" I never seem to be able to get that one ... what's your trick?"
@Dovefromabove - I guess I am usually flexible in times during the day and try to book far ahead if I can. I also look for the £10 tickets as I know they are to be had. Ones for next week are still available. Also, first class seats go from about £12. I use those to cut down on loud mobile phone shouty ambiance (less people) but it doesn't always work. Esp if loud shouty businessmen are having hugely important, vital, urgent shouty conversations.
We keep trying to find cheap rail tickets to Cornwall as we go there for our holidays each year and we don't need the car when we get there ... but wherever and whenever we look it always works out cheaper to drive ... it's mad and maddening
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I got a £15 ticket last year from London to Penzance. I love a bargain.
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I've been trying to find some eco-bin bags - experimenting with some fully biodegradable bags (starch based). I look this morning and they have dissolved in my outside bin. Maggots crawling everywhere. Bottom of the bin moving. Entire yuk. "They are only larvae" I remind myself. Utter yuk, nonetheless. Does any know of a half bloomin' descent bin bag that doesn't melt in contact with liquid?
I got a £15 ticket last year from London to Penzance. I love a bargain. Pp
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I've been trying to find some eco-bin bags - experimenting with some fully biodegradable bags (starch based). I look this morning and they have dissolved in my outside bin. Maggots crawling everywhere. Bottom of the bin moving. Entire yuk. "They are only larvae" I remind myself. Utter yuk, nonetheless. Does any know of a half bloomin' descent bin bag that doesn't melt in contact with liquid?
I find sod's law operates in the field of biodegradability. . Our council collects food waste, and issues "biodegradable" bags to put it in. They last a year or more in my compost bin. A friend gave me some biodegradable sacks for leaf mould. I filled them last autumn and by spring they were falling to bits - if only the leaves would rot that fast.
"I find sod's law operates in the field of biodegradability."
I suspect it very much depends what the bags are made of. Many of the bags etc on the market, branded as 'biodegradable' actually just break down into tiny bits of plastic. Ones that are made of potato starch or sugars etc fully degrade into organic matter but are perhaps not as robust. There must be a happy balance somewhere.
I find sod's law operates in the field of biodegradability. . Our council collects food waste, and issues "biodegradable" bags to put it in. They last a year or more in my compost bin. A friend gave me some biodegradable sacks for leaf mould. I filled them last autumn and by spring they were falling to bits - if only the leaves would rot that fast.
It's also exposure to light - the ones that are supposed to degrade usually do so faster in daylight (and even faster still in sunlight). The 'oxo' degradable plastics are supposed to degrade in air - again there's less of that in the bottom of your compost bin and again, there's a dispute about whether they actually do degrade at all. And then some of them need heat to break down. Depends a bit on your compost bin whether it's warmer or cooler in there than outside.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”