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You will find a dutch hoe is better for weeding
This is for breaking up the soil and general digging. Round my way it's all clay soil, so any labour saver is gratefully received.
Also getting a Hoe, because as you say they're dead handy. And probably from that website as they stock 55" handles. Being 6'3"ish that is most appreciated by my spine.
I thought you said they had a communial rotivator?
If it is just clay, consider making raised beds.
There is the rotivator, but a lot needs doing. Seems the previous occupant just kept trying to level it off, and made it worse. Azada is definite tool of use for me! Plus looking at the rotivator, it doesn't dig particularly deeply, so can use it to do the top layer, then Azada the rest into submission.
Plus I really want an Azada :p
Psh, I would say double dig and compost/fertilise.
Through before you go off on one consider what you want to plant and when they should go in.
At the moment there isn't a lot to put in, maybe late veggies for Christmas, onions maybe?
Not gonna have the readies to get tools and that until end of September - I've got LARP in a fortnight, buying and insuring a car, plus parent's Ruby Anniversary, so by the time I've got my tools and whipped it into a more pleasing state, I'm looking at mid-Octoberish. So planting will be after that, if there's much worth doing!
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1 Day setting up experiment
10 Days running experiment
2 Days analysing results
0.5 Days writting up report
Net Result: Control & Trial results are almost indentical less than 0.50% difference between the two data sets.
Net Conclusion: Pointless.
Have you tried kicking it?
Essentially, though the kicking only resorted in a slightly higher improvement. Ah well.
The failure to show the hypothesis is in itself a result and will help improve the customer experiance.
Plus I should be able to bang it out into a published paper.
I am mighty and victorious!
You know what's difficult?
Trying to work out what my pension pot might be worth in 33 years time when I hit retirement age (provided the baby boomers don't hike it up again to protect their own precious income)
I know what my monthly and indeed annual contribution is, and what that will total.
But any kind of vague indication as to what interest and investment might add to it? Nothing. Nada. Nowt. Zilch.
Yeah the very helpful low, medium and high forecasts let you know nothing!
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For what it is worth I believe that the retirement age will be in the 80s by the time I get there.
I dunno. I'm still kind of hopeful my generation, sick of being skint and propertyless by dint of having the misfortune of being born in the Eighties will just start switching stuff back. It's not much fun having the poopy end of the stick through no fault of your own!
Managed to find a vague calculation, and going off what I expect to be earning this time next year? £222,000.00, which they reckon with no lump sum taken out, will get me an annuity of £12,600.00 before the state pension is added.. Which isn't too shabby, and doesn't take into account any increase in my earnings, or other fangly stuff.
Or inflation, government raids on pension pots (I'm looking at you mr Brown).
I've just increased my contributions to the max that my company will match.
I figure anything above that is best spent making over payments on my mortgage as property will be a better investment
I've done the same. They match me up to 3%, and I get a pretty decent free contribution to boot, which goes up next year when I hit 35.
Plus, there's every chance I'll make Ombudsman in the next few years, and that'll help a lot!
Man it's weird to plan that far in advance!
Yeah, makes you feel all grown up.
My company will match up to 6% but without any free contributions about that.
What I want to do is free up some cash and start investing in these 5 year fixed schemes, once you get them rolling, depending on the return they can start to pay for themselves and then fund the next one so they all cahin together.
Though with interest rates being so low it is more efficient I reckon to get rid of the mortgage. When the rate starts to rise it might be time to reconsider
Oh absolutely. Interest Rate low? PAY OFF YOUR MORTGAGE. Interest Rate middle? PAY OFF YOUR MORTGAGE. Interest Rate High? PAY OFF YOUR MORTGAGE!
I'm kind of pinning hopes on Ombudsman. At that point I'll be able to get a decent mortgage, and have repaired by credit rating. Can then go all out to pay it off as fast as possible, and just suck it up for a bit whilst doing so. That done, between possible pension and expected inheritance I should end up set for life!
Also, with pensions - totes worth taking up smoking just prior to retirment. Means they pay out more on the annuity. Then of course, quite smoking, and stick it to the man!
Oh colleagues. Why don't you just do it right the first time, and save a lot of mucking about at later stages requesting the correct information.
I mean, you'd think we didn't have a colossal backlog of cases, and more coming in all the time. :(
I may have exciting news to share shortly.
Oooh!
Ah well, just need to sit and wait.
In other news I need cake.
Pregnancy test?
well today has gone from potentially having a job for a year, to potentially having a job until next week. clearing a warehouse full of files, we were told thousands of boxes to fill, months of work, then another identical sized project after that. it turns out that after filling 500 boxes, the remaining files don't actually belong to our client, and they didn't know. so the other company that they all belong to will have to get rid of them, with of course no guarantee that they will hire us to do it. there is definitely three months of work going, but not for another six weeks, so now I have the problem of looking for more work.
one for Wolfie
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Robin Williams has been found dead :(
Yeah. ...shame. not normally one for grief over celebrity deaths...but thst one is sad
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One of the first comedy albums I was ever given was “Reality… What A Concept.” I loved it. I loved “Mork & Mindy.” I even loved Robert Altman’s “Popeye.” Robin Williams meant a lot to me when I was a kid. I knew nothing of drug use or depression. It never occurred to me that comedians, these magical creatures that I worshiped, ever felt anything other than the serene satisfaction derived from making people laugh.
Eventually, I started doing standup myself, and I very quickly learned that comedians were all too human. There is no less sadness in the comedy community than there is in any other workforce; that is to say, jobs are jobs and people are people and no occupation makes anyone depression-proof. This both comforts and frustrates me.
Robin Williams made me laugh so many times. So many times. When I was a kid, having problems of my own, feeling unpleasantly different from the people who populated my world, I found sanctuary watching this guy on TV who was celebrated for being a weirdo, for being an oddball, for being silly. He was praised for having a mind that produced delightful absurdities with great speed. No one told him to be quiet. No one tried to make him act like everyone else. He was a hero to me.
I had occasion to meet him once, not too long ago, and he could not have been nicer or friendlier or calmer. He was just there to watch the show that was happening that night. He wasn’t trying to get on stage; he just — still — loved comedy.
I didn’t tell him any of the things I just wrote here. No doubt, he heard similar things from countless people over his decades-long career. And it’s a colossal shame that being a meaningful presence in the lives of many people, family, friends and strangers alike, isn’t an impenetrable bulwark against despair. It’s profoundly unfair that, if he couldn’t live forever, he couldn’t at least feel able to keep going for his allotted time. I know something of depression, and how bottomless and relentless and insurmountable it feels, but I have never known the unfathomable despair that Robin Williams must have felt. I can’t even begin to imagine it.
Robin Williams will live on in shadows and light and sound, at least. He will continue to comfort weird little kids (and odd adults, for that matter) with his performances, those who know his work today and those who have yet to be born, who may experience him ten, fifty, a hundred years from now. But this is cold comfort indeed.
There will be much celebration, in the coming weeks and months, of Robin Williams’ life and career. But perhaps the best tribute to him would be if we all reached out to the troubled people in our lives and let them know that we are here for them. Because Robin Williams was there for us.
Of course the community will need to find a new celebrity that wargames.
Also, are we sure that it wasn't autoerotic asphyxia gone bad?
I thought it was for the Hangry Moments advert:Quote:
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Also that pretty much sums it up.Quote:
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Other the ones that point out that compounds are made of elements and that some of these elements in their natural form are used as poisons!
As he is a long term sufferer of depression and bipolar with substance abuse problems he, like so many people with those illnesses, probably suffered to much at their hands.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfshade
Indeedy.
Rik and Robin both gone within months of each other.
I'm running out of people I actually consider to be funny. Before you know it, Channel 4 will have flooded the gaps in the market with more smug goons instead of proper comedians.
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Originally Posted by eldargal
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Anyway, bloodstock was awesome, thanks for asking. Nearly killed me as was ill before I went, and then it was either hot or wet :D but I survived so all well in the end, even if I should still be in bed now recovering...
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How awesome is that guitar?
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I'm glad despite being ill you enjoyed your "Music" festival (if you can call that stuff music, I call it a waiting headache) :D
Try and rest now to recover back to full health.
Wot, no Twisted Sister? For shame.
Now, things I will need for LARP next weekend (as in not this one, one after)....
1. Entry ticket - to be obtained on the gate
2. Bacon
3. Kit, cooking equipment, duvet and pillow - all in the flat ready and waiting (I'm sleeping in my car, hence the duvet and pillow)
4. Bacon
5. Bread, Brown Sauce
6. Bacon
7. Booze
8. Bacon
9. Bacon
10. Bacon
Surely you should bivouac
thank you, but unfortunately now back at work, no rest for the wicked :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Darren Richardson
Not since 2010, though they were good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Mystery
Also sauce on your bacon is an abomination