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You will be wasting your time, they won't reuse the nest and neither the queen or any others will overwinter in it. The non queens (workers) die off at this time of year and the new queens that overwinter to start new nests have already left. I am already finding overwintering queens in their dormant state in the logpile and elsewhere.

I bought an FX DRS .22 in walnut a week or two back. Put a Donny silencer on it and it is very quiet. PCP and filled with a dive bottle. Does 2p size groups at 30metres. I’ve put about 500 pellets through it already and absolutely love it. Only shot at targets so far but will be used on live quarry.

The first apples that are ready in my orchard are Discovery, usually mid August. The wasps are still very active and in bad years they take a significant amount of the apples. One year I was picking them on my own and eventually my bottle went and I left them. Later I saw my Romanian workers and asked if they wanted a bit of overtime. They did it and nobody got stung. By time the maincrop apples are ready a month later you rarely see a wasp.

As a kid a wasp sting was no more than getting stuck with a pin, no I didn't like it but no big deal. These days it hurts like feck for 30 minutes and then gone bar an occasional itchiness where I was stung. My day job is squashing apples, when I am squashing the early varieties it is like standing in a swarm of wasps, there can be literally hundreds of them. Very rarely get stung and even then it is because you got hold of one by accident but my bottle does go on a regular basis and I just say feck that! I have been known to get the industrial vacuum out to reduce numbers in the shed.

I need an epi-pen due to my sesame allergy. Haven't always suffered but it has reached the point of it being dangerous now with anaphylactic shock. Easy enough to avoid in this country as long as you are careful, no Chinese takeaways, careful with seeded bread, read labels etc. Can't have a Big Mac due to the seeded bun and a lot of pre-prepared stuff has sesame hidden away in it, like a lot of cracker type biscuits for example. I am going to Australia in the spring, that is where it gets troublesome because there is a big Asian influence on the food there. Worst ever reaction I had was eating goulash in Oz. Thing is you need to have a prescription which involves exposing you to the allergen, I am not very keen on that idea! Also strictly speaking you should still attend hospital even if you administer it yourself. The episode I had in Oz was 6 hours away from the nearest hospital and that would rely on transport being immediately available (it wasn't).

It puzzles me why this rapist gets the attention he does in this age of cancel culture. He is a rapist, he did time for raping someone. No better than a kiddy fiddler in my book.

Bring back the Ewbank and not that lithspy wassock.

Taking increasing amounts of money off people that work so you can give it to people that don't is never going to work is it? It certainly doesn't encourage anyone to work. Raising taxes so you can give it to local government and NHS is pointless, you may as well set fire to the money. Having a Government front bench filled with people that have never had a real job is mental. We are very short of a Government that has the country at heart rather than either own deluded ideology or their own pockets as their priority. The Tories were terrible and Labour worse.

Dyson no doubt got into farming due to it being tax efficient for him but as far as I know his farms are very much working farms rather than just land being owned. A fair bit of what he does goes well beyond the basic farming stuff. Beeswax farms if you are interested enough to look them up. As far as farming in general goes I don't know why anyone does it from a business point of view, there are far easier ways to make a living.

I had a shower this morning and I am bald so wtf are you on?

They don't reuse nests so they won't come back to that one. I'm not mad on wasps but if you have got this far through the year with no bother I don't see the need to do anything now, they will be gone soon enough. Wasps do a great deal more good than harm, they eat an awful lot of pests in the garden. If they just dropped the stingy bit they'd be more popular than bees that just arse about in flowers and sting people.

Missus snores like a pig, can't hear myself think never mind anything else.

An interesting graph. I would hope to achieve similar but the blue would be fuel use in my generator and of course no red as it is off-grid. A grid connection would be approx £25k based on a 5 year old quote which I just can't make sense of, solar is so cheap you can have masses of it if you want. Mine will be on shed roof as I just know I would break them on a ground mount with stones from mower etc. I also believe ground mount should have planning permission but roof mount not so. May not be correct but I would ask forgiveness rather than permission in either case. Can I ask the reason for the constant blue line on your graph? I think it indicates a 1kw daily draw from the grid throughout the year, is that to run the system as it is grid tied?

This is the setup I am planning to fit but it was to be using the Petter generator on auto start/stop to charge the batteries. This will be to run my sheds for now but ultimately for a house I hope, with some adaptations that I figure out to be needed on the way.

I would go down the Lister Petter route if that is your aim. Plenty out there with a lot of life in them and well proven. A Startomatic would be ideal, just kicks in when the power goes out and off again when it comes back on, subject to a changeover switch etc being installed.