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Looks very cherry to me.
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But how about when Uranus is in decline during a full moon?
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Should have been more specific, obviously polytunnels work well for drying wood. I'm asking for any opinions on felling trees during the correct phase of the moon, which I'm not exactly convinced makes enough of a difference to escape ridicule. But I'm always happy to be educated on matters of which I have no knowledge.
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Right then team... I don't really spend time on the old Facebook, but I check in every now and then on a few groups. This appeared, which made me stop and think. Now, I'm really not going to be altering the schedule I keep for felling firewood, I'm definitely not going to be keeping an eye on the phases of the moon. I just thought I would share it here for discussion. Any thoughts, anyone?
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Absolutely impossible. I'm hunting all night with the lights on as soon as I hear that first high pitched whine. I wouldn’t be going to sleep anyway, might as well try and be productive. We accidentally left the windows open, curtains open, and the light on once, on one of those suspiciously-heavy midge nights of the year... thousands and thousands of them were waiting for us at bedtime. The only solution was to attack the cloud of them with a can of hairspray and a lighter. Took about an hour and the room smelled like an arson attack on a hairdresser's studio, but I got about 95% of them in the end.
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Do you know why a lot of what you post gets ignored? Because you are an utter shite and talking with you is painful. It's simply not worth getting involved with a lot of what you share, apart from when the outright bigotry gets too much to let lie. There was a civilised discussion going on here, then you clomp on in here with your mucky boots on and get shit all over the carpet, the walls, the furniture. Anyway. Night everyone!
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I just googled it. That's pretty embarrassing for him! I was living in France at the time, I didn't get a copy of the Evening Standard delivered every day 😉
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Did Boris not buy some for London a while ago? Did that not happen in the end?
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Donald's recent train wreck of an interview at the NABJ conference is well worth a watch (he gets on stage at around 1.13 I think, I don't think the above link is timestamped). Don't worry, it isn't a full hour like the host threatens, Trump's handlers cut it short after 30 minutes. Par for the course, he just seems like a confused old man with hate in his heart and a misplaced sense of victim hood.
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Oh, he'd definitely be in the know then. Walking distance. That's good enough for me!
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Every cloud has a silver lining, and rain clouds are lined with bilberries! Dog walks take much, much longer during berry season. Bonus wildflower photo, may not be edible:
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I was just having a look at the Southport subreddit ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Southport/ ), and this video is currently near the top. Watch it if you want, I post it here without comment, obviously there just isn't any concrete info out there at the moment. But I tell you what... It'd be a real pity if there's all this violence going on because some dozy cnuts have swallowed a bunch of lies. Anyway. Fingers crossed things settle down soon and all the knuckle dragging inbred racist mouth breathers get a big old brick through the forehead sooner rather than later.
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I've been in the car all day and I'm out of the loop, is this footage from the hassle at Southport?
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Control of rhododendron in woodland
peds replied to peds's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Yeah, all these toys do sound useful. It's just the cost really isn't it, but as you suggest, I could always just nick them. Also, you know full well I'm not Irish. I'm Belgian and proud. -
So what you're saying is... he could reasonably fit another one in, between the first tree and the house?
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^^ fair point, that. (Edit: is greese what we cook roast potatoes in at Christmas?)
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I'm just in awe at the knowledge on display on this forum sometimes. Like, have a picture of some bricks... "Yeah, here's a Googlemaps pin for the brickworks they came from, I can narrow it down to a period of about 3 years when this batch was made, and it looks like they were an AM bake not a PM because of some of the lines, which means they were definitely fired by this one specific guy. Here's a list of his favourite foods, and he had a phobia of ants. Sorry I can't be more helpful than that, have you got another photo from a slightly different angle?"
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This is the kind of content that both sides of the aisle can enjoy.
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I'm all for cleaning as you go, but is the fella with the blower not jumping the gun just a little bit?
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Yeah, I found that it's at Teahupo'o in Tahiti! So while everyone in Paris is getting set on fire by the communists and getting the trots from swimming in the Seine, the surfers have to cope with being stranded out in the middle of the Pacific. The sacrifices these Olympians make!
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Control of rhododendron in woodland
peds replied to peds's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I had 4 digger drivers in over the build of my house, 2 doing the laneway and drainage ditches, 1 to knock the old cottage and to level and stone the site, and 1 to dig trenches for water in and out, and to bury the septic tank. I would only happily be in the hole with 1 out of the 4. He was a surgeon. -
Control of rhododendron in woodland
peds replied to peds's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Diggers do seem like a useful tool, a bit outside of my budget and skillset for now unfortunately. Never driven one, I'd love to learn. -
Control of rhododendron in woodland
peds replied to peds's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Yeah, I see what you are saying with all of the above, especially the big chipper. I'd love to invest in a big tracked fella, I'm hoping to get the finances together enough next year for one. And yeah, I'm a total smelly hippy, I'd tiedye my chainsaw trousers with mushroom pigments and run the chipper on upcycled chip fat if I had the luxury of time, glyphosates are far from my usual toolbox, but I'm willing to concede that this might be a problem where the nuclear option is probably the only realistic one, when someone else would be paying the bill. -
Control of rhododendron in woodland
peds replied to peds's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Yeah, there really doesn't seem to be a one size fits all solution. I wonder about processing everything above ground as part A, then coming back with a digger and grubbing all the stumps out as part B in the future... but that might just piss off what little is left in the ground and encourage it to bounce back stronger! They are a bastard, rhododendrons. -
Control of rhododendron in woodland
peds replied to peds's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Ah, just saw this after writing my last post. When you say bonfire, do you mean on the stump to kill it, or just to clear the brash? I reckon a tracked chipper trundling through the woods is the simplest and, here in Ireland, the most legal solution... but it's killing the stumps, en masse, that has me stumped! Regarding the wee seedlings, I'd imagine a walkaround at least once a year per site pulling them up would be a fairly nice day out! I already do that when I'm out with the dogs anyway, it gets the job done easy enough.
