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Jim Garten 
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 Posted: September 23 2008 at 07:06 |
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Jim made a rather bad schoolboy error.He meant Hertfordshire. |
Put it down to an adrenaline overdose 
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mystic fred
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 07:07 |
^^^you shouldn't have worried, Jim, you probably had the "lesser spotted Herefordshire passenger spider " in your car - totally harmless 
....unless it was the greater spotted version, one bite you're dead in 3 seconds, they're very much alike... 
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Jared
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 07:11 |
mystic fred wrote:
....unless it was the greater spotted version, one bite you're dead in 3 seconds, they're very much alike... |
I'll remember that, next time I'm foraging through the Herefordshire undergrowth... 
...this evening... 
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Man Erg
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 07:39 |
fandango wrote:
mystic fred wrote:
....unless it was the greater spotted version, one bite you're dead in 3 seconds, they're very much alike... |
I'll remember that, next time I'm foraging through the Herefordshire undergrowth...
...this evening... |
Apparently,they like to make their nests close to clumps of Hogweed.
The poison of the Hogweed doesn't affect them but when they bite their victim,Hogweed poison is passed from the spider to the victim. 
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chopper
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 07:45 |
You wuss, Jim!
I found one of these monsters climbing our front door step at the weekend, I bravely picked it up and placed it on a nearby bush. And they have this sticky-out bit at the back that looks like a poisoned dart. Probably deadly.
OK, so I used a bit of cardboard to move it. 
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Man Erg
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 07:48 |
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^^^
That isn't part of your window cleaners' squeegee is it,Alan?
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Jared
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 08:06 |
^^its about twice the length of a blade of grass... you brave soul, Alan... 
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Jim Garten
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 08:10 |
chopper wrote:
You wuss, Jim!
I found one of these monsters climbing our front door step at the weekend, I bravely picked it up and placed it on a nearby bush. And they have this sticky-out bit at the back that looks like a poisoned dart. Probably deadly.
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OK Alan - now imagine that crawling out of the air duct in your car whilst you are driving...
Still think I'm a wuss???
Eh???
Hmmmm???
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chopper
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 08:22 |
OK, I'll admit it may have been a bit of a surprise.
They're not called Death's Head moths for nothing you know. You should have seen the teeth on it! It went for my neck at one point but I managed to fend it off with a stick and a rolled up copy of Classic Rock.
We can't go out in the garden now until it turns into a moth. It's now 4 foot long and has eaten two of the local cats.
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chopper
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 08:28 |
fandango wrote:
^^its about twice the length of a blade of grass... you brave soul, Alan... |
That's not grass, they're trees!
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mystic fred
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 08:42 |
chopper wrote:
You wuss, Jim!
I found one of these monsters climbing our front door step at the weekend, I bravely picked it up and placed it on a nearby bush. And they have this sticky-out bit at the back that looks like a poisoned dart. Probably deadly.
OK, so I used a bit of cardboard to move it.
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i took one of those home last week thinking it was a french loaf.... 
Edited by mystic fred - September 23 2008 at 08:42
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chopper
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 08:50 |
If you were on "I'm a Celebrity..." that would be a nice snack. Lightly toasted over an open fire, luvverly.
I'm just reading Ray Mears "Essential Bushcraft". He says caterpillars "can be eaten raw, sundried or cooked. Remove the head before eating".
Apparently wichety grubs are "delicious" and taste like scrambled eggs. |
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 09:32 |
mystic fred wrote:
limeyrob wrote:
No decisions necessary.
As I commented in other threads I have discovered the 'Shuffle Items' option on my Walkman which shuffles between albums rather than tracks. So all I do is press play and leave it to the player. Until then I had my albums sorted by title, but after a few plays I had a good idea of what was coming up next.
Not any more. Only had the player for three years.
I rarely cherry-pick tracks. it has to be the whole album for me. |
back in 1982 i had one of the original tape-player Sony Walkmans, the sound quality was excellent, but there was always this competition to see if the batteries would last the length of a whole album...
are the digital Walkmans good? i tried one of those Zen MP3 thingys - as i suspected it sounded like the proverbial bee-in-a-tin-can 
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The Sony HD5, which I think I have mentioned in past threads  , is superb and suits me down to the ground. When all around me were buying iPods listening to tinny sound and running out of power after a dozen or so hours I went for the Sony. 20Gb of storage, battery life of around 30-35 hours (the claimed 40 hours is only if you use the lowest format, which wasn't to my taste) and the battery is replaceable so I bought a spare as well. I like the HD5 so much that I got a couple of spare players off ebay - one spare and one for my classical collection.
Some people don't like the SonicStage software but I have no problems with it. But having said that I don't do downloads - I'd much rather buy the CD and convert.
5 mins from disc to Walkman, which to me doesn't seem bad. Had a bike ride this morning to the sound of Anekdoten, The Enid, Mike Oldfield and Everon. Off into the garden to dig over the allotment to...??
Ah! He comes the sun!!
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Jim Garten
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 10:18 |
You should worry - I think I just had ham salad in one 
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Padraic
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 10:25 |
My boss found one of these in his garden - very cool looking (except I also hate spiders and really all manner of creepy-crawlies) 
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sleeper
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 12:09 |
limeyrob wrote:
mystic fred wrote:
limeyrob wrote:
No decisions necessary.
As I commented in other threads I have discovered the 'Shuffle Items' option on my Walkman which shuffles between albums rather than tracks. So all I do is press play and leave it to the player. Until then I had my albums sorted by title, but after a few plays I had a good idea of what was coming up next.
Not any more. Only had the player for three years.
I rarely cherry-pick tracks. it has to be the whole album for me. |
back in 1982 i had one of the original tape-player Sony Walkmans, the sound quality was excellent, but there was always this competition to see if the batteries would last the length of a whole album...
are the digital Walkmans good? i tried one of those Zen MP3 thingys - as i suspected it sounded like the proverbial bee-in-a-tin-can
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The Sony HD5, which I think I have mentioned in past threads , is superb and suits me down to the ground. When all around me were buying iPods listening to tinny sound and running out of power after a dozen or so hours I went for the Sony. 20Gb of storage, battery life of around 30-35 hours (the claimed 40 hours is only if you use the lowest format, which wasn't to my taste) and the battery is replaceable so I bought a spare as well. I like the HD5 so much that I got a couple of spare players off ebay - one spare and one for my classical collection.
Some people don't like the SonicStage software but I have no problems with it. But having said that I don't do downloads - I'd much rather buy the CD and convert.
5 mins from disc to Walkman, which to me doesn't seem bad. Had a bike ride this morning to the sound of Anekdoten, The Enid, Mike Oldfield and Everon. Off into the garden to dig over the allotment to...??
Ah! He comes the sun!!
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The sound quality has a lot more to do with the ear phones you use and the bit rate/ file type you use than the actual mp3 player itself. I've got a Zen with a pair of Sennheiser's with all mp3's at 196kbps and they sound great!
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 12:13 |
chopper wrote:
You wuss, Jim!
I found one of these monsters climbing our front door step at the weekend, I bravely picked it up and placed it on a nearby bush. And they have this sticky-out bit at the back that looks like a poisoned dart. Probably deadly.
OK, so I used a bit of cardboard to move it.
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Is that a baguette from Subway? 
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Man Erg
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 14:35 |
James wrote:
chopper wrote:
You wuss, Jim!
I found one of these monsters climbing our front door step at the weekend, I bravely picked it up and placed it on a nearby bush. And they have this sticky-out bit at the back that looks like a poisoned dart. Probably deadly.
OK, so I used a bit of cardboard to move it.
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Is that a baguette from Subway? |
You see that baguette? That's yours that is...
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Neil
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 16:37 |
chopper wrote:
You wuss, Jim!
I found one of these monsters climbing our front door step at the weekend, I bravely picked it up and placed it on a nearby bush. And they have this sticky-out bit at the back that looks like a poisoned dart. Probably deadly.
OK, so I used a bit of cardboard to move it.
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My Gran had something like that to stop the draught coming under the front door.
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When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory.
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Syzygy
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Posted: September 23 2008 at 16:43 |
chopper wrote:
You wuss, Jim!
I found one of these monsters climbing our front door step at the weekend, I bravely picked it up and placed it on a nearby bush. And they have this sticky-out bit at the back that looks like a poisoned dart. Probably deadly.
OK, so I used a bit of cardboard to move it.
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They sell things that look like that in some of the Soho shops near where I work - or so I've been reliably informed  .
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