Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

StevieJ

If Pastures makes 9k from her internet affiliation ventures I wonder how much Martin makes :eek:

PasturesNew

StevieJ wrote: »

If Pastures makes 9k from her internet affiliation ventures I wonder how much Martin makes :eek:

Probably close to £500k.

His traffic's very very targetted...

I'd not be surprised if it were a LOT more even. A LOT more.

Even mine, 'annualised', last month was looking more like £22k.

PasturesNew

I spotted the sky was pink earlier, so pulled up a webcam I know would be pointing in the right direction and snapped this:

http://i51.tinypic.com/2r2lx8w.jpg

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Probably close to £500k.

His traffic's very very targetted...

I'd not be surprised if it were a LOT more even. A LOT more.

Even mine, 'annualised', last month was looking more like £22k.

TBH I never think about it. But he's an employer...I don't know of how many, but it filters back in the system a bit. Its a shame the BGs don't get paid though. Professional BGs. Then we'd never exist though:eek:

PN the sky was amazing wasn't it! we get great skys here, the nearest thing I remember to the Carribean, I guess its the benefit of living in a big valley.....big skies. DH and I happened to look over at the right time to see an amazing pink mottled, almost marbled sky.

Davesnave

The sky was also great here at dusk. I'd been inside doing a few jobs, and I popped out to see that things had suddenly turned very pink. It was still too, which is quite a rare thing here.

Sorry I have not been around much to be a 'nice person.' Lostinrates will know that this is one of the busier times of the rural year. Like her, I'm unable to comprehend too much of the previous techie stuff, though I do own a domain name.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

The grund elder had me almost in tears today. Yet again a kind person bought us plant, and I'm so grateful and I love gardening, but the whole time I'm trying to clear room for decorative garden is time we're not getting to the fields or where the veg plot should be, or the house....or the timber. Still. The gifts meant we dug out the first tiny bit of our ''yellow, apricot and pink'' garden. The white border ...all 2 metres of that (scratched out in front of the least structurally compromised bit of house) looks pretty good. I was gifted bulbs for that, but there is no room where no walls are falling down:rotfl:

Not much ground elder here, but we had it in our old garden when we moved there. It took ages dealing with it properly, but it never came back.

Your recent posts are just so reflective of how we feel, as we lurch from one half-done project to the next. After a year, we still have only one decorative border.....

Chickens look pretty good though!

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Probably close to £500k.

His traffic's very very targetted...

I'd not be surprised if it were a LOT more even. A LOT more.

Even mine, 'annualised', last month was looking more like £22k.

My rather uneducated guess is that this site makes £100m+ a year.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

My rather uneducated guess is that this site makes £100m+ a year.

I'd believe that, to be honest. I didn't want to put really big numbers to it as it's none of my business.

But he is a jammy git

John_Pierpoint

lostinrates wrote: »

I've just thanked a whole load of techy posts I don't understand and glazed over just because you are all so clever.

Trees, trees, trees. We've cut dozens down now. all feeling a little exposed now! Only about 15 more to go I think. Been tackling some ground elder today. Scourge. Its taken an hour or so to work over about two square metres and you just know you've never done it well enough and bits of root have escaped you. I'm not to proud to use round up, but it is too wet, and its late in the season. Brambles are also a big weed here, and they daunt me.

Rotor scythe ?
You can "kill the devil himself, if you cut off his head enough times".
Bind weed in a clay soil is my bete noir; mine seems to be glyphosate resistant; mind you the "Morning Glory" that climbs up and over the dirty old shed at this time of year, is looking particularly fine.

lostinrates

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Rotor scythe ?
You can "kill the devil himself, if you cut off his head enough times".
Bind weed in a clay soil is my bete noir; mine seems to be glyphosate resistant; mind you the "Morning Glory" that climbs up and over the dirty old shed at this time of year, is looking particularly fine.

ATM we're using a long arm petrol hedge cutter. Its back breaking though. For DH, not me, I can barely hold the hedge cuter these days, let alone swipe with it! Other difficulties with one of the big patches is that its on the steep banks of our pond..limiting what we can safely use and do.