sime42
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Oh. I assumed that the fish ate the frog spawn and small tadpoles. We've tried introducing both a few times now, but to no avail. Are French goldfish vegetarian or something?
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Sad times indeed, wrt to the dearth of wildlife everywhere. It saddens me as well that not that many people seem to care. Not sure if most people just don't know, or don't even believe that the world as we know it is collapsing around us. I'd love to have frogs but she has always wanted gold fish, so we've got them instead. It's a case of either or in a small pond. I'm just waiting for them to die off now, we started with 5 and now down to only 2 so getting there! Also, thousands of pond snails. The Mason Bees are out in force here this week. I think the warmth and nice weather have brought them out. They're always more active when it's sunny. It turns out that they're difficult subjects to photograph, it took me scores of goes just to get this unsatisfactory one. Interestingly, I also spotted some tiny parasitic wasps that prey on the bees I think. Not so good.
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The same. Mainly CDs with a bit of YouTube and other online streamers occasionally.
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My Mrs has an Iranian friend. She likes to eat rhubarb as a raw stick, dipped in salt. The norm there apparently.
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Monkey's Fist Knot | How to tie a Monkey's Fist Knot using Step-by-Step Animations | Animated Knots by Grog WWW.ANIMATEDKNOTS.COM The Monkey's Fist is used both as a decorative knot and to weight the end of a heaving line. Very satisfying to make. Definitely doesn't undue by itself so more of a decorative, or permanent throwing knot. I read somewhere that it was used to make a Bolas.
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A Throwing or Heaving Line knot?
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Mashed Swede with lashings of butter and black pepper is excellent. An integral part of Christmas dinner when my aunt cooks it.
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Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version
sime42 replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Picture Forum
A large prostrate Walnut tree. Complete with resident Dandelion growing in a rot pocket. -
Bowline for everything and anything requiring a loop. Plus one of it's more secure variations occasionally. Anchor for tying to a krab or similar hard ring. There's a good chance of untying it, unlike a Buntline) Sheet or Zeppelin for joining ropes. Distel for climbing. Clove hitch for lots of stuff, but not by itself if high loading. (An interesting and easy variation on that is the Sack/Miller's knot or maybe Constrictor knot, forget the names. Much more secure, can be too secure, so better for something approaching permanent). Alpine Butterfly or bowline on a bight for midline stuff. Or an Artillery Loop if it's not critical, as it's much easier and quicker than a Butterfly. Trucker's hitch for a bit more pull on something. I always think I should be using a Figure of Eight knot for some things but never quite feel the need.
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Apple Trees again - Biennial Bearing
sime42 replied to sime42's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Thank you both. So it's by no means a simple matter to resolve. Shame, but to be expected. I'll start off by thinning this years fruit. Slightly confused about doing the blossom vs the fruitlets though. What's the harm in doing it now, at the blossom stage, other than the risk of ending up with too few fruit due to the June drop and some flowers not being set? @Peasgood - there is actually plenty of vegetative growth always, too much probably. I've pruned if off already, I think I did it late last winter. The form of the tree is still very much WIP! It is on a M106 rootstock if I remember rightly. -
So this tree seems to have set itself firmly in a Biennial Cropping routine. There were hardly any flowers/fruit last year, and too many the year before. Now it's inundated again. They're big apples as well, no way the tree will take it if even half of them set. Any advice on how get it out of this pattern, reset the tree to a more balanced annual cropping? Thanks. Is it even possible?
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Now there's another fond childhood memory. Building tunnels in hay barns. And trying, but never succeeding, in catching any of the hundreds of stray kittens that always lived in them. A few years later we did actually find something good in a neighbour's hay barn. Some different kind of pussies. His elder brother's "top shelf magazine" stash! Imagine our glee as 12 - 14 year olds.
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Glad to see that he is still upholding his reputation. Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID | Local elections 2024 | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Former PM made the requirement to bring photo ID a stipulation of the Elections Act in 2022
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Yeah, I remember the old three point linkage balancing act as well.
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Warming to the theme now. How about getting dropped off by the school bus at the end of a 1 mile long un-tarmacked lane and then walking the rest of the way home. Occasionally, if it was raining too heavily, mum would come and get us on the motorbike, one on the front, one on the back. Deepest, darkest Devon. Those were the days. Non of this being ferried by car right into the classroom bollox.
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This suggests not - I'd not heard of the Hand before, so thanks for that little gem.
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I don't know, not particularly good on my meat cuts.
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Oh well, points for a slight effort I suppose. It was chicken, and it was curry flavour.
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Similar. At my mates place they weren't very good at auditing/stock control. They never used to count or measure the amounts of substances that were seized apparently.
