Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

tomterm8

I would never use tires to grow vegetables in. Some people believe they can leach various poisons into the soil. I don't think their is any real scientific evidence either way. But I probably would use it for planting flowers, trees or bushes, or for retaining soil, or even building.

neverdespairgirl

i think my parents are a bit younger than yours - my mother's 62, my Dad's just turned 61. And my mother thinks central heating is wicked, nothing wrong with a vest, three pairs of tights, gloves and 4 jumpers to watch the telly of an evening.....

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

or even building.

It could become Dave's Wheelbarrow Shelter and assorted gardening stuff. Or housing for the wheelie bins (if they have them).

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

...bit ...

Bit = lot then.
Combined age of 164 here

Mine are old enough to be the parents of yours

They bought this house when they were 64/70.

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

It could become Dave's Wheelbarrow Shelter and assorted gardening stuff. Or housing for the wheelie bins (if they have them).

Don't see why not. People even make homes out of them.

Wheezy_2

tomterm8 wrote: »

I would never use tires to grow vegetables in.

No, me neither. I wasn't really recommending to use tyres for toms, I just thought it was funny.

PasturesNew

tomterm8 - how's the ebook coming along? I read yesterday about a bloke who's just sold 1million Kindle ebooks - first person to do it without a publishing deal.

GDB2222

Weren't there some poor farmers who rented out some fields for "temporary" tyre storage. Only the crooked renters melted into thin air after piling millions of tyres on the land in huge heaps. What happened after that?

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

tomterm8 - how's the ebook coming along? I read yesterday about a bloke who's just sold 1million Kindle ebooks - first person to do it without a publishing deal.

Alright. I've got it written in 1st draft, and will come back to it after a month. At the moment I am writing short stories. I've written 15,000 words of them this month, around other things (hasn't been a productive month so far. Should be around 25,000 words at this point. I lost a week due to life).

I don't think Locke is necessarily an example I intend to follow. He is pretty exceptional. He sells books at $1. So, his 20 novels selling 1 million copies are worth $300,000. Compare that to a bog standard traditional bestseller, who will make more than that with one novel.

It doesn't seem likely at the moment I could match either strategy

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Weren't there some poor farmers who rented out some fields for "temporary" tyre storage. Only the crooked renters melted into thin air after piling millions of tyres on the land in huge heaps. What happened after that?

No idea if it's the same one, but I think I remember a story like that - where they'd hired huge agricultural warehouse type buildings in Wales and done a bunk.