I’m British and I only drink coffee, but I don’t meet many other people who do. Gotta bear in mind that most people only drink either disgusting freeze-dried instant coffee, or posh boutique coffee from, at worst, Starbucks and, at best, a decent independent coffee place.
Watching Sorted Food (London based food channel on YouTube) it does seem that some Brits enjoy both or one over the other. The majority seem to drink just tea, the next group enjoys both but for different events, and the smallest group is coffee only.
For the middle group it’s people who have coffee in the morning and tea at noon/afternoon.
Good stuff, makes me wonder if we need a rewilding community.
I did something similar in my previous house, so some suggestions:
On one side if the pond dig down 5-6 inches and lay down some plastic sheeting. You can then turn this into a bog garden. If you lower the lip of the pond slightly on that side, excess rain water will drain into the bog garden.
Have a chat with the Council, local wildlife groups and Landlife - it may be you can get a specific wildflower seed mix for your area, preserving local plants that thrive in your soil/climate. It may be the Council is planning or have made a wildflower meadow (or you could encourage them to do so) with a specific mix. You could end up with large wildflower meadows and then little wildflower islands linking them up.
Frog spawn is relatively easy to come by, ask around others with a pond - my neighbour was dying to give some away. I ended up chasing frogs around the house so be careful what you wish for.
Look after your hedgehogs - I had stone walls which wasn’t great for them (when it snowed you could see their footprints coming out if one gate, onto the pavement and down another). If neighbours are interested you could drill a suitably sized hole in the fences and feed a shirt length of pipe through. You can buy little hedgehog hotels which you could stash away in the corner of the garden. I’ve currently got 4 of them roaming round.
Put up a bee hotel. Help those rarer bees find a home. We have a local pest control firm that will also rehouse tree bees and they have a network of boxes across the region that they take them too.
Put up a bug hotel - you can also get combined bee and bug hotels.
If there is any fallen or chopped down wood then pile some up and let it rot a bit. Great for bugs and fungi.
Great tips! Thank you. I’ll look in to Landlife. And I’ll have to look in to a bog garden to see if we want one; beneath the turf and building rubbish, we have very hard, dry clay soil.
One of the recommendations I’ve seen twice regarding frogs is not to transfer stuff between ponds because of a risk of disease?
Hedgehogs is something I want to sort. We used to have visitors as our row of houses 'back gardens are linked via an old hedgerow to a big unused plot of land. However, I foolishly blocked up the hole the hedgehogs were using as we were also getting a lot of cats in via the hole who like to shit all over our lawn - which isn’t great for our little kids playing in the garden (which they do basically year round). I’m going to restore the hole, but only the recommended 13x13 cm in the hopes that stops the cats.
Hedgehog hotel may be introduced into the hedges that are behind the pond in the picture. That might be step 7 or 8 ha.
We do have a little bee hotel (pre-built, 20x15x15 cm or so of stacked bamboo sticks with an aluminium roof) - but it’s always just been overrun by spiders. Any advice?
We don’t have any chopped wood - but I might put the hedge trimmings under the hedge instead of in the garden waste bin?
Oh this is wonderful. Im such a sucker for fog and visible atmosphere so this is really hitting me the right way. Green is a perfect color for this grimy industrial aesthetic
Check the YouTube channel 'the lockpicking lawyer". He picks locks, both mechanical and electrical. His typical videos don’t take more than 2-3 minute because that’s all he needs to pick a lock multiple times. Electrical locks usually are opened with a paperclip or something similar. Wat too many locks are designed and built by idiots who have no idea about security
I wish that he would try his hand on a lock from Yale. Considering that they are part of Assa Abloy who are very well respected in the lock business. My suspicion is that a company who are mainly makers of mechanical locks at least won’t fall prey for the many of the beginners mistakes lockpicking lawyer points out.
Depends. Any modern lock can easily be picked with something called a comb, which can bypass all the pins by pushing them far up into the lock so it can turn. However, the position on the security of pin pads is debatable. Regardless of which is better, both can easily be bypassed with a drill, so I guess neither.
The reason why people even pick locks to get in homes is because it’s most of the time silent to pick a lock. Do you think someone would just choose to pick the lock instead of breaking the window if noise wasn’t a concern? Though I guess there are silent glass cutters too.
Only cheap locks with a huge design flaw can be picked using a comb. The lock picking lawyer explains in many videos, how this is a very old exploit and easily can be defended against.
However, locks like that sadly still exist. So it is important to choose a reputable manufacturer - be it for classic locks or digital ones. However I will say, that digital locks usually have a classical backup. So that gives an attacker just one mor option to defeat the lock.
They have their conveniences but I want to get this lock. It’s design makes picking next to impossible. Lpl couldn’t even get it. youtu.be/qV8QKZNFxLw?si=1WCdQCktVfGhJtsm
I’ve never seen this appear. Is this in chrome? Anyway, like some people here have suggested, you can use a debloater script or something similar. I personally use O&O Shutup10. Hopefully enabling some options in there would work. Or you could just accept it and then change your search engine back to whatever you use lol.
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