me9 <me9@privacy.net> wrote:

> John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> > the Japanese Knotweed that gardeners imported to the UK as a decorative
> > plant for their gardens, which then turned out to be *extremely* invasive,
> > and capable of damaging buildings.It is pretty when in flower, though.
>
> It is also extremely dangerous inflicting blisters to all animals that touch
> it.

OTOH I've read that it's good as a tasty vegetable.

<https://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/ingredients/article/japanese-knotweed-recipes>

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My pet rock Gordon just is.

In article <1qs8hds.113xssl8r7a7nN%snipeco.2@gmail.com>, Sn!pe
<snipeco.2@gmail.com> on Thu, 18 Apr 2024 at 23:35:02 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote
>me9 <me9@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>> John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>
>> > the Japanese Knotweed that gardeners imported to the UK as a decorative
>> > plant for their gardens, which then turned out to be *extremely* invasive,
>> > and capable of damaging buildings.It is pretty when in flower, though.
>>
>> It is also extremely dangerous inflicting blisters to all animals that touch
>> it.

Perhaps you are confusing it with Giant Hogweed, another plant that you
do not want in your garden. It does give very nasty blisters if the skin
is exposed to sunlight after coming into contact with the sap of G.
Hogweed.
>
>OTOH I've read that it's good as a tasty vegetable.
>
><https://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/ingredients/article/japanese-knotweed-
>recipes>
>
That was my understanding also.
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"Nicholas D. Richards" <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:

> In article <1qs8hds.113xssl8r7a7nN%snipeco.2@gmail.com>, Sn!pe
> <snipeco.2@gmail.com> on Thu, 18 Apr 2024 at 23:35:02 awoke Nicholas from
> his slumbers and wrote
> > me9 <me9@privacy.net> wrote:
> >
> > > John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
> >>
> > > > the Japanese Knotweed that gardeners imported to the UK as a
> > > > decorative plant for their gardens, which then turned out to be
> > > > *extremely* invasive, and capable of damaging buildings.It is pretty
> > > > when in flower, though.
> >>
> > > It is also extremely dangerous inflicting blisters to all animals that
> > > touch it.
>
> Perhaps you are confusing it with Giant Hogweed, another plant that you do
> not want in your garden. It does give very nasty blisters if the skin is
> exposed to sunlight after coming into contact with the sap of G. Hogweed.
> >
> > OTOH I've read that it's good as a tasty vegetable.
> >
> >
<https://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/ingredients/article/japanese-knotweed-
> > recipes>
> >
> That was my understanding also.

It was the giant hogweed, it's a problem reound here.

--
braind

On 2024-04-14, Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid> wrote:
> On 2024-04-14, Julian Macassey <julian@n6are.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:11:43 -0000 (UTC), Peter <myshed@prune.org.uk> wrote:
>>> D <nospam@example.net> wrote in
>>> news:a082c722-646d-cab5-3a8a-9deb7c2f7fce@example.net:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, Mike Spencer wrote:
>>>
>>> Yep, it has become a bit anodyne since someone decreed that there should be
>>> no polly ticks.
>>
>> Besides religion, politics and sex, what is there to
>> discuss?
>>
>>
> I am not sure I am allowed in the shed yet, more peering in through
> the window, but topics like music, tv and the state of todays youth
> come to mind. Maybe that is just me though :-/
>

Given the number of circumsolar journeys accumulated by Shedizens we could
follow tradition by discussing our aches and pains.

How's your Bert's lumbago?

--
Bernard Peek
bap@shrdlu.com
Wigan

On 2024-04-15, Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid> wrote:
> On 2024-04-14, Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2024-04-14, Julian Macassey <julian@n6are.com> wrote:
>>> > On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:11:43 -0000 (UTC), Peter <myshed@prune.org.uk> wrote:
>>> >> D <nospam@example.net> wrote in
>>> >> news:a082c722-646d-cab5-3a8a-9deb7c2f7fce@example.net:
>>> >>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, Mike Spencer wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Yep, it has become a bit anodyne since someone decreed that there should be
>>> >> no polly ticks.
>>> >
>>> > Besides religion, politics and sex, what is there to
>>> > discuss?
>>> >
>>>
>>> I am not sure I am allowed in the shed yet, more peering in through
>>> the window, but topics like music, tv and the state of todays youth
>>> come to mind. Maybe that is just me though :-/
>>>
>>
>> It's a big Shed, Simon; come in and be welcome. Mind your cardi on
>> that nail... oops, too late.
>>
>
> I feel I should go get a bottle of wine, or two first :-)
>
No need. There's always whine in the shed.

--
Bernard Peek
bap@shrdlu.com
Wigan

On 15/04/2024 11:56, Simon wrote:

> I feel I should go get a bottle of wine, or two first :-)
>
BA (4.5) is the usually preferred tipple, or builders' tea (Milk and
enough sugar to let you stand the spoon up)

--
Tciao for Now!

John.

(4.5) Brown Ale.

On 2024-04-21, Bernard Peek <bap@shrdlu.com> wrote:
> On 2024-04-14, Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2024-04-14, Julian Macassey <julian@n6are.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:11:43 -0000 (UTC), Peter <myshed@prune.org.uk> wrote:
>>>> D <nospam@example.net> wrote in
>>>> news:a082c722-646d-cab5-3a8a-9deb7c2f7fce@example.net:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, Mike Spencer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yep, it has become a bit anodyne since someone decreed that there should be
>>>> no polly ticks.
>>>
>>> Besides religion, politics and sex, what is there to
>>> discuss?
>>>
>>>
>> I am not sure I am allowed in the shed yet, more peering in through
>> the window, but topics like music, tv and the state of todays youth
>> come to mind. Maybe that is just me though :-/
>>
>
> Given the number of circumsolar journeys accumulated by Shedizens we could
> follow tradition by discussing our aches and pains.
>
> How's your Bert's lumbago?
>
I have to cycle every day or my back hurts when I go to work, office
chair for 8 hours :-(

--
Simon

RLU: 222126

On 2024-04-21, Bernard Peek <bap@shrdlu.com> wrote:
> On 2024-04-15, Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2024-04-14, Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2024-04-14, Julian Macassey <julian@n6are.com> wrote:
>>>> > On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:11:43 -0000 (UTC), Peter <myshed@prune.org.uk> wrote:
>>>> >> D <nospam@example.net> wrote in
>>>> >> news:a082c722-646d-cab5-3a8a-9deb7c2f7fce@example.net:
>>>> >>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, Mike Spencer wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Yep, it has become a bit anodyne since someone decreed that there should be
>>>> >> no polly ticks.
>>>> >
>>>> > Besides religion, politics and sex, what is there to
>>>> > discuss?
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure I am allowed in the shed yet, more peering in through
>>>> the window, but topics like music, tv and the state of todays youth
>>>> come to mind. Maybe that is just me though :-/
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's a big Shed, Simon; come in and be welcome. Mind your cardi on
>>> that nail... oops, too late.
>>>
>>
>> I feel I should go get a bottle of wine, or two first :-)
>>
> No need. There's always whine in the shed.
>
Hehe, I am happy to bring more to the table, either with or without
the H :-)

--
Simon

RLU: 222126

On 2024-04-21, John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
> On 15/04/2024 11:56, Simon wrote:
>
>> I feel I should go get a bottle of wine, or two first :-)
>>
> BA (4.5) is the usually preferred tipple, or builders' tea (Milk and
> enough sugar to let you stand the spoon up)
>

I used to drink cider in my yoof but have got stuck on wine recently.
--
Simon

RLU: 222126

Peter wrote:

> D wrote:
>
>> I think it is the lack of polarizing topics. I'd happily troll a bit,
>> but so far nothing trollable has appeared.
>
> Yep, it has become a bit anodyne since someone decreed that there should be
> no polly ticks.

It was always my impression that for an amicable shed, there was an
unspoken agreement to avoid the subject where possible, and it jbexed
well ...

Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid> wrote in
news:nE2dnUkyE4AAibj7nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@brightview.co.uk:

> Peter wrote:
>
>> D wrote:
>>
>>> I think it is the lack of polarizing topics. I'd happily troll a
>>> bit, but so far nothing trollable has appeared.
>>
>> Yep, it has become a bit anodyne since someone decreed that there
>> should be no polly ticks.
>
> It was always my impression that for an amicable shed, there was an
> unspoken agreement to avoid the subject where possible, and it jbexed
> well ...

I'd assumed that nosheddy was interested enuff in the subject, but that
should any folk want to indulge we could find them a room where they could
consort in private.

--
Peter
-----

In article <slrnv29ui7.h85r.SimonJ@silex.localdomain>, Simon
<SimonJ@eu.invalid> on Sun, 21 Apr 2024 at 11:36:39 awoke Nicholas from
his slumbers and wrote
>On 2024-04-21, Bernard Peek <bap@shrdlu.com> wrote:
>> On 2024-04-14, Simon <SimonJ@eu.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 2024-04-14, Julian Macassey <julian@n6are.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:11:43 -0000 (UTC), Peter <myshed@prune.org.uk> wrote:
>>>>> D <nospam@example.net> wrote in
>>>>> news:a082c722-646d-cab5-3a8a-9deb7c2f7fce@example.net:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, Mike Spencer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Yep, it has become a bit anodyne since someone decreed that there should be
>>>>> no polly ticks.
>>>>
>>>> Besides religion, politics and sex, what is there to
>>>> discuss?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I am not sure I am allowed in the shed yet, more peering in through
>>> the window, but topics like music, tv and the state of todays youth
>>> come to mind. Maybe that is just me though :-/
>>>
>>
>> Given the number of circumsolar journeys accumulated by Shedizens we could
>> follow tradition by discussing our aches and pains.
>>
>> How's your Bert's lumbago?
>>
>I have to cycle every day or my back hurts when I go to work, office
>chair for 8 hours :-(
>
I had to give up cycling when my left knee locked up, mid pedal. I fell
off.
--
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"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

In article <nE2dnUkyE4AAibj7nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>,
Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid.?> on Sun, 21 Apr 2024 at
14:28:59 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>Peter wrote:
>
>> D wrote:
>>
>>> I think it is the lack of polarizing topics. I'd happily troll a bit,
>>> but so far nothing trollable has appeared.
>>
>> Yep, it has become a bit anodyne since someone decreed that there should be
>> no polly ticks.
>
>It was always my impression that for an amicable shed, there was an
>unspoken agreement to avoid the subject where possible, and it jbexed
>well ...
>
My father's mantra, which I try to stick to, was never discuss politics
or religion.

Which is why, yesterday morning, some God botherers left my front door
with a fleas in their ears. Also I was cooking my wife's breakfast
before she went to work. I did not need a lesson from the bible.

So I do not always manage to keep to that mantra, but I do my best.
--
0sterc@tcher -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

In article <XnsB15B9C8C82DC3Factura3476@135.181.20.170>, Peter
<myshed@prune.org.uk> on Sun, 21 Apr 2024 at 14:23:14 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote
>Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid> wrote in
>news:nE2dnUkyE4AAibj7nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@brightview.co.uk:
>
>> Peter wrote:
>>
>>> D wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think it is the lack of polarizing topics. I'd happily troll a
>>>> bit, but so far nothing trollable has appeared.
>>>
>>> Yep, it has become a bit anodyne since someone decreed that there
>>> should be no polly ticks.
>>
>> It was always my impression that for an amicable shed, there was an
>> unspoken agreement to avoid the subject where possible, and it jbexed
>> well ...
>
>I'd assumed that nosheddy was interested enuff in the subject, but that
>should any folk want to indulge we could find them a room where they could
>consort in private.
>
Demen.test seems to be a bit quiet at the moment.
--
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"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid> wrote:

> Peter wrote:
>
> > D wrote:
> >
> >> I think it is the lack of polarizing topics. I'd happily troll a bit,
> >> but so far nothing trollable has appeared.
> >
> > Yep, it has become a bit anodyne since someone decreed that there should be
> > no polly ticks.
>
> It was always my impression that for an amicable shed, there was an
> unspoken agreement to avoid the subject where possible, and it jbexed
> well ...

'Zackly so. Ditto eryvtvba, but foopball was fair game for ridicule.

--
^Ï^. Sn!pe, PA, FIBS - Professional Crastinator

My pet rock Gordon just is.

On Sun, 21 Apr 2024, Sn!pe wrote:

> Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid> wrote:
>
>> Peter wrote:
>>
>>> D wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think it is the lack of polarizing topics. I'd happily troll a bit,
>>>> but so far nothing trollable has appeared.
>>>
>>> Yep, it has become a bit anodyne since someone decreed that there should be
>>> no polly ticks.
>>
>> It was always my impression that for an amicable shed, there was an
>> unspoken agreement to avoid the subject where possible, and it jbexed
>> well ...
>
> 'Zackly so. Ditto eryvtvba, but foopball was fair game for ridicule.
>
>

Speaking of fair game, how is Gordon these days? Is he prospering?

> 'Zackly so. Ditto eryvtvba, but foopball was fair game for ridicule.

was ?

D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Apr 2024, Sn!pe wrote:
> > Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid> wrote:
> >> Peter wrote:
> >>> D wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I think it is the lack of polarizing topics. I'd happily troll a bit,
> >>>> but so far nothing trollable has appeared.
> >>>
> >>> Yep, it has become a bit anodyne since someone decreed
> >>> that there should be no polly ticks.
> >>
> >> It was always my impression that for an amicable shed, there was
> >> an unspoken agreement to avoid the subject where possible, and
> >> it jbexed well ...
> >
> > 'Zackly so. Ditto eryvtvba, but foopball was fair game for ridicule.
>
> Speaking of fair game, how is Gordon these days? Is he prospering?

Gordon is immutable, as ever.

--
^Ï^. Sn!pe, PA, FIBS - Professional Crastinator

My pet rock Gordon just is.

Abandoned Trolley <fred@fred-smith.co.uk> wrote:

> > 'Zackly so. Ditto eryvtvba, but foopball was fair game for ridicule.
>
> was ?

Silly me, I meant -is-, obvs.

--
^Ï^. Sn!pe, PA, FIBS - Professional Crastinator

My pet rock Gordon just is.

"Nicholas D. Richards" <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote in
news:WcUKP1AQeUJmFAZV@salmiron.com:

>
> Which is why, yesterday morning, some God botherers left my front door
> with a fleas in their ears. Also I was cooking my wife's breakfast
> before she went to work. I did not need a lesson from the bible.

--
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-----

"Nicholas D. Richards" <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote in
news:WcUKP1AQeUJmFAZV@salmiron.com:

>
> Which is why, yesterday morning, some God botherers left my front door
> with a fleas in their ears. Also I was cooking my wife's breakfast
> before she went to work. I did not need a lesson from the bible.

I'm afraid I consider the door-to-door bible-thumpers as fair game. I talk
to them reasonably and calmly, with logic rather than fervour, until they
start edging off down the path looking for a way to escape with dignity.

--
Peter
-----

On Sun, 21 Apr 2024, Sn!pe wrote:

> D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 21 Apr 2024, Sn!pe wrote:
>>> Tease'n'Seize <tease-and-seize@invalid> wrote:
>>>> Peter wrote:
>>>>> D wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I think it is the lack of polarizing topics. I'd happily troll a bit,
>>>>>> but so far nothing trollable has appeared.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yep, it has become a bit anodyne since someone decreed
>>>>> that there should be no polly ticks.
>>>>
>>>> It was always my impression that for an amicable shed, there was
>>>> an unspoken agreement to avoid the subject where possible, and
>>>> it jbexed well ...
>>>
>>> 'Zackly so. Ditto eryvtvba, but foopball was fair game for ridicule.
>>
>> Speaking of fair game, how is Gordon these days? Is he prospering?
>
> Gordon is immutable, as ever.

Where can I get one like him? I'm thinking about getting one to bring some
joy into my life! =)

On Mon, 22 Apr 2024, Peter wrote:

> "Nicholas D. Richards" <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote in
> news:WcUKP1AQeUJmFAZV@salmiron.com:
>
>>
>> Which is why, yesterday morning, some God botherers left my front door
>> with a fleas in their ears. Also I was cooking my wife's breakfast
>> before she went to work. I did not need a lesson from the bible.
>
> I'm afraid I consider the door-to-door bible-thumpers as fair game. I talk
> to them reasonably and calmly, with logic rather than fervour, until they
> start edging off down the path looking for a way to escape with dignity.

Agreed! Once, when I was much younger, someone knocked on the door at
09:00 on a saturday morning. Since I was young, I was mildly annoyed,
since I'd been out drinking til late the day before.

It turned out that 2 super models from Jehovas Witnesses wanted to bring
me the joy of Jesus at 09:00 on a saturday.

So I told them, being a philosophy student, that I was not quite prepared
for the debate due to the early hour, but invited them back and then we
could debate the existence of god in an academic and thorough way.

They thanked me and never ever returned. =(

In article <uvqrk0$26q4v$1@dont-email.me>, Abandoned Trolley <fred@fred-
smith.co.uk> on Thu, 18 Apr 2024 at 11:11:13 awoke Nicholas from his
slumbers and wrote
>
>>>
>> Or plastic "glass". The plastic makes Eurofizz go flat more quickly;
>> OTOH plastic "glass" reduces the likely consequence of an assault on a
>> bystander.
>
>
>and gives the consumer the pathetic illusion that his "draft" lager is
>authentic ?
>
>
>I spent more than 5 years working in Europe - mostly in Germany, and I
>reckon that around 90% of the non-draught eurofizz products are
>dispensed from bottles rather than cans.
>
>Glass recycling over there is carried out on a biblical scale - and
>plastic coke / fanta bottles had a deposit on them, so you would very
>rarely see one on the street.

I spend the extra to buy coke in bottles and drink from a clean (ie
unused since last washed) glass glass. Whether the coke objectively
tastes better that way or it subjectively tastes better, who knows?

What does upset me is that the bottle can only be recycled as cullet
rather be re-cycled to be cleaned and refilled. There was a time when
soda bottles, lemonade, cola, milk bottles etc had a deposit on them
reclaimable when returned to a retailer (who may or may not have sold
the original filled bottle.
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:52:30 +0100
"Nicholas D. Richards" <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:

> There was a time when
> soda bottles, lemonade, cola, milk bottles etc had a deposit on them
> reclaimable when returned to a retailer (who may or may not have sold
> the original filled bottle.

This scheme was *far* simpler than the current scheme with complex
machines printing vouchers to be redeemed but probably wouldn't suit modern
siops which are mostly horriblemarket style and scanner dependent.

--
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
For forms of government let fools contest
Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope