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GarethM

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  1. Nuclear power is natural, just remember every piece of lead was once a glowing ball of radioactive death. Time and decay left it harmless.
  2. Probably more out pricing land values. Like the warehousing around the football stadium, pets at home eventually ended up moving out to a humongous greenfield site.
  3. I got the rough idea of where you meant, just don't tar the whole industry. Parts of Pacific ocean might not be a bad idea, providing they can get close to the tectonic plates as the earth is one huge nuclear reactor garbage disposal. What other solution do you have ?, Or the 139+ tons of pure plutonium we have at sellafield ?
  4. Bit like all these nuclear plants, happily pouring the heat out to sea. You've got places like Hartlepool in the middle of nowhere, dig a hole underground and glaze it level with the ground and grow as much as you like. Guessing with LEDs these day it would be pretty low power.
  5. One of the real questions regarding glass houses is that whilst most are built down south probably due to more sunlight. Why aren't they built next to existing power stations to utilise the waste heat that's usually just dumped into the nearest river ?. Even London fails to resurrect the 1900s steam pipework and heat pipework from Battersea power station.
  6. Turnips, the farm gateway drug. I was trying for a more root of all evil comment, police search ends in muddy boots and dawn raids.
  7. The older ones can't receive the newer DAB+ stuff. I found that it started tailing off, when I got a newer car it found hundreds tho. Ended up buying a cheap new radio for the shed and it's got about 50 in the Faraday cage of a steel shed.
  8. Don't know, mines pretty good even in my rural backwaters. They've turned off a lot of AM transmitters this month, from what I've seen on "Ringway Manchester" YouTube. Guessing it should be less interference?. From my old physics class, AM bounces off the atmosphere. TV and FM are more line of sight, not sure about DAB, but guessing it's the same.
  9. Whilst I'm not a completely illiterate luddite, maybe in reality a well educated yokel 🙂. Is that to get away from using expensive satellites?. As Sky are slowly moving towards internet based services instead of a big satellite every few years. I can foresee a rabbit hole of YouTube this evening.
  10. Think they did block the windows facing land in many places, but they have been talking about turning them off as satellite navigation is pretty much mandatory. Bit like dab, FM & AM radio. AM uses like 500kw transmitter Vs DAB is something ridiculous like 1kw.
  11. GarethM

    Sheep

    She got on the saddle whilst he wore the raddle.
  12. Don't be a gander, obviously it illegal. Use a funnel it might be foie gras tho.
  13. GarethM

    Sheep

    Subsidies, not really worth the paperwork or agro. In generalist terms you'd need to be a hill farmer owning Snowdonia or a big boy arable farmer. Most of us fall in the middle and to be honest isn't worth having you're hands tied behind your back with yet more rules. If I had 100acres it might be feasible, but the stewardship stuff gets in way, unless the newer schemes make it more about common sense environmental stuff we already try to achieve and does zero to reduce costs of production.
  14. GarethM

    Sheep

    Not technically, they don't need to be tagged. They're treated more like horses, so you don't even need a CPH
  15. GarethM

    Sheep

    I did mean that nicely, being a landowner doesn't make you a farmer. No amount of research or book reading will ever match experience. If I were you treat it as a learning curve. Rent out the land, probably sheep grazing. Use that as a way to bring everything upto snuff and pitch in. Learn with them and in say 5 years or once it's upto snuff get a few dozen and form a friendship with the sheep guy. Keeps down costs and you get shearing for free etc.
  16. GarethM

    Sheep

    So you're not a farmer, guessing you've recently bought it then?.
  17. GarethM

    Sheep

    There are ways of reducing the owned acreage by owning 4 and renting the remaining from other people. As soon as one starts in the area its like town gentrification, everyone ends up on the same bandwagon and you just end up moving further and further into the sticks.
  18. Whoever bought mine might come knocking for a refund
  19. GarethM

    Sheep

    But what colour is the boat house at Hereford ?
  20. Oh I have one like most people, it's just the dual price thing they started last year I appose and now refuse to shop or use the card. If a shop wants to give me reward points fine, sell my data fine, just make shopping a level no BS playing field.
  21. I didn't know Waitrose had a whoopsie section ?. 😉
  22. GarethM

    Sheep

    Shed will be a definite no from most councils, shelter feasible tho. I'm sure it's 13 acres for 28 day permitted development, any less and it's the full planning process. Permitted development also includes a 5 year don't use it for another purpose or we can force it's removal. Councils & locals aren't stupid, the we bought a few acres thing, then goes we want a shed, then we want a house. Then the shed turns into a garage and it's all on the market for 500k+.
  23. Asda, Waitrose and even the occasional Aldi. It's not the shop but the two tier prices, normal price Vs heavily discounted clubcard prices scheme they introduced.
  24. I refuse to shop at Tesco, it's the dual clubcard price scam that puts me off on principal.
  25. It's partly why I've always thought of it as a grandparents thing, people like myself who had them turned out for the most part normal. Walking around any supermarket gives you a scary reality of the word in 10 years time.

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