Mundane News

[Illaveago]

I've got a painful hip /thigh muscle. I could hardly get upstairs last night and it was awkward sleeping on it . It has eased off a bit this morning.

 

[MikeG]

I've noticed this too. In my young days, farmers nearly all rotated crops and planted a root vegetable like potatoes or turnips to give the fields a rest from the constant barley/wheat growing they seem to do now. No wonder they need so much fertilizer to grow things now.

As someone once said, the soils only role in farming these days is holding the crop upright.

 

[MikeG]

I've got a painful hip /thigh muscle. I could hardly get upstairs last night and it was awkward sleeping on it . It has eased off a bit this morning.

Green monkey disease. It's fatal.

Can I have your bikes?

 

[Andy in Germany]

As someone once said, the soils only role in farming these days is holding the crop upright.

Someone who works in sustainable agriculture told me that much of Europe is now officially 'desert' because the soil has nothing in it at all until the oil and gas based fertilisers are added.

 

[Mo1959]

Someone who works in sustainable agriculture told me that much of Europe is now officially 'desert' because the soil has nothing in it at all until the oil and gas based fertilisers are added.

........at the rate we're going, we will have the planet destroyed sooner rather than later.

 

[Illaveago]

Winter wheat and barley are both generally planted before September around here. And judging by the field we live in, there is no crop rotation at all. At least, not one dictated by agricultural requirements. We've had rape, wheat, wheat, barley, and next year will be barley, in the 4 years we've lived here. Barley, by the way, is a beautiful crop. They use a really old variety (it's sold for specialist brewing) which produces quite an uneven crop, with plant heights varying by up to 18 inches or so. The delicate, hairy heads wave around delightfully in a breeze, and the stubble is soft when its been cut. It also seems to need about half the amount of spraying that wheat requires.

Back to the hedging thing.........the farmer is very cogniscant of compressing the soil, and a tractor going around the perimeter of a field 3 or 4 times does a lot of soil compression. So in normal weather, with some dampness in the soil, they won't do the hedges even if they could fit it in with the harvest/ drilling. He told me that he reckons that they'll get the chance to do the hedges about one year in 10 under this relatively new regime, and it's one of the reasons he voted for Brexit.

That farmer needs to grow some of that special organic cereal that I have seen growing. It is perfect! Just like a bowling green except for the height. The farmer must also spend hours walking up and down between the rows plucking out each weed that he spots. He must have eyes like a hawk as I didn't see any that he missed.
Amazingly they don't use chemicals!

 

[Illaveago]

Green monkey disease. It's fatal.

Can I have your bikes?

You made me laugh, which in turn made me move my leg which then hurt !
Thank you !

 

[classic33]

Green monkey disease. It's fatal.

Can I have your bikes?

Only if you can cycle away with them, in the one visit.

 

[Gravity Aided]

knocking on drive side when under load so got to be either hip , knee , ankle , shoe , cleat , pedal or bottom bracket

I've had that be both pedal bearings and BB bearings, (same bike, same time, on a huge Schwinn World Sport I owned in 2008. Liked the bicycle all right, but I was too small for it!

 

[Gravity Aided]

........at the rate we're going, we will have the planet destroyed sooner rather than later.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQCwhjWNcH8

Been down that road over here, knew relatives that went through this, hope the same doesn't happen again, but people take a generation or two to forget the lessons learned, even those learned at great price and horrible suffering. I could extrapolate in so many directions from this statement.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I might add that the line between the cropland and the range land in the Southwestern states of the US has progressed to the 100th meridian. Further west than that, it is all grazing land, it won't support crops.

 

[MikeG]

You made me laugh, which in turn made me move my leg which then hurt !
Thank you !

Yeah, yeah, but what about those bikes?

 

[Maverick Goose]

My boss did a similar thing earlier, but it was only him going, the rest of us are still here working

Symps! Oh, and Cranston's spicy Mango pork sausages are really rather pukka .

 

[Hugh Manatee]

Proud of my daughter. She has had her first proper haircut in years. She is donating it to a charity that makes wigs for young cancer sufferers.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Proud of my daughter. She has had her first proper haircut in years. She is donating it to a charity that makes wigs for young cancer sufferers.

Mrs GA did that some years ago, her hair used to be waist length , but now she wears it shoulder length.