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Post by thereddragon on Jun 12, 2011 8:19:02 GMT 1
He must have jolly big underpants
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Post by thereddragon on Jun 13, 2011 17:14:10 GMT 1
Guess no one got that one then. Sad, when the carry on fans haven't even entered the building. Anyhoo, I should be able to bury the latest cock-up here. Yes, they were not baby bay - NO COMMENT. If only I'd had black plastic down
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Post by Madame Moorhen on Jun 14, 2011 6:35:50 GMT 1
I got it and thought that was funny, just never got round to commenting. What was the not bay then? Is it as funny as my not comfrey but a teasel that my mum gave me? ;D
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Post by thereddragon on Jun 14, 2011 6:50:31 GMT 1
It will be a quiz question!
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Post by Madame Moorhen on Jun 14, 2011 7:21:53 GMT 1
That snot fair cos I didn't take any - tell me who did?
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Post by thereddragon on Jun 14, 2011 7:35:05 GMT 1
Nobody ;D
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Post by Madame Moorhen on Jun 14, 2011 7:46:38 GMT 1
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Post by thereddragon on Jun 14, 2011 8:16:58 GMT 1
I shall go through all 2,423 of your posts with renewed vigour!
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Post by wowplantz on Jun 25, 2011 21:44:43 GMT 1
Am a bit confused as to whether this thread is referring to micro-porous sheeting, erroneously known as 'black plastic', or black plastic, correctly referred to as black plastic. The e-bay ref is clearly black plastic, correctly referred to as black plastic, so I'll assume that this is the case.
Can't help thinking that microporous sheeting, erroneously referred to as 'black plastic', would be the better choice for the intended application. Air and water are both essential elements for compost breakdown and microporous sheeting would allow both of these to pass through naturally. The alternative, I suppose, is to lay black plastic and lift it from time to time to stir the compost underneath and to water it.
Over-winter rain would also carry on through the compost and soak the ground beneath, ready for planting. When I lifted mine this Spring the ground ressembled the Somme during World War I, only better drained, and I haven't needed to water anything at all, again, this year. Couldn't help chuckling at the notion of secheresse when an avoidance strategy like this is open to anyone who cares to follow it.
There's a risk now of my being accused of having a vested interest in the sale of micro-porous sheeting, which accusation, apart from my having a controlling interest in the ACME Black Plastic Manufacturing Corp of New Jersey, is totally without foundation.
ACME may appear to be a huge Corp., with 30,000 employees and 178 manufacturing plants along the entire length of the Eastern Seaboard, but compared with Chinese production we are just a l'il old family concern really. Soon everything in the world will be produced in China with the odd bits and pieces knocked out on the Indian sub-Continent, so I can hardly be accused of feathering my own nest. To illustrate the point further, we have no sales whatsoever outside the Western Hemisphere
It's true that our environmental impact is not great, extracting water from every major river as we do, then discharging it full of toxic chemicals after using it in manufacturing, further downstream, but we have to get rid of our pollution somehow! And our motto 'Clean Water In, Dirty Water Out', doesn't help our image, but we're getting way off-topic here, and as everyone knows, going off-topic is a bad thing. I'll just say that the number of river fish counted each week, floating upside down, and apparently lifeless, is greater than we would like (we're talking telephone numbers here, international ones, including country code and the plus sign, and that's just from one river!) On the plus side the fish are only zander, which everyone knows are horrible spiny things, and they make poor eating, and are long past their extinction date anyway.
And the day-glo orange algae, stretching out 175 miles into the Atlantic, all along the Eastern Seaboard, has nothing to do with us. It's due to climate change and underwater nuclear testing by the French in the late 50's/early 60's somewhere in Polynesia (Bikini Atoll?)
Anyway, glad to have put the record straight and to have cleared up any misunderstanding.
Ps: The alternative to using micro-porous sheeting is not using micro-porous sheeting! But who in their right mind would choose that option?!
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