Try going to a big city you don’t know much about:

1) Book a historic walking tour.
2) Wander around doing your own thing armed with your fresh historic knowledge.
3) Get shitfaced.
4) Dine out.
5) Retire to Premier Inn or somesuch.
6) Get a train home.

We went to Liverpool, it was a good experience.

I am excited about getting In The Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson on the wall!

Slight hijack I know but, I want to do the same, I have the album covers but dithering over what frames to get. They need to be a bit larger than 12″ square to fit album covers. Plain black wood is preferred. Any recommendations?

Burial at sea?

I really enjoyed Entangled Life. It might get a bit dense if you don’t have at least a passing interest in fungi, but you could easily read it a chapter at a time as an in-betweenie.

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead, after hearing some of it serialized on R4
Previous read was Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life for the same reason.

Highway code says roundabouts

Is cheese any cheaper in France?

Time to climb

To the OP’s 1st question I would have to answer
fungi, bacteria, and protists, the latter including all the single-celled forms that are not bacteria. Plus non living stuff like minerals. That would have been a rather short thread. But the aim of the question was to lure in non meat eaters to hit them, and only them, with a pseudo-philosophical question loaded to provoke those of a non meat eating persuasion. I eat meat so can’t answer that one but boy did it work.

I’m not as politically minded as many on this thread but I’m really dissapointed in Starmer’s lack of opposition and lack of alternatives so far. Even to the point of thinking he doesn’t actually want to be elected PM and inherit this $hitstorm the Tories have created for us. In which case we really are doomed to more of the same $hit.

I seem to remember that some of you also clean bike parts in the dishwasher too?

Anyways, each to their own innit. I like my pot sink and plastic bowl, I like my glassware and crockery and I like washing up by hand, listening to the radio and looking out the window.
The key to efficient washing up, however you do it, is to get rid of most of the food residue from pans, plates etc as soon as you can buy rinsing and/or using a spatula before it has the chance to dry on.

No dishwasher, everything washed up by hand
Pot sink
Bowl protects pot sink
Bowl protects delicate items
Bowl keeps water hot for longer

Got round to watching this on iplayer last night.
Best music doc ever. What a great Artist.

Who knew the pistols had some actually good songs.
Er yeah, all of NMTB

Dedicated benches are at epidemic level around here. Despoiling the best bits of the countryside.

Thanks for the heads up

Can you say slats on here?

Thanks, I will be watching this

I use Love Hemp. no complaints.

A typical case of Political Correctness gone mad, gone mad. Time moves on, public attitudes change but it’s a slow process and there is a lot of drag from the old guard, mostly the same people who want to go back to the 1950s, digging their heels in. Probably a generational condition.
(I spotted the puns as I wrote)

Sorry for the slight digression here but
Most trees and plants are linked into underground networks of fungal networks via their root tips and exchange resources they need from each other. The fungi gain energy which the trees produce by photosythesis and the trees get vital elements which the fungi can tap into. There is still a lot to be discovered about this “wood wide web” but it may be a form of information transfer between plants via fungi.This does not make the plants or fungi sentient beings though. Who’s pimping Who? The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them.
Have a read of Entangled Life by Marlin Sheldrake for more about the fungal world.

Plebs

Any Al Green compilation will do the trick. Or used to anyway.

Ive seen this tractor thing on grouse moors near Simons Seat in the Yorks Dales. Huge tractor just mashing up the moorland. No idea what for though.

Thanks nickc
I read the reviews and it’s now on my Kindle

Thanks for the various replies. Probable arse covering as bruneep says as there is an insurance survey coming this week.

I just have the mini bottle of voddy I won in a tombola.

It’s time for humanity to grow up – says the man-baby

“I like things neat and tidy – it’s my OCD”. No it isn’t OCD you twunt you just like tidyness.

No haters have arrived yet.

Kneeling does sound like a Top Tip from Viz but I do it. I kneel on a quadrupled yoga mat for about 10 minutes. It is quite hard to keep a straight back without arm support but feels like a good excersize for posture/back strengthening.

Try kneeling at your normal desk. That’s what I do when sitting gets too much.

I’m suffering gnarsia now, no more please, I want to get off.

I second the above. Very informative and scary regarding the secretive depletion of main aquifers worldwide.

I was looking forward to some chat about weaving. Disappointed.

We just spent a very good few days in Alnwick. Loads of eating options but the place is very busy right now and you have to book a table well in advance. We ended up eating fish and chips on the street, which was nice. The best pub we found for good beers is the Tanners Arms, very freindly and has a great juke box. Overall highlights were sea swimming at Alnmouth and Embledon beaches and Alnwick Castle is well worth the £18.50 entry fee!, again book in advance and try to get in early in the day as it gets crowded by midday.

Try The Pilcrow too next time. Sadlers Yard, Hanover street.

That or a 20 mile, flat, granny gear race