sime42
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I've just found a teaspoon whilst digging over the vegetable patch. Obviously come from the homemade compost that I hastily put on there last year. Always a bonus when that happens. More so when it's something more valuable like a knife or something.
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Same from what I've seen here in the Midlands really, normality prevails. Just come back from holiday in North West Wales, similar situation there. Regards independent shops; I think the last two years has been either kill or cure for them. Some have folded completely but lots of others have come back much stronger, (maybe because they were able to adapt more quickly than bigger companies).
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Probably a few fancy racehorses for starters ..........
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Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version
sime42 replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Picture Forum
It sure is amazing. More so when you think about it. As well as the mechanics of supporting that large tonnage of timber on quite a bit of thin air, it's also surprising that most of the unseen roots must be in waterlogged soil. The water level of the lake was only a couple feet lower, (and I suspect that was relatively low). -
Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version
sime42 replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Picture Forum
We found this interesting specimen today, at Lake Bala, on the foreshore. Never seen such a big tree with such exposed roots, an oak. You could actually see right through in places. Guessing it must be due to years of erosion when the water level is high. There were lots of others around nearby but non as big.- 414 replies
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Impressive for outside in the UK. Must be a South facing wall.
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Very cool. An interesting resource.
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Love a bit of foraging now and again. We picked some sea spinach and samphire today. It was good fried up in some olive oil and garlic. A few weeks ago we had some wild garlic and young stinging nettles, good as well. Never tried Solomon's Seal; won't be rushing to it based on your appraisal!
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I prefer my growlers with less sharply teeth ........ just saying.
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Loving the chard at the moment. It's an underrated vegetable I think. Dead easy to grow, gives a good yield and virtually pest free. One of the few leafy greens available this time of year. This lot is from last year, it over winters no problem.
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Page three in The Sun today.
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Good call. I don't know, I'm not good with duck faces. Do they share nests as well? The site is beside a largish reservoir so plenty of them and other fowl around.
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Interesting. That doesn't seem like a good evolutionary strategy by starlings. The egg from the ski turned out to be an almost whole but empty shell. Small chicken egg sized. So probably was stolen or maybe even just scavenged from rubbish. Not so interesting. Continuing the egg theme; at work the other day I came across a duck nest. A few weeks ago I was clearing an area of scrub and brambles when a duck suddenly flew up and away in front of me. There was a nest hidden down on the ground complete with about a dozen eggs. I immediately stopped work there and moved away to cut some trees in another part of the wood. The following week the nest was empty when I checked. The next week, so two weeks after the first encounter the duck was back on the nest with a similar number of eggs. I'm mystified by what had happened. I can't believe that she'd managed to move the eggs away to safety temporarily, but I'm also surprised if she'd layed a whole new clutch in that time.
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Do you know any local blacksmith's with a Drop Hammer, or even better a power drop hammer? One of those might be capable of providing the force required to soften the lignin to fuse a block of sawdust together.
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Begginer at Wooden Crafts- best types of wood to use
sime42 replied to Jzarty's topic in Woodcraft Forum
A quick but important tip for using a hook knife for the bowl of the spoon; it's much easier to cut across the grain with it. Less force required so safer, and leaves a better finish as you won't end up cutting against the grain. That should all make sense once you've had a play around and gained some experience. -
An egg had just dropped from the sky on to our lawn right before my eyes! I just happened to glance out the window at the right time so didn't see the source. I'm guessing an egg stealing bird like a maggie or a seagull.
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I reckon the giant multinational food and agriculture companies are not far behind Big Pharma in terms of being enemies of the people and the planet. Here's one kicking off because they've been told to stop contributing to the childhood obesity crisis. I wonder if a large bung will end up in Rishi's suitcase in due course. Kellogg's in court battle over new rules for high-sugar cereals WWW.BBC.CO.UK The company says new healthy food rules fail to consider the nutritional value of milk added to cereals.
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It's not about money, though I'm sure he'll make some from Twitter. [emoji848] It's about being able to maintain a free and open discussion platform without allowing the ranting, slathering, single issue voices from dominating the whole shebang. Maybe he will be able to make it work. [emoji848] His ideology is that the online ecosystem should be self regulating; the voice of the calm and rational majority of users will be enough to drown out and suppress the screeching from the vocal minority. [emoji848] We'll see. It'll be an interesting experiment at least.
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He's an absolutist over free speech apparently. It'll be interesting to see how it pans out when he tries to remove all moderation, censorship, regulation etc. I can't see it ending well, he's a bit of a dreamer and tends to skip over practicalities.
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Interesting trees Elder. They're almost unique in being by far the most common host, of a very small group of trees to do so, Jelly Ear, (or less PC; Jew's Ear!) Fungus. Good to eat if you're feeling adventurous, a nice crunchy texture.
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I've only dipped into it a few times really; I don't have a copy but my mum does so I've thumbed through when visiting her. The thing about ivy stuck in my mind for some reason. I noticed that it had somewhat mixed reviews online.
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I think I read about it in this book;- The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs : Tristan Gooley (author), : 9781444780109 : Blackwell's BLACKWELLS.CO.UK Readers may be familiar with such things as natural weather forecasting, basic tracking and natural navigation, but this guide will reveal intriguing new lesson
