Can I have 12 bottles of bleach please?

I had always heard you shouldn’t eat stuff watered with grey water

You can add some sugar back to it before drinking

Wouldn’t mind if we got cheaper non surge rates tbh. Looking at my garden or allotment and hosepipe bans I was thinking what if I was to store up water in an IBC tank before a drought.

So far I haven’t really done anything to reduce water usage, it just doesn’t seem worth the cost. Underground rainwater tank, even if I dig the hole for it myself, would require filling and emptying 1000s of times to pay for its self compared to just using a hose pipe. Or if there is a pipe ban, filling a wheelbarrow a few times.

Garden came with water butts so I do use those. But looking at how little they hold for their price I can’t see how it is worth it. Even the large ones hold less than £1 worth of water. Plus a house uses as that much water each day normally anyway?

Grey water collection could be interesting. I have loads of grey water waste during drought that could potentially be useful. Can that safely be dumped straight onto the garden though? Most things I find suggest not to, shame as it would be fairly easy. Even just plonk a gutter under the pipe exist points from the house and direct it to the garden.

Things are great, but I live in the UK where minimum wage is high, food is cheap and I couldn’t afford to learn to drive in my teens/early 20s so I don’t need fuel!

Housing is painful, but at least inflation is reducing the number of hours I need to work to cover my mortgage payments each year. Very approximated, my monthly housing costs each year since I bought would be 105, 95, 87, 81, 78 hours of work to pay for at minimum wage. I would love to see house prices continue to stagnate so that buying a house gets easier with inflation dropping their price relative to wages.

Too late

Sugarcane is also necessary for making cheesecake, how do you think I power my bike rides?

Wish I thought of that. What survives is what I will grow next year is a decent way of finding out what grows well. I did plant a mix of things in different spots though.

So far best vegetable crop is rhubarb. Nothing else even really compares which is a bit annoying because I do want to grow more than just rhubarb. But at least it is a start I suppose.

May look into more fruit, usually I forage for plums, apples and blackberries which are incredibly abundant. So growing it in my limited space feels a bit like a waste of the space I have.

Kale would be nice but kept getting eaten. Maybe I need to get nets for it, don’t really like plastic everywhere though.

Yeah, you can use the leaves of many plants to wipe.

Yeah, although I do focus on things that are worth more. That can also just be something that shops don’t usually stock too.

Rhubarb is over £10/kg. In a single year rhubarb plant should be able to produce a few kg of rhubarb.

At least that is what the internet tells me, I only got it a few months ago so the yield so far is zero. Oh and it keeps growing year after year and I plan to multiply it to grow even more. Tough I might buy a few more rather than go with just 1 so its a bit faster to get a decent sized patch of then. I also plan to make rhubarb wine and mead. Which is worth even more.

Herbs are worth quite a bit too, grow them to make my own herb salt mix for roast potatoes.

Stop buying fast food. The companies are scum, its terrible for you and you will save a lot of money.

Change the string as it wears out. As long as it makes enough progress to justify the cost of the string it would be a decent choice.

It was early evening that most went off, although some people got it hours later. Also it seems like it was sent out twice.

Was at an open mic night and occasionally heard some going off hours later.

Yep, we assumed incoming attack. Then saw it was nothing.

Yeah, I won’t turn it off for a single unnecessary alert but if they keep using it for stuff like this I probably will.

Are they going to give us alerts to drive safely next?

Yeah but this alert was just a request to not start forest fires.

Only disposable BBQs, which I support because they are shit to cook on.

Most places that do ban fires here just ban them all year round. Never seen them compare different types of fire either, its always any flame is banned if they do. As if a camp fire and camping stove are the same risk…

Obviously with how dry things are in a lot of places right now I get banning all fires. But in January after a week of endless rain the same signs are there.

“Please don’t start wildfires” isn’t a good reason to set off the modern equivalent of an air raid siren. I hope this isn’t a trend as people will be more likely to disable the system.

An emergency alert like this should only be used if there is an actual danger. Ideally localised which IIRC this system can be, so if the local national park had an out of control wildfire I would be fine with a county wide alert going out about it.