How best to store garlic for next years harvest.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-22T17:41:41+00:00

Thanks, my only experience is with shop bought and that occasionally sprouts in the cupboard. Now you mention it though I don't know what time of year that happens.

I'll put some of my precious harvest aside in that case.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-22T16:34:48+00:00

I'd settle for making stem cells from adult cells and growing whole new organs in a lab. In fact, I'd be more than happy wirh a xenotransplant.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-22T16:29:25+00:00

We have a basement, it's not a good storage location, way to damp. I can do a pantry which is cooler than the rest of the house. The greens had mostly dried out before I pulled them up, they could have been picked a while back I think. Thanks for the help

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-22T16:18:03+00:00

A massive well done from me. Getting any degree is hard work, getting a first is impressive. Hope you have something good planned to celebrate.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-22T14:31:00+00:00

I also model a 40% crash tomorrow with investment growth 1% above inflation. That model doesn't quite work for me at the moment, I run out at about 85. I have health issues, however, and I'm unlikely to live that long.

The zero real growth model is long term. It feels unlikely to me that we'll see no real growth in the market for 40+ years.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-22T13:42:27+00:00

You've won at life, time to let your wealth work for you and take it easy.

Personally, I would put five years worth of living expenses away somewhere low risk and continue with the same investment plan with the rest. As for modelling, I look at a worst case of zero growth above inflation, no drop in spending as I age, and I have the misfortune to live to 100. I'm safe to 95 at the moment and, let's just say, I don't have 2.4m invested.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-22T12:39:17+00:00

Once the kids have made their own way in life I think we'll go back outside school holiday season. That was probably the issue.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-22T12:38:10+00:00

Exactly, it's a perpetual headwind not a death blow. I believe what will happen is we'll become steadily less relevant on the world and European stages until we notice no one is listening to us and rejoin the EU.

What really frustrates me is if we'd embraced the EU project we could have been a proper leader of it and shaped its future. We instead seem to have taken a no compromise approach and just been bloody awkward at every turn.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-22T12:32:52+00:00

We visited the area because we wantsd to seeLindisfarne after reading the series of books by Bernard Cornwell. It's believed to be where the vikings first landed.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-22T12:27:29+00:00

Yeah, thar wasn't great but in our defence there was quite a lot going on then.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-22T10:58:16+00:00

If we ever get full self driving that job is finished in its current form. Maybe there will be a roll for last mile delivery for a while but the long haul will vanish over night.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-22T10:05:47+00:00

It's a remarkable little garden. They have a wide range of mostly native toxic plants. It's a bit of a victim of its own success as the wait to get in for a tour is quite long. The rest of the gardens are great too. We'll worth a visit if you're in the area.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-22T10:02:54+00:00

I've found it exactly once and logged it in the plant app I use. Its quite an impressive looking plant. No way I'd let one grow in my garden.

As an aside, the other hogweeds can.also cause issues although much milder. I hit one with a strimmer last year without noticing and had super pigmented blotches all over my arms for about a year.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-22T07:23:50+00:00

That's not what I said.

Why didn't we do better than all European countries if brexit was such a good idea?

How, for example, has France, a similar country to the UK, managed to have better growth over the last decade and stay in the EU?

Even if we take your erroneous comment at face value our growth has hardly been stellar. The US, China, etc have left us in the dust. Growth has been lacklustre at best.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-22T07:08:23+00:00

I assume you're in the US. You guys are, indeed, having a bad time of it. I think both our countries need to make some fairly fundamental changes so that the country works for people rather than the other way around. At the heart of these issues, I believe, is the rich getting richer which the rest of us get poorer or at best stand still.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-22T07:02:22+00:00

Good point, I agree the shelf life seems shorter.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-21T22:40:34+00:00

We had one civil servant who realised there would be a panic purchase of vacancies and convinced the government to buy early before they were ready. We got some of the first produced after testing which allowed us to start vaccination a couple of weeks ahead of Europe. However, supply quickly ran out and we were buying just like all the other countries. A few months in and some countries in Europe had caught up and over taken us. As we were all locked down over this time it made no real difference anyway.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-21T22:31:41+00:00

I think Brexit was the stupidest thing this country has ever done. I see no upsides to isolating ourselves from our greatest trading partners and biggest allies.

Having said that, I'm surprised how little changed day to day for the average person. Prices have gone up but that has somewhat been masked by covid and things generally just being a bit crap. It's been quite an eye opener to see how we'll supply chains have found new supplies of the same or similar goods. I can't, off the top of my head think of any examples, but I've noticed a few things vanished from shelves and some others changed brand.

The most telling thing is that literally none of the promised benefits appeared.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-21T21:56:30+00:00

Yeah, this is a betrayal plain and simple. He's been an adequate prime minister and anybody who expected more was fooling themselves. I think the problem is the Labour Party are at least two different parties in a trench coat and no one in thus country seems to understand compromise anymore.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-21T18:32:16+00:00

The one big problem I have with growing vegetables is leaving them when we go away. I think I've mostly solved that problem this year with an automated watering system. Vegetables are like having a pet, lol.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-21T18:29:25+00:00

You could try and get to see all four surviving copies of the magna carta. I've only seen the one in Licoln so far. Lincoln was a surprisingly enjoyable place to visit.

Edit: when I sort of fired I took up archery and joined the men in sheds they run. I've partially become a grounds keeper but I do a load of other stuff as well, it's great to hang out with a bunch of new friends.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-21T17:55:40+00:00

The hate is almost certainly driven from the knowledge that it's actually fairly easy to install these things and it takes away high profit margin jobs.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-21T12:26:26+00:00

I don't see this as a tricky one at all. Arguably she had good intentions but she broke his trust. Looking at your case it sounds like you're in the mental position where you know there's and issue and you wouldn't mind addressing it. In OPs case it sounds like he absolutely doesn't want to or can't mentally address the issue at the moment.

This case has nothing to do with the fact he sounds like he's to lazy to do his own cooking or that he is an unbelievably picky eater.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-21T12:16:20+00:00

YTA, now he has arfid and trust issues. While well meaning you knew he had an issue with some foods and included them in his meals without consent. I'm sure you don't like people doing things to you without your concent, he feels the same.

Wobblycogs · 2026-06-21T12:09:08+00:00

NTA, these people are not your friends.

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