Un point de grump: I put a cloth shade over my little greenhouse yesterday as several seedlings were getting sun scorch. I came down this morning to see the wind had blown the whole bloomin' thing over; the shade must have created a sail effect, somehow. Forty pots falling must a hell of a crash. A big mess. Hopefully nothing has died. I might get a proper wooden, cold frame thingy.
The wind has been both a blessing and a curse in this weather. It gets clothes dry in record time and keeps things cooler but it makes any kind of lightweight shading blow around, fans the hill fires and blows the curtains around in the house when you try and keep the sun out.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
B3, at least manure comes from animals with a veggi diet, so no harmfull bacteria contained in the gut of meat eaters. Anyone watch the bacteria programme with Kate Quilton, heard her say "Eastbourne is full of old people" bloody cheek, (thats MY moan on here!) Its a University town, you have both Eastbourne and Brighton Uni here, a lot of young foreign students. Took our dogs along the Seven Sisters Coutry Park to the sea, numerous Japanese tourists, minly young by the coachload, come to the Uk just to see this. Hampton Court Flower Show, we have to have a whip round on here, because every day Jo Wjiley was in her nightie or PJs the poor woman obviously had no DAY clothes!
I was thinking more of the fact that some vegetarians don't eat meat because of their concerns about animal welfare. I agree that 'my body is a temple' vegetarians have other concerns. I don't know about Eastbourne demographics, but I have noticed that there seems to be an above-average number of cemeteries in Worthing!
Cats, hate them. Why? Totally allergic to them within a minute my eye's are closed and lumps appear as my skin reddens and itches. When we moved to this Bungalow on a new build site it was the show bungalow we were the first owners and it had beautiful properly laid lawns on all sides which the cats thought was an ideal place to deposit their wares, they came from miles around and I am sure some had a Scot's accent. What to do? Even I could not shoot them, the hose pipe left the place wet so back to my school boy days and out came the catapult. I cut bits of cardboard folded them into pellets and let the cats have it, I am a good shot and it worked in the main. Most cats left apart from two who ignored being hit with bits of cardboard. we lived a life of dodging around each other as the cats decided I was the intruder and I started to build the garden we wanted. Along came Benji a wee Westy with the heart of a lion, the big Ginger sat back and put his claws out only to be bowled over by a charging bundle of white fur, he shot over the fence and never came back. The Black Tom sat safely on top of the fence or so he thought, Benji hit the fence with such force the cat flew in the air and tumbled out of site, end of problem. Don't shoot them get a Benji. Frank.
Frank you make me laugh. I once bought an exe's dad a catapult and some giant bags of peanuts to shoot at the birds that were pinching his berries. It didn't occur to him that he was attracting them by firing peanuts at them!!! I had to employ a catty earlier this year with a particularly determined heron!
Ah yes you are right about the cemeterries in Worthing LOL We dont actually live in Eastbourne, but a village outside. Cats, ah, thereby hangs a tail (not the cats!!) My daughter was meant to be moving next Saturday, has 2 beautiful cats, mum was a british blue, (my last cat died 12 years ago) I had different neighbours in the past taking in one of my cats, feeding her, trying to keep her. someone started feeding the ginger, she didnt know who, but saw a boy and his dad go by her houses one day, boy piped up "Oh, look dad, thats where the cat lives" dad quickly shut him up. Last year he was so ill, she thought he was being poisoned, he was so ill, (you know the symptoms I mean!) and very thin, vets, loadsa money, blood tests, they were just feeding him rubbish, she put a special collar on "please do not feed this cat he is on medication" didnt work, so cat is installed in my spare room, hes never lived with dogs I have 2, one has never lived with a cat. She got her cat in Monday, kept him in, he came into her garden, she didnt reconise him!! They had cut off all his lovelly long fur! Judging by the state of his tail we think they had been misfeeding him, keeping him in, then either cut off the fur because of the ahem resulting mess, or were trying to diguise him. The veggi bit, I went veggi over 40 years ago, because I didnt like the way animals were kept, I dont have any problem with people eating meat, as long as it has a decent life (and death!) even Gordon Ramsey says if you treat an animal well on the way to slaughter, you dont get high levels of cortisol and tough meat. I was also nursing and when you have seen someone run over by a combine harvester, it looks like a lump of raw steak, after years couldnt bare the smell or look of meat, dont eat Linda Mcartney sausages, they look and taste like meat, and as for the paper this week, "bleeding veggi burgers" no ta!
30-odd years ago I spent two weeks in Bexhill on a training course, and at that time it proudly claimed to have the highest percentage of OAPs (sorry, senior citizens) in the UK. It has been described as " a graveyard with lights". I loved it.
I'm vegetarian for several reasons. It's kinder to animals. It's healthier. It's better for the global economy: in a hungry world, with an ever-increasing human population, it's wasteful to grow food to feed to animals, so that we can eat the animals. Livestock farming uses far more land, energy and water per unit of protein than growing crops we can eat ourselves.
I was vegan for 20 years, because of the mass slaughter of male calves and chicks, and of the females when they reach the end of their productivity. But I got tired of rice and beans, and I craved cheese.
If people ask me why I'm vegetarian I'm happy to explain, but it's a personal choice. I don't preach and I don't object to buying and cooking meat for other people.
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WE maybe they're damping around the fire to stop it spreading.
I agree that 'my body is a temple' vegetarians have other concerns.
I don't know about Eastbourne demographics, but I have noticed that there seems to be an above-average number of cemeteries in Worthing!
When we moved to this Bungalow on a new build site it was the show bungalow we were the first owners and it had beautiful properly laid lawns on all sides which the cats thought was an ideal place to deposit their wares, they came from miles around and I am sure some had a Scot's accent. What to do?
Even I could not shoot them, the hose pipe left the place wet so back to my school boy days and out came the catapult. I cut bits of cardboard folded them into pellets and let the cats have it, I am a good shot and it worked in the main. Most cats left apart from two who ignored being hit with bits of cardboard. we lived a life of dodging around each other as the cats decided I was the intruder and I started to build the garden we wanted.
Along came Benji a wee Westy with the heart of a lion, the big Ginger sat back and put his claws out only to be bowled over by a charging bundle of white fur, he shot over the fence and never came back. The Black Tom sat safely on top of the fence or so he thought, Benji hit the fence with such force the cat flew in the air and tumbled out of site, end of problem. Don't shoot them get a Benji.
Frank.
I had to employ a catty earlier this year with a particularly determined heron!
I'm vegetarian for several reasons. It's kinder to animals. It's healthier. It's better for the global economy: in a hungry world, with an ever-increasing human population, it's wasteful to grow food to feed to animals, so that we can eat the animals. Livestock farming uses far more land, energy and water per unit of protein than growing crops we can eat ourselves.
I was vegan for 20 years, because of the mass slaughter of male calves and chicks, and of the females when they reach the end of their productivity. But I got tired of rice and beans, and I craved cheese.
If people ask me why I'm vegetarian I'm happy to explain, but it's a personal choice. I don't preach and I don't object to buying and cooking meat for other people.