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UK suppliers can afford to outbid other countries on international markets its poor places that will starve first. So more likely just higher food prices and some limited availiablity. The current locust swarm might kill a few million in Africa possibly more deaths than Corona E. Africa locust swarms gather as coronavirus delays pesticides NEWS.TRUST.ORG Delayed deliveries due to the coronavirus means East Africa will run out of pesticides soon as locusts continue to ravage...

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Dunno why turn youre noise up at free help?

What crops do you grow thats ready in Feb?

Never tried growing them on purpose though can't see why not (have enough pop up all over as weeds) Hawthorn - how to grow hawthorn from seed | a guide from TCV TREEGROWING.TCV.ORG.UK Learn how to grow hawthorn from seed. This thorny shrub, common in hedgerows, is easy to grow (if a little slow) if you... Seem they take 2yrs to germinate ? You could hunt around locally in woods and find few self seeded ones, now is a good time to spot them before the rest of the vegetation grows up & hides everything.

Few days old news Loads of oak saplings needing a home ? NEWS - Maelor Forest Nurseries WWW.MAELOR.CO.UK

Not rained for over 3 weeks After the Feb deluge comes the drought?

Pink fur apple Maris piper Maris peer Red Duke of York Arran Pilot You can't beat home fried chips done in a pan loads nicer than chippy ones or oven chips.

https://ancienttreeforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Veteran-Trees-A-Guide-to-Good-Management-almost-complete.pdf

Sure i read that birchs are/were pollarded in scandi countries for fodder so maybe it will do ok after a lop and top? Vincent van Gogh 470 / 1931 Pollard Birches (1884) https://www.ancienttreeforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/A-study-of-practical-pollarding-techniques-in-northern.pdf Bit late now though sap is up?

Or old skool raver?

This kind of job would be ideal atm as can work from home. A failing health board is paying a 'Marbella-based' consultant' £1,990 a day - Wales Online WWW.WALESONLINE.CO.UK Betsi Cadwaladr brought in the consultant to help save money & can do helpful stuff like explain to nurses how they can save the NHS money by working longer shift rotas.

Just looked up and spare chains for them are over £250, so could be an issue with second hand as they must go blunt like chainsaw ones How easy to sharpen them?

Loads of diy projects going on atm & a builders vans out and about also, more than normal i reckon, but less general traffic. Wonder if scewfix etc have had record sales over last week or so? All the second homers "self isolating" have must of decide they need jobs doing. Can't see how realistically they are sticking to the 2m rule etc.

Think you may be right. An R0 value of 1 means the average person who gets that disease will transmit it to one other person; in that case, the disease is spreading but at a stable rate. A value of less than 1 means a disease is in decline and could die out. So UK lockdown measures would have to get RO below 1 to follow China. Seems extreme lockdown worked in China, but the big question is will the "halfway house" UK lvl lockdown atm reduce cases enough so they don't have to carry on until a vacine if they want to avoid a second wave. . Im unsure what the UK exit stratergy is, try to aim to follow what China did, or just try and wait it out, till a vaccine, but that will require alot longer lockdown. So the economic impact for UK could be alot more than in China if the duration of lockdowns are longer. Maybe this is why they have sudenly decide they now need to test alot more and and are even talking abourt digital phone app that trace contacts like Korea and China has. EDIT Looking at the daily cases data for several countries such as Spain and Italy that are ahead of the UK on the curve, they seem to be plateaued for a several days now maybe longer than China did i think, so RO must be around 1. (with a week-ish delay in feeback due to inncubation time until symptoms apear). PPE and testing for medical staff especially could be be the crucial factors, as a very small change in RO will feeback and make a big difference to cases curve trajectory.

Being told it does but not seen it Ground barb is ok imo as keeps netting getting buried and rusting as can put if higher up & stops lambs pushin under were the ground is uneven but im only an amateur fencer... jusr googled the Standards: https://allcivilstandard.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BS-01722-2-2006-2011.pdf Doesn't say bottom barb has plain, and has box or strut strainer supports.

A call to honesty in pandemic modeling - Wesley Pegden - Medium MEDIUM.COM Maria Chikina and Wesley Pegden Some more data modelling stuff... About second wave a possibilities when lockdowns are lifted. But surely imo a second wave may be preventable if it can be made locally extinct, which is is now being reported as the case in China. They are saying its only imported cases atm in China that can be controlled by contact tracing/testing etc so they may not require a continued internal lockdown for much longer. (And it was only a % of China that was in full lockdown not the whole country like the UK) That being the case can see global travel being restricted for at least a year as countries won't want to re -introduce it, from parts of the world were they still have outbreaks. Still early to say how well it will be dealt with in 3rd world places etc...

BS1722:2 has box strainers and also a bottom strand of barb wire? ?

The BSO mtb also? ?

Stiga having 3 batteries systems all at the same time seems abit confusing. 24v homeowner 48v mid ranage then 80v pro Is a 4ah 48v same as say a 8ah 24v? 4 x 48 = 198 8 x 24 = 198 11x18 = 198 Having theorectically the same capacity say as a 11ah 18v battery makes it sound alot less expensive? Is that right? Says its a 1000w motor same as the makita cordless think, whats are stihl motors rated seems a secret?

So who makes chainsaws in the UK? Some makita stuff is made in telford, not chainsaws though apart from maybe the cordless ones... Manufacturing WWW.MAKITAUK.COM Manufacturing

Looks like hornbeam Hornbeam actually pretty fast growing the ones iv'e planted grow a few ft a yr anyway. Looks like newly planted trees and a new build house which sometimes have poor amount of topsoil which trees don't like. Will benefit from watering in summer if it is a dry one especially, for few yrs until there roots established and maybe extra mulch... If you are keen worth erecting some posts & put a better framwork up, to train the laterals...

Is that one of thoose invading spanish blubells? Chunky leaves and more upright

STIGA SPR 500 AE (12)" cordless chainsaw WWW.STIGA.COM A powerful but compact and easy handling 3 0cm top-handle cordless chainsaw. Compatible only with a 48V / 4Ah...