, and drop them in front of him so he had to keep moving to hoover them up.

I remember doing this a few times, but not that it escalated into being a big thing though, I'm sure it probably is a function of time

Sorry! I'm derailing yours :) mine is going to be nothing special for a long time. We moved house recently, it'll be thrown up over a weekend, then I'll be able to move all my tools out of our new sitting room :)

Ok, thanks. I think I might go with that. My understanding is the foil on those sheets acts as a vapour barrier if they're taped up and facing inside, and the 25mm stuff will be an acceptable cost, there's quite a few skips around here at the minute as well, so might be able to find usable offcuts or second hand stuff.

Just to continue with the overkill, I like the idea of humidity control. I use a thermostat meant for terrariums (to keep lizards and snakes in a given temperature range) to turn my radiator on / off. I think it might have humidity control on it as well so might investigate that too.

I build guitars as a side hustle, and it's main use will be as my workshop for that.

Ideally I'd like to get to a position where I could leave my wood / work in progress in there without their moisture content changing too much, but I don't think I'll ever get there with the cheap /small shed that I'm starting with.

However, I do definitely want to stop my planes and chisels from getting dew forming on them, which means that the temperature can't be allowed to drop too low. That means that I'll definitely have a heater on a thermostat, and given that I feel therefore I should insulate it as much as possible to keep the running costs low.

It'll also help with not annoying the neighbours with keeping the noise down at the weekend.

I'm almost certainly overthinking it, just that since I'm setting up a new shed now and I won't be doing this again in the next ten years I want to do it in the correct way.

edit: Hardboard sheets are a good call for the walls / ceiling. I'll likely use that, with some ply for the main wall that I'll hang tools off

Thanks for replying. You're is a great size, mine's going to be a lot smaller - just about big enough to fit a guitar on the workbench I'll build.

I had a heater / thermostat set up in the last one which I'll reuse, just want to make sure I'm not allowing the insulation (which might be wool, maybe PIR) to get damp from trapping condensation in the wrong places.

This is my goto shed / workshop thread :) I've got my new, much more modest, shed arriving in a couple of weeks. Did you insulate yours at all?

In my old one I had a small heater to keep it above the dew point. I just covered the walls in polystyrene and forgot about them but I'd like something a bit better in this one. I'm not sure about vapour barriers / insulation / breathable barriers and the order that they have to go on.

Yes, I agree - I think a decision on those lines might be taken in the future, but we've only just moved in and don't want to make largeish decisions just yet - for now it's quite good for privacy, hiding bike storage etc.

I love chopping stuff out, while my wife tends to prefer to conserve.

Thanks! I'll take some pictures of the plants that are in it and maybe ask again if they might react differently to being pruned - there's a large portion of holly up the other end, away from this photo.
Maybe some of it is Box, I've literally no idea :) I've never had a plant this big before.