Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

"vegetables and fruit almost by default one is now compelled to buy in the supermarket"

Not if there is an Organic local Box delivery service in your area, most good areas have them now.

prefer to choose my own and then i know what i'm getting
rarely know what i have in mind until i go into the shop

It depends if your taste buds know the difference in taste between futiliser food and real Organic local food.

"futilizer"?????

Yes it's food that has been sprayed with Chemical Fertilizers as opposed to food grown Organicly locally, apart from possible health concerns the taste (for example Carrots) are very noticeable.

agree with carrots and assuredly with newly dug potatoes
other than not liking the overuse of nitrates and pest controls etc, i don't think from a taste point of view it makes a lot of difference unless picked and eaten within a few hours - especially asparagus

Oh yes, and that is true of a lot of food that is grown locally and eaten promptly after picking...Asparagus yes Surre Bub.

Weed control I believe is what is the great danger to our food safety and can have an impact on flavors but we need to accept odd shapes and sizes that big growers discard, as they do not fit the supermarket standards in general.

Horse Manure is great for the Veg Patch as long as you hot compost it.

bullshit frequently works well on this thread :-)

There is an answer to that-----just can't put my finger on it though.:-)

Progress in science and technology can be in surges....also in the natural world.....mass extinctions led to dynamic expansion of creatures/flora and the humankind....(I'm not talking about terrible war events...just to get that clear)….space exploration is the same it seems :....it's a long time since mankind walked on the moon and there were decades when nothing much seemed to be happening but now there is tremendous progress being made with a plethora of projects : so congratulations to Richard Branson's space plane....don't forget the UK is greatly involved !.....bravo....

just to cheer you all ....

Mike Ashley issues dire warning for UK retail industry
Sports Direct chief says November was ‘worst on record’ as poor Christmas sales add to gloom

From the 1960's

Union reform fails.

Trade unions were very much part of Britain's political and industrial life. The new Labour leader, Harold Wilson, won the general election in1964. One of his reforms was the Prices and Incomes Act. The aim was that all wage and price rises had to be approved by a National Board for Prices, but in practice the idea was unworkable.

In 1968 Labour's Employment Minister, Barbara Castle, wrote a paper called 'In Place of Strife'. She suggested ballots before strikes and a 28-day cooling off period before action was taken. Her aim was to prevent the unofficial strikes and lightning strikes that stopped production without notice. The Trades Union Congress (TUC) rejected the idea and pressured Wilson into scrapping it by threatening to withdraw the unions' financial support from Labour.

Does the Labour front bench holiday on King William Island?

The doomed 1845 voyage of Sir John Franklin to the Northwest Arctic Passage was one of the greatest disasters of British polar history, ending in the deaths of 129 crewmen.
Now the Inuit community where the wreckage of the HMS Terror and its sister the Erebus were found say its curse has been reawakened - and is claiming lives in the tiny indigenous settlement.
Fear has gripped the remote Arctic settlement of Gjoa Haven, on Canada's King William Island, amid claims of "non-human" beings stalking the ice.
The ships left England in 1845 on a mission led by the Victorian explorer, to navigate a route through the Northwest Passage.
They became frozen in near King William Island and none of the 129 men on board survived.
The wrecks of Franklin's "lost expedition" were only discovered recently by Canadian divers near Gjoa Haven - Erebus in 2014 and Terror in 2016.
Divers have been removing artifacts from the wrecks which are expected to go on show at a local museum.
But a spate of six unexpected deaths in the space of two weeks at Gjoa Haven has led to a belief among the 1,000 strong Inuit community that the wrecks should not have been disturbed.
Jacob Keanik, whose brother and nephew drowned in a boating accident after the ships were found, told Canadian radio: "People are superstitious. They feel there is a connection between the deaths and disturbing the wreck sites.
"My late mother told me, even before these shipwrecks were discovered...the whole King William Island has non-human people that we cannot see.
"It's a funny feeling when we get on the other side of the island. You sense that somebody's around you, but there's nobody around you."

No.

It is where the tory party probably practice for their pantomime and Nebula practices her dance routines.

The main dance is the "In and out Hokey Pokey", but she doesn't know the correct steps yet.

Well Fred, there are lots of Labour MPs who are experts in hokey pokey and all its variations, so she wouldn't have to go far to learn.

She hasn't the intellect!

8-)

MHLW

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Me neither