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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,356
    How much cycle 'stuff' do we cyclists buy?!
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Lagrange wrote:
    Did you force them up the chimney with a wire brush. Thought so.
    That will reflect your mindset. I simply let them play and joined in once work was at a point that it could be stopped.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    Lagrange wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    The innocence of children.
    "Why do you have to do stuff? Why can't we just play all day?"


    We do - or at least I do. :D

    Depends on the stuff or the whom you do.
    Stuff in this particular instance was minor general household chores, dishes etc, and trying to squeeze in some bike maintenance.

    That's why we need better robots.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Robert88 wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    Lagrange wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    The innocence of children.
    "Why do you have to do stuff? Why can't we just play all day?"


    We do - or at least I do. :D

    Depends on the stuff or the whom you do.
    Stuff in this particular instance was minor general household chores, dishes etc, and trying to squeeze in some bike maintenance.

    That's why we need better robots.

    We deffo need T1000s.....
    Faster than a tent.......
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Rolf F wrote:
    Robert88 wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    Lagrange wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    The innocence of children.
    "Why do you have to do stuff? Why can't we just play all day?"


    We do - or at least I do. :D

    Depends on the stuff or the whom you do.
    Stuff in this particular instance was minor general household chores, dishes etc, and trying to squeeze in some bike maintenance.

    That's why we need better robots.

    We deffo need T1000s.....

    No it would have to be a Series 4000 mechanoid
  • surfercyclist
    surfercyclist Posts: 894
    Bumblebees. Just love seeing them buzzing around the place. As we've got a big garden tend to get quite a few here, always good to see them do well as some years they suffer due to weather, man etc.
  • thistle_
    thistle_ Posts: 7,218
    A father and son riding around town today on unicycles. Looked like they might've just been popping to the shops.
  • thistle_
    thistle_ Posts: 7,218
    Getting the the T junction at the bottom of the road and there being 30-40 pigeons standing in a line in front of the pub.
    The pub wasn't open for another 6 hours.
  • slowbike
    slowbike Posts: 8,498
    PBlakeney wrote:
    The innocence of children.
    "Why do you have to do stuff? Why can't we just play all day?"

    or mine (4yo) - who having been given some pocket/spending money for his holiday, wanted to buy us all an Ice cream with it, to save us spending our money on one.
    And he did it - ordered it himself too ...
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    SurferCyclist wrote:
    Bumblebees. Just love seeing them buzzing around the place. As we've got a big garden tend to get quite a few here, always good to see them do well as some years they suffer due to weather, man etc.

    We have a lavender bush that's grown massive this year and is flowering profusely since next door felled their effing huge eucalyptus tree. On the sunnier days it's been absolutely swarming with bumblebees; easily 30 or 40 at a time. It's clear there are dozens of different kinds / shapes / sizes / colours. Friendly little chaps too.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,609
    keef66 wrote:
    SurferCyclist wrote:
    Bumblebees. Just love seeing them buzzing around the place. As we've got a big garden tend to get quite a few here, always good to see them do well as some years they suffer due to weather, man etc.

    We have a lavender bush that's grown massive this year and is flowering profusely since next door felled their effing huge eucalyptus tree. On the sunnier days it's been absolutely swarming with bumblebees; easily 30 or 40 at a time. It's clear there are dozens of different kinds / shapes / sizes / colours. Friendly little chaps too.

    We have a path lined both sides with lavender. It's gone to seed now, but in June and July there was a constant drone of bees around it from dawn until dusk. On to butterflies on the budleias now.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,356
    keef66 wrote:
    SurferCyclist wrote:
    Bumblebees. Just love seeing them buzzing around the place. As we've got a big garden tend to get quite a few here, always good to see them do well as some years they suffer due to weather, man etc.

    We have a lavender bush that's grown massive this year and is flowering profusely since next door felled their effing huge eucalyptus tree. On the sunnier days it's been absolutely swarming with bumblebees; easily 30 or 40 at a time. It's clear there are dozens of different kinds / shapes / sizes / colours. Friendly little chaps too.

    Yep, they are not aggressive. Many bumble bees can't sting.
    Over 250 species of Bee in the UK.

    I'm trying to create hives for them - bamboo clusters.
    I need more plants that flower all summer really.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,609
    Pinno wrote:
    keef66 wrote:
    SurferCyclist wrote:
    Bumblebees. Just love seeing them buzzing around the place. As we've got a big garden tend to get quite a few here, always good to see them do well as some years they suffer due to weather, man etc.

    We have a lavender bush that's grown massive this year and is flowering profusely since next door felled their effing huge eucalyptus tree. On the sunnier days it's been absolutely swarming with bumblebees; easily 30 or 40 at a time. It's clear there are dozens of different kinds / shapes / sizes / colours. Friendly little chaps too.

    Yep, they are not aggressive. Many bumble bees can't sting.
    Over 250 species of Bee in the UK.

    I'm trying to create hives for them - bamboo clusters.
    I need more plants that flower all summer really.
    I think there are some varieties lavender that will tolerate the northern climate and bees are mad for it.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    thistle (MBNW) wrote:
    A father and son riding around town today on unicycles. Looked like they might've just been popping to the shops.

    No, unicycles do not make me happy, they are pointless and stupid. Were boy and smaller boy clowns? No other excuse.
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    SurferCyclist wrote:
    Bumblebees. Just love seeing them buzzing around the place. As we've got a big garden tend to get quite a few here, always good to see them do well as some years they suffer due to weather, man etc.

    Oooh yes, I tried and failed to create a wildflower thingy in my new house's garden, I let the grass grow and sowed a bucket load of seed...not so much as a weed.

    Bu99er.

    Love bees, though.
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    You need to deplete the soil nutrients a bit; let the grass grow long then cut and remove it. Rinse and repeat. Then try the wildflower seed mix again.

    We've got the opposite problem; weeds all over the place especially where we don't want them...
  • forehead
    forehead Posts: 180
    SecretSam wrote:
    SurferCyclist wrote:
    Bumblebees. Just love seeing them buzzing around the place. As we've got a big garden tend to get quite a few here, always good to see them do well as some years they suffer due to weather, man etc.

    Oooh yes, I tried and failed to create a wildflower thingy in my new house's garden, I let the grass grow and sowed a bucket load of seed...not so much as a weed.

    Bu99er.

    Love bees, though.

    Weeds are just plants where you don't want them...

    For bee habitat in the garden, remember to think about plants at different heights as well, not just ground coverage. You'll attract lots of different species if you have a mix of short and taller bee friendly plants.
    Cube - Peloton
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,236
    As keef says, deplete the nutrient levels else the grass out competes the wild flowers. Some would rec removing the top layer of topsoil but that is a serious effort. You can deploy yellow rattle, an annual that is semi parasitic on grasses, which also has pretty yellow flowers in June.
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    Forehead wrote:
    Weeds are just plants where you don't want them...

    Correct; the very definition of weeds. Which is exactly what we have. Especially annoying is the Oxalis which goes from seedling to mature plant in the blink of an eye, and as you're trying to pull it up it's explosively pinging seeds everywhere. Think we may have to move house to escape it...
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,609
    keef66 wrote:
    Forehead wrote:
    Weeds are just plants where you don't want them...

    Correct; the very definition of weeds. Which is exactly what we have. Especially annoying is the Oxalis which goes from seedling to mature plant in the blink of an eye, and as you're trying to pull it up it's explosively pinging seeds everywhere. Think we may have to move house to escape it...

    Green alkanet. Very bee friendly but will happily swamp anything and has big f*** off tap roots which break off really easily then regrow.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    Seeing a cyclist in front whom I can catch and overtake with a triumphant wave of the hand..
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Robert88 wrote:
    Seeing a cyclist in front whom I can catch and overtake with a triumphant wave of the hand..


    Speaking of which, the guy in skinny jeans and too small t-shirt who overtook me on his single speed bike riding really hard on a slight downhill section of road, so just sat on his wheel as the road turned slightly uphill and enjoyed watching him desperately trying to keep ahead and not look behind him, until he couldn’t do anymore and sailed past him saying “thanks for the tow!”
    Cruel and unnecessary but I couldn’t help myself.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,356
    keef66 wrote:
    Forehead wrote:
    Weeds are just plants where you don't want them...

    Correct; the very definition of weeds. Which is exactly what we have. Especially annoying is the Oxalis which goes from seedling to mature plant in the blink of an eye, and as you're trying to pull it up it's explosively pinging seeds everywhere. Think we may have to move house to escape it...

    Like that Himalayan Balsam. Managed to get rid of that in the garden.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    seeing a police speed camera van on my normal commute (complaining alot clearly works), and every motorist who overtook me then treating me like I was royalty 8)
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,356
    awavey wrote:
    ...complaining alot clearly works...

    Not for me it doesn't.

    Happy you had an easier commute (along that short section of road anyway).
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Robert88 wrote:
    Seeing a cyclist in front whom I can catch and overtake with a triumphant wave of the hand..

    Wait till she gets the stabilizers off.

    Had a young fit chap on a carbon road bike overtake me on the way to work on my mountain bike. We were both riding into a strong head wind and I was about 3/4 of my journey in so I thought I'd tuck in behind him -- it was tough going but surprisingly I kept on his back wheel for the last few miles to work. It's amazing how much of a tow you get. I thanked the big fella for the tow when we got to the traffic lights in town.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,505
    Packing to go on holiday 8)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    Pinno wrote:
    awavey wrote:
    ...complaining alot clearly works...

    Not for me it doesn't.

    Happy you had an easier commute (along that short section of road anyway).


    tbf my complaining had little impact on that placement as thats not where Ive complained they should be :) and the actual effect was probably less than 800metres worth, but it made me forget completely about anything Id have been bottling up about from the rest of the journey in today, so it was trivial but it totally cheered me up :)
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    Packing to go on holiday 8)

    me too 8)
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    Cowsham wrote:
    Robert88 wrote:
    Seeing a cyclist in front whom I can catch and overtake with a triumphant wave of the hand..

    Wait till she gets the stabilizers off.

    Had a young fit chap on a carbon road bike overtake me on the way to work on my mountain bike. We were both riding into a strong head wind and I was about 3/4 of my journey in so I thought I'd tuck in behind him -- it was tough going but surprisingly I kept on his back wheel for the last few miles to work. It's amazing how much of a tow you get. I thanked the big fella for the tow when we got to the traffic lights in town.

    Didja pull?

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