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Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6612
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 16 1:14 pm Post subject:
Did you just call me a septic? I'm skeptical....

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 16 2:27 pm Post subject:

Slim wrote:

Did you just call me a septic?

I'm skeptical....

I did.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46238
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 16 6:20 pm Post subject:
radish tops are pretty good in saag if one scrapes the goo and seeds from a vanilla pod for cakes or puds add each pod as it becomes available to a jar of vodka to make extract

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6612
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 16 6:52 pm Post subject:
Eat kiwi skins. The fuzz isn't as bad as you'd think, it adds to your fiber intake, and you intimidate your enemies. I actually do eat kiwi skins on the rare times I'm given a kiwi

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46238
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 16 7:25 pm Post subject:
fuzz is a matter of taste

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 16 7:30 pm Post subject:
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dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46238
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 16 7:44 pm Post subject:

buzzy

Joined: 04 Jan 2011
Posts: 3708
Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 16 12:22 am Post subject:
The French, so I am led to believe, refer to Kiwi Fruit and souris vegetale - vegetable mice. Does eating the skins cause you to cough up pellets, as it does to birds of prey? Henry

jettejette

Joined: 01 Jun 2013
Posts: 225

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 16 10:17 am Post subject:

buzzy wrote:

The French, so I am led to believe, refer to Kiwi Fruit and souris vegetale - vegetable mice. Does eating the skins cause you to cough up pellets, as it does to birds of prey?

Henry

What a party trick! That might be the best reason for eating kiwi skins! 🐁 🐲

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46238
Location: yes

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 16 11:02 am Post subject:
"stale" spices that got forgotten in a basket or draw are rather nice on a bbq to both flavour the food and often repel bothersome insects cinnamon that is too old for adding to rice etc works especially well,cardamom is a bit odd but ok with sheep and chillies are best avoided(mweep better than cs)

gregotyn

Joined: 24 Jun 2010
Posts: 2201
Location: Llanfyllin area

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 16 1:48 pm Post subject:
Yes 'sceptic' tank, Hots . My tank seems to work, but I don't know how or where it is exactly, as it is sighted on someone else's property and there has never been a complaint in about 15 years, so I suppose it works! And as it is a sleeping dog it can lie!

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6612
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 16 1:58 pm Post subject:

gregotyn wrote:

My tank... is sighted on someone else's property...

Now that is an impressive legal accomplishment

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 16 2:54 pm Post subject:

Slim wrote:

gregotyn wrote:

My tank... is sighted on someone else's property...

Now that is an impressive legal accomplishment

It's very common. Tanks are old and a pain to move. When people flog off a bit of land, and someone else builds on it, the waste pipe, and/or the tank sit in someone else's plot. Just need a line in the contract to allow access for repairs & emptying.

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 16 3:06 pm Post subject:
yup, our is on someone else's land. We have whats called 'an easement' - we can (as long as we tell them) go and empty/repair it. (which we had to do last spring as the outflow had blocked with silt).

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6612
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 16 3:06 pm Post subject:
I get it, I just have a hard time imagining anyone willfully buying land with someone else's septic on it. May be an artifact of presumably more available land here.

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