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Seems to be a psychological thing about learning people's names. I got to a page with a face on the screen, the first real page of it after asking my date of birth and gender (how dare you!), and it seemed to freeze. So I left.
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I think they should be mandatory.
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Interesting read- Brewdog forest in Scotland
peds replied to richyrich's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Well, that's smashing. Hope the new jobs work out well for the area. -
^ To be fair, he did that bloody well. Until he needed chappy with the shirt to finish it off for him down on the ground.
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Looks like a beast.
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I know a fella who replaced the wooden shaft of his sledgehammer with thick metal pipe. There's a bit of feedback on a heavy swing, but there's not much risk of it breaking. Well, the user's wrists maybe, but not the shaft. Another vote for Fiskars here. I got their tiny wee camping axe recently too, it's great fun.
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Were the guests rabbits?
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When and How to Transplant a Horse Chestnut Sapling?
peds replied to Vigen Tigen's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Probably be fine to move now if you take at least 50cm radius rootball, which is heavy enough, you'll appreciate a mini digger to help you. Mild wet weather will help, don't bother if it's hot and dry. Otherwise, December to March, try and disturb the little roots as much as possible but you'd do it by hand easily enough. After moving it, feed and mulch with seaweed and woodchip, and just fricking drown that thing. Edit And give it a bit of a haircut too. -
I appreciate that the whole process is part of the tea drinking experience for some people, and I do enjoy the results of all the individual little steps that add up to a great cup of tea. But if it's gone into a thermos, for me it's very much just fuel, another coin in the slot to keep the caffeine addiction ticking over. Life became a whole lot easier since dropping milk from tea and coffee, anyway... the logistics aren't nearly as complicated.
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This no longer concerns me as I drink both tea and coffee black, but there are a significant number of people who drink theirs with milk, and a great many of those choose to add milk to the whole flask when it is made, rather than adding it to the individual cup when pouring. There is nothing wrong with this, despite what whoever wants to complain about the practice has to say. Warm milk left in undisturbed corners will inevitably turn into yoghurt, cheese, or some mysterious substance somewhere between the two. Pop-top thermos lids are a favourite location for yoghurt farmers to grow their product, and some of them are incredibly difficult to dismantle for proper cleaning. I promise you, there is someone reading this right now who is even unaware that they do require periodic maintenance, and has a stomach-churning quantity of dairy smegma built up under his lid. For this reason, half-thread thermos lids are far superior.
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More info needed. I can't stand the push button lids as they gunk up with yoghurt and other scum. Half threads are still the best solution in my opinion, keeping heat in but letting fluid out.
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That looks like a nice flask. What capacity, how long was it left before you got to it, was there any significant drop in temperature?
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Nah, can't be, there's no shiny foil lid on it...
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Two things. Robin? Found in a big sideways stack of plant pots in the potting shed. How long until they fledge? It'll be a busy shed soon enough. Might have to compartmentalise it a little to give them some privacy. Also, this chap has been trying to break into the house in any available high window from north west to south west. Very persistent. My guess is he had a nest here last year behind the cladding but before the window flashing went on, and now he's confused. Might put a bird box on the window and see what happens.
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Tree ID - native poplar, hybrid, or aspen?
peds replied to GW1's topic in Tree Identification pictures
Looks identical to a dozen of what I assumed to be native black poplar in my back garden (bark, leaf, suckers, the lot), but I've never formally identified them. So I'd be interested in a definitive answer too. Easiest propagation... fell it, wait for panic suckers, dig them up and pot them on... thousands of the bastards! -
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Are there edible ferns in the UK or Ireland? Anyone ever foraged fiddleheads? I know they all turn wildly carcinogenic when they crisp up and start throwing spores, but are there any edible varieties at this time of year?
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Daughter comes up to me this morning after her breakfast, "Dad, do you want to see the app I just made on my tablet? It tells you if a tree is alive or dead, and if it's safe to walk under or climb on." What's the closest thing available at the moment in the app store? Could she make a million off this idea?
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Just if it's got dieback. No problem jumping around on the tips if it's healthy, but you'll not want to put your anchor as high, and definitely won't get as far out, even if it's only in the early stages. I was up a wee ash with early die back before Christmas, you wouldn't know it had it from a distance, but as soon as you start kicking around in it it's obvious. And the mess! Matchsticks everywhere.
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I'm as angry as I've ever been!!
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Some of those laterals towards the shed definitely wouldn't take you out as far as you'd like them to before snapping. If you can stay closer to the middle and snip off big chunks it'd be fine, but it doesn't look like that shed and fence could take much punishment. I'd probably pass.
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Is it legal to electrify a pyracantha hedge?
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Outstanding!
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They shrink as they dry anyway, just needs a bit of peeling apart and turning occasionally. As long as they aren't mashed in six deep.
