pollution yesterday

boneyjoe
boneyjoe Posts: 369
edited June 2009 in Commuting chat
Any info on levels in London, with the tube strike past couple of days? Commute seemed ok, but popped to lunch near Holborn and could barely breathe yesterday. :(
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  • LDN-Flyer
    LDN-Flyer Posts: 97
    And those mofo plane tree and their spikey tree sex!
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    LDN-Flyer wrote:
    And those mofo plane tree and their spikey tree sex!

    Yep sodding Plane Trees, gave me chronic hayfever last night.
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    boneyjoe wrote:
    Any info on levels in London, with the tube strike past couple of days? Commute seemed ok, but popped to lunch near Holborn and could barely breathe yesterday. :(

    Yep I noticed it up through Farringdon Rd in the evening, it felt like I was being strangled :shock: Starngely enough it was far worse on the north side coming over Blackfriars Bridge, coming up arround London bridge wasn't too bad
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  • Gussio
    Gussio Posts: 2,452
    Il Principe wrote:
    LDN-Flyer wrote:
    And those mofo plane tree and their spikey tree sex!

    Yep sodding Plane Trees, gave me chronic hayfever last night.

    Curse them. They are the only plants that give me hayfever and my commute route is plagued with them. Sometimes get home and it feels like I've been sticking pins in my eyeballs.
  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    Yeah I'm starting to suffer a bit from hayfever, when I go out at lunchtime around Holborn/Chancery Lane, my eyes get a bit tickly and the air feels quite dusty....
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    When I got to work yesterday my nose literally exploded as I plunged into a sneezing fit.

    If the air contiues as it is my next property move, will be out of London.
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  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    Best thing to do apparently is to get hold of unrefined, locally produced honey and try to consume it through the year. Unrefined honey contains small amounts of pollen and other pollutants which if continually consumed are not then a shock to your body when the trees and plants release them in vast quantities in spring.

    Hayfever is basically your body reacting to pollen in the same way it might react to a virus or bacteria, consuming local honey is like feeding your body the "virus" in constant small doses to remind it that the pollen is harmless.
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  • Gussio
    Gussio Posts: 2,452
    *Fruitlessly hunts for apiarists in West London but all the bees have died*

    :cry:
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    My best mate's next door neighbour makes his own honey in Wandsworth...
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  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    Have a look at these

    http://www.independent.co.uk/environmen ... 76750.html
    http://www.lbka.org.uk/

    You're right though, there isn't much on the net about West London beekepers, although I think Kew Gardens produces honey. You should live in SE London, loads of space, big gardens and honey producers across Deptford, Blackheath, Honor Oak and Crofton Park and that's just zone 2....

    You'll have to look in local shops - that's the best place to source.
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  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    biondino wrote:
    My best mate's next door neighbour makes his own honey in Wandsworth...

    I think there are a lot of local producers who just do it as a hobby in their gardens and then sell through local shops, they don't have websites etc so you justhave to get out there and look around the small shops
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  • Gussio
    Gussio Posts: 2,452
    Kew looks to be a promising source - will set Mrs Gussio on the case next time she is pushing Baby Gussio round the Gardens http://www.kew.org/kewmagazine/summer05/feature.html
    Unless you interfere with the bees, for example by standing in the way of their flight path between the forage flowers and the hive, you’re most unlikely to be stung.

    Wise words indeed.
  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    Gussio wrote:
    Kew looks to be a promising source - will set Mrs Gussio on the case next time she is pushing Baby Gussio round the Gardens http://www.kew.org/kewmagazine/summer05/feature.html
    Unless you interfere with the bees, for example by standing in the way of their flight path between the forage flowers and the hive, you’re most unlikely to be stung.

    Wise words indeed.

    Bees are very unlikely to sting unless you really harrass them. When I was a very young kid I used to pick bees off flowers and hold them in my hands (I have been told) and never got stung. Bees know they are likely to die if they sting - bee stings have a little barb or hook on the end which latches into your skin and as they try to fly off, tends to pull their insides out thus killing them.

    Wasps on the other hand sting quite freely, their stings are like hyperdermic needles that inject poison, then they can fly off. Also wasps tend to get "drunk" on overripe fruit lying in orchards and become quite aggressive in late summer/autumn.
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  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    ....And remember boys and girls, bee stings are acid whereas wasp stings are alkaline, so if you're stung by a bee use a solution of bicarbonate of soda to relieve the pain and conbversely use vinegar or something on a wasp sting...

    Thus ends the lesson for today....
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  • artaxerxes
    artaxerxes Posts: 612
    You should live in SE London, loads of space, big gardens and honey producers across Deptford, Blackheath, Honor Oak and Crofton Park and that's just zone 2....

    Hey thanks for that tip, I'll have to check out the local shops in Blackheath and ither Green.
  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    linoue wrote:
    You should live in SE London, loads of space, big gardens and honey producers across Deptford, Blackheath, Honor Oak and Crofton Park and that's just zone 2....

    Hey thanks for that tip, I'll have to check out the local shops in Blackheath and ither Green.

    There's a great honey producer on Salehurst Rd in Crofton Park, however I've lost the house number. There's a guy on Birkhall Road in SE6 - he even has a website (Google the address) and sells at Borough Market. There are also a couple of others in Deptford who sell at "Feast Your Eyes" on Tanners Hill and there's a large beekeepers supplier in Blackheath which sells honey - http://www.parkbeekeeping.com
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  • tardington
    tardington Posts: 1,379
    Must check my LBS for local honey. Might be on a shelf at the back.
  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    tardie wrote:
    Must check my LBS for local honey. Might be on a shelf at the back.

    Well it makes a good slow release energy source for those long rides! God look at me.... I should work for some kind of honey marketing board...
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  • Gussio
    Gussio Posts: 2,452
    tardie wrote:
    Must check my LBS for local honey. Might be on a shelf at the back.

    :lol:

    I've seen this stuff at Sigma Sport but never tried it. Couldn't class Colorado as local though...

    http://www.isoactive.com/hs/
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Headhuunter wrote:
    Have a look at these

    http://www.independent.co.uk/environmen ... 76750.html
    http://www.lbka.org.uk/

    You're right though, there isn't much on the net about West London beekepers, although I think Kew Gardens produces honey. You should live in SE London, loads of space, big gardens and honey producers across Deptford, Blackheath, Honor Oak and Crofton Park and that's just zone 2....

    You'll have to look in local shops - that's the best place to source.

    few in Bushy park etc gets sold in the local shops and some of the tourist traps.

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