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Chimney soot in roof drinking water?
peds replied to Haironyourchest's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Don't, I just got a bit of sick in my mouth. Honestly, I'm not a squeamish person, but the noise of these burps was something else. Like smacking an octopus with a carrier bag of cold soup. -
Chimney soot in roof drinking water?
peds replied to Haironyourchest's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
I do, yeah, straight off the mountain. Very lucky. I'll be doing rainwater harvest for the polytunnels though. I met one of those chaps who drink their own piss once. Strangest thing. He kept burping with these really deep, resonant, wet-slap-sounding belches, like a 25kg paper grain sack filled with overripe fruit impacting tarmac from height. I couldn't explain it until I got talking to the guy, and it came up naturally that he partook of his own brew. I felt a little sick for the rest of the day. He was from Donegal. -
Chimney soot in roof drinking water?
peds replied to Haironyourchest's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
I'd be just as worried about the micro plastics in the rain water. The solution? Drink nothing but your own piss. -
No subtlety or nuance to the character. Poorly constructed, the plotline doesn't have legs. All the eggs were in one basket from the start and there was no chance for any build up, rendering the charade anticlimactic.
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We are all trying to make it, and the vast majority of us don't feel the need to film every second of the day and stick it online. If it makes you happy, fine, but you need to be prepared to accept the criticism of any boring little video you choose to show people, especially given the particular context of your audience here... mostly professionals who'd do the job a damn sight better than what you've shown here. Sorry to bring you down buddy.
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You might find it a little depressing to look into the techniques and systems used to propagate trees (and, for that matter, 99% of all plants grown commercially) in modern horticulture. God hasn't lifted a finger for hundreds of years.
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Make as long a list as you possibly can of all the decisions Putin has made over the last 7 months that make any kind of sense. Turn over the paper and use the other side as well if you need to.
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Why not just rappel straight down from the top of the tree instead? It'd be loads quicker. Anyway, Petzl ID is a great bit of kit for all sorts of things, but there's no way on Earth that I'd choose it for moving around in a tree unless it was the only thing available. Spend the money on something else... like a prusik...
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Rots easily, great in a hugelkulture or to fill raised beds.
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Okay, how's this for a joke... Having your own funeral or medical procedure postponed because of the state funeral. Wait... that's not funny either.
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I don't know about Twitter because I'm not a part of it, but there's some pretty spicy memes going around the other corners of the internet. Right now I'm very much enjoying the official news blackout to preserve OpSec, only to hear about the ridiculous gains made when information gets released.
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My parents are victims of cowboy tree surgeons who are now blaming my mother.
peds replied to rbx1453's topic in General chat
My yard? That's quarry dust not tarmac, blindings before a raft goes on. The car park is over there, with a big pile of 804 in the middle of it that the digger forgot to move. Oh well. -
My parents are victims of cowboy tree surgeons who are now blaming my mother.
peds replied to rbx1453's topic in General chat
I have a little patio cherry in a big pot that the cats were using as a scratching post, but she's fine now too. I suspect you're thinking of someone else's cherry tree though. Another 9 ash to knock over on this side too, hope their still worth the time and effort as firewood at this stage... -
My parents are victims of cowboy tree surgeons who are now blaming my mother.
peds replied to rbx1453's topic in General chat
Mine's all right, the eucalyptus on the ground next to it isn't feeling very well though. I moved the trees a bit closer for better birdwatching. Yeah, there's around 7 trees in a line to come down there, including the big one, which looks like an old giant that was coppiced once upon a time. Shame, but it'll improve the view. Two poplar that I'm not keen on as well, they've got a future in a hugelkulture bed. -
My parents are victims of cowboy tree surgeons who are now blaming my mother.
peds replied to rbx1453's topic in General chat
Yep, we are getting there! I've heard it said that getting out of the ground is the hardest part, and I hope to God that's true. Buried a few wastewater pipes and a radon sump the other day, I'm just ironing it flat again now. -
My parents are victims of cowboy tree surgeons who are now blaming my mother.
peds replied to rbx1453's topic in General chat
You are farming livestock on the total area of land required to keep them alive, instead of using someone else's land in Ukraine or Brazil or wherever. The land required (and crucially, when chemical fertilisers are used, the carbon footprint) doesn't just disappear. -
My goal is gorse and primrose flowers, but you'd have to gather an absolute shed load to flavour a gallon of sap. I think you need to boil it down to concentrate it a bit before you get any worthwhile strength or flavour, without adding any extra sugar. But yeah, I've never found it near the top of my to do list at the appropriate time, so I'm yet to try it myself.
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Every year I find myself without the time to harvest any birch or sycamore sap, but when I do get around to it, I've heard it's worthwhile adding a few freezer fruits or seasonal flowers to the brew. Same as mead... it's nice, but it's better if you add something extra to help it along.
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Just poke it down inside the hedge for the next poor sod to find 👀
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At end of 150m laneway, space to turn up at the end. Call to arrange.
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Meaning that it hasn't been tested by squirting it into the eyes of the poor lickle bunny rabbits, like most bubble baths. Without checking, and I could well be wrong here, I definitely wouldn't be surprised if there were ingredients of animal origin in bubble bath. They really do turn up in the strangest of places. With regards to the firewood though... yeah, not sure what that's all about. I do insist on my firewood being free-range, however.
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Dealing with constant falling apples
peds replied to asdffdsa's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Put apples, both perfect or bruised and blemished, chopped or whole, unpeeled, in a big pan with a bit of water. Boil until soft, then mash through a colander, or press through a food mill or moulin. Boil until a bit drier, then mix with about the same quantity, or a bit less, of sugar, and any spices you might want... cinnamon, clove, dry ginger, you know the story. Boil until it looks like it'll set, or Google the correct temperature to bring it to. 105° or something, probably. Look for recipes for apple cheese, apple jam, black butter, or something like that, if you need to follow something more specific.
