Coronavirus **support** thread
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Apr 2020
10:21am, 3 Apr 2020
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ChrisHB
I'd also advise against getting a cheap shredder. I have one and it is so frustrating to use that I haven't for about 15-20 years. It may be rusty by now - maybe I'll check.
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Apr 2020
10:33am, 3 Apr 2020
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jacdaw
Don't buy a cheap shredder, they are useless. If you really need one, once this is all over, find a group of like minded people and share the cost of a really good one. We need more shared ownership. And fewer garden fires. And especially fewer garden "smoulders" of the sort popular with my neighbours. I also have a neighbour who runs his woodburner in a way designed to produce the most smoke possible, of the most foul kind, but I digress. |
Apr 2020
10:40am, 3 Apr 2020
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CreatureOfTheHill
Jacdaw - That's annoying. Mostly from an efficiency point of view  Smoke is wasted energy. (See permacultureprinciples.com for an example) +1 for shared ownership |
Apr 2020
11:39am, 3 Apr 2020
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Flatlander
COTH, your comment on the previous page reminds me of the sentence "A weed is but a plant in the wrong place" in H.G.Wells's 1910 novel "The History of Mr. Polly". It was about 50 years since I read the book so I may have slightly misremembered it.
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Apr 2020
11:41am, 3 Apr 2020
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fetcheveryone
Flatlander - is that the origin of that phrase? It's something my mam has always said. It'd be good to report back to her on where it comes from.
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Apr 2020
11:43am, 3 Apr 2020
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CreatureOfTheHill
Indeed it may be the source, variations on it have been in use around us for as long as we have memories. As a phrase in variations it will have been used in all languages for as long as people have been talking about cultivation
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Apr 2020
11:53am, 3 Apr 2020
1,645 posts
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Flatlander
fetch, I doubt it, as COTH says it has probably been around for a few centuries, but the book has just stuck in my mind all these years .
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Apr 2020
11:55am, 3 Apr 2020
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fetcheveryone
I'll still mention it - and tell them you pointed it out. I think they enjoyed our food together with you and DocM
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Apr 2020
12:10pm, 3 Apr 2020
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CreatureOfTheHill
The book stuck because it combined words in a particularly pleasing way. Which probably means it is worth revisiting. Now adding some H.G. Wells to the ever expansive reading list... Reading lists are a bit like the number of bikes to own, or the capacity of sheds. But that doesn't stop them being useful artefacts
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Apr 2020
1:50pm, 3 Apr 2020
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quimby
I agree about shredders. We have a Bosch and it is amazing, truly a weapon of mass destruction!
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