Britain is indeed broken. She is suffering. She is not well.
Immigration is out of control. Our public services are on their knees. People don’t feel safe.
We can’t even defend ourselves, and our nation stands weak and humiliated on the world stage.
Well that certainly didn’t all happen in the last eighteen months.
Why don’t you remind us of how long you were a senior member of the governments that failed to do anything about it?
Perhaps just in the US?
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Allana Falconer, who works in sustainability and started competing in 2023…
She has competed in 20 different races across six countries and 12 different cities.
I have been contemplating automated irrigation for the polytunnels and greenhouses. There are some cheap kits on Amazon these days, but I’m way less than convinced that they’ll flow sufficient water for my needs and after stumbling around trying to come up with ideas for something that would work I’ve decided to do things piecemeal.
Initially I’m going to buy a cheap 12V pump that claims to be able to deliver 800 litres per hour. I was thinking of using that to feed lots of drippers, but then it occurred to me that I still have loads of “leaky pipe” that might do the job fine if the water is at a higher pressure than direct from the IBCs that contain the water.
At the moment I can’t decide whether to feed the pump direct from the IBCs or to have them deliver water into a smaller tank through a ball valve and use that to feed the pump.
I guess I can work that out once the pump arrives.
On the assumption the pump side of things works then I’ll start looking into solar power and water level sensors. It’s quite tempting to run everything from a Raspberry Pi to allow “information” to be relayed back to my home network, but one step at a time, eh?
Let’s call it what it was. And the US government will lie about it again. Because they don’t care. It’s someone else’s son, so they’re not important.
I can’t help wondering how long it will be until widespread violence erupts. Sadly that will be playing into Trump’s tiny hands.
I had a quick check on the peppers under the grow light this morning. They’re looking pretty good now are some are even producing their first true leaves.
There are one or two more oddities though, such as these ones with three leaves.
I also found a packet of mixed up home-saved Cayenne chile and Kapia sweet pepper seeds. Since everything else seems to be doing so well I decided to sow a few of those as well 😀
From the description of a submersible pump on Amazon.
Remind me again, what sort of chemical is methanol?
Removing the tyre and inner tube from the wheelbarrow wheel turned out to be somewhat easier than I was expecting given that the front wheels of the lawnmower are the ones I usually have to deal with, and they’re an absolute pig.
I didn’t even need to look for the puncture, because it was that obvious.
So, on went the patch, nice and easy.
And then it all went downhill 😀
After leaving the patch for some time to dry I reinflated the tyre just to check there weren’t any other leaks and realised that air was still leaking from the patch site. In fact, the patch hadn’t really stuck very well at all, and when I peeled the rest of it away, this is what I found.
Oh well. No spares in the drawer, so off to order one online. Two, in fact. Fortunately they’re less than £5 each.
The Antirrhinums were sown last weekend and this weekend it’s the sweet peas’ turn. Forty-seven seeds in all which isn’t many, so I’ve sown them one to a cell in module trays. Hopefully I’ll get decent germination and there’ll be enough for the main garden as well as the cutting garden.
I’ve just been idly looking at the cheap polytunnel that I’m turning into a polycrub on Amazon. Not sure why. My brain is just in random mode at the moment.
In the details for the 6m x 3m polytunnel, it says:
“Do not leave up in heavy weather.”
“NOTE: Not suitable for bad weather conditions”
So if you have plants inside and the weather turns a bit nasty you’re supposed to take it down? Even when the edges are supposed to be buried in the ground? I’m sorry? What exactly is the point of that?
As Asterix might well have said: “These Chinese are crazy!”
