sime42
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I agree, I don't know why we're still paying people to sit at home with their feet up, we shouldn't be. (This is obviously ignoring the tricky question of means testing. There are some who have a legitimate reason for not being able to work). We have record numbers of people not working now I think. Just getting our home grown resource back to work isn't going to resolve the labour shortage. Fair enough, they can do the easy stuff like hospitality for instance, but we also need tougher military age male illegal types to do the hard, manual jobs. Their nationality, colour, religion, LGBTQIA+πGHBLSD identity makes not much difference, as long as they can stand in a field all day picking cabbages. I reckon they'd doing a better job at fixing potholes as well.
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Why not let them work for their bed and board? Military age male illegal people would be ideal for filling the labour shortage that is one of the many things grinding us down. Our lazy overweight benefit beneficiaries can't do anything, let alone hard manual labour.
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Looks lovely. But Cross Country skis, really! They always look much too hard work to me, I'd rather let gravity do the work!
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No I wasn't actually, thought you were concurring but I see not. I'll defer to your superior knowledge, as you included no question marks.
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Hah, I was pipped at the post!
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Juniper maybe? Does it have berries?
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Sweet Millions are good. Very much live up to their name. Though I've moved away from cherry toms in favour of bigger types the last few years, The Amateur and Gardener's Delight do well for me. I found picking a decent bowl full of tiny ones got too tedious after a while.
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Wegovy: what you need to know about this weight loss drug THECONVERSATION.COM Overweight or obese patients who meet certain criteria will soon be able to access the much talked about weight-loss jab. Thoughts? Doesn't seem like a good idea to me, far from a sustainable solution. Much better to tackle the root causes of the problem.
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How long have we urban dwellers got?
sime42 replied to openspaceman's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Excessive household cleaning products? -
** Be aware ** We ordered a Chinese takeaway from a local place (I won't name them) just been to pick it up and as I was driving home, I heard the bags rustling and moving!! Omg??!!! I thought what the hell is that. Has something got in the bag, I thought I could see a little pair of eyes peering out at me. I was driving so I leaned forward, picked up the bag, put it on the passenger seat and there it was again, more rustling and little eyes looking out behind the prawn crackers, I thought its got to be a rat or a mouse or something, so I carefully pulled the bag down ... And there it was ... ... A Peeking Duck!!!
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I don't think there's much danger of HanCock staging a come back. He only goes on TV these days if he's paid too much money to eat insects, in a jungle. As for the motivations behind this whole thing; surely it's just driven by the personal agenda of a certain Isabel Oakeshott, and that's hardly a secret, she's very forthright about it. Occam's razor. Don't think its a question of if, more just when - We'll see another pandemic. We're f*cking with nature in so many ways, and there's plenty of hostile regimes around the world for those preferring a man made cause. Then add into the mix things like increasing antibiotic resistance, rising obesity and other health issues, and mass pan global travel. You'd have to be a bit naive to believe that the human race is by any means in control of that lot. We're the author's of our own demise.
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How long have we urban dwellers got?
sime42 replied to openspaceman's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
We stopped putting tea bags in the compost a couple of years back for the same reason. Wish we'd done it sooner, after spending quite a while yesterday fishing the remnants out of otherwise lovely well rotted compost. Maybe time to ditch the bags altogether and switch to loose leaf, I do drink a lot of tea. I don't think there's been any large scale research done on the impact of microplatics in the environment and it's inhabitants, independent or otherwise. It's a huge piece of work to undertake and not much data yet as it's a relatively new phenomenon. The only thing we can be sure of is that it's not going to be a positive impact. Our only hope is to find bacteria or fungi that can eat all the crap with voracious enough appetites! A few contenders have been identified already I think. -
So I got round to making a batch of Sauerkraut last night. Should be ready in a few weeks, month or so. Not my own cabbages unfortunately, but maybe this coming autumn if they do well.
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Of course. The whole government response was a cluster f*ck of incompetence and cronyism from start to finish. Most people realised that long before all this Whatsapp stuff came out though. Anyway, I sense that we're about to go down a well trodden path here so I'll leave you to it if that's ok.
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How long have we urban dwellers got?
sime42 replied to openspaceman's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
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I'll third this children and blueberries thing, they bloody love them. My son will strip our four plants in a couple of minutes if we let him. It's easier to net them against blackbirds. I keep them in large tubs, to cater for their appetite for acid. I planted them in an ericaceous soil/compost mix and also add acidic stuff sometimes, coffee grounds, conifer chippings, pine needles etc. They seem to thrive. Keeping them pretty wet helps too, they love water. I'd rate blueberries as my favourite soft fruit I think. Easy to cultivate, (once you've done the above), very heavy cropping, no insect pests that I've seen and tasty.
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The guy is a naive idiot as well as an arrogant B*ll End. I can't believe he thought it was going to be a good idea to give all the dodgy Whatsapp messages to a journalist with her track record. There was only ever going to be one outcome.
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More like they stopped when the transit was full up. Most "tree surgeons" of that ilk that I see don't seem to have a chipper so just throw the brash in the van as is. Doesn't take much to fill it up working like that.
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Cheers both. Sounds like I shouldn't complain too much. Forgot to mention that we do live towards the edge of a big city. It is Yellow Finches that I really want to entice into the garden. They always look exotic to me, with their bright red faces. I do deploy Niger/Nyger seed, but still no luck. Even freshly put out stuff, from different sources, (I read somewhere that it needs to be fresh, maybe on here)
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Too many Tits! Yep, as hard as it may be to believe, one can have too many tits. In the garden. We get loads of the little buggers, but not much else. Mainly Blue Tits but also the very occasional Coal, Great and a gang of Long tailed. Plus the ubiquitous robins and blackbirds. Nothing ever that interesting or rare though. I don't know why, we put out a variety of different food. Anyone know if Blue Tits actively repel other birds? They can be aggressive little sods.
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Apparently you can apply the same principle to tomatoes. Frequently brushing your hand over young plants leads to stronger mature plants better able to produce and support a heavy crop. Can't say I've ever tried and tested it.
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In a tree! Sorry, couldn't resist. There's must be loads of places that people would recommend so if you give a rough location it'll help narrow it down a bit.
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How long have we urban dwellers got?
sime42 replied to openspaceman's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
I've found sound to be a fairly good indicator of log dryness, moisture content. They almost "ring" when you knock really dry logs together. But if in doubt use a moisture meter. Maybe stove manufactures should include them in the box with new sales. They'll be plenty of idiots intent on burning whatever rubbish, wet wood or otherwise, they can, but more people will have the best of intentions but not the knowledge to tell wet from dry. -
Hard to believe that he didn't notice that he was driving along with the tipper up.
