nepia
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Everything posted by nepia
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I'm waiting for someone to pile into the back of the wife's shiny new EV as it rapidly slows with no brake lights showing: KERS is awesome!
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I was told yesterday that this is a bad analogy but it works for me. The West has been cosying up to Ukraine for a while: how would the US behave if Russia had been behaving likewise to Mexico? OK 'the enemy' isn't the next country beyond Mexico as is the case with Ukraine but that buffer word returns to mind. Not that I want to appear a Putin apologist or sympathiser (too much!); I've said before that I see him as a grubby little psycopath. He wants go down in history as an empire builder. Little man, big big ego
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Or is the 'I don't get it' in response to a blank post?
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Whooper sists with puns like this? If you don't like Stubby's rantings just hit the Mute button Don't worry, I know where my coat is...
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Right; the niger feeder's getting hot washed and refillled with new seed! Bullfinches; we used to see a pair about three times a year at the old place in Caterham and we've seen a cock bird twice down here in Sussex. I've never seen more than a matched pair at the same time; fifty birds - what a sight and sound; I envy you the experience I'll come back with a result to my niger endeavours; thanks
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You sod! We're looking to re-clad our boarded small house in East Sussex soon (once all the bat surveys and mitigation are arranged 🙄) I thought plans were laid with Cedral or similar. Now you mention this and Copford mill is less than 2 miles away... I may now have to re-think 😂
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@Treerover What birds do you get taking niger? I've always left a few out but nothing has ever been interested except siskin and we haven't seen those in way too many years. Even the goldfinches don't touch them but maybe, just maybe, I need to try a fresh batch as we do have goldies here Jon
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What to do about leaning apple tree in garden?
nepia replied to AMarst's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Or leave it alone. You call that a lean?!
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But they managed! It was comical watching the Great and Blue Tits hold on to near horizontal feeders but nothing was going to stop them getting their daily dose of sunflower heart
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Nope. Not a parasite at all. It merely uses a tree as a substrate. Mistletoe is a parasite
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Understood. I was indeed taught it on the first CS31 I did; it's just that it wasn't mooted as the big deal it should be except since that day and both times by foresters!
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Must be a forestry thing: when I did my CS31 refresher a few years ago the forestry based instructor was almost paranoid about it
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VID-20220217-WA0011.mp4
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That does look ace. I shall try to find an excuse to build a small version somewhere one day. What a great living wall it will become
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Confucius he say 'man who has sexual problem wakes up in morning with solution in hand'
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Not the obvious answer of oak then...
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Pic 1; lovely winter context with the snowdrops 👍
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..and make it a snug fit with the card, not a loose one; makes a difference to performance
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Understood Mark. I am not another bleeding heart, I just believe in fact-based judgement, not melodramatic perception. I'm quite happy with yours and others' descriptions of those to whom you refer 🙂
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Not all so-called gypsies are travellers; those living on fixed sites I've found to be so much closer to the rest of us in the way they live their lives: there's a hierarchy, the boss man being king - what he says goes. Some years ago I bought a lift trolley on ebay and had to collect it from a huge permanent site near Gloucester. The place was immaculate - the cars were even parked neatly and symmetrically. The guys there were very pleasant and easy to deal with and there was absolutely no attempt at hiding what was lying around the large yard or in the sheds, all of which were a hive of activity; I could have been in Wickes' car park! I'm not defending the all-too-common bad side of things or claiming that those guys were angels but it's important to maintain a sense of proportion
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Only in terms of numbers. In terms of physicality 'your lot' are ****ing terrifying and most certainly dominant!!!
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At the risk of incurring further stabbing wit from Khriss... surely a house of that tender age (1960s/1970s?) will have foundations designed to withstand the roots of a diddy little willow like that at 7m...? Aren't we supposed to be encouraging the growing of trees where possible? Personally I wouldn't be worried about it but I would keep the tree to its current size or thereabouts
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There certainly seems to be a connection with the blood; I know someone who was warned off turmeric because they were about to start a course of chemotherapy
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My knowledge of the whole sordid affair comes from what I've seen on the tele but I don't doubt the truth of it
