Tea? (Part 4)

[Fubar]

Missed the CAKE last night.

Yeahbut, I was running round collecting and dropping off radios for the Kinross Sportive tomorrow - gies a bit o' credit!

 

[Fubar]

It's still here but getting a bit gusty. Not sure what to wear for dog walking soon.

We even have snow forecast for next week.

Looks like a wet start on the red route tomorrow

 

[Smithbat]

It's still here but getting a bit gusty. Not sure what to wear for dog walking soon.

We even have snow forecast for next week.

Snow!!! It is nearly May! Blimey
Here it is a hazy 15 degrees now the sun has gone in, slight breeze but not enough to make my eyes run like the other day.
Big Plus for today, it is the final Friday of the month, so I get to finish at 4.30. I feel an extra couple of miles coming on the way home!

 

[classic33]

Really ?

Not enough cocoa beans ?

Global chocolate crisis looms
Expert warns of 'instability in cacao growing areas'


17 Apr 2012 at 06:10, Simon Sharwood

Simon Sharwood

The world's chocolate supply is at risk, according to Professor David Guest of the University of Sydney's Faculty of Agriculture and Environment.
Professor Guest will tomorrow deliver a talk titled The Chocolate Crisis in which he will warn that "We're in a situation where chocolate manufacturers are anxious about meeting demand, as there's rapidly increasing chocolate consumption in developing economies, paired with instability in cacao growing areas.”
Guest and his colleagues have travelled to cacao-growing regions in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Bougainville to promote sustainable farming practices for the precious bean.
"We work with farmers to select better genotypes of cacao, to demonstrate improved crop and soil management, to understand the constraints they face and what can be done to improve technical support," Professor Guest said.
“We've found it's really effective to explain to farmers that disease is caused by microorganisms similar to those that cause human disease. Showing farmers how the pathogens survive and spread helps their understanding and leads them to realise that they can reduce disease with improved management. Otherwise cacao farmers tend to blame nebulous factors like climate change or more virulent pathogen strains, which they feel powerless to do anything about."
Teaching farmers about these issues, and other farming methods that increase yields, are necessary to help producers keep up with rising global demand for delicious choccy treats.
"One estimate is that global production will need to increase by one million tonnes per year by 2020 - from 3.6 million tonnes in 2009/2010 - to meet global demand," Professor Guest said, with increased Chinese interest in chocolate one reason for the rise.
If that demand is to be met, Professor Guest says farmers need to act now.
"While controlling disease is relatively straightforward in theory, changing farming practice to become more sustainable and rewarding is a much more complex challenge involving social, economic, political and environmental factors," Professor Guest said.
It goes without saying that all Register readers wish Professor Guest and his colleagues every success in his work.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/17/global_chocolate_crisis/

 

[Mo1959]

Looks like a wet start on the red route tomorrow

Kinross? Give my dad a wave if you see him in his garden. First bungalow on the right once you turn the corner at the top of the Dragon. Mind you, if the forecast is correct I wouldn't imagine he would be out.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Snow!!! It is nearly May! Blimey

I've been in Scotland at the end of may when there has been enough snow in the cairngorms to go snowing. its nothing unusual. Now if they were saying snow and June, then I would be marginally concerned!
time to turn the heating back on @Mo1959

 

[classic33]

Kinross? Give my dad a wave if you see him in his garden. First bungalow on the right once you turn the corner at the top of the Dragon. Mind you, if the forecast is correct I wouldn't imagine he would be out.

@He's cycling past @welsh dragon?

 

[classic33]

I've been in Scotland at the end of may when there has been enough snow in the cairngorms to go snowing. its nothing unusual. Now if they were saying snow and June, then I would be marginally concerned!
time to turn the heating back on @Mo1959

Had snow doing the three national peaks in June '89, on Ben Nevis.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Had snow doing the three national peaks in June '89, on Ben Nevis.

yep, my childhood playground was not far from there, just south and we used to get snow regularly.. hence the only marginally concerned comment, not worried or anything like that.
2013 we had snow in Glencoe in the first week of September as well....

 

[Smithbat]

Had snow doing the three national peaks in June '89, on Ben Nevis.

See, this is why I stay down saaarrrrf.

On a completely unrelated note, there is a special circle in hell reserved for those who have come up with our various Business Tax rules. I am studying it at the moment and it is making my brain hurt - Rant over

 

[Mo1959]

@He's cycling past @welsh dragon?

Lol.........not that Dragon.

Dunning the village of my birth has a part called The Dragon.
http://www.dunning-community-trust....ll&id=1335522321&archive=&start_from=&ucat=5&

 

[Fubar]

Kinross? Give my dad a wave if you see him in his garden. First bungalow on the right once you turn the corner at the top of the Dragon. Mind you, if the forecast is correct I wouldn't imagine he would be out.

Red route doesn't go up/down the Dragon, only the Black - I'm not THAT stoopid!

 

[classic33]

See, this is why I stay down saaarrrrf.
On a completely unrelated note, there is a special circle in hell reserved for those who have come up with our various Business Tax rules. I am studying it at the moment and it is making my brain hurt - Rant over

Check here!
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/hell-are-you-going.116188/#post-2116199
http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv

 

[Fubar]

See, this is why I stay down saaarrrrf.

On a completely unrelated note, there is a special circle in hell reserved for those who have come up with our various Business Tax rules. I am studying it at the moment and it is making my brain hurt - Rant over

TBF what happens up where @Mo1959 is bears no relation to the rest of Scotland (you know, where people actually are... )

I feel your pain, I've been doing financial ratios for an assignment and they are bad enough - Business Tax...

 

[Mo1959]

Red route doesn't go up/down the Dragon, only the Black - I'm not THAT stoopid!

Ahhhh. I only got up once without stopping and that was on the hybrid with its almost mtb gearing and taking it very gently. At least it has been resurfaced now.