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  Can we all please agree on a “that’ll do” point for everything? I don’t need a new phone with a 128 megapixel camera, monolith sized screen and enough storage to keep a copy of the British library. I want the thing to fit in my bag or pocket and just…work. I don’t need constant improvements to software, I just want it to work and not spy on me. I don’t need a car that will pretend to drive itself, I need a car with low or no emissions and good public transport or cycling routes. We all k...

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  Okie dokie vegans. How do you make lasagne? My partner made the best lasagne (not Biased) but of course it’s meat based. We have a vegan sauce for the white sauce but can’t do the layers for the bolognese type bit. We have a tomato based sauce butI can’t eat aubergines, courgettes and most nightshades so it’s lacking in texture somewhat. #vegan

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  I find it extraordinary how people out themselves in a single sentence. Passing conversation with a neighbour and they unjokingly say they’re glad it’s sunny again. To which I said I could do with some rain. Oh no, I prefer it dry is their reply. And with that they put themselves as contextually unaware. Really? Dry? Yeah, rain all the time means flooding, waterlogged fields, and other difficulties. You can’t harvest wet grain, you can’t cultivate a wet field. But a wet field can’t...

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  This is interesting. It’s so dry here that you can see the extent of a trees main root system. Under the shade of the tree, but not under the canopy, the grass is long, quite lush and green. It is getting dried out and it is failing slowly with the drought. Closer to the tree and under the canopy, the grass is shorter, drier and dying off faster . Note that is hasn’t rained for months so this isn’t a rain shelter thing and it hasn’t been grazed oddly. The whole field was harrowed and ferti...

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  Gilgamensch - a person who goes on a journey but being honourable chooses not to cut down the tree or kill the bull.

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  Bugger the lot of them. Happiness is a hot forge, and I can’t be doing with the news at the moment and in spite of the arm/neck issues I needed to pick up a hammer. Made a couple of door hooks, fixed a garden half moon edger someone had decided to use as a spade and make myself a weed yeeter. Also known as a weed slasher, it’s a long flat bar with a blade at the end. Add a wooden handle and it looks rather splendid. The wood is preserved with a dressing bar made of linseed oil, beeswax and lan...

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  I recognise and accept that a lot of people use spoons as a metaphor for levels of fatigue and energy. I have started using forks instead. The same shape of metaphor but when I say I’m out of forks to give it at least makes me chuckle.