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I used to love doing that in school coz nearly everyone else couldn't & the ones that could, couldn't get to the top as fast. I had a scaffold pole at home my dad had tied between two trees I used to spin around and around on as a a high bar and also a trapeze with a raised platform spent hrs playing on.

I still think food is relatively cheap. Valid reasons to grow your own is more to get interesting & tasty stuff thats not in the shops as it doesn't really save any money imo, as food would still have to get loads more expensive for that.... Grow you own both privately and as any larger enterprise, has to compete with the low cost of food and the low cost of the mass global transport of said food, from industrial scale automated/mechanized farming in regions with the ideal soil type climate to suit each crop. That is why any modern small mixed market gardens have to have added value (be organic/specialize in some thing unique/ have a niche) and are very hard to make any money from. Its also is why the once common historically localized - (low food miles before it was a trendy idea) market gardens, near each city and town died out. This may change in future its current trends continue though. There is a well run local place the does veg boxes that buys in some stuff and uses voulunteers alot for free labour, sometimes run courses etc. Prices are more expensive and if if all labour was payed minimum wage it would probbaly be even more v supermarkets. I mm not extacly sure how there finacial model works but id say its more like a non profit/ charity the relies on community goodwill, and ran by people with other sources of income. Also another more commercially run place has a farm shop thet buys alot of fancy more processed food lines along side the veg they grow. Id summarize/guess all there profit is from the stuff they buy in & that subsidized the cost of the stuff they grow. They sell posh jams etc for 5 quid a jar v lidl that sells jam for 30p a jar. 30p a jar is cheaper than you can buy empty glass jars when I looked into it. So probaly you pay more for the jar than the jam with the lidl jam.....wouldn't be suprised if the the packaging is the higher % cost of many foodstuffs which underlines how cheap the actually food is. Also id guess why the alotment is full of the types you don't like. GYO ethos tends attracts people with "alternative" views, socialists/ hippies etc basically. Becasue they are idealists doing something the doesn't make finacial sense.

One day there won't be any left as they don't plant new ones now.

Compost bins always the sides/corners that are slowest its all about temp / surface to volume ratio (large bin works best) and also turning so its best have a row of 3 bays. Having insulated bins (some companies sell them) and correct ratios of N to C are also factors in composting speed... So the ideal compost bin a a 3 tier system the first is turned into the second then that goes into the third. (Get a decent muck fork makes the job alot easier.) As for construction material, ideal is concrete blocks. Thoose daleks are pretty useless takes ages to work and would fill up with one cut of even a small lawn etc. Probem is most peoples composts bins are way to small for the size of there garden so most useful material goes into the council green bin. so people are giving away the fertility of soil in there garden and being charged for it.

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Road kill turtle? (shell top and noggin looks abit flat im thinking cutting a dome shape is abit tricky?) its decent though prob better than my first attempt would be.... 🙂

I read that some sponge filters need oil on them to work better.

No idea about mains ones do they make any ones that aren't "fisher price"? Scythe with a ditch blade i found very easy to use and effective but the sharpening/ peening required is difficult though & abit of a skill to master.

Battery run time is very low on the makita I have only 10 -15 mins for x2 5amp. The power is 1kw motor same as a 35cc petrol. Will do brambles easy/very well with a oregon mulch blade but need 6 bats and double charger etc if alot of brambles. Makita DUR369APG2 Twin 18V LXT Brushless Brush Cutter Kit | Toolden WWW.TOOLDEN.CO.UK We are the UK's fastest growing Power Tool distributor. Supplying Power Tools, Hand Tools, Tool Accessories and...

Bramley maybe

Texas never back down slogan on the kids tshirt.... 🙂

Nice gun collections

Supposedly it can get too hot in summer to lie on. I did say its ok for footy pitches. Also I like moss and stuff in lawns, never got the lawn must look like a bowling green obession.

Yeah real shame makita is stopping hope spare parts don't vanish too fast. Kind of hoping some other company might take over making petrol models when makita stops?

I see crocky is asking £1000 for a new 7900 on ebay that were a bargin @ about 500 quid new a few years back on radmore and tucker Makita DCS7901 Chainsaw Brand New WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Makita DCS7901 Chainsaw.

So is a fuel card only suppose to be for a company vechicle used for work journeys? Must be alot of use to pop to the shops etc?

In 5 yrs time will everyone be going about in..... Perfect for cities

Shame there are no alkalyte pumps would probably make it cheaper? If bought in 200l barrels its abit cheaper.... per litre MOTOMIX Fuel Mixture (50L and 200L Barrels) OAKLEYSGARDENMACHINERY.CO.UK Stihl MOTOMIX Fuel Mixture STIHL MotoMix is our patented premixed fuel, specially blended for ultimate performance... Dealers getting barrels in and doing refills would be more eco also (less plastic )..... not worth the hassle for them though I suppose?

After every mass shooting gun sales increase, a kind of a a postive feedback loop. As for US being more crazy than say Norway could be due to bigger income inequalities. Countries with big income inequalities tend to have worse mental health.

Husky stuff is cheaper than aspen Husqvarna XP Power 2 5L OAKLEYSGARDENMACHINERY.CO.UK Husqvarna XP Power 2 Advanced 2-stroke alkylate fuel mixed with 2% Husqvarna XP 2-stroke oil, formulated for Husqvarna...

Just stick a rope all around like rings on a barrel....

Old sheep netting another(cheaper) alternative though squares abit large.

A agree that it should be banned apart for use on all weather sports pitches etc. Local garden centre now seems it is about 50% plastic garden crap/nik naks solar laterns etc, 20% weedkillers/ chemicals,and about 30% negelected plants. Most of the the garden tools are poor quality disposable stuff that won't last 5 mins (apart from the odd exception like the promotional felco scecateurs stand etc) I think alot people just don't like nature as its has a tendency to be "untidy". One tiny brown spot on an otherwise prefectly healthly plant and they are having a panic attack, and wanting to buy chemicals /products marketed at them to to fix it. hence the huge array of questionable garden products. Can see why plastic grass and matching plastic plants offers them a perfect solution. Horrible reflection on societal values.

Really is getting more & more common now. It seems its standard for new second homes. Technically it can be recycled.... but im in no-doubt most will end up dumped in laybys or set or fire in a 3rd world slums, or landfilled after it all is ripped up after its 5 -10yrs..... lifespan