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May 12th, 2018, 03:27 AM | #12381 |
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The funny thing is, the house has been in the family for nearly eighty years. It's still semi isolated, closer to the beach than the potholed gravel track that serves as a road, only six nearby neighbours and a 112 minute drive to the nearest town and we've never had any issues with squatters or burglars. What possessed my dad to put up security screens I'll never know
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May 12th, 2018, 08:52 AM | #12382 |
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May 12th, 2018, 09:24 AM | #12383 |
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I'd like to know how many liters of gasoline have been wasted in stupid lawnmowers, instead to use a "gasoline free" scythe.
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May 12th, 2018, 09:36 AM | #12384 | |
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Strange I can not remember when last I saw a petrol mower, most in the UK are electric, and many are cordless too! |
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I use a scythe and a manual lawnmower. That's not that difficult to use a scythe. We only need to keep it very low, far from the feet and to rotate the upper part of the body. In fact I only use this. It's more practical than the manual lawnmower. My lawn is far from a golf court. I've to agree. But it looks "alive" and is alive. At the beginning the lawn was a classic lawn. A monocultural lawn. After 15 years of letting nature coming back, the lawn looks more like a meadow. I personaly like this a lot. There are more flowers, crickets, bees, snails, grasshoppers, etc... We have to be very careful to maintain biodiversity. Millions of species could disappear because wanting to control the nature. As example 95% of "dry meadows" that are among the richest biotopes in European biodiversity have disappeared in Switzerland during the 50 last years. It will be another "annoyance" that I'll develop in the future. Quote:
Today a lot of electricity is still produced thanks to fossile energy or nuclear plant. Cordless lawnmowers probably are more environmentally harmful than petrol mowers. The best ones are energy free landmower or scythe. Last edited by Roubignol; May 12th, 2018 at 11:24 AM.. |
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May 12th, 2018, 11:35 AM | #12386 | |
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There are motorless lawnmowers though (which look like 'real' ones), doesn't take more skill then pushing a regular one, they do take more effort. |
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I am annoyed by what has happened to the yogurt industry. Commercial yogurt has been available in markets since the 1940's in America, but sales of yogurt, especially Dannon yogurt didn't get really popular until the 1970's. When I would go to the dairy section of supermarkets Dannon and other brands of yogurt came in 8 ounce plastic/cardboard cups and sold for about 50 cents. Over the years though the volume has been going down and the price has been going up. Sometime in the 1990's Dannon yogurt shrunk to only 6 0z containers and sold for about 80 cents. Now Dannon and most of the other more popular brands of yogurt have gone down to only 5.3 ounce containers and sell for over one dollar each. And there are some brands of yogurt that only come in 4 ounce containers. Also yogurt has always been a low fat product. Now the manufacturers are coming out with whole milk yogurts. They taste great, but can be fattening if you eat more than one per day.
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I have a backyard which is almost as long as a football field which I cut at least once a week with a riding mower. The 5-gallon gas container which I usually fill in the Spring will last two summers! I'd love, and wish to get that kind of mileage with my car!
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I almost would not mind prices going up if they would at least keep the volume/quantity/portions the same. The bastards are making out on both ends -- giving you less for more money!
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