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Great Plum wrote:I water our vegetables (courgettes, tomatoes, and french beans this year) in the evening and thepots every other day in the evening, otherwise they will die.
However, in a bed, most plants seem to be quite happy!
I think that could spell the end of your 'breakfast in Bed', young Plum !
Great Plum wrote:I water our vegetables (courgettes, tomatoes, and french beans this year) in the evening and thepots every other day in the evening, otherwise they will die.
However, in a bed, most plants seem to be quite happy!
(I thought I would get in before JR)
doesn't Mrs Plum object?
"If a man speaks, and there isn't a woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"
Hannoir wrote:Hot countries have the great system of having the double flush button - its divided into two - a half flush and full flush.... why dont we have it in the UK?
Hendrik wrote:half flush buttons do exist in this country but only in newish toilets. afaik, most of them in austria and germany have them as standard.
As an owner of a brand new (still unfinished *sigh*) bathroom, I can confirm that, by law, all new loo cisterns fitted in the UK must have a small cistern and the double flush button. I can also confirm that the so-called half flush is as good as the full flush!
And these things are cheap! I'm not sure why people who have to have water meters haven't clocked that they can save themselves gallons of water (and pennies, s'cuse the pun!) if they replaced their cisterns for newer, smaller ones with the double flush.
Hendrik wrote:can anyone think of a slightly acidic waste product that i could add to the bath water before it goes on the garden to neutralise the soap?
is wood ash acidic or alkaline?
How about uric acid? Apparently it has a high nitrogen content, too!
I don't think soap is a problem from the pH point of view... the background effect of the pH of the water supply would overwhelm it i think. Soap is pretty PH neutral these days anyway.
Hendrik wrote:as predicted the first reply was about p*ss.
it would seriously be a good idea but i am NOT going to pee in my bath thankyou very much.
incidentally it is not always that acidic
Wee is very useful stuff. Not only is it very good for getting grass stains out of clothes and for bleaching white linen, it was also a major constituent of the processing of woollens in the Middle Ages (used to thicken and finish the cloth - 'fulling'), so if your surname is Fuller it's likely to derive from that process ie. you are a micturator. It must have been a very smelly time as human waste products collected during the evening were used as manure. Nightsoil. Such an evocative (and odorous) phrase, but charming in its own unique way ....
Catherine Standing (Cooper) Canteen Cath 1.12 (1983-85) & Col A 20 (1985-90) Any idiot can deal with a crisis. It takes a genius to cope with everyday life.
cj wrote:Wee is very useful stuff. Not only is it very good for getting grass stains out of clothes and for bleaching white linen, it was also a major constituent of the processing of woollens in the Middle Ages (used to thicken and finish the cloth - 'fulling'), so if your surname is Fuller it's likely to derive from that process ie. you are a micturator. It must have been a very smelly time as human waste products collected during the evening were used as manure. Nightsoil. Such an evocative (and odorous) phrase, but charming in its own unique way ....
Not merely interesting, Cath, but stylistically most elegant. Thank you for this post.
