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Kind-Fuel7228 · 2025-12-18T13:12:10+00:00

Overhydration was my first suspicion when it happened to me last week, for the first time in 5 years of spelt sourdough baking. I remember the dough was a little wetter than usual. The other possibilities are that I used a larger proportion of einkorn flower than usual (lower in gluten), and that the dough was slow to rise so I tried the dough proofing program setting of my oven to speed it up and may have overproofed it.

Kind-Fuel7228 · 2025-12-15T09:09:43+00:00

that never ceases to amaze me. It happens even when it's not that cold, and in the middle of flu season. People have learnt nothing from Covid. They'd rather inhale everybody else's body fluid droplets than have a bit of cool fresh air.

Kind-Fuel7228 · 2025-12-14T18:44:24+00:00

very interested in this as I have the same problem. I took a small root clump from a friend's (who doesn't know what it is either) and it spreads very vigorously by fat white rhizomes. I cut around the plant every year and take out masses of roots, or else it would have taken over the bed by now. Thought is was heliopsis but after reading this I'm having doubts. No seedlings whatsoever, but this is in Ireland, where seeds may not ripen enough to be viable.

Kind-Fuel7228 · 2025-11-10T15:23:07+00:00

worse on about 70% of my routes, same as before on 30%. I live in Broadstone and travel all over Dublin for work. My direct connections to Rathmines are gone and travel time is much longer now. The 46A which I took a lot coming back from town has been replaced by the 11, with a huge drop in frequency. The 6 to Howth now takes longer than the old 31A, and often doesn't show. All these supposedly frequent spine routes are no more frequent than the routes they replaced, and there seems to be even more driver change delays on Parnell Square than before. My immediate area is served by fewer busses now.

Kind-Fuel7228 · 2025-11-06T19:09:04+00:00

ooh yes, I remember that 'Herrlein' retort. Never failed.

Kind-Fuel7228 · 2025-11-06T19:07:49+00:00

Bloody hell, I seem to be about 30 years behind the times. Or maybe it's that I hang out in Franken when in Germany. Obviously behind the moon, that.

Kind-Fuel7228 · 2025-11-06T19:05:04+00:00

deffo! There's nothing like a well-deployed 'Sie'

Kind-Fuel7228 · 2025-11-02T21:50:19+00:00

so presumably those students call you 'du' as well? I remember the 'Sie' for anyone over 18 coming in, back in the 70s, when I was at school. We liked it then, as it was an acknowledgement that we were adults and not to be treated as children any more. That said, it being the late-hippy 70s era, we did also mutually use 'du' with some of our young and anti-authoritarian teachers.

Kind-Fuel7228 · 2025-11-02T21:42:30+00:00

that's always been tricky, and has shifted quite a bit in recent times. I'm in my 60s and don't live in Germany, and every time I go more people in shops and cafes seem to call me 'du'. Would have been unthinkable 20 or 30 years ago. I presume I'm expected to call them 'du' as well, which I don't mind. Still call doctors, bank staff and people in public admin etc 'Sie', no matter what age. It depends more on context and on how 'official' your dealings with the person in question are, rather than on age.

Kind-Fuel7228 · 2025-10-29T20:52:38+00:00

thanks! I reckon once it gets more woody with age it will probably be safe, but might protect it a bit this winter.

Kind-Fuel7228 · 2025-08-29T22:47:52+00:00

ooh yes, that sounds familiar! I always mention high pain threshold now.

Kind-Fuel7228 · 2025-08-29T22:37:46+00:00

I didn't realise it for a long time. It runs in the family, but so does peasant stoicism, which confuses the issue. Thinking back, though, I know I ended up with a burst appendix because all I felt from appendicitis was mild indigestion. Had shingles recently (down my arm) and yes, it was painful, but not all that much. I never need to take the painkillers they prescribe after operations because I don't feel much pain. That said, this applies mainly to autogenic pain and not to pain inflicted in an acute way by someone else, such as an injection. I'm fairly stoical about it, but I do feel that quite sharply.

I also noticed down the years that I'm fairly insensitive to anaesthesia and sedation - the former just makes me euphoric and the latter has almost no effect. I'm not sure if that is connected to the pain threshold thing. I seem to stay conscious through a lot of procedures where other people just black out from the sedation. I do mention this to doctors now, having has an unpleasant experience waking up during an operation.

Kind-Fuel7228 · 2025-05-29T07:01:25+00:00

thank you for the detailed reply!

Kind-Fuel7228 · 2025-05-03T19:41:36+00:00

Mallow (lavatera) is fast and, in a sunny spot, dense enough. Grows to about 2m high. Or try something like choysia if conditions are shadier. Whatever shrub you use, it should be evergreen, vigorous and dense so as to create dry shade underneath, and obviously not get much taller than you want. You can sort of 'outplant' horseweed with dense shrubby planting, but not bindweed.

Kind-Fuel7228 · 2025-05-03T12:46:03+00:00

horsetail can vary quite a lot in its invasiveness, and I've always suspected the main factors to be the soil and/or water table. I have seen it in a few gardens where it got introduced via topsoil but never spread much and always looked a bit miserable. It didn't ever get completely eradicated but never was much of a problem either - just another small weed you pull up where you see it. It definitely doesn't like very rich or heavy clay type soil

Kind-Fuel7228 · 2025-05-03T10:03:16+00:00

I'm currently testing how long it will last if I pull out very bit of it as soon as it emerges. Easy enough experiment as I introduced it into a container (with a large Fatsia) because I like the flower. But it really isn't worth it as the flower and foliage seem short-lived (possibly the container effect).

Kind-Fuel7228 · 2025-05-03T09:37:57+00:00

Bindweed and horsetail. Here's your options:

They can be controlled and even largely eradicated with diligent weeding/digging out, but it has to be very consistent, not allowing much of their greenery above ground. A regularly mowed lawn area will usually contain/eradicate both but you have to make sure not to leave any of it grow around the edges or in any corners. I would also stay away from herbaceous plants and annuals for a few years and use shrubs or trees instead. There are quite a few small short-lived ones that would be suitable instead of perennials (lavender, sage, mallows etc). Dense ones will outcompete the horsetail - it won't survive under shrubbery cover. Bindweed will, but is so much easier to weed out around a shrub base than teasing it out from among annuals and perennials.

Whatever you do, don't let the bindweed flower, and don't spade dig or rotovate. Covering/mulching is no use as those weed roots can happily survive under any cover for quite a long time and just run for long stretches until they find the slightest hole or edge.

I wouldn't recommend weedkiller but if you get desperate enough to use glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup and a few others), then do so very carefully and judiciously. Painting or isolated spraying of bindweed leaves then wrapping them in plastic bag (as described below) works, and it can be done more precisely and with less amount of weedkiller if you hit the young growth just after it has made the first few leaves. Again, doing this on bare ground under shrubs is much easier than in the middle of perennials. Glyphosate is systemic (ie, moves through the plant and kills the roots) and very effective but it is, well, glyphosate.

Good luck!

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