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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.

Phew. I thought we may have been straying into climate change denial territory. ,😉

Agree with all that, except for the "unknown" sentiment. The cause of all this is human activity, the specifics of which have been well documented in recent years. I think everyone will start noticing pretty soon, once this mass extinction properly begins to gather pace. Even the most nature indifferent, detached, TikTok gazing Gen-Xer.

These were my particular favourites;- "Once, one of his colleagues was bitten by a squirrel, whose massive incisors went through his thumbnail and out the other side. Silby couldn’t get the animal off, because it was locked on and wriggling, so he had to decapitate it, then wrap the thumb – and the squirrel’s head – in a bandage to take his colleague to A&E." - Ouch. "Doran wishes people would look at the issue of squirrels and trees in the round. Yes, they chew bark, but “they also plant trees [by hiding nuts and seeds that they fail to retrieve] and they’re better at it than red squirrels, because of the way they hoard. Red squirrels tend to put all their eggs in one basket, whereas grey squirrels distribute them more.” - That Natalia Doran sounds like a bit of a case, she runs a squirrel sanctuary - why on earth?

And the final indignity was that the order came from the French ship's Female officer. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

The secret lives of grey squirrels: ‘The telly was off the wall, plates were smashed, furniture was ripped’ | Animals | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Britain’s 2.7 million greys are on the rampage, starting fires, flooding homes and destroying ancient trees. But is it really...

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I'll kick us off and say Lime.