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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Nobody but me likes my porridge:
    Jumbo oats
    Water . More than you'd expect
    A splash of milk
    No salt
    Seed mix . No birdseed 
    Cook til the oats burst
    Salt added on the plate. You must come across the salty bits as you work your way around the edge of the plate.
    It's soupy. And salty. 
    Oat soup with crunchy bits

    I told you that you wouldn't like it 😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I use oats in crumbles and some biscuits.  Never anything soupy  I wonder if the chooks would like them.   Dry, not soupy. 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I've stopped buying bird mixes as they add oat flakes as fillers. The birds chuck them out to get at the good stuff.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • I use oat flakes for ground feeders ... blackbirds love them. 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited February 2021
    NASA spend $2b to get a probe safely onto the surface of Mars. 
    Bojo wastes £22b on a track and trace system which still doesn't work.
    https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-testing/uk-says-covid-19-test-and-trace-system-cost-to-rise-to-22-billion-pounds-idUKKBN2832FL
    Devon.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I suspect there will be an expensive and pointless public enquiry to add to the bill soon enough and "lessons will be learned" but not the kind where anyone pays the dodgy money back. Maybe I'm just bitter about the extra three weeks of Lockdown we've been prescribed :|
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    But lessons won't be learned as we see every time there's an enquiry into a health trust failing its patients or social services not realising that what's happening in Yorkshire is happening elsewhere - too little money, too few resources, no joined up thinking which is mostly what's needed and certainly no long term planning and funding.

    Does anyone really think that any review of the handling of this pandemic will lead to there being enough stocks of PPE held ready or enough medical staff trained and employed and well housed?  Let alone the care workers getting decent pay and conditions and let's not start on essential services from janitors and porters to police and fire and teaching or essential private sector roles like shop workers and delivery staff.  
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Obelixx said:
    But lessons won't be learned as we see every time there's an enquiry into a health trust failing its patients or social services not realising that what's happening in Yorkshire is happening elsewhere - too little money, too few resources, no joined up thinking which is mostly what's needed and certainly no long term planning and funding.

    Does anyone really think that any review of the handling of this pandemic will lead to there being enough stocks of PPE held ready or enough medical staff trained and employed and well housed?  Let alone the care workers getting decent pay and conditions and let's not start on essential services from janitors and porters to police and fire and teaching or essential private sector roles like shop workers and delivery staff.  
    Maybe an enquiry will ensure proper, open processes for contract procurement based on more than being mates of the PM , or party doners.
    That would be a worthwhile outcome surely?
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Perhaps the people in NASA didn't have so many school chums😒
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    B3 said:
    Perhaps the people in NASA didn't have so many school chums😒
    I'd guess they're better at fact checking before proceeding and certainly more interested in FACTS and SCIENCE than Bojo.
    Devon.
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