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Looks it to me. Or maybe a hybrid between Blackthorn and Damson or Bullace.

I don't have strong feelings either way. On balance I think it'll be a pretty pointless exercise, it won't achieve much. It may well make the situation worse by driving tobacco into the hands of criminals, at least with it being regulated at the moment there is some control over what goes into tobacco products. Once it gets into the black market there'll be all sorts of crap in there, over and above the cocktail of toxic chemicals already in tobacco. This isn't exactly prohibition, but it's not far off. And everyone knows prohibition never works. Where drugs are concerned the legal status barely makes much difference to most people. From a personal perspective as someone who once smoked, the fact that it had become illegal certainly wouldn't have made me stop, I would've just sourced it from somewhere else. Same as other stuff. I stopped for my own health benefit, and that of my family, nought to do with the law. Anyway most people start much younger in life, below the current legal age limit, so raising it will make very little difference to anyone. If the government are really serious about Public Health, (and I don't for one minute believe that they are), then there's far higher priorities in this day and age. There's not even that many smokers anymore from what I've seen around, it's a dying habit! Things like Ultra Processed Food, poor air quality, lack of exercise etc are far more pressing concerns. And then there's vaping, kids vaping specifically. I think we've just seen the tip of the iceberg with that, I get the feeling it's going to turn into a massive shit shower. The govn ought to get some kind of handle on these public health issues before they go back and waste time and money on good old fashioned smoking.

Another eye fcker;-

VID-20231005-WA0005.mp4 HS2 finally heads up North.

Negative environmental impact of HS2 could worsen with scaling back | HS2 | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Despite efforts to mitigate biodiversity loss, planning has destroyed parts of ancient woodlands and damage will continue... Just a rumour apparently, the wrecking work for phase two hasn't really been started in earnest yet. Not that that's going to improve the situation though, according to this.

Rishi Sunak defends his plan to ban smoking for younger generation WWW.BBC.CO.UK The prime minister tells the BBC he backs the move because there is "no safe level of smoking".

Choose life. VID-20231004-WA0002.mp4

Thanks. That bugger is certainly loaded with fruit. It's like the tree has aimed to use every available inch of space along the branches. I wonder if it's shallow rooting habit is due to its having evolved to grow in sand dunes on the coast. Probably no advantage to being deep rooted in that situation.

You'd have to guard your Bifora testiculata, or you might end up with a Phallus impudicus.

Learnt presumably from that fine, upstanding Pillar of the Arbtalk Community.

Yes please to the cultivar name. I'll be interested to try that growing and using that. Puckeringly sour we can deal with. I've done a fair bit of home brewing in the past, though never mead. What's the rough proportions of honey/water/sea buckthorn juice?

As spot-on as ever.

Fixed that for you.

Monica Lewinsky?

Only of the weed tree variety. Seedlings from helicopter seeds that have landed in untended pots.

What does it taste like? It's one of these things that I imagine to be horrendously sour/bitter/dry/astringent unless you add a rook of sugar to it. Like the Hawthorne berries that I tried a while back. Full of healthy goodness but in no way palatable by themselves!

Are we back to Chinese Wind Farms again? 🤷‍♂️ Apologies, my mistake, I misread the somewhat ambiguous statement. 🤷‍♂️ In which case; how is "ULEZ another bit of lunacy that is contributing to Glasgows decline"? No, I don't know where the M8 runs. I've only been to Glasgow briefly, some years ago. I know nothing of the ULEZ situation or history there. Presumably it was poorly implemented, without nuance and lacking in common sense. I was hoping that you could elaborate for us, and give some insight into your outrage. Based on anecdotal evidence as experienced by yourself and "everyone you know" of course. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ Before you ask - no, I'm not an SNP supporter! There was an informal pole of residents on our road on making it a "no through road, residents only" type effort a couple of years ago. There was a slight majority in favour. Never going to happen though as there's a fire station at one end and a train station at the other. What do you think to the drug consumption rooms in Scotland anyway? That was the original subject before you descended into your rat frenzy. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230818-drug-war-bloodbath-shakes-marseille-as-rival-gangs-shoot-it-out-1

Vaseline The only friction in their marriage was the husband's habit of farting loudly every morning when he woke. The noise would wake his wife and the smell would make her eyes water and make her gasp for air. Every morning she would plead with him to stop ripping them off because it was making her sick. He told her he couldn't stop and that it was perfectly natural. She told him to see a doctor; she was concerned that one day he would blow his guts out. The years went by and he continued to rip them out ! Then one Thanksgiving morning as she was preparing the turkey for dinner and he was upstairs asleep, she looked at the bowl where she had put the turkey innards, neck, gizzard, liver and all the spare parts a malicious thought came to her. She took the bowl and went upstairs where her husband was sound asleep and gently pulling back the bedcovers she pulled back the elastic waistband of his shorts and emptied the bowl of turkey guts into his shorts. Some time later she heard her husband waken with his usual trumpeting which was followed by a blood curdling scream and the sound of frantic footsteps as he raced to the bathroom. The wife could hardly control herself as she rolled on the floor laughing, Tears in her eyes. After all the years of torture she reckoned she had got her revenge. About twenty minutes later, her husband came downstairs in his bloodstained shorts with a look of horror on his face. She bit her lip as she asked what was the matter. He said Honey, you were right. All those years you warned me and I didn't listen to you. "What do you mean," asked his wife. "Well, you always told me one day I would end up farting my guts out and today it finally happened. But by the grace of god, some vaseline and these two fingers, I think I got most of them back in."

Northern leg of HS2 to Manchester will be scrapped NEWS.SKY.COM After weeks of speculation, the high-speed rail line between Birmingham and Manchester is set to be shelved, Sky...

Interesting plants. Are you growing it for the berries? They're pretty robust I think, and used as a hedging plant, so shouldn't be too fussed about being cut about. Some info here;- Sea Buckthorn Hedging | Hippophae rhamnoides | Hedges Direct WWW.HEDGESDIRECT.CO.UK

My kind of faggots;

This has got to be a good idea surely? Gillian Keegan pledges crackdown on mobiles in schools WWW.BBC.CO.UK The education secretary says pupils in England should be banned from using phones during the school day.

I don't think they're necessarily shite, just nowhere near as good as the hype and bloated price tag would suggest. The boss, Mr James Dyson is an arrogant knob as well.