Covid-19

[steve_holmes_11]

Least you got a garden !

Luxury!!! All we 'ad wuz a spike.

[Nick the Lemming]

I have a steep unusable back garden. Maybe it's time to consider getting a goat.

I wouldn't advise eating the goat eggs though.

[mmcv]

Terraced rice cultivation, the way they do it in Vietnam.

Did try getting it terraced at one point but most wouldn't tackle it without charging extortionate amounts due to the difficulty of accessing it with a digger (shared drive, other side has theirs fenced off). But may have to resort to doing it by hand if this continues and we're facing starvation...

Luxury!!! All we 'ad wuz a spike.

I wouldn't advise eating the goat eggs though.

[sultanbev]

Currently terracing my allotment, by hand, as when I inherited it from the council, it was a forest. The previous (now evicted tenant) had planted loads of trees all down the slope. In pots. All next to each other. Then left them for 15 years 

50 or so of the trees I salvaged have been replanted in the nearby park, and the rest have been saved for dead hedging around the allotment.

Mark

[Matt J]

I've knocking on for an acre of gardens and park(ish) land, which if this continues may become home to several chickens and possibly pigs (have an old pig sty that looks like it was built around the time of Saruman).
Although plenty of squirrels, rabbits, pheasants and pigeons to shoot and pot first 

[Techno]

Hmmm......I'm thinking of shooting some of the flying rats, as well.
(Not to eat......Just can't stand the wretched things....There's so many of them... they need culling......They scoff 90% of the food I put out for the little garden birds.....The swine !!  )

Cheers - Phil

[Orcs]

Hmmm......I'm thinking of shooting some of the flying rats, as well.
(Not to eat......Just can't stand the wretched things....There's so many of them... they need culling......They scoff 90% of the food I put out for the little garden birds.....The swine !!  )

Cheers - Phil

They taste quite nice. Bit like liver.   Don't bother with the full carcase, just pluck the breast, run a knife down the breast bone and take each side of the breast off.  If you don't fancy it, just cook them up for the dogs.

[Techno]

Liver ?......I thought everything tasted of chicken.

(The things you learn on our esteemed forum.) 

Cheers - Phil

[petercooman]

Liver ?......I thought everything tasted of chicken. :-

(The things you learn on our esteemed forum.) 

Cheers - Phil

No, coffee tastes like..... Paint water?

Not again...

[paulr]

 

50 or so of the trees I salvaged have been replanted in the nearby park, and the rest have been saved for dead hedging around the allotment.

Something else I've learnt about through our esteemed forum

[Last Hussar]

All those Zombie games are going to have to publish updates where the players scavenge for toilet rolls, aren't they?

[toxicpixie]

I do like a nice pigeon breast, marinated in red wine and a little herbs, then flash fried. Need half a dozen for anything even snack sized tho!

[petercooman]

All those Zombie games are going to have to publish updates where the players scavenge for toilet rolls, aren't they?

was a chap yesterday on facebook who had made objective marers. 5 bases with stacks of loo rolls 

[Raider4]

Aside from being "attrition pets" and mostly ex-industrial ladies who've been very roughly handled by our arsehole food production systems

Yeah, I don't think the great British public really knows - or wants to know - exactly how "industrial" real-world food production is.

There's a reason there are no webcams in abbatoirs . . .

The one's that really piss me off are the adverts for "luxury" expensive chocolates, that show a kindly old man in a white chef's hat hand-churning your chocolate, while a message written in white on a light-grey background proclaims "product development kitchen".

Well, you now what, dearie? There is no kindly old man. Your "luxury" chocolates were produced in a factory/warehouse the size of Paddington station, that employs 7 people, 3 of whom are security guards.

[Raider4]

And this is exactly the sort of thing that will cause real trouble.

The "We're all in this together" thing starts to fall apart when the general public thinks that the rich 'n powerful are not only suffering as much as the rest of us, but actually making money out of the problem.