Preparedness for when

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I bet the Icelandic people are on mega tender hooks... We are soooo lucky we don't have a volcano ...

Memory_Girl

I can see an extinct one from here - usually its just part of the landscape ... but makes me wonder what it would have been like when the darn thing was active (that is before the last Ice- Age so not any time recent BTW)

MG

Perplexed_Pineapple

Evenin' all, still mahoosively busy IRL but popping in to say hello and also thanks to GQ for tips re potato blight which have helped me to save nearly the entire crop if a bit on the tiddly size. Apart from potato storage not much prepping going on here this month. Also, just for GQ, saw this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11041362/Outcry-as-Italian-hunters-told-they-can-shoot-deer-with-bows-and-arrows.html
Could be the ideal training ground

jk0

Okay, well I didn't actually find any holes, but I did find some waste pipes that were no longer tightly surrounded by mortar, so I have sealed them with ivory exterior sealant.

One thing I always do before sealing either inside or outside is to wipe over the area with meths on some kitchen roll. This seems to make the sealant stick better, and the meths will also take the stuff off your hands.

By the way, to stop slugs coming in a doorway, soak a dishcloth in brine, then rub round the frame.

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There are actually, at least ten volcanoes in the UK.

All thankfully (and hopefully will remain) extinct.

danih

Slugs didn't bother me at all - until I moved into a student house a few years ago. I stood on several, in my bare feet, in the middle of the night - easily the most disgusting thing in the whole world. Am now slightly phobic!

lillibet_dripping

GQ Re the seagulls
I'm glad it's not just our area. Although we are on an inland estuary, everybody is talking about how noisy the gulls are this year - they start at 4.30 a.m. and sound like they are fighting over food. Locally, we though there might be a fishing boat which comes in at that time, but this is every bloody morning!
Anybody else experiencing this phenomeneoneonemonnonmmen?

GreyQueen

What gets me is that I'm nowhere near the coast and not even on an estuary and the bliddy gulls are everywhere. They're wheeling around outside now, they barely slow down for darkness and then are screeching around circa 4 am (think the streetlighting isn't helping here in the city centre).

Co-incidentally, I was walking in the shopping area this morning and was following someone who was complaining about being woken by them. What the heck is happening if the seagulls are inland? Has the food supply out to sea dwindled? I've known them to come here in the depths of winter when the weather really is appalling, but the darned things have been here all summer.

danih - ick. Very ick. I think I'd be orbital if I trod on a slug barefooted, they make me cringe. Saw some today on other people's lotties - 4 inches long they were, just horrible.

Where are the extinct volcanoes in the UK? Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh I know about, have walked around up there, nice little pub at the end of the walk, village by a loch, name escapes me?

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The extinct volcanoes are:-

Ardnamurchan
Arthur's Seat
Borrowdale Volcanics (Cumbria)
Cheviot Hills
Cuillin Hills (on Isle of Skye)
Dundee Law (Dundee)
Edinburgh Castle castle rock
Giant's Causeway
Glen Coe (Caldera)
Snowdonia mountains (North Wales)

GreyQueen

Perplexed_Pineapple wrote: »

Evenin' all, still mahoosively busy IRL but popping in to say hello and also thanks to GQ for tips re potato blight which have helped me to save nearly the entire crop if a bit on the tiddly size. Apart from potato storage not much prepping going on here this month. Also, just for GQ, saw this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11041362/Outcry-as-Italian-hunters-told-they-can-shoot-deer-with-bows-and-arrows.html
Could be the ideal training ground

:T Well done for the salvage, glad my advice was helpful.

Having read that article, I now have an image of stalwart Italian bow-hunters stalking snooty ex-pat Brits (preferably from the policitcal classes) across Umbria and Tuscany. As a sop to international relations, can we make sure that they have a certain E Pickles in their sights? OK, they won't mistake him for Bambi but they do also hunt wild boar........:rotfl:

In case anyone hasn't had the pleasure, noting the quote in the article about accidental shootings by hunters, I offer you Tom Lehrer;

http://www.last.fm/music/Tom+Lehrer/_/The+Hunting+Song