Lockdown living tips

Saddleworth2 said:
The last part of the 'Wolf Hall' trilogy has just been published. Hilary Mantels 'The Mirror and the Light' weighs in at nearly 1000 pages. For those that haven't read 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring up the Bodies' both of which won the Booker prize, they are truly wonderful books and will be seen as bone fide classics. Richer and deeper than the excellent BBC production, recommended to take you through the next three months.
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Watched Wolf Hall the series it was excellent, I'll have a look online for them later bud.
 
TCIB said:
Grow some taters, it is easy as it gets. Dig a trench about a foot deep, put some dense fertiliser at the bottom ( a thick slurry of fish blood and bone or compost) and stick your tater there load more soil on the stems that grow out so it mounds up about a foot like a massive mole hill then leave it. Pick off the flowers that develop so all nutrients go to bulb/potato production. Feed once a week with a gentle nutrient mix, seaweed, fish blood and bonesprinkled around etc. Stay away from these "growmore" type chemicals as they use cheap nasty hacks, trust me i have tried it all, natural fertiliser is best by a long way. Keep a good "airgap" as the slugs love a good potato plant.

Stick a bottle of beer on its side with the dregs still in near them, slugs love a piss up and will go to that before the plants and drown in it/get stuck.

Strawberry's for the kids as they can see it there. Buy a strawberry plant or get a cutting of a pal. They are thirsty plants but a good drink every 2-3 days depending on weather, every day if prolonged dry hot spells and your good. Try to keep the soil around the plants covered with straw or dry grass cuttings. The fruit will droop and mould/ruin or get hammered by slugs otherwise.
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slugs. hate the little bastards.
 
TCIB said:
Grow some taters, it is easy as it gets. Dig a trench about a foot deep, put some dense fertiliser at the bottom ( a thick slurry of fish blood and bone or compost) and stick your tater there load more soil on the stems that grow out so it mounds up about a foot like a massive mole hill then leave it. Pick off the flowers that develop so all nutrients go to bulb/potato production. Feed once a week with a gentle nutrient mix, seaweed, fish blood and bonesprinkled around etc. Stay away from these "growmore" type chemicals as they use cheap nasty hacks, trust me i have tried it all, natural fertiliser is best by a long way. Keep a good "airgap" as the slugs love a good potato plant.

Stick a bottle of beer on its side with the dregs still in near them, slugs love a piss up and will go to that before the plants and drown in it/get stuck.

Strawberry's for the kids as they can see it there. Buy a strawberry plant or get a cutting of a pal. They are thirsty plants but a good drink every 2-3 days depending on weather, every day if prolonged dry hot spells and your good. Try to keep the soil around the plants covered with straw or dry grass cuttings. The fruit will droop and mould/ruin or get hammered by slugs otherwise.
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^ This. ^ If you haven’t got a garden, folks, you can grow spuds, beans and lots of other veg and fruit in bags or containers. Loads of advice, including videos, online.
 
Rediscovering the radio, good music fires up memories and as it's varied your thoughts change with time the songs were a part of your life.
And added bonus is you can do other things at the same time.
 
Bet there is loads who bought a guitar years ago. Never bothered learning it and is nothing more than a dust collector or shoved in the roof space. In all probability our technology has moved on since you purchased it. The stuff you can do with an "IPhone ". Instructions how to tune for starters complete with a tuning tool. The very basic stuff you couldn't do that made you ditch it in the first place. You can fill your boots now.
 
I have lost the will to do any of the stuff I do on aweekend as I can do it in the week and will just slouch all day watching netflix.

I have a semi plan between the home based work I can do and will get set to do to redecorate and get back on the cross trainer and lose some weight.

I also want to empty the loft and work on using it more productiveley than just a storage area.

Also home brewing
 
By the the time this fuckin virus disappears everyone will have heart disease diabetes and strokes fuck me what a mess.
 
give it to gordon said:
i live in a small village and this morning my internet speed is well down , so many people at home on the internet I guess, was like this at Christmas.
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Netflx have already had to slow down their stream to handle the extra use, said quality will stay but load up may be affected at times
 
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