Mundane News

[oldwheels]

No more fishies!

I once kept a salt water aquarium in my workshop which was about 25 yards from the shoreline and stocked it with whatever I found in rock pools such as hermit crabs, whelks and sea anaemonies of various kinds. i got a couple of small fish [cannot remember the name just now] but they terrorised everything else in the tank and hermit crabs for example retreated into their shells and refused to come out until I had caught the blighters again and deposited them back in the sea. I was given a small octopus once but I quietly slipped that back to sea again as they do not do well in captivity and the shock of transfer can kill them.

 

[Illaveago]

So Richie Sunak has been assembling his cabinet !

Must be one of those flat pack jobbies .

 

[Reynard]

Lumberjilling done. I've turned all the hazel I dragged in yesterday into logs and dumped that in the garage for immediate use, and four large lengths of ash have been turned into logs and stacked along the fence.

Done a little more on the Higman - its a case of roll a length of paper, glue, add a card sleeve, wait for it all to dry, then trim to size, and then rinse and repeat...

The gammon is in a pot on the hob, I've made a load of apple sauce, and once I've finished my I shall bash some tatties.

 

[KnittyNorah]

Same here except for feeding birds mostly because there aren't any ,probably something to do with the semi wild cats that inhabit this area. I guess l could shoot a few but that would only encourage the survivors to breed more vigorously !

Trap, neuter and release (after ear-notching) - TNR - is the solution.
It stabilises the population and helps keep incomers out - for a few years at least. Best if it can be done in a fairly organised way in a region then the effect lasts a lot longer.

 

[Reynard]

Part of our job is making appliances/adaptations/templates and/or training people so they can be part of the organisation. I always like it when I have someone left handed because it makes it more interesting, as I then have to adapt to them and it generally results in all kinds of interesting conversations.

It's why my mum had so much trouble teaching me to knit and crochet when I was but a nipper, as I do it left-handed, which is effectively doing things backwards.

Having said that, she's actually left-handed too, but as a kid had her left hand tied behind her back so she was forced to do everything right handed.

 

[Reynard]

When I were a lad, living in London, the 160 was our local bus route from Eltham Park. It was possibly the worst service Sarf of the River!

It was so late that you were never sure if it was yesterday's bus or the missing one from the day before that

For me, it was the 73... Good in the middle of the service (Stoke Newington to Marble Arch) but really crap at the ends of the route (Stokey to Tottenham Swan) and Marble Arch to Kensington Olympia.

These days it's been split out into multiple routes, and only the Stoke Newington to Oxford Circus part remains as the 73. it used to be Routemasters, and then bendy buses.

 

[classic33]

So Richie Sunak has been assembling his cabinet !

Must be one of those flat pack jobbies .

No loose screws?

 

[PeteXXX]

I once kept a salt water aquarium in my workshop which was about 25 yards from the shoreline and stocked it with whatever I found in rock pools such as hermit crabs, whelks and sea anaemonies of various kinds. i got a couple of small fish [cannot remember the name just now] but they terrorised everything else in the tank and hermit crabs for example retreated into their shells and refused to come out until I had caught the blighters again and deposited them back in the sea. I was given a small octopus once but I quietly slipped that back to sea again as they do not do well in captivity and the shock of transfer can kill them.

Your aggressor might well have been Blennius Pholis..

Easy to catch, and amusing in an aquarium, but they'll be quite dominant!

I also had a local marine aquarium when I lived overlooking the sea in Cliftonville, Kent. Great fun scouring the rock pools for aquatic wildlife.

 

[rockyroller]

My dad once started the coffee grinder thingie without putting the lid on properly (less elf 'n safety with cut-off switches in the olden days!!) and pinged coffee beans absolutely everywhere

my Dad used to like to tell us kids, that one time he mistook Brylcreem for toothpaste

 

[woodbutchmaster]

Trap, neuter and release (after ear-notching) - TNR - is the solution.
It stabilises the population and helps keep incomers out - for a few years at least. Best if it can be done in a fairly organised way in a region then the effect lasts a lot longer.

Sounds reasonable but l would never get the french to help and l just don't have the time to carry out that method of control. I have four horses and four dogs to keep happy ! It is a shame because the habitat is unspoiled and vast in area but it is inhabited by predators like wild boar (loads of them) ,foxes and a variety of birds of prey. All of which make it a fascinating region in which to live l must admit.

 

[woodbutchmaster]

No loose screws?

Nope, just nuts !

 

[rockyroller]

No loose screws?

I certainly have a few is anyone needs ...

 

[classic33]

I certainly have a few is anyone needs ...

Can you put them in post?

 

[Reynard]

Time to feed the cats, and then soon it will be time to feed me.

 

[rockyroller]

bossman just had a moment of clarity! rejoice!