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I pity the poor wives in your neck of the woods! Someone is drinking a hell of a lot these energy drinks. Must be the young'uns as previously suggested. I'm sure its been linked to antisocial behaviour. A diet of this, NOX and high strength weed can't be good! Tesco gave us 8 cans of RockStar drink, I think it was, in our last food delivery. For free. This stuff is really being pushed at the moment.

That as well. You'd have to pay me to drink the stuff these days. I'm not worried about the bull's testicles, (that it reputedly contained when it first came out), more all the artificial crap in there. I'll stick to coffee.

I thought that was going to be Daniel MacAskill, it's the crazy kind of stunt that he pulls. Undoubtedly impressive but you've got to ask why. I think Red Bull have more money than sense sometimes, but maybe it's all just good marketing and promotion.

Likewise. Most of my seedlings are still looking shyte in this black shyte they call compost. Getting really pissed off with it. I'm starting to transplant all of them into decent homemade stuff now.

I thought you were our resident expert on all things Moonbat. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ This isn't moonbat territory, just eminently sensible thinking. I'm not familiar with this guy but I'd imagine him to have a rational and unblinkered mindset.

Good question, I've been thinking the same myself. I cut a load down last year and loath to consign it all to firewood, though it is good as such.. It seems pretty dense and hard, must be good for some tool making or something. I was planning to turn some at least but it seems prone to splitting.

I figured that it was destined to be a "cute" plaything for some vacuous drug dealers moll.

Stunned cops discover LAMB in car along with £10k worth of drugs during motorway stop WWW.GLASGOWTIMES.CO.UK Stunned cops who pulled over a suspected drug driver this weekend found £10,000 of Class A drugs - and a tiny lamb. Comedy captions anyone?

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I've not seen that, but I can believe it. Probably part of the Tesla R and D strategy. I'm with you on that, I wouldn't spend money on one, even if I could. Though I was impressed with the video my mate proudly sent me; of his Tesla efficiently parking itself. (He was stood outside filming it.) Much better than most human efforts you see these days.

It's the Tesla ethos as well, probably an Elon Musk thing. He's the same with making cars. If there's a long established way of doing something then he'll deliberately go out of his way to try other approaches. Most of which fail but all the time he's gathering valuable failure mode data and eventually finds a method/process/technology that is superior to anything else. Got to admire him for it, constantly pushing the limits. He is an A-Hole though!

Nice. Like an Anglo Pesto, like it. We picked a load of wild garlic last weekend. Weren't so creative with it though, she just fried it up with some egg and soy sauce. Still good. We also picked a bag of stinging nettles. They're also very good. I simply fried them with some olive oil, salt and pepper. Interesting, nice, flavour and surprisingly dense texture. Highly recommended. Full of iron and other good stuff apparently.

You've missed several points as usual. No matter. I'm always happy to provide you a "reasonable reply" to use as a launch pad to go off on your favourite rants. 👍 COVID - check Masks - check Vaccines - check SNP - check Labour - check Kier Starmer - check Knee taking - check Not bad, though I missed a couple of seques to offshore wind turbines and LGBTQIA??2S+/- type topics.

Yep that's the stuff, very dark and fibrous and full of rubbish. I've had some like that. I speculated that it was from some kind of municipal recycling facility. I think I've even recognised pieces of the Toolstation Garden Waste bags! Excellent bags by the way, very tough, (obviously, since they got through the recycling process). Good point about residue weedkillers and other chemicals, I'd not considered that. If there are traces in the compost it could explain how some seeds germinate and then just do nothing and then finally give up.

Nah mate, it's fairly obvious to me; what's right wing and what's not. The content of the "news" being purveyed gives you a pretty strong clue. ""I’m happy to use my own judgement, it’s seen me ok over the years. Particularly the last 2-3"" - really? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ Each to their own like but I'd be seriously questioning my judgement if I thought I'd been "seen ok" by the corruption, profiteering, dishonesty and blatant lying that has occurred over the last 2-3 years. They're not looking after you mate, honestly. It's not even a Right Vs Left debate, a decent Conservative government would be a great improvement on what we've had recently. I was going to say that to be fair, Mr Sunak seems to have a modicum of sense and integrity unlike the previous two PMs at least, but after today's revelation, maybe not. We can but hope. Surely even you must have wondered why we've been run down to the worst performing economy in the G7 and probably even G20 in just a few short years. Before you go off on one and start your normal ranting and whining about Covid; every other country has been through the same, some with more stringent restrictions as well. We're not the only country to feel the impact of Putin's shenanigans either for that matter.

Trying to wean ourselves off it. It's soo tempting though with these chilly evenings still.

The fruit trees are mainly tiddlers but they're punching above their weight so far this year.

There's leggy and then there's leggy. Jeeze. Never heard of that before. Are you sure they're not grapes?!

Yep, I've noticed exactly the same things the last few years, most peat free compost seems crap. Loads of plastic, and other rubbish and lots of sizable twigs and wood chips. It must be a direct result of using more recycled material in place of the traditional peat. I'm loath to go back to using peat though so I guess we're stuck with it. I could use homemade compost as well I suppose but no way I can make enough of that. After the initial seedling stage I normally use a 50/50 mixture of topsoil and compost anyway. It gives a more "meaty" consistency, better water retention and it's cheaper! I'm sure all the soil micro-organisms are benefial too.

Eh? I take it you mean 3 inches? 3 foot before a true leaf would be funny.

How's everyone's veggies getting on then? Mine aren't doing great so far this season. We've loads of seedlings inside on window sills;- chillies, toms, cucumbers, courgettes, gourds, peas, sweetcorn None have done much since germinating and being potted on, they've barely grown over the last 2 or 3 weeks. It's odd. It must be either the weather or perhaps some dodgy cheapo compost that I've got. I think the former is more likely as the average temperatures are still quite low. Though I've also got a few hardier things outside in the greenhouse like cabbages and various salad things, they are coming on nicely as usual. Garlic is looking good on the plus side, and the cherries and plums are having a bumper year, never seen so much blossom. Hopefully a decent amount sets and doesn't get attacked. Still a little early for the apples but they're just starting to bud and it looks like they'll be following the example set by the Prunus.

This is useful if you can't tell the political bias of a "news" source :- City Journal - Media Bias/Fact Check MEDIABIASFACTCHECK.COM RIGHT BIAS These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward conservative causes through story...

He should have just flopped his junk out on the table right there in the clinic. 🤔 Though thinking about it, I'm not sure that even precludes you from getting pregnant these days.