RANT CORNER

[Derek27]

What's going on with Parsnips ?

- Went to Sainsbury's, no parsnips.
- Went to Tesco's, no parsnips.
- Went to Morrison's, no parsnips.

Do i need to apply for an allotment.

There's a simple solution. Eat some air! It tastes exactly the same.

[Derek27]

I seem to have that 0-0 curse again. If I just backed every match I traded this week for a 0-0 draw I'd have made a fortune!

[Derek27]

What's going on with Parsnips ?

- Went to Sainsbury's, no parsnips.
- Went to Tesco's, no parsnips.
- Went to Morrison's, no parsnips.

Do i need to apply for an allotment.

Not long to wait ....
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There won't be many UK parsnips this year. They haven't been watered and there's nobody to pick the crop!

[ShaunWhite]

There won't be many UK parsnips this year. They haven't been watered and there's nobody to pick the crop!

How quaint that you City people think they lift parsnips by hand. And they've been watering the fields heavily round here, there's dykes/drains/ditches/rivers whatever you want to call them, that they close the sluices on and allow to fill ready for the summer. It's the delicate things that need to be harvested by hand like lettuce or strawberrys or things that need trimming like broccoli.

But you're right that it's been dry, I haven't seen many crops of potato or sugar beet this year which are thirsty, just more and more rapeseed which I guess is a response to the sunflower oil supply problems.

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[Derek27]

There won't be many UK parsnips this year. They haven't been watered and there's nobody to pick the crop!

How quaint that you City people think they lift parsnips by hand. And they've been watering the fields heavily round here, there's dykes/drains/ditches/rivers whatever you want to call them, that they close the sluices on and allow to fill ready for the summer. It's the delicate things that need to be harvested by hand like lettuce or strawberrys or things that need trimming like broccoli.

But you're right that it's been dry, I haven't seen many crops of potato or sugar beet this year which are thirsty, just more and more rapeseed which I guess is a response to the sunflower oil supply problems.
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It was asparagus I was thinking of. They've been left in the ground with nobody to pick them.

I'm not sure what came first, men landing on the moon or the combined harvester but to be honest, I'm more impressed with the engineering feat of automatically pulling up wheat and extracting the seeds! Rocket science sounds more straightforward.

[ShaunWhite]

I'm not sure what came first, men landing on the moon or the combined harvester but to be honest, I'm more impressed with the engineering feat of automatically pulling up wheat and extracting the seeds! Rocket science sounds more straightforward.

Pea viners are the daddy, a tangled mess of plants... they drive over it and a stream of just the peas goes into a trailer driving along side. It's witchcraft. They're crazy expensive though, we go to the County show some years and they're about a quarter of a million quid. Farms often share one but I still don't know how the economics works out, even though my first ever job was for a farm co-operative dividing up the costs.

[Derek27]

A cloudy 29ºC on Wednesday and a sunny 20ºC on Friday.

It's so simple, have the hot and sunny weather on the same day!!

[Derek27]

Almost £300 on cigarettes last month, and we think we don't pay tax!

[jimibt]

Almost £300 on cigarettes last month, and we think we don't pay tax!

yup, the death tax is extortionate

[Jukebox]

Almost £300 on cigarettes last month, and we think we don't pay tax!

Maybe you're growing the wrong crop.

[ShaunWhite]

Almost £300 on cigarettes last month, and we think we don't pay tax!

It's robbery. Was paying €4.50 last week.

You should try using tubes and loose tobacco. It's cleaner and goes further, there's almost no tobacco in ready made cigs. The other thing is that loose tobacco is bone dry and you rehydrate it instead of buying water, regular hand rolling baccy is sopping wet.
https://www.thebackyshop.co.uk/products ... co-50g-tub

[Trader Pat]

Almost £300 on cigarettes last month, and we think we don't pay tax!

It's robbery. Was paying €4.50 last week.

You should try using tubes and loose tobacco. It's cleaner and goes further, there's almost no tobacco in ready made cigs. The other thing is that loose tobacco is bone dry and you rehydrate it instead of buying water, regular hand rolling baccy is sopping wet.
https://www.thebackyshop.co.uk/products ... co-50g-tub

I don't smoke but that's quite a selection.

They've got everything on there... chewing tobacco, tobacco leafs, they've even got Shag tobacco for after sex!

[Derek27]

WTF does this mean? Match cancelled but the score's 3-0?

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[ShaunWhite]

Almost £300 on cigarettes last month, and we think we don't pay tax!

Maybe you're growing the wrong crop.

Been there, but tobacco takes about 2 yrs to cure. Or maybe you're taking about the contents of a climate controlled growspace with 400w of leds.... and Derek changing his ID to Pablo Escobar.

[Derek27]

Almost £300 on cigarettes last month, and we think we don't pay tax!

It's robbery. Was paying €4.50 last week.

You should try using tubes and loose tobacco. It's cleaner and goes further, there's almost no tobacco in ready made cigs. The other thing is that loose tobacco is bone dry and you rehydrate it instead of buying water, regular hand rolling baccy is sopping wet.
https://www.thebackyshop.co.uk/products ... co-50g-tub

I've tried them but I got bored of tubing them, if you don't do it carefully they're a bit loose near the filter and the lighted bit falls off. Also, you can't get superking tubes and tube fillers. Light up a king size cigarette and it's gone after a few puffs.