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Always be careful of things from the "Leftfield" - lol This one is VERY special to me, remember the Renaissance CD's where if my memory recalls I think Digweed mixed up about 3 versions of it. Pioneers of Dance music without doubt. From: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwzK07op2DQ

(Bobby asks) What you gonna play now? (James Brown says:) Bobby, I don't know but what's it ever I play Its got to be funky! From: From: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoTQ_8qjn4I From: From: Tonight Mathew, I'm going to be the Deadly Avenger !!!!!

FIRST CLASS ! ............. and the smile across his face during his performance makes me assume that he's a man who's enjoing his work Never heard of him before, thanks for that.

A rainy sunday afternoon................ From: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PILJRHjUVEw From: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLJLj-4So1Y Just as a note, if anyone has a copy of this version of Clubbed to death on vinyl, I'll pay VERY good money. I've never ever seen a copy, let alone know anyone who has a copy. It is my "holy grail" From:

Crown Royal by chance ?

Isn't that the truth, THE best bass player who ever lived in my personal opinion. Nobody can slap it better

Sorry m8.......Stairway to heaven, for instance.... I just don't get it. maybe I'm missing something. Give me some smashing pumpkins any day From one extreme to another................. From: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I48jPTL0tA0 From: But if we are taking "ROCK GODS" .......... well, I'm sure we all know who Dave Grohl is Now I was going to post up Everlong and a few other videos with Mr Grohl in them........ but then I found this. From: Have a great weekend SR

From wikipiedia..... "Although it exists in many forms, all versions recount a similar story. A maid about to be hanged (for unknown reasons) pleads with the hangman, or judge, to wait for the arrival of someone who may bribe him. The first person (or people) to arrive, who may include the father, mother, brother, and sister, have brought nothing and often have come to see her hanged. The last person to arrive, often her true love, has brought the gold to save her. She may curse all those who failed her." If the reason why she was there in the first could be established, I'm sure this would make or break the song. I'm not a big Led Zepp fan (apart from a few of the classics of course, Immigrant song, whole lotta love & communication breakdown ) but I must say I quite enjoyed that

This seems to be a better link regarding Lunar Planting http://www.the-gardeners-calendar.co.uk/Moon_Planting.asp I still don't understand it yet....... but I think it'll be worth a try.

Top notch stuff. I get the feeling that the apprentices never truly feel "released" until they have at least had a glass of wine in the master’s parlour.

It is "The Push" by the Plumps being mixed in with it. I was lucky enough to be at the "last"(or one of them) Orbital gig's back in 2005 in Brixton London, the Plumps were supporting. A truly fantastic tune..... nice

The "Come down" classic, as I believe it was known - lol Both are two of my personal favourites, but lets not forget about "the BOX" "Chime" "Midnight" there are many more................. From: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXN9r6tPgHU

Obviously they didn't invent the "amen break" the origin (as far as I’m aware) can be found here...... I honestly don't know if soul to soul (Jazzie invented that "Break" but he certainly invented a new type of sound. And it still resonates within me even today

Ok, Here is an update and current planting list for 2010 Down to 3 Chickens at the moment, lost another one in mysterious circumstances about a week or so ago (MIA) presumed dead. Quite sad for me personally, “little red” as she was known was my best layer. Anyway, I’m still getting 3 eggs a day and they have been very reliable through the winter. I'll be looking at "restocking" sometime around Easter. Have purchased my seeds for the year from my local (independent) garden centre, I could bore you with a slightly funny story about an extremely attractive lady who was serving both myself and my Mrs when she started talking about the "French Trio" (Three crops on one patch, Sweet Corn, Runner been and a squash) and my Mrs eyeballing me and watching my squirm as I so desperately wanted to twist it into an innuendo. When I got home I had a quick look on the internet and I couldn’t find much about it...... hmmmmm Planting list for 2010 Runner Bean - Polestar Pea - Hurst Green Shaft Sweet Corn - Passion Potato - Mais Bard (First Early) Potato - King Edward (Main Crop) Beetroot - Bolthardy Tomato - Gardeners Delight (Small Tomatoes) Tomato - Tigerella (Fancied a change this year) Cucumber - Socrates Courgette - Soleil Courgette - Romanesco Aubergine - Black Beauty Squash - Butternut Chillies/Peppers - Antohi Romanian (Sweet), Golden Bell (Sweet), Friggitello (Sweet), Jalapeno (Hot), Hungarian Hot Wax (Hot) Red Cherry (Hot) Broccoli - (Spouting) Early Purple Brussels Sprout - Evesham Special Cabbage - Hispi Carrot - Amsterdam 3 (Sprint) Parsnip - Gladiator Spinach - Perpetual Spinach Rocket - Wild Grazia Lettuce - Little Gem Leek - Mussleburgh Onion - Stuttgarter Giant Also found a packet of Cauliflower Seeds from a couple of years back..... so i'll try and get these germinated as well. I'll also be trying some "sprouting seeds" for the first time - These can be grown on into "Micro greens" but I’ll be whacking these into a stir fry. Alfalfa Broccoli Mung Bean Total spend on seeds/bulbs/tubers = £55.00 approx Also have about 25no Strawberry plants from the runners of last years 3 or 4 strawberry plants. Last year I got caught out by an unexpected frost.... this year however I'm thinking mid/late march as the Summers seem to be getting "longer" however, I’m tempted to try a solar planting method to see if there’s any fact in it. http://www.gardeningbythemoon.com/phases.html Updates as they occur

Nice video, obviously I never watched anything like this when I was a kid. It's funny how I now find videos like these interesting, I must be getting old - lol yet I do see a comparison between the "open junk market" and the rise in "boot sales" around my area.

Got to admit...... I love a good conspiracy theory. Can you expand a little, as I'm not to sure who is actually behind all the purchases, and when they buy all of this gold from Joe Public... who are they selling it to ? (Forgive me if this has already been coved in the Gold thread....... but the gold thread moves far to quickly for me) http://www.greenenergyinvestors.com/index....ic=7814&hl=

another one of my personal favourites from the 1980's From: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv-sDFx_n90

Now the question i ask who should get the recognition for inventing that break ? Could it be someone in North London during the late 80's ? From: Loved this version I found on youtube, but after watching it I can't work out why I suddenly what to get a copy of Bill & Ted's excellent adventure ?

Yep, the place I got my Chicken from were kind enough to give them a clip for me, it's more from the point of view of not building the sourounding fence high enough in the first place, magnified but the facts that I wanted to be as thrifty as posible and just use what materials I had available or could source as cheeply as posible, and I must say a touch of Lazyness on my part as I still haven't rectified it. A poor show on my part Thanks for the link

Victor, My problem is the total oposite really, it's the hight of the chicken wire thats of more consern to me really, I recently "lost" a chicken as she decided to fly over, and my golden retriever didn't really appreciate the "invasion" of his area and delt with her in a simular fashon to how he deals with rabbits. Location of the Chicken coup requires a bit of thought in my opinion. I have a caged area with the coup inside the cage and this is on a raised area of the front garden, both cage and coup are located outside of the main run area, the chicken move in between as they so desire. Think Helm's deep in Lord or the Rings I've also got some concrete slabs/heavy branches around the bottom of the chicken wire around the run to prevent them from tunnelling out as well. If you've got a dog walking past it everyday...... it WILL keep foxes at bay, and I STRONGLY recommend doing this if possible.

I think you'll be surprised how hardy some vegetable varieties are, I've still got leeks in the ground and I've been pulling them up as required, although to be fair it's a bit of an effort to pull them up when the ground is frozen. I'm just gutted that my Sprouts and broccoli failed at the beginning of last year, both are hardy and I would have been be harvesting them about now as well. March/April is really the only "Lean" period in the calender, but right now....... I'm currently planning my next years crop

From: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVO0bvfB3H8 yep..... there's one or two of us, but I personally prefer something a little more haunting

Not to sure what you think of this but I was looking for a graph of Vegatable oil supply/availability over time and stumbled accross this. from March 19, 2009 - http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/highlights/2009/03/Indonesia/ I was talking to an engineer from New Britian palm oils which are currently setting up in Liverpool UK, told me they are due to start production around April this year. http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustr...L65223720090806 Archer Daniels Midland Co (ADM) I know processes a lot of Rape seed that the chances are if you ever eaten vegetable oil then you've consumed their product. but they've been going for many years now. Sorry about not having the skills to post up charts and do loads of in depth analysis etc, but hopefully this might give you something to reflect on. SR

How are those Chickens working out for you? I hope everything is still going well. Ok, here goes.......... Sweetcorn ended up being a total disaster, I only really got to eat around 5 or 6 good cobs, the chickens had the rest. I've no idea what went wrong but I can only think that I didn't give them enough water. Chard did very well..... just didn't really get on with the taste. Courgettes, I must of had over 200 no. by now..... and they are STILL going. Cucumbers were ok..... not to many problems, reasonable yield Tomatoes..... BIG problems. got hit bad by BLIGHT, looks like I should have given them a spray with a copper based fungiside, still ...... lessons learned. Strawberries, only had the one flush but got some quality berries of them.... got loads of "runners" for next years plants. Currently nursing around 25 - 30 in the greenhouse to go in the ground fairly soon for next years crop. Runner Beans, still going..... but really "stringy" this year ???? Leeks are still growing..... look like they're a little behind at the moment. Beetroot did well..... need to grow more of this next year. Carrots were ok in the tub..... but i did have to many in there so were there for very small, i'll not put as much seed in there next year Potatoes ...... harrumph........ bad location. Lettuces did OK.... had some nice ones. Red onions...... got a little bit off them..... need to focus more heavly on these for next year Got a few apples of the tree...... but not ripe yet so I cant really comment about these yet. Eggs are still flowing...... getting around 4-5 per day. Built a "table" out side the front gate a few days back, also planning on extending it...... this is going to be my son's "little shop front" and I'll let the neighbour use it as well. He'll buy items of me (obviously at a vastly reduced price), and he can mark up and sell them. hopefully it'll give him a basis to start learning on how to trade. About to get ready for the big dig over.... I've still got problems with some weeds that keep springing up. the Chicken coup has also been extended. Also got loads of rat holes around the veg patch, Jimi (My Golden retriever) has been helping out..... he's actually got a few...... but there are many holes. Didn't get around to building the apple press, there's a lot more to it than I was expecting, so I've shelved this idea until next year.

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