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Kids back to school. Or their customers turn into lemmings.

I think so.

Are you sure?

How dare you? Yeah, most are obviously of that ilk. Although I do believe that there are a few on the sidelines who are motived and well informed. The problem is that they don't get anywhere in this foolhardy new world of personality politics.

Nah, not this lot, not so much. It'll be making the big oil and gas companies a fat wad though that's for sure.

Guessing she was of Cantonese heritage. As are all Chinese takeaways here. North Eastern Chinese food is very different, Szechuan kind of thing. More chillies and other interesting stuff like Sichuan Pepper. Less controversial stuff like grubs. As an aside, she doesn't cook much at all, I do most. So when I say Chinese I mean my approximation of it.

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Pork. And beans Chinese style.

Not my work. A customer made them from stuff I cut down. That was probably ten years ago; still going strong today.

Anything to add @Johnsond? It's very unlike you to stay silent on a subject such as this. Surely you've got a LinxedIn screenshot to stick up to confirm this as real news, rather than Fake Facebook News? You're normally first on the scene with the scoop, don't be shy now, you can emerge from the shadows.

Chippering apples is definitely a thing. I've heard if it being done successfully before, forget where, but probably a cider making book. I think you'd still have to press the pulp though to express the juice. Putting them through the chipper would just be the "Scratting" stage, prior to pressing.

Carbon Capture is a bag o' wank really. It's just something seized upon by lazy, ill-informed politicians to try to convince the masses that they're doing something proactive. They're not. It'll never even get close to fixing the problem, but instead just waste a load of money and effort. Why carbon capture and storage is not a real climate solution DAVIDSUZUKI.ORG CCS is often pointed to as a climate solution by Big Oil and Gas. Here are the main reasons why it isn't a climate solution.

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Damson wine? I was tempted to with some of ours, only decided against it as I've 101 other things I need to do at the moment. I've a friend who makes it, it's very good.

Picked the majority of our one small tree this evening. Best year it's had in a long time. It was laden. Plus a couple more small bowls that we've already eaten. That lot is destined to be stewed and bottled tomorrow. I thought about jam but there's still too many jars in the cupboard from previous years. The strange thing is that here was not one single worm in all that lot. Very surprising as there's normally a good few. Something to do with the extremely dry summer I wonder?

Trade Descriptions Act breach! They're dismantled shelves, not planks.

No way. Well, there's your claim to fame!

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It's the cereal game, I thought you'd started it a few posts back, a new version of the AT fish game. I'm no fan of Starmer, but he's not even on the same scale as Robinson, (or Farage for that matter), when it comes to divisiveness. He (Starmer), seems to be pretty much universally unpopular! Which is good in one respect, as it provides some common ground in an increasingly divided world.

I'm amaized that anyone could actually like either The Tommy or The Donald. My dislike of both is based on the divisive, hate filled BS that they both pump out into the public domain. (As they have been doing since long before the recent advent of AI). They're both cereal pumpers in that respect. The latter is clearly a narcissist, I'm not sure about the former. You don't really need to know people like that to form an opinion; not when they share, (subject everyone to), their values and propaganda so readily and at such volume. Can you direct me towards anything that might portray either men as normal, decent, compassionate human beings? You know, hardworking blokes just trying to get on in life. Other than that, I believe we're agreeing again. A vat of salt is required if you're viewing anything on social media or anything that comes from AI. What do you think to all these data centres that are being built across our green and pleasant land?

I don't know rye AI is being so relentlessly pushed by the government. Think how many better uses there are for all that land that's being taken over for data centres. Data centres to be expanded across UK as concerns mount WWW.BBC.CO.UK The number of data centres is set to jump by a fifth in the coming years, figures seen by the BBC suggest.