The bogans* with one of the yards backing onto the yard at our place are at it again... burning stuff. Billowing great clouds of horrible smelling black smoke. Smells like they've set a whole wheeliebin on fire, full of tyres.
These are the same folks who randomly set off fireworks during the daytime.
I like fires, and the smoke and smell of them... when they're burning wood, and I like fireworks... at night.
* most accurate word I can think of to describe them, other than fuckwits.
TBH, if the blight gets into the #allotment #polytunnel I think we've had a good run of it. The data nerd in me wishes I'd had the time to weigh the harvests, maybe next season.
Going to have to get back onto the passata wagon soon, the harvest is backing up, faster than I can make the time to process it. Probably I need more jars. Would like to do a few more interesting things than passata too but won't have the time. Can maybe combine some of the below to jar some premade pasta sauces.
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Dinner was 4-leaf saag with toasted padrons and yellow tomatoes. The four leaves are: chard, New Zealand spinach, red orach, and Malabar spinach. It has one Wraith chilli in it.
Plus a red lentil dhal with three Orange Drop chillies and a handful of red tomatoes.
In both a flavour element of the chillis comes through, but not too much heat (could have been hotter really, next time more chillies!)
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The bean tunnel on the shed plot has totally collapsed. Fixing that is a job for another day, and building a more robust one a job for the winter I reckon. Just couldn't be arsed harvesting more beans, many have got too big anyway. Just going to leave them be... wonder if the purple beans can work as dry beans.
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As a side quest on our trip in the direction of Norwich we picked up enough old guttering to gutter everything in the #allotment plots plus all planned things probably twice over or more, think someone must have had all their house gutters replaced. I had an eyeball on Norwich #freecycle for my usual searches and hit the jackpot! (New guttering costs a fortune, so was out of the question as an option. But the basic clips and parts are cheap enough if you have the gutters.)
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As a side quest on our trip in the direction of Norwich we picked up enough old guttering to gutter everything in the #allotment plots plus all planned things probably twice over or more, think someone must have had all their house gutters replaced. I had an eyeball on Norwich #freecycle for my usual searches and hit the jackpot! (New guttering costs a fortune, so was out of the question as an option. But the basic clips and parts are cheap enough if you have the gutters.)
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@e30f7dfe from my own experience with sales people in the spheres of IT and engineering granting these folks grand titles is necessary as a sort of bubble-wrap around the house of cards that forms the structure of their fragile egos.
This Reg article claims the data was password hashes using an undisclosed hashing algorithm: https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/05/freecycle_becomes_the_latest_data
So why not say that in the main advisory on the website? It'd be just a tiny bit reassuring to know they at least made an effort, rather than release a statement saying "passwords" had been stolen.
In this day and age why the hell is any website storing passwords in plaintext form.
Hell, in any bloody day and age.
It's not like hashing passwords is new tech, Unix was "crypt"ing passwords before I was bloody born.
https://freecycle.helpscoutdocs.com/article/319-data-breach-august-2023
Someone got some marketing company to "craft" some social media posts (not my call, not my problem).
The result is laughable.
The content is pretty much only Instagram appropriate (and by far our biggest following is Twitter).
It employs the most useless set of junk hashtags too, like shit nobody anywhere would be monitoring - let alone anyone relevant. Not even any ironic-hashtag value, just pure cringe hashtag-soup.
And features bad photoshopping.
Marketing: where money goes to die.
Skip companies sending drivers to collect at 7AM go into the permanent shitlist.
Also, I don't call that 7 days, more like 6 days and 19 hours.
*grumble*
*yawn*
I think we will instead reduce to just items marked † and try planting from our own #allotment harvests of Kingsland Wight and Longor shallots. It would be great if we can build up numbers of these to be self sufficient with them. (Much worries about quality and disease?)
We were already planning to switch to onions from seed because all red onions we try from sets bolt - so will experiment with that this season in the hope of replacing the Autumn Champion with a variety (or two!) from seed.
End goal: not needing to buy any bulbs/sets again (unless disaster strikes).
Would be great to also save our own onion seed too. We will use "Real Seeds" and try and be organised about that, but it maybe a bit beyond us to keep them "true" (and takes 2 seasons). Seeds are cheap enough anyway, for now.
We were looking at 2 types of onion sets (Autum Champion*†, Senshyu), 3 sorts of garlic (Kingsland Wight*, Rose Wight†, Messidrome†) and 1 type of shallot (Longor*).
The varieties marked * we regard as "tried and tested" to yield results we like. But we also want to try new things.
But at a total around £55 it seems just a bit much, I'm sure some of these prices are a couple of quid higher than last year. Inflation, cost of living, totally understand why but it's painful all the same.
I think we will instead reduce to just items marked † and try planting from our own #allotment harvests of Kingsland Wight and Longor shallots. It would be great if we can build up numbers of these to be self sufficient with them. (Much worries about quality and disease?)
We were already planning to switch to onions from seed because all red onions we try from sets bolt - so will experiment with that this season in the hope of replacing the Autumn Champion with a variety (or two!) from seed.
Next up is bread and butter cucumbers.
But pause a moment to admire the beauty of this little #allotment "Autumn Champion" onion.
What a little stunner.
Cannot believe, esp in this heat, I am already planning the autumn allium planting. Started putting a Sutton's order together and baulked at the £55 basket I got to. Need to rethink the strategy on that.
https://toot.ale.gd/system/media_attachments/files/111/035/146/290/549/725/original/aa058ef2dafa19a6.jpg
We were looking at 2 types of onion sets (Autum Champion*†, Senshyu), 3 sorts of garlic (Kingsland Wight*, Rose Wight†, Messidrome†) and 1 type of shallot (Longor*).
The varieties marked * we regard as "tried and tested" to yield results we like. But we also want to try new things.
But at a total around £55 it seems just a bit much, I'm sure some of these prices are a couple of quid higher than last year. Inflation, cost of living, totally understand why but it's painful all the same.
Next up is bread and butter cucumbers.
But pause a moment to admire the beauty of this little #allotment "Autumn Champion" onion.
What a little stunner.
Cannot believe, esp in this heat, I am already planning the autumn allium planting. Started putting a Sutton's order together and baulked at the £55 basket I got to. Need to rethink the strategy on that.
https://toot.ale.gd/system/media_attachments/files/111/035/146/290/549/725/original/aa058ef2dafa19a6.jpg
Amazon video seems to have stopped listing actor credits in chronological order in favour for some totally unobvious order of it's own.
This platform seems to increasingly be the enemy of logic.
Today's continual inescapable brainfart...
I'm installing some PHP stuff and *every* time I go to type 'composer' my fingers type 'composter'.
Got #compost on the brain.
Or maybe my brain is #compost, sure feels like it lately.
Long old day again, prepping pallets in the glorious sunshine... could be worse. But nipped into the #allotment in the morning to ensure a few needy things weren't parched and cooking.
Did a little video walkthrough of the polytunnel.
Think we've done OK for Tomatoes this year and this "heatwave" will hopefully hasten some more ripening (ah, the silver linings of climate catastrophe and the impending grim endtimes of this so called civilization.)
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