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Jul 2022
5:51pm, 15 Jul 2022
5,469 posts
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Fields
Agree - but I think they need to be mandated tbh
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Jul 2022
9:27pm, 15 Jul 2022
91,118 posts
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Hanneke
I just eat a clove of garlic a day. Works a treat at keeping all biting insects at bay all over the world apart from those ruddy horse flies.
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Jul 2022
10:52pm, 15 Jul 2022
18,649 posts
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3M (aka MarkyMarkMark)
And vampires too, Hanneke! 🧛♂️🦇
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Jul 2022
11:09pm, 15 Jul 2022
12,999 posts
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jda
Clove of garlic a day works for covid too.
Doesn’t affect the virus itself but guarantees social distancing 
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Jul 2022
12:07am, 16 Jul 2022
91,142 posts
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Hanneke
Ah, so that is why I haven't had Covid 🤪
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Jul 2022
12:08am, 16 Jul 2022
91,143 posts
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Hanneke
It does keep your immune system in good shape, which I think is the reason why I am never ill...
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Jul 2022
8:23am, 19 Jul 2022
91,249 posts
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Hanneke
I think the climate/environmental disaster takes place so slowly, it is impossible for people to comprehend. I recorded a high of 34.9 on Sunday, followed by a low of 9.2. yesterday a high of 44.6 and a low of 13.6.
I am not un-used to such temperatures and able to adapt and function well however: I have never seen a shade measured temperature THAT high here.
Combined with the quite strong winds, it was as if we were being blow dried by a giant blow drier. Leaves are curling and crumpling. It didn't feel good. I picked up a distinct feeling of distress from my garden. For the first time ever. I think it draws the line at 40 degrees. It feels quiet, subdued out now. It is already 21 in the shade at 8 am.
Yesterday, I went and gardened with my client from 7 - 10 am. It was cold enough to need a fleece first thing at 13 degrees. When I left 3 hours later, it was 31!!!
It is those contrasts that are so hard for our environment. Those extremes. It is so dry, rivers have all but dried up here. When we do get rain, it is too much in too short a time span for it to be absorbed by the earth. My friend's spring is down to a trickle. I am on Welsh Water. Still, I only flush the loo on a number 2. I have reduced showering to once a week, in the bath, so I can use the water for my food crops. I only water those... I also have a bath once a week. In between, I strip wash with a flannel to remove dust and sweat. Thing is, I have been doing this for some time... Others, for whom climate change moves too slowly to notice, bought an aircon unit and have 2 showers a day. Oblivious of their continuing contribution to the problem.
Ironically, they are all gasping yet they happily take a plane to a country where it used to be this hot and lie in the sun all day for 2 weeks 🙄
I have always been optimistic we could still change things around but yesterday was like living one of my apocalyptic dreams and it felt uncomfortable. Not physically, mentally.
I doubt things are happening fast enough for those who need to see it to realise what disaster is playing of around them. Not helped by generations of in-bread entitlement to consume...
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Jul 2022
9:15am, 19 Jul 2022
43,012 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Hann, those who are blind to it, wilfully or through ignorance, will just have seen a lovely English sunny summer's day, good for business, more ice creams purchased, pubs full with drinkers, holiday makers spending money locally, all good.
I have to force myself to read other bits of the internet and media, to see how others can and do view these things. What seems self evident to us, and absolutely proven and backed by science, is dismissed as "just a sunny day". Same with floods, storms and other weather phenomena hitting us more and more frequently. "Oh, it's just the British weather. It will be fine."
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Jul 2022
12:45pm, 19 Jul 2022
3,252 posts
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JRitchie
It seems like we are living the boiled frog analogy.
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Jul 2022
12:47pm, 19 Jul 2022
43,025 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
A very apt analogy JR.
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