nepia
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I can't be waiting 5 years for an avo skin to rot! The reason usually given for the slow formation of peat is absence of oxygen but the properties of the moss itself must also play a part. There's no oxygen deficiency in my compost bin though!
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Celebrate of course - you're in the club! Many Happy Returns. -
I stopped putting them in the compost years ago for just that reason Anyone know what stops lawn moss decomposing?!
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Now that one is tempting; me likey 👍
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Similar material but free if you can find it is a section of old trampoline safety netting. I use an entire one to line the sides of my tipper trailer for chipping into.
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Think you're wrong there but even if you're not - and that would be due to a recent change in legislation - there's the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act that makes past offences 'expire' for court purposes, the date of expiry being calculated according to the sentence passed. 'Expire' in that context means that a sentencing court should not take stale offences into consideration when passing sentence. Also were you ever in the position to be deciding whether to accept a caution or not you'd be forcing a decision on the Police/CPS - charge and put you before a court or take no further action.
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3 days is too long but it's quite normal to feel a bit sore for a day after treatment. Not always of course but it is common. Advice for me for the night following treatment was to drink plenty of fluid and take Ibuprofen at bedtime.
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I download the vid, open File Explorer - the yellow rectangular folder with a blue clip over it on the taskbar at the foot of the screen - select Downloads in that and drag the relevant download into the Arbtalk box Drag images/files here to attach, or choose files... Max file size 1279MB
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Only just got here (Feb 5th)! I'm closer to you than Rotherfield - a mile your side of E Hoathly
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Using my recent poor track record of id I'll stick with yellowhammer; the cock bird especially doesn't have the black cap of a siskin
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VID-20210413-WA0009.mp4
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Are the harrier numbers creeping upwards? Mick, I know vous êtes en France but I seem to hear mention of hen harriers increasingly often. I saw my first one last year in Caithness and there were a couple of sightings here, near Uckfield, some weeks ago. Your post suggests they're not common there but how rare are they?
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...Totally agree with Lowestoft. That's manipulation and isn't always a good thing. I used to have it on the L2-4 region and the effects were very good but short-lived. Mobilisation (more gentle) done right can be just as effective. The best for me turned out to be the McTimoney method; it works almost exclusively on aligning the vertebrae, the thinking being that if the back's properly aligned the rest will follow. It involves adjusting the vertebrae, sometimes with an adjusting tool that spring loads and 'punches' a vertebra. Needs to be used in skilled hands.
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Sigh... you're right again. I didn't think they were that barred on the wings. My eyes are so crap; we have them here! @roboted See correction to my id by Mr Righty Right 😂
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Give them a go - see how you get on.
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Is there enough to make a day's hire of a small splitter feasible? If the stuff's already in log length rings I think you'll manage by hand actually except for the gnarly bits and they're chainsaw fodder. I have a heap - probably 10 pickups or more - of Western Red Cedar dumped in the garden. Despite a previous claim on here that I wouldn't be touching them I'm starting to clear them and I've been breaking rings OK with a splitting axe. There was some spruce with it too that I've kept; that split fine too. I reckon the lot's been down 4 or 5 years.
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Pic 2 is Mrs Sparrow and she's a looker too. I would dearly love to have house sparrows; their noise is permanently embedded in my mind as part of growing up in Rotherfield. They're 200 yards from here, just up the lane, but don't seem to get down it this far. I suspect the greenery here isn't dense enough for them.
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That's a very good point thus far overlooked. I spent well into four figures over about five years seeking a mattress that worked 😟 In the end I need have only spent £299 cos Emma's the babe for me.
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Depends how much you want to spend. At one end of the spectrum there are lorry sides as said. A cheap alternative that won't take much physical abuse is scaffold sheeting Scaffold Sheet - Clear Reinforced 2M & 3M Wide WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Scaffold Sheet. - in 2M or & 3M Wide. 2M or 3M Widths. Length can be selected using drop down box above. Clear...
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The first greenfinch I've seen in a long time; I think they got clobbered by trichomonosis didn't they?
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I find Coal Tits the least brave of the lot! They wait until there are no other birds about before coming to a feeder. If something appears they're off like a shot. A pair of Goldfinches have arrived in the last few days and seem to spend a good couple of hours a day on the sunflower hearts; we bought them for the first time a fortnight ago - what a hit with the birdies. You're right Stubby, they love them and niger seed too. At the old place siskin used to go for that but I've only seen one female here so far.
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Lol. What a tit! Er - I meant the George Floyd thing 😆
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The officer had 26 years service. A guy clambering into his own car in front of three cops can hardly be stressful. My impression is that it's a horrible mistake, handgun being mistaken for taser. How big a mistake - in terms of the error itself, not the consequences - and how justifiable or not is something we won't know for a long time. Happening so near the George Floyd shooting and so soon afterwards - well you couldn't make that up.
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Resin tables... yeah, they're alright 😅 I'm good thanks. New house, new garden - very busy with that. Not doing much of this tree work at the mo.
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Offer it to a carver?
