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A language thread would be cool - What languages do people speak here?
I know the British are not well known for their lingual ability.

I speak Polish to intermediate level I guess and I learnt German at school - for 8 years and took an A level. Unfotunately my level has now dropped back almost to elementary.

I am making an effort to work on it now alongside my new project - Russian.

I've only learnt the cyrillic and some basic vocabulary so far, so I'm not sure how dedicated I will end up being towards it.

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I'm wondering if anyone can give me a little advice on clearing my MIL's garden - I just spent 2 weekends clearing the surface, and I'm not sure what to do next - Should I hire a rotavator, a digger or go over by hand?
The garden is completely overrun with weeds and tree stumps and at one end there is a lot of building rubble underground, which makes me hesitant to use a rotavator. Would it cope with pieces of tile underground? Does it spread the weeds about?
The digger is quite expensive to hire but could remove all the underground rubbish.
By hand would be a nightmare as I am alone - noone wants to help me.

I forgot to take a photo yesterday after I cut everything down, but this one is from last year after it's first trim. There is now only two inches of vegetation on the ground and all the bushes have been cleared.

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I saw one on a footpath last week and I had to wait a good kilometer beofre the path was wide enough to pass him - he couldn't hold it straight and had very little control.
Seemed to be enjoying himself though.

Does it just have distances you have to guess on it? I have a voigtlander brilliant which only has a guessed focus and the viewing screen is a clear lens. It is great for taking photos in dark conditions, but a pain if it isn't accurate.

Very difficult to reccomend running shoes as everybody has different feet and body. It would be best to go to a dedicated running shop and try some on and get some advice.

On old tlr's like the lubitel and some voigtlanders the focus rings get worn and out of sync.

You can try to resync it by opening the back and putting in a roll of baking parchment or tracing paper so you can see the focus and then re aligning the two focussing rings to the appropriate place.

Elderflowers are out in Poland - I filled a rucksack yesterday and made 8L of cordial - smells fantastic.

Maybe it is just me that stinks?

What is the best way to nuke the stink out of kit?
I have some really funky shorts that are fresh when they come out of the wash but get just as stinky after 20 mins running.
Should I just scrap them and buy new ones? I'm pretty sure that boiling technical fabrics is a no no. Maybe a soak in biological washing powder?

So some types of speaker drain a device more than others regarless of the volume set on the device ?

I have an mp3 player and was wondering - Does the battery get drained faster if you unplug the headphones and use the integrated speaker?(assuming the same volume level) I'm fairly ignorant when it comes to electronics and theory. I guess the same goes for headphones on mobiles too.

The American attending a birthday party I went to on Saturday decided it would be appropriate to toast to the death of Bin Laden instead of the host.
Needless to say as the only American present he didn't really find much support among the others.
Reminded me of that USA chant video on the subway.

How long do you think NCIS and CSI programs will be able to get away with this kind of crap?
Surely 90% of the population know that it is impossible - do they watch it anyway? That's like going to voluntary stupid lessons.

That is genius - wish I could get those here!
The garden is beautiful - it is a shame that they let it go to waste. The soil is very good too - it is just full of junk at the moment.

Haha, no they are not contained! They are planted in the middle of a jungle.
My MIL's garden has been left wild for 15 years so it is 100% weeds with a few trees on the border. I spent 2 whole days digging out an area enough for 16 sweetcorn and 20 artichokes. The ground was full of broken windows, pipes, steel bars, bricks etc. I'm not too worried about a few artichokes spreading as I will have to eventually dig up the whole garden anyway.

Can't believe I missed the beginning of the season after swearing to make an effort this year.
I have rocket and radishes in and halfway to being ready, waiting on spinach, mint, chives, coriander, basil, chicory,savoury and marjoram to germinate.

Tomorrow I'm throwing in some jerusalem artichokes and sweetcorn(if I can clear the shitheap that is my MIL's garden)
I'm really tempted this year to ship all my mushroom growing gear to my new place too as that is well worth the effort, in a geeky kind of way.

Just got my hands on a praktica bx20s to run in a pair with my b200.
I bought it to have a second camera with 1600 in it so I can take it out to the pub, but I just received it and the manual ISO settings only go between 25 and 400.
Means I will have to scratch off dx panels to push film, which is a bit crappy.

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If I had the time and knowhow.....................

I have a large one of these and it has served me very well for 6 years now. If you are looking for best value for no money then the victorinox fibrox handled knives are great for the price. Would love a henckels they made fantastic razors and I would love to try a knife - not so keen on the handle designs I have seen though

I'm a regular in Duszniki zdroj, It's my mushrooming spot come September. Great for mild walking or for running, not so great if you like the big climbs.

Does żywiec taste better in Żywiec? I quite like the porter.
Need to go back to the Tatras - they are so much more spectacular than any of the Sudety.

Haven't decided yet. I was going to use them to top off some pork tenderloins but my other half has other plans for dinner today and claims that morels don't trump her preparation, no matter how much I whine!
I'll probably dry them to use in a couple of weeks - I'll get the chance to go back to see if any more grow.

There should be some mushrooms about - morels, st georges.
I never think it is worth foraging for them though, unless you know where to look as there are not many other mushrooms about in the spring. I just lucked out that I found these.

Quite a classic location for morels too - wood chip border lined with stones and gravel. The stones act as the non nutritious boundary that triggers the mycelium to produce sclerotica, which then in turn produce mushrooms.

I'm guessing that the king of the forest is the penny bun(Everyone seems to have different names for it!), I really have to learn the polish method of pickling them as they come out really nicely.