

Red-headed cardinal beetle?
#Bugstr ๐ชฒ
Couple of cold lagers to quench all the dryness from that Darpa Dust falling out the sky! Peroni, can't really go wrong with this stuff, although can you trust anything nowadays? Heard Bill Gates was getting involved with Heineken who are the parent company of brands such as Amstel & Bira Moretti, look what parasites such as Gates has done to Arla who own Lurpak which was once a established Danish butter producer since 1901, now it's made from the milk of cattle who have been fed Bovaer 'because cow farts cause climate change' absolute bollocks!

A glass patio table that was only cleaned the other day absolutely thick with atmospheric pollution again, this isn't a one off, no one is doing construction work nearby, what is it? Where's it coming from? Is it #geoengineering particles falling from the sky?
Been doing some decorating for the old folks starting with the ceiling, the ceilings in their house aren't the best tbh and it's mostly down to bish bash bosh get it done quick and save a few quid housebuilders in the 80s, the upstairs floors are timber joists but instead of fully nogging it out the joiners just thrashed a few bits of floorboard between the joists which is something I guess but the proper way of doing it would be to set the noggs out so all the edges of the plasterboards for the ceiling are supported, they also only used 3/8" plasterboard sparsely nailed not screwed - all this leads to more movement and cracking.
To make matters worse the ceiling had been painted with white silk emulsion, you don't use silk on a ceiling especially one with imperfections because the sheen will reflect the light and highlight them all, another questionable thing was that the coving had been glossed ๐ฌ To me, coving is part of the ceiling and is a plaster product although pre-formed gypsum between paper like plasterboard and stuck up where as some traditional coving and cornice were moulded plaster.
So I had to get masked and suited up and rub down/key the lot, wipe it all down with a sponge and then gave the ceiling and coving 2 coats of matt white emulsion, now looks loads better. Next up is the woodwork - skirting boards & architraves which are currently white gloss that looks okay for a year or 2 before it yellows, they are going to get rubbed down and redone in water based white satinwood.
#building #house #decorating
That's why you only store kiln dried firewood in your house, start collecting random bits of wood and stacking it up indoors - โ ๏ธ RIP your floorboards & wooden furniture.
That's all I need, a cracked tooth! The dentist I'm registered with has gone private and is longer seeing NHS patients, under the NHS patients still have to pay for work but the fees are tiered - ยฃ27 (check up, xrays) ยฃ75 (extraction, filling) ยฃ326 (crowns, inlays, false teeth), going private you can triple these prices (that's excluding cosmetic work like implants and veneers) and more and more dental practices are going private and don't want NHS work, my dentist said the government don't pay him enough and the practice earns way more doing private work, this is making finding an NHS dentist harder and harder for people when the cost of living in the UK is getting stupid (some of the highest energy prices in the world while they pursue net zero, concreting over oil & gas wells, stopping North Sea drilling, closing down coal power stations etc)
Money doesn't buy happiness - but it stops you looking like a victorian peasant with a sucked in face because your teeth are knackered/missing.
Not saying I can't/won't get it sorted but for Brits already struggling with the cost of living, dental woes is just another kick in the teeth.
Picture not particularly relevant but funny ๐ Couldn't find the one of the guy with fake tan and a Gucci man bag ๐ง๐๐ฆทโ๏ธ

There was an episode of Ben Fogle new lives in the Wild on the TV the other day, some guy that had trained to be a vet (a good career & relatively well paid some may argue) but he ended up hating it and decided to walk away from it all and go off grid in Wales.
It looked like 'off grid' in Wales wasn't that straight forward though, to achieve his dream he had to partake in the Welsh Government's 'One Planet Development Scheme' where to build on the countryside your home has to be zero carbon in construction and your development has to support who lives there, every year you have to submit reports to the government proving that you're producing at least 65% of your own food and you are able to fund any remaining bills and costs from land-based business - in this guy's case that was selling honey & eggs, there was no mortgage or rent to pay but still had to pay council tax.
From what I've seen on Homestead Rescue it looks like rules & regulations regarding off grid living vary from state to state in the US, there was an episode filmed in Oregon and they seemed quite strict about what you could build and where.
It does make you wonder if achieving the off grid thing in the UK will become harder given the smaller land mass and less free (open) land compared to other larger countries.
#homestead #offgrid (sort of)
It's understandable that people no longer 'trust the science', the experts or TV doctors as it often feels like the health service has been corrupted to benefit big pharma but there's gonna be some alternative quack shit out there, maybe it was a larp or engagement farming but there was someone on X posting about how sunburns are caused by bad diet and gut health ๐
Wouldn't be at all surprised if the companies that make suncream put a load of weird harmful chemicals in it and I don't usually bother with it myself, if it feels like I'm burning I cover up or seek shade but surely everyone can agree that over exposure to the sun can burn the skin, especially unacclimatized pale skin irrespective of one's gut health.


Could do with a car as public transport doesn't really cut it where I am but what I can't be doing with is.... road tax, insurance, extortionate fuel costs (50% of which is tax), speed cameras, MOT's, new tyres, repair bills etc & that's coming from someone who's taken gearboxes out and changed clutches while laying on an old bit of carpet at the weekend in the past.
When you're comfortable with money or drive a company car you don't even think about this stuff!
Do people still use Haynes Manuals or do they just watch YT videos nowadays? How else would you know the tightening sequence and the torque settings for your cylinder bolts?