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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Womble on March 25, 2017, 08:11:13 am
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When a friend sent me this link, I was sure it had to be a wind-up. However, now I'm not so sure.
Stoke Newington Florist sells sticks for up to £18 (http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/stoke-newington-florist-sells-sticks-for-up-to-18-despite-being-minutes-from-park-a3498961.html).
Has the world gone completely mad?
I'm speechless!!
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Now where did I put all that Old Rope! :thinking: :idea:
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I have copious amounts of air ( fresh ) available, discount for quantity , bring your own bag to avoid the 5p bag tax.
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I have nettles, dockens and ragwort available at very reasonable rates when in season.
Nettles are known to make lovely herbal tea or cordial, and I'm sure there is some kind of undiscovered therapeutic benefit to docken root, while ragwort flowers would look lovely in a floral arrangement.. ;) Pick your own!
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<<< while ragwort flowers would look lovely in a floral arrangement >>>
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[/size] With sticks :idea:
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Talking about air did anyone see that programme on C4 with Jon Richardson about the things he was scared of? The bit on air pollution showed him meeting a family who take pond dipping nets lined with a plastic bag up on a hilltop and "catch" the fresh air and seal it in Kilner jars and sell them for some ridiculous amount. Makes the sticks look like a bargain ;D
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I have nettles, dockens and ragwort available at very reasonable rates when in season.
Nettles are known to make lovely herbal tea or cordial, and I'm sure there is some kind of undiscovered therapeutic benefit to docken root, while ragwort flowers would look lovely in a floral arrangement.. ;) Pick your own!
There is already a market for dandelion and burdock, just sell the raw ingredients to health freaks.
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I can recall tins of london fog for sale and also bags of amsterdam rain.
Who remembers Reginald Perrin's 'Grot Shops' ?
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Those are some beautiful, quality sticks, wish I could get some like that in a shop round here.
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Am hoping grass cuttings make it big in interior design this summer. I am thinking of opening up 'a mow your own' facility ?
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I have nettles, dockens and ragwort available at very reasonable rates when in season.
Nettles are known to make lovely herbal tea or cordial, and I'm sure there is some kind of undiscovered therapeutic benefit to docken root, while ragwort flowers would look lovely in a floral arrangement.. ;) Pick your own!
There is already a market for dandelion and burdock, just sell the raw ingredients to health freaks.
Omitting the ragwirt of course! :o I must admit that this thread has made me chuckle rather ;)
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We're all going to be rich. I can see it coming.
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Damm government, muscling in , Hot air , and recycled too ! and we've already paid for it :huff:
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Those are some beautiful, quality sticks, wish I could get some like that in a shop round here.
I have a " pick your own" service, bring own saw though, you will spot my place as there are tree fellas at the gate , well two, one is off sick, most of my branches are open seven days , don't worry about the dog as his bark is worse than his bite , dont leaf it too long though , I will bough to your every whim ,
yours
Rupert of Nutwood village
twigged it yet ?
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I have got plenty of straw carefully selected from the barn and placed in my socks by the straw fairy. With that magic must be worth oooh, £22.95.
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I have got plenty of straw carefully selected from the barn and placed in my socks by the straw fairy. With that magic must be worth oooh, £22.95.
Is this food grade straw suitable for the authentic oooo arrrrr crofter effect ?
its that time of night between taking the tablets and getting to bed
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I have a terrible confession to make :-[ :-[ :-[ I have bought sticks. They have even had to be imported from China and come in bundles of 50. I'm so ashamed and feel like crawling off into the undergrowth. Please don't be too hard on me :poo:
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I have copious amounts of air ( fresh ) available, discount for quantity , bring your own bag to avoid the 5p bag tax.
I only buy the organic versions in jars
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I have a terrible confession to make :-[ :-[ :-[ I have bought sticks. They have even had to be imported from China and come in bundles of 50. I'm so ashamed and feel like crawling off into the undergrowth. Please don't be too hard on me :poo:
Mitigate yourself, cut them up, and they'll be....... CHOP STICKS.
Must go taxi is waiting...
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I have a terrible confession to make :-[ :-[ :-[ I have bought sticks. They have even had to be imported from China and come in bundles of 50. I'm so ashamed and feel like crawling off into the undergrowth. Please don't be too hard on me :poo:
I have to ask, FW. Why did you buy sticks?
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I have a terrible confession to make :-[ :-[ :-[ I have bought sticks. They have even had to be imported from China and come in bundles of 50. I'm so ashamed and feel like crawling off into the undergrowth. Please don't be too hard on me :poo:
I have to ask, FW. Why did you buy sticks?
Bamboo sticks. To grow my climbing beans up :innocent:
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:roflanim: :roflanim:
Now I can even be smug looking at my runner beans running up,there locally sourced hazel twigs. Got one or two old bamboo canes to hide first though.
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:roflanim: :roflanim:
Now I can even be smug looking at my runner beans running up,there locally sourced hazel twigs. Got one or two old bamboo canes to hide first though.
Oh envy......we have a coppice planted up, but the hazels aren't big enough to cut yet. There's willow but they don't seem to grow long and straight enough for bean poles. I hate buying in bamboo, and you never know what beasties you're getting with them. Maybe next year I'll have bean poles of my own.
ps bamboo goes up like firecrackers if you chuck them on the bonfire :yippee:
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Our plot came with a small ish patch of v vigouros bamboo which gets a severe prune each year at bean time...
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We used to have a bamboo patch too, but we had terrible trouble with pandas :coat:.
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Crickey! I'll keep an eye out for them... the biggest critter I've seen here is Muntjac
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I have a terrible confession to make :-[ :-[ :-[ I have bought sticks. They have even had to be imported from China and come in bundles of 50. I'm so ashamed and feel like crawling off into the undergrowth. Please don't be too hard on me :poo:
I have to ask, FW. Why did you buy sticks?
Bamboo sticks. To grow my climbing beans up :innocent:
:roflanim:
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Fleecewife Don't import from China .........., I can sell you loads of Welsh grown ones ...... :roflanim: