jason holdstock

I just about stopped wearing waterproofs about ten years ago when I first move to northern Scotland. I bought an overshoot from a Sheffield UK company called Buffalo which is a quite heavy pile inside with a fairly tough Pertex outer. Lots of venting zips. Specifically their Special 6 shirt. You will still get wet in heavy rain, but not cold and not steamy, so less stink. If I stop what I'm doing all zips get closed, snug and warm. Working hard, all vents open, up to about 12 degrees C. Above that I then got their unlined Pertex top, same design, merino wool long sleeve under.

Waterproofs only now get worn if I'm doing something so grubby that hosing myself off after would be a good idea.

So I think less sweating in my buffalo means less washing :)

paul wheaton wrote:Crop rotation
  - corn it out

  - wheat is out

Move to a system that will pump out food without any seeding, fertilizing, irrigation ....   without any care at all ... the only effort is on harvesting.  That is the permaculture goal.  To design a system so well that years can pass with zero care.  And with zero care it grows more food and is spreading.

But until I achieve that nirvana in twenty years time I will still be fed mostly by the supermarket unless I have annuals, some of which will self seed to that future happy time.

Jeff Marchand wrote:problem with the fallow approach is you have no hope of ever controlling  weeds.  One approach I want to pursue once I have chickens next year is the 'dueling gardens' technique.  Keep chickens where last years garden was and where it will be again next year.

If you've spent three years controlling the weeds where you are growing, then put that to "fallow" maybe seeding clover at the start, you still think weeds would go nuts?

I just started reading "Gardening When it Counts" by Steve Soloman.
It has some very astute observations, like plant spacing to not need water (once the seedling sets off) which is kind of obvious but not what the lots of compost and squeeze as much in as possible brigade always suggest.
Anyhow, for a family garden he suggests having two areas, leaving one fallow for three years while only using the other. Plus feeding his design of universal compost.
So crop rotation from a wider perspective.

The only time I bought a dishwasher was having moved into a house that you had to run more water before you even got hot out than the dishwasher used in its whole cycle.

I stayed at a hotel last year that had a motion sensor bathroom tap that was solar powered, behind the closed bathroom door, no lights normally no windows and the battery was totally flat five minutes after lights out.  Unfortunately that meant it kept trying to reactivate itself every few minutes, giving a loud click, all NIGHT LONG!!! I was not happy at check out.

Future confusion is only theoretical.
I'm much more concerned with my current confusion.

A couple of years ago I needed new all terrains for my 4x4 and found some Y T reviews included the weights of the tyres they were testing, a huge variations between them made me go for one of the lightest but still performed well in the mild conditions I needed them for. I don't think tyre weight would normally factor in anyone's purchase decision, and paying someone to fit them you may never realise how much extra you added over oem.

I seem to remember with a fuel injected car unless you get entirely off the throttle fuel is still going in. So foot off when coasting!

I used to have a really realty fast sports car. One day my wife and I went separately to a function some distance from home, quiet country roads.  At the end she drove her very boring slow car at her slow pace and I drove as fast as I sensibly could. Almost an hours journey, she took about five minutes longer. After that illustration I havn't really bothered driving fast (to get there quicker) since.

And now we just have a Honda Jazz/Fit anyway :)

I've never used a percolator.
Either a French press, or now an "aeropress". Only really makes one mug though.
When I bought it years ago I read the instructions, tried a few more times but shelved it because whichever of the manufacturers methods I used it was disgusting.
But, I came across James Hoffman on y tube who, among lots of other coffee type things had his own aeropress recipe, which was lovely.
He may have suggestions on how to use a perc too?
My morning coffee is a hand grinder with 16grams of beans (maybe half what I'd put in a filter machine or press) and isn't the speediest overall but I love it (depending on the coffee!)

I'm not sure what you're asking? A capstan on a Landy is a winch, but I believe you can more easily feather the line in or out speed by how much tension you give the free end.