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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    OH likes Echinacia tea. He didn't catch Covid from me when I had it. 🙄
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    OH likes Echinacia tea. He didn't catch Covid from me when I had it. 🙄

    Do you have to boil the creatures that look like hedgehogs to make this strange tea?
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I like Elderberry and Echinacea tea. Comes as teabags, no boiling of spiny critters, or even berries, leaves and flowers. I haven't had a full-on snotty cold since I stopped commuting regularly by train in 2016.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I was trying to sneak to bed at midnight last night when an earthquake struck and shook the whole house. It was like a strong gust of wind suddenly hit the house and rattled all the doors. Apparently we weren't far from the epicentre. It's the second one we've had here now.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Have they fracked near you at all?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Fracking is banned in Wales thankfully. We live on a geological fault line though. People have lost their dogs down the fissure that follows the fault down the hill behind our house and there have been major land slips within view of the house within living memory. It's alway a worry when a quake happens here in case it triggers something :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    edited February 2023
    I was just about to do my meter readings and there was a headline on the opening page @wild edges. 3.8 apparently, and about 7.5 miles north of Rhondda for the centre. A depth of 2 kilometres   :/
    Hope you're all ok. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I've just received a private message from an earlier spammer [bradleyheath something or other, going on about some chemical solution to something. A couple of people also posted but obviously, the thread's gone now. I think @pansyface might have posted but can't remember.
    I've added Catherine Mansley to the 'conversation' [their single message ] rather than reply. Does anyone know if that works effectively, or any other suggestions?
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    edited February 2023
    Good gracious what an experience @wild edges. Presumably you knew what it was?

    Edit to say that bliddy @ whatsit is playing up
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    We've experienced a couple of tremors here in Gloucestershire over the years.  They have all been in the evening or at night.  One sounded like a train going past, although there are no rail lines within a mile of us.  The other just rattled things around.
    We also experienced on in Crete.  Sitting in the hotel bar by the pool one evening, as you do, and water in the pool started to slosh up over the sides, then the tables started to shake along with all the bottles and glasses in the bar.  A little unsettling but the locals all said it was 'normal'.
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