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Generali

jujudrops wrote: »

sussed; !!!!; but not yummy mummy, wish I was...........

HAMISH_MCTAVISH is talking rubbish as usual. Mushrooms are both delicious and nutritious.

Welcome to the thread. As you will have worked out if you are a lurker, all are welcome here as long as they are nice or at least try to be.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

jujudrops wrote: »

not yummy mummy, wish I was...........

Ah well.....

jujudrops wrote: »

"I'm a yummy mummy":j

Welcome anyway.

Generali

If you mean psilocybe semilanceata, they are legal in the UK if unprocessed AIUI. They only become illegal if processed in some way (e.g. dried). It would be a bit tough to make a native species illegal as sometimes it just grows.

They grew in the quad at my uni for a number of years until some killjoy noticed and put down fungicide to get rid of them.

I bought a friend a mycology book and it recommended looking on the lawns outside courts for liberty caps as people being tried for petty drug law infringements are disproportionately likely to be carrying the spores on their clothing!

GDB2222

“An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.”

Wellington, commenting after his first cabinet meeting as prime minister.

Generali

GDB2222 wrote: »

“An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.”

Wellington, commenting after his first cabinet meeting as prime minister.

I heard of a great conversation on QI recently.

Churchill was told that 2 guardsmen had been arrested for gross indecency (beggury) the previous night. He asked what the temperature had been.

"25F" Churchill was told.

"Makes you proud to be British!" was his response.

bugslet

CKhalvashi wrote: »

A1 from Cambridge is the plan, purely as it's the fastest/shortest. Navigation says about 3h20, so I'll leave at 5am, and hope I'm there on time

That should be OK. I can do Stevenage to Runcorn in around 3 hours if the traffic is right and Stevenage to Leeds is 20 miles less. Leeds is hideous at rush hour, so that should timescale should build allow for that.

I've sat in the cockpit of an Antonov. Quite scary really, it seemed to be held together by gaffer tape and the tyres were down to the canvas. Truly amazing to think it gets off the ground and then stays up there.

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

If you mean psilocybe semilanceata, they are legal in the UK if unprocessed AIUI. They only become illegal if processed in some way (e.g. dried). It would be a bit tough to make a native species illegal as sometimes it just grows.

They grew in the quad at my uni for a number of years until some killjoy noticed and put down fungicide to get rid of them.

I bought a friend a mycology book and it recommended looking on the lawns outside courts for liberty caps as people being tried for petty drug law infringements are disproportionately likely to be carrying the spores on their clothing!

I read that there was a conference in WWII about penicillin and everybody that attended had to press their thumb on a a culture plate of the mould and press it to the inside of heir jacket pockets. The idea that if a bomb flattened the factory they could cut a bit of fabric out and restart production anywhere in the country.

On another note, we switched fuel deals in December and already the energy club are telling me I could save a couple of 100 ( minus a £60 early exit penalty) by switching again. Worth it I suppose, but has anybody here switched that quickly from deal to deal?

Masomnia

I used to drive Peterborough to Sheffield up the A1. Never had a problem outside rush hour; even in rush hour it wasn't too bad.

Odd as it sounds there's something about the A1 that I quite like.

bugslet

Masomnia wrote: »

Odd as it sounds there's something about the A1 that I quite like.

You, sir, are just weird:p, it's a hideous road. I did once do London to Edinburgh on the A1 entirely. Pretty much lost the will to live by the end of it.

Doozergirl

I haven't stood in a supermarket queue like this since Sainsburys Streatham, Christmas 1999.

Thank heaven for smart phones. Yawn.