I bought two 105 rear mechs off here and both arrived very damaged.
Both were sent in bags with a little bubblewrap.

I feel his pain.

My entire garden is made up of collected wild species, pretty much all grown from seed or cuttings. The local wildlife seem to approve.

Taking a whole plant is a bit of a dick move, unless you can find some end of year saplings in bad spots that might enjoy a better life elsewhere!

Daaaaw! Millipedes are wonderful little things (when not being an invasion force threatening to devour your family)!

Should get that looked at though. They only really live in damp places, feeding on decaying organic matter, particularly rotting wood.
Not sure that they should be so common inside, either.

psychodidae larvae. Easy to get rid of. The adult form are really pretty, close up, too

Had a look on Sports Pursuit? I’m trying really hard not to buy a Berghaus Velum III in the new shakedry goretex active for a hundred quid that has been tempting me for a few weeks now…

Yes P-Jay, that seems to be the case, however it is very difficult to note if senescent decline still occurs after (x) amount of reversions.

If you are after a truly immortal animal, look no further than the Arctic Quahog clam, Arctica islandica.
You can find their shells on most UK beaches, but if left to their own devices (without predation, disease or severe environmental change) will keep on going forever with no loss in reproductive ability.

This one was dredged up in the prime of its life at a a mere 507 years old.

The food is drawn up into the mouth/anus opening and into the ‘gastrdermis’ where its presence causes the release of enzymes to break it down as its nutrients are drawn across the cell walls to feed the jelly.
Nice.

As for the envenomation of turtles, it just can’t happen. Jellies sting with little coils of cells that culminate in a barbed point called nematocysts. These fire when stimulated and push small amounts of very potent toxins into the target, however turtles are far too tough to be penetrated by the sting and the tiny amounts of toxin are not poisonous when consumed.
Turtles tent to go for larger species that do sting, but often eat only the body. It has been proposed that they simply do not like the taste of the feeding apparatus.

As for size, here, have a Deepstaria enigmatica. We know bugger all about this one.

jekkyl – Member

do like we did as kids, cover them in sand and slice em up with your beach spade. Filthy things, make swimming in the sea highly frustrating.
Too obvious. Stop it now. :-)

Edit, yes, ones that do sting can still be potent days after death.
Moons, compass and barrel jellies are the most common over here and they are pretty harmless.
But then, some people don’t check first….
I remember a story of a Lions Mane jelly drifting close to the beach where it was surrounded by beachgoers having a look! I think nearly 100 people were stung by a single animal that day.
Found it. http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/07/22/nature-attacks-giant-dead-jellyfish-stings-150-beachgoers/

A good way to think of them is as free-living corals or anemones as they are all slight variations on the same bodyplan.
They don’t breathe as such, having no respiration system as they do not require it. They work by cellular respitory diffusion, in that they have very thin cell walls which allow O2 to cross the cellular membrane.
No brain or central nervous system is required either as they react to external stimuli much in the same way as plants do. They sense their surroundings, touch and temperature via a system of nerves which then deliver info to a segmented ring of nerves around the rim of the jelly, with each segment controlling a section of the mantle and its associated feeding apparatus. By stimulating some areas of the mantle they have some control over their direction and depth, but again, this is due to environmental feedback, not actual choice.
Weirdly though, they must individually put in so much effort to maintain the congregations that they form.

Also, all over the UK. Barrels feed on planktonic organisms with a slight preference for those in warmer waters, so they are rare in the far north. But then, currents drag them all over.
This is a good one, Eil Malk in Palau.

It used to be connected to the sea via underwater passageways which have since closed up.

The little guys that were trapped diverged into something closer to a photosynthetic organism due to a lack of plankton (most cnidarians utilise symbiotic photosynthetic bacteria to supplement their feeding).
Over the course of the day they follow the sun across the surface of the lake, gathering in the lit spots in huge concentrations!
For an animal that only reacts to environmental inputs, they are capable of surprising behaviour.

Also, don’t follow the above advise about digging around them if they are little and blue…
Portuguese Men’o’war hurt quite a bit and their feeding tendrils can be really hard to see against the sand!

Rhizostoma pulmo, otherwise known as the ‘barrel’ or ‘dustbinlid’ jellyfish.
They can get a good bit bigger, too!
It is always sad to see them caught out on the sand, poor buggers. They don’t really have any way of avoiding it. If they are too big to move, dig a pit around and under them so that it fills with water and they don’t dry out. They will get washed back out at high tide.

Had a HP Envy 4520 for about a year now and it has not missed a beat yet.
Wireless so simple to set up and can connect most stuff in seconds, including phones tabs and cameras (photo printing is pretty good too).
Can scan to an email address, email the printer documents from afar,
it’s like magic compared to the old Epson that it replaced!
Also, the full capacity ink carts last a good while and always seem to be on offer somewhere when I need them.

Edit, the printer was only fifty quid,too.

Did ours last year. Easy as.
Remove power supply,
Remove back plate inside cooker,
Remove element,
push fit new one
replace everything,
clean interior light housing to improve the gastronomic view
Power up and run up to full temp to test and burn off anything that will.

Cook chips.

Edit: I think that ours took a generic element. Cost about 20 quid.

We run an accessible cycling group and those look to have a lot of potential! May well be ordering a few, Cheers for the link matey!

Yep, BSA Mercury, local shop went at it with something that looks much like an arrow straightener and it came back as near to perfect as I can tell.

Looks like it has Been written

on a phone, Hence the Random capital

letters, breaks in the text and an over-Zealand autocomplete. :D

It is waterproof, for a given value of ‘waterproof’! Dryvent 2L is the least waterproof of the three versions that it comes in and has it’s limitations.
But all waterproofs need re-proofing regularly.

Edit: As CFH says above, but. DO NOT WASH DOWN FILLED ITEMS! It will clump up and be a mahoosive pain in the arse to redistribute and dry!

Edit2: Besides, just looked at it and I seriously doubt that it would fit in a washing machine anyway :-)

The down sections are much thinner over the shoulder on these jackets. If it has really packed down, try giving it good shake about, or better yet, use an airline from the inside to puff up it up again!

The waterproofing can can be revitalised with a spray on product, such as grangers repel, but to be fair, it is more of a cold weather parka than a wet weather one.
Mrs Doc has one that has been going strong for years as a winter coat, but she will wear a proper waterproof version without the down filling if it’s raining heavily.

One of them? can be run upside down for a bit of rise.

Or

Or

Or the DMR Defy as mentioned above is a good choice.

Also once had a ragley stubbing which was pretty low

Newhey, near the 62

This is a good option, along with milnrow, littleborough and the delph side of things.
Slightly biased as i live here and there is some great riding on the doorstep!
Also, i regularly work in Middleton and hate the place.

Did a flyby on the bike, went over Ogden, dropped down to Shaw to meet up with my sister who was walking up to Tandle, then chose a different route back to Blackstone Edge.
As said, seemed a good turnout!
Kept an eye out for a the fattie too, Mcnulty!

Sorry, but for clarification, I take it that this is about the walks planned in tandle hills park and other areas on the 2nd of Jan in order to protest the plans for development of some greenfield sites in the area?
Can only be a good thing, plus it’s not a bad place for a wander.

Endura humvee. Not the highest tech spec, I am sure, but can’t go wrong for 30 quid

Generally, no. I can’t remember your kids names and to be honest, I have too many other false sentiments of goodwill in cardboard format to deliver to be stopping for a chat.

Edit, just kidding, I don’t do cards :-)

Ta! New desktop background time!

They can be a bit hit and miss. Two pairs of MT500’s have fallen apart quickly, one pair of singletracks have come apart at the seams, but a pair of full monty’s have just done a good six months with only a couple of small holes in the fingers so far.
Strangely enough, a pair of ‘definitely not rebranded Endura’ gloves from Aldi are outlasting all of my others so far. They were about a fiver, I seem to recall :D

Been using viewranger gps tracker for years as you can use ‘buddy beacons’, allowing you to add people and track their route. Great for long mountain trips where you often get separated.

+1 for Aldis winter gloves. My hands were also too warm this morning, although it was a only paltry minus one.
Bloody brilliant, they are!

Another vote for for Hebden, despite the fact that I live down the road and hate the place with a passion :P

Maxtorque, isn’t there a bluetooth mouse option? But yes, that sounds like it could be annoying if not.

Eventually, a small led will activate near to the power button, but they do seem to go on forever before they require feeding.

Do you have the keyboard too, Danbo? if so, how is it for prolonged typing?

Will watch this thread with interest..
My gf wants a 12 inch ‘tabtop’ for work as she moves around a lot.
Have narrowed it down to a surface pro or a galaxy tabpro s, however, after playing with a surface 4 in a shop the other day, we noticed that the display model had the ‘screen flicker’ fault as well documented online.
Also, the surface 3 is going a good deal cheaper too.

I must say, the Aldi Nebula copies have withstood three very wet rides and a good few damp commutes and they have held up fine so far.

I would suggest lightly greasing around the seal on the charging port and the button to add a layer of protection, but then, I tend to do this with all my lights.

cynic-al – Member

I may have posted this before but here’s some of my pottery. More incoming.

Looks stunning, cynic

Yep, a great crunchy fruity combo, that!
It’s eating kiwi fruit unpeeled that raises eyebrows in this house.

Edit, Just remembered. My girlfriend likes to dip twiglets in shandy. That was a new one for me!

Ewww, but can’t quite place what offends my eye.
Maybe the mudguards, maybe that fork. Or those tyres. or the seatstays. or…

+1 for the mud wrestlers.
Also recently fitted a pair of Schwalbe Sammy Slicks which seem to be holding their own in the damp at the moment. I thought the smooth centreline would be rubbish over mud and grass, but it grips really well and still has good side knobbles for cornering.

Yep, we noticed that a while back. its also a little thinner than veg oil so you can refill those spray oil bottles too

Damnit! Just bought one a couple of months ago for eighty quid..
Very nice, btw.

I would, but it might be cheating since I have had a sober January through September so far..

In fact, I can count on my fingers how many times that I have had a drink since 2010. Not sure if that’s a good thing or not.