OV9

Re. this Minnesota thing. At least as far as our coverage is going, the trees seems to be very much obscuring the wood.

An outrageously shocking thing has happened. A woman has been killed for absolutely no reason and the administration are bare faced lying about it. But all the media coverage ...

The writing suggestion is interesting and I'm not ruling it out, I just find writing to be one of those things which has a wall in front of it unless the planets align. I'm not sure why, partially dyslexia (I actually spelled that wrong, the irony!) and partially attention span of a gnat maybe ...

I hope you're right, but it does feel like its a precarious house of cards ready to come crashing down.


I would agree with that. It's sensible to scope out what is around you - we were totally unprepared when we had to arrange respite care for mum at short notice when the wheels came off her ...

Similarly, the situation with my dad's health has continued to decline, although without any dramatic collapse. His grip on reality grows increasingly tenuous, and his mobility is teetering on becoming non-existent. Again, I suspect things will move to the next phase in 2026.


My reflection on ...

I did try and actively tackle the mental health stuff last year, which seems obvious but is a big deal. Unfortunately the process proved my earlier point of being a waste of time and money. I got several months in, to that stage where meaningful progress was beginning, then the practice which ...

Controversially, I've gone for 70s, although I really mean late-60s-early 70s.

Obviously, the 80s and 90s are stacked with way *cooler* stuff as you've all mentioned, and modern era stuff is way faster, but that 60s/70s period was the pinnacle of what was conceivably possible by blokes in sheds ...

Not sure quite why, but 2025 *feels* like its been a treading water year, but I guess it's because quite a lot of things are kinda in transition, and not much has fully come to fruition yet.

Work has generally gone pretty well. It's been a lot more intense that I had intended it to be, so a bit ...

I’m pretty sure they were after the Evora, but they just ambled about nonchalantly nibbling shrubs instead - clearly a cover.


Wrong. The correct answer was "no idea" with some lean into them being partially sighted.

Setup to a cracker joke, wasted :(


What do you call a deer with no ...

The law doesn't draw a difference between tube fed and box fed, so yeah, it's the same category as any semi-auto shotgun with more than 2+1 capacity.

And yeah, I see the scary/serious thing. Ultimately, the job of a race gun is the accurately throw as much lead downrange as possible, as quickly as ...

Happy chrimbo one and all

Thought some of you would like to see my latest race gun build.

This one is for "open" class practical shotgun. Here is how it arrived to me:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1202687176370823199/1415942348990582785/1817554_-_photo_1_1755592503_big.jpg?ex=694cd512&is=694b8392&hm ...

240PP wrote: Fri Dec 05, 2025 4:28 pm Started off a bit Vic Reeves club singer. Decent tune though.

Look at how much is left of that bottle of bucky. I think I'd be a bit Vic Reeves too

And while I'm posting, you can have this as well:

I find it slightly shocking that I've lived in Scotland for 23 years now, and I didn't even know who Gerry Cinnamon was.

According to my daughter, a bit like Aussies abroad take Men at Work as their unofficial national anthem, the Scottish youngsters have taken this:
https://youtu.be/GdOwd5RqKLk ...

Doing my own this year. As a fairly lazy and quickly repeatable filling:
1 jar standard Lidl mincemeat
1 apple finely chopped
2 satsumas finely chopped
1/2 pack unsalted mixed nuts, blitzed
1 good slug of brandy

Plus standard sweet shortcrust recipe.

They feel a lot more grown up than most ...

Hardly a surprise. Someone has to restock the house after a burglary

I don't *necessarily* have a problem with means testing some benefit either, but let's have ideological consistently and honesty.

There is a sliding scale between the full free market, every-man-for-himself ideology, and the full on rawlsian socialism which views income redistribution as an end in ...

I just don't get these changes at all. My understanding is that the cost to the taxpayer is no different depending on the cost of the car? So this becomes purely about the optics of someone knocking about in an Audi A4 rather than a Skoda Octavia. It's daft. And who decides what's "premium ...

I've just spent the weekend in Glasgow with some music types, and amongst various new musical discoveries, I found this gem. I think the performance can be safely described as "full weejie"

My MIG is the top Machine Mart (Clarke) one (240 amp IIRC). It's *just* good enough for my level of welding (i.e. powerful enough to do semi-structural stuff, but accurate enough to make an OK job of the thin stuff). It's not a patch on my mate's entry-level Kempe - that massively flatters my ...