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lindisfel said:
I would investigate your new solar panels capabilities,Ann, the very newest ones have more output per unit area.
D.
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And there are other options than panels. Recently saw a house where the whole roof was covered in some kind of fabric(?) The whole roof was one big solar panel. And it looked very similar to normal roofing felt. Of course it wasn't.
 
Something to think about.
From Papua, Indonesia.
The echidna is embedded in the local culture, including a tradition that states conflicts are resolved by sending one party to a disagreement into the forest to search for the mammal and another to the ocean to find a marlin, according to Yongsu Sapari elders cited by the university.

Both creatures were seen as so difficult to find that it would often take decades or a generation to locate them, but, once found, the animals symbolised the end of the conflict and a return to harmonious relationships.
Wish we could do something like this now. Although I did wonder if this means the conflict went on until searches were successful.
 
ianpspurs said:
Thank you for another wonderful owl and more autumnal colours. That boy badger looks quite self satisfied. While I'm here @jjraak very useful guide to London. I'm taking egg and flip as nick rather than the NSFW meanings google suggested but ....... whatever boils ya bacon :D
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Thank you Ian, he does look as though he has achieved something big.
 
ianpspurs said:
@SlimLizzy I'm so thankful for and humbled by your, indeed anyone's, prayers and thoughts God bless you. The process is fine thank you, as much a social event as anything and I haven't experienced any side effects in my 15 months. In terms of effective we are talking about a handbrake - but level 1 as it were - not a cure but so far so good. I'm thankful this was discovered when it was purely by chance. My stenosis is a bigger problem for now and if I'm honest so is LC/Keto diet but research suggests keto helps immunotherapy.(my chemo is in tablet form) Hug for your headache and lessons being cancelled. @dunelm thanks for sharing your art, that picture and fond memories of Round the Horne: listened after Sunday lunch as a boy, one of Dad's favourites. I would say radio did more for my language skills than A Level English. Precious memories. Enjoy your own version of Super Salmon Friday my teapot is singing a siren song.
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Hi Ian,
Apparently it often helps your T and B cellsto execute their work in killing cancer if you enhance them by high dose Vit D. K2 is also said to be necessary to help the assimilation of D.
SlimLizzy said:
Something to think about.
From Papua, Indonesia.
The echidna is embedded in the local culture, including a tradition that states conflicts are resolved by sending one party to a disagreement into the forest to search for the mammal and another to the ocean to find a marlin, according to Yongsu Sapari elders cited by the university.

Both creatures were seen as so difficult to find that it would often take decades or a generation to locate them, but, once found, the animals symbolised the end of the conflict and a return to harmonious relationships.
Wish we could do something like this now. Although I did wonder if this means the conflict went on until searches were successful.
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I hope they don't kill them, monotremes are very endangered.
D.
 
Oh dear. The surveyor says that they need to update the whole heating system - apart from the radiators so we need to get the existing pipework taken out and new ones put in. That means emptying the loft after all and emptying all the furniture stored in what used to be the lounge - it has become a furniture museum and, I have to admit, it is ridiculous but nobody would value my 150 year-old chaise long, or my 50+ year-old leather suite, or the vintage dining chairs, or the 150 year old cherrywood storage box that a family member hand made, or .. or ... so many antique and venerable pieces. Then there is Tom's accordion - a huge thing, being kept for Em when she's big enough to see over the top of it. There are also an awful lot of bits and pieces of Neil's as well which he has started work on and never finished - all carefully taken apart and screws, nuts, bolts and other bits kept carefully apart. We do have a ridiculous sideboard which I bought in a moment of madness, in a charity shop, just after Tom died. It was so awful and made us laugh. We really didn't need it but it was worth it because it cheered us up every time we looked at it. It could go, but nobody would want it. The 7 foot long carcass is solid teak although the very chunky decoration is something I can't identify. The family pieces can't be got rid of - just because in the last hundreds of years, ancestors have used them or made them, or adapted them to their own needs.

And that's not even considering the loft.

We might have to hire a container for the duration and employ some help to get it all out.

I think the surveyor must have gone away bemused by this very odd kind of house.

BG has spiked again, on no food at all - up to 12.5 a short time ago.
 
jjraak said:
Welcome to the hood :cool:

Word to the wise, tubes great but if you're using a jam jar don't get caught by ulez or you might end up in the egg & flip.

Talking of food, Never had jellied eels, more a madras man...plenty in brick lane.
Chinatown for Chinese, obv..wong kei for the 'experience' 5 floors of Chinese eating says a lot.,
( I'd recommend duck noodle soup BIG bowl & the salt & pepper ribs )
& for Vietnamese, you could do a lot worse than kingsland road, dalston.

(Lchf v life is for living )

Oh & don't get mugged off by riskshaw drivers...100+£££'s for a very short ride :mad:

Some utter melts out there .

Had northern bikers friends looking to visit London, and realised how off they were in distances.

Made a little map with directions, reasonably fit (I know you, like myself might not be) easy enough to see houses of parliament, trip up the Thames, look at the tower of London from the river, then walk around Trafalgar Square, covent garden, theatre land, Leicester Square, and buck pal, all in one day (ignore Oxford Street ..utter hole)

Enjoy London, on a good days it's pukka, mate.

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Thanks for all That @jjraak. We are in Kensington and it’s the Albert Hall tomorrow. It’s been a tiring day as sitting on trains is. There is a well appointed kitchen in our apartment so probably dine in tonight.
 
Annb said:
And that's not even considering the loft.
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Hard to do I know.

But while I haven't attempted it.
I did hear a valid point that when decluttering.

Use the "if I was gone, who'd want it " method.

As in, if and when we die, would anyone want "X,Y or Z"...mmmhh.

Perhaps through those eyes, somethings might just be easier to let go of... ( heart )
 
SlimLizzy said:
Something to think about.
From Papua, Indonesia.
The echidna is embedded in the local culture, including a tradition that states conflicts are resolved by sending one party to a disagreement into the forest to search for the mammal and another to the ocean to find a marlin, according to Yongsu Sapari elders cited by the university.

Both creatures were seen as so difficult to find that it would often take decades or a generation to locate them, but, once found, the animals symbolised the end of the conflict and a return to harmonious relationships.
Wish we could do something like this now. Although I did wonder if this means the conflict went on until searches were successful.
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Not sure if it's a case of skynet infiltrating the BBC or just sheer coincidence, but tin foil hat is prepped & ready just in case the sirens do go off ... :bag:

www.bbc.co.uk

First-ever images prove 'lost echidna' not extinct

Sir David Attenborough "delighted" as mammal named after him is filmed for the first time.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
That's quite true @jjraak, and I am aware that Em, who would inherit it eventually, probably would have no interest in her Great, Great grandmother's, or even her Great, great, great grandmother's china, or her other great grandmother's glass ware or dinner and tea sets, never mind all that ancient furniture. As has already been seen, her parents don't value the things I have loved, however brilliant the design, so they won't want any of it. I could get rid of the small collection of typewriters (the oldest dates from about 1860 and the youngest is a 1980's electric one). I did give my stamp collection to my niece a year or so back so I can do it. Neil is like me for collecting things but his collections are computers and electronic musical instruments as well as a range of acoustic and wind instruments. There must be a gene involved somewhere.
 
lindisfel said:
Hi Ian,
Apparently it often helps your T and B cellsto execute their work in killing cancer if you enhance them by high dose Vit D. K2 is also said to be necessary to help the assimilation of D.

I hope they don't kill them, monotremes are very endangered.
D.
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Thanks Derek. Oddly enough I used to take Vit D3 and K2 . They expired but will order some more. I quite like many of the foods high in vits D and K.
 
lindisfel said:
I took this beech tree in our front garden this am.
It's particularly colourful at ATM whereas all our Ash trees have lost their leaves
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There is just something about trees that I Iove, many walks with the kids when they were younger, standing looking up at trees that had been standing when I was small and before I was born. I went conker picking late September to use on my wreath, but none around. Makes me wonder if they were all cleared up due to elves and fairies. As a little one I remember hundreds of fallen ones, but not this year.
 
Lainie71 said:
There is just something about trees that I Iove, many walks with the kids when they were younger, standing looking up at trees that had been standing when I was small and before I was born. I went conker picking late September to use on my wreath, but none around. Makes me wonder if they were all cleared up due to elves and fairies. As a little one I remember hundreds of fallen ones, but not this year.
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I like trees, but not the local ones!
7 (ish)reasons.
1. The foliage from them end up in piles in my garden, even though I don't have any! All through the year!
2. I would always have something happen to me if it involves a tree! Climbing fell off, swing, fell off, lean agsinst, get dirty or splinter. And so on.
3. They grow.
4. I can't draw them.
5. Difficult in jigsaws.
6. Don't know their names. Don't care about that!
7. Don't like forests, woods, copses etc. Give me concrete every time!

I'm a townie, rural is not in my genes!
 
Lamont D said:
I like trees, but not the local ones!
7 (ish)reasons.
1. The foliage from them end up in piles in my garden, even though I don't have any! All through the year!
2. I would always have something happen to me if it involves a tree! Climbing fell off, swing, fell off, lean agsinst, get dirty or splinter. And so on.
3. They grow.
4. I can't draw them.
5. Difficult in jigsaws.
6. Don't know their names. Don't care about that!
7. Don't like forests, woods, copses etc. Give me concrete every time!

I'm a townie, rural is not in my genes!
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Oh dear, I hope there are no Triffids listening.
 
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