Oh this was marvellous, and I am so in agreement regarding 'plastic', and 'starting at home'. We have recently bought a house, and the discussion is entirely around how to manage our energy, ground water, compostable waste, and 'bugs'. A 'home' is not just a place to exist, it is a place to foster those things you believe in. A good home both protects, and provides growth, for those who live in it - which just highlights the plight of those who are 'housing insecure' - which is a tragedy, especially for the young.
I've never been able to get my head around astro-physics.......I have read the first chapter of Stephen Hawking's 'Brief History of Time' about 20 times and never get any further! Argh, brain pain! Thank goodness for Meerkat poo.....that is something I can understand! Have a fabulous week chaps. :-)
It's weird... Paul is really good at maths, but he has issues around visualising some of the cosmological theories. I'm terrible at maths, but as a child I was glued to astronomy books and my telescope, so my ability to visualise the concepts is quite deep rooted even though the equations and numbers are well beyond my grasp. I love it! Enjoy your week too!
When I was a child in Arizona, there was a contest to come with a name for this cartoon cactus 🌵, as part of a reducing litter campion. I can’t remember the name I sent in, but I remember the winning name was Wild Bill Pickup. And I was really mad because I thought it was such a dumb name. I hadn’t thought of this in so long, but your conversation about a litter campaign when you when kids brought it back. Hoping your week has much joy. 😊
Cheeky Prince! Are you sowing direct or in lil pots? I think I'll get mine started in the greenhouse this week! Hanwell Zoo sounds a little like the sanctuary by us that had the fire - sadly one half of the meerkat couple died, as did a giant tortoise ( I know - it's ridiculous in the grand scheme of things but I did shed a tear or two ...) We have asked them about their poo (!) but it gets recycled by the adjacent garden centre. The biggest moaner I've EVER known - a woman I had the misfortune to work alongside for eight years - was also the one who insisted it wasn't 'worth' doing anything about anything as nothing ever changed. Oh the irony!! Anyhow great chat and off to snoop around your upstairs bit!!
There is an area we walk where people are really good about picking up after their dogs, however they leave the bag with the poo next to a post. ???? One day there was a lady walking along this very long path who had a bag and she was picking up these little plastic bags of dog poo, I asked her if she was part of a group that does that as a service in that area and she said, "No." she was doing it just because. I will never understand people who pick up after their dogs but leave a plastic bag behind full of poo. This lady was taking action. I let her know it was appreciated.
This made me chuckle throughout. So many great updates as well. We try to be neighborly about picking up rubbish but I sometimes will wait to see if others will pick up their own rubbish a day or so. We are pretty good about picking up in our front yard but are apt to be less tidy in the back yard. LOL There is always more Richard! 🎋🎋🎋🌿🌿🌿🍀🍀🍀🍀🌴🌴🌴🌻🌻🌼🌷🌼🌻🌷 Cheers, Rob
Good discussion, v much enjoyed it. I’m enjoying seeing my bins emptier as time progresses. This morning my orange pulp from the juicer, egg boxes and shells, loo roll holders and loose tea have all been chopped up and composted. It also disappears within a week. it’s quite a nice ritual doing it and I’m old enough not to care what my nosey neighbours think ☀️
I'm still tired from yesterday's clean up at our local park by the river. About 20 of us showed up, most with gas mowers and strimmers. I brought a rake, as my cutting tools are electric, and there's no electricity there to plug into. We burned the dried grass and leaves. After several hours, we were served pizza and beverages. I stuck to Pepsi this time. Two weeks ago, we did the village clean up. Hot dogs, with a choice of beer, cider or pop. I had a cider. We filled a pick-up truck with garbage bags. The dump takes the clean up bags for free. Lots of hands made the work go quicker. Now, if only I could get a couple of armies to do my yard and house. So much to do, so little me. ~ Jon in rural BC, Canada
Hi Richard and Paul, I agree will everything you say I can honestly say that I really try to clean up outside my home and clear litter, People stop in cars in my road eat lunch and throw it all out of the car window sometimes I think how long will it be there if I do not go out and clean it up and no one ever does, whats outside there gate is not there problem. Pride in there Country has gone out the door I am 76 and yes I am moaning so sorry love to you both xx
Cooking lunch in Toronto. Periodic bursts of laughter. You two are so naughty. On the disgusting topic of disgusting trash: I was clearing dead brush from an area behind the perimeter fence of the allotments this morning until ice pellets accelerating from the sky convinced me it would be a good idea to go home. I walked out along the new paved bike trail. We are applying for a grant to plant a pollinator garden in this area which now that the snow has melted looks rather large! At least 45 feet by 14 - 15 feet. I did clear 12 by 12 today and stacked the trash. I was thinking if this would be England I could eventually make a big bonfire. Over here that would score me a lot of noisy fire trucks and a big juicy hefty fine. Maybe even a psych evaluation to check for pyromaniacal tendencies. It's Toronto ya know... they pathologize everything over here. Someone(s) are scooping their dog(s)' poops into those very colourful plastic bags and flinging them onto the trees. So it's like a very shitty Christmas in the decor department. WTF? Seriously. Jerks will do things when they know that no one can see. I am not going to undecorate the trees even though I can see them. No. There is one of these colourful almost fluorescent bags of poop in the area I am clearing. Have not got to it yet and will be using instruments with long handles. Not moaning. Just reporting. I think a member of our group who loves to take pictures with her kickass digital camera should send these decorative tree images to the city counsellor's office. Not that I think anyone can do anything about it. Not really. Signs are not a deterent. We already have signs at the allotments but people come in when they are not supposed to and don't even bother to pick up after the dogs. It's horrible. Just in case you don't realize this, Toronto is a world class city. Yes, definitely. Hm.
Happy Sunday afternoon to the both of you. Our city is having a debate on stopping the recycle program. Its just bonkers to think that at this day and age. Richard I have never understood the Dick name for Richard and the Bill name for William. They are two differnt names! Your trees are beautiful they have their sparkle😁
Looking forward to sowing my Cheeky Prince seeds! I think I’ll hang off for another two weeks yet though seeing as our last frost is May 15th. What do you think? Great chat as usual x
If we could only clone you two and spread you world wide there would be loads less depression and self destructive thoughts. I was thinking the tea bag would not go to the eye but a much darker celestial place you had mentioned earlier.
Great chat ...I agree we need to start in our own space.keeping it picked up and clean...the money to photograph black hole could be used for this earth. Just a thought. Any way question ....is using animal poo defeating the purpose of organic and a vegan diet?...just asking ..will miss you Friday💌
@@RichardandPaul I am not strict either someone brought it up when I was talking about organic gardening and eventually eating the produce which led to good Lord how do I know? Thanks for your response 🌹
I pick up bits all the time we live near a social club and the amount of glasses is amazing I do it to stop it being smashed I get funny looks but don’t care
In our little village ppl will complain about your bit of kerbstone not being weeded properly rather than having picked up plastic litter from the accidentally ripped open plastic recycling sacks on recycling pickup day. So much to plastic blindness, even in a small community. I have sown lobelia and cosmea in our kerbstone just last week, let's see how ppl will find that :D We had all the time the moment the Kyoto treaty was signed. If all had bloody well stuck to it, we would not have the problems now. I am soo ticked off. I so love the image of the singularity and I was not disappointed. Imagine, we look back into the past, it might have already changed its shape, its colour, its size; and we do not know about it. The other 27 countries do not know about Halloween and Guy Fawkes Day, they do not celebrate these. As most European countries are still Roman Catholic influenced they rather celebrate 1st November which is All Hallow (Remembrance of all Dead) and 11th November which is Martinmas/Saint Martin. The first is a bank holiday so they wanted to make sure that we all can have a lie in from drinking the night before because of Brexit.
Hooray for the Black Hole mention Richard! For Paul ;) : ua-cam.com/video/13qDxyJRCjo/v-deo.html (it's the institute where my partner works (on the tiny detector in the telescopes)). And as far as I understand, why they didn't do it before is because technology and (hu)man nature wasn't that far to be able to work together. They worked hard on improving the telescopes to be able to work together. And they needed to work together to 'photograph' the far away black hole (with many telescopes pretending being one strong big one) as 'our' nearer black hole is difficult to 'photograph' as we are in a flattish ring and between us and the black hole there are many other things (like Richard said). But I'm also not a scientist! Nevertheless very exciting. :)
We communicate with our local Member of Parliament. . We email him regularly. We also sign any petitions that are circulating. We take the action that we can. We also moan... it's a natural thing to do. But we also take any positive action that we are able to.
@@RichardandPaul Sorry, again, but perhaps I'm just a tad sensitive to this sort of interaction because I was raised in two homes with a bunch of screamers.
@@mandyofmarymac Our 'duscussions' in our house when I was young was mostly around the dinner table. Otherwise we were a non-shouting family. And with Richard and I we are so used to each other that a good bark now and again never harms. 😊 Two homes with a bunch of screamers certainly does not sound fun though! 🤔 Though don't fret on us, it's just jesting and life. 😊
We certainly don't scream at each other...but I do have a loud voice...but that's part of who I am and my self expression. Sorry if that doesn't sit well with you.
OMG so funny .... when Richard says "I don't like being called Dick" nearly spit my coffee laughing. love it. ~Mary
Oh this was marvellous, and I am so in agreement regarding 'plastic', and 'starting at home'. We have recently bought a house, and the discussion is entirely around how to manage our energy, ground water, compostable waste, and 'bugs'. A 'home' is not just a place to exist, it is a place to foster those things you believe in. A good home both protects, and provides growth, for those who live in it - which just highlights the plight of those who are 'housing insecure' - which is a tragedy, especially for the young.
I've never been able to get my head around astro-physics.......I have read the first chapter of Stephen Hawking's 'Brief History of Time' about 20 times and never get any further! Argh, brain pain! Thank goodness for Meerkat poo.....that is something I can understand! Have a fabulous week chaps. :-)
It's weird... Paul is really good at maths, but he has issues around visualising some of the cosmological theories. I'm terrible at maths, but as a child I was glued to astronomy books and my telescope, so my ability to visualise the concepts is quite deep rooted even though the equations and numbers are well beyond my grasp. I love it! Enjoy your week too!
@@RichardandPaul That's so weird.....I'm a total maths head too. I envy you being able to get your head around the space stuff! ;-)
🙋🏼 smashing boys, had me in fits 🤣👍 have a great week 😁. Hugs 🤗 x
When I was a child in Arizona, there was a contest to come with a name for this cartoon cactus 🌵, as part of a reducing litter campion. I can’t remember the name I sent in, but I remember the winning name was Wild Bill Pickup. And I was really mad because I thought it was such a dumb name. I hadn’t thought of this in so long, but your conversation about a litter campaign when you when kids brought it back. Hoping your week has much joy. 😊
Thanks very much! Glad it sparked some memories for you!
OMG..so funny... just love you two ..batting your eyes Richard and pursing your lips...looking at Paul.😇😅
This face has a life of its own....R.
Cheeky Prince! Are you sowing direct or in lil pots? I think I'll get mine started in the greenhouse this week! Hanwell Zoo sounds a little like the sanctuary by us that had the fire - sadly one half of the meerkat couple died, as did a giant tortoise ( I know - it's ridiculous in the grand scheme of things but I did shed a tear or two ...) We have asked them about their poo (!) but it gets recycled by the adjacent garden centre. The biggest moaner I've EVER known - a woman I had the misfortune to work alongside for eight years - was also the one who insisted it wasn't 'worth' doing anything about anything as nothing ever changed. Oh the irony!! Anyhow great chat and off to snoop around your upstairs bit!!
He tells me he's sowing them in pots. I would've cried too. A death is a death be it human or animal.
. Hahaha you do make me laugh. Agree get on with it. The black hole was incredible Richard. 😂😂 Bye fur fur now.
You 2 are a hoot, Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it Babette!
There is an area we walk where people are really good about picking up after their dogs, however they leave the bag with the poo next to a post. ???? One day there was a lady walking along this very long path who had a bag and she was picking up these little plastic bags of dog poo, I asked her if she was part of a group that does that as a service in that area and she said, "No." she was doing it just because. I will never understand people who pick up after their dogs but leave a plastic bag behind full of poo. This lady was taking action. I let her know it was appreciated.
This made me chuckle throughout. So many great updates as well. We try to be neighborly about picking up rubbish but I sometimes will wait to see if others will pick up their own rubbish a day or so. We are pretty good about picking up in our front yard but are apt to be less tidy in the back yard. LOL There is always more Richard! 🎋🎋🎋🌿🌿🌿🍀🍀🍀🍀🌴🌴🌴🌻🌻🌼🌷🌼🌻🌷
Cheers,
Rob
Good discussion, v much enjoyed it. I’m enjoying seeing my bins emptier as time progresses. This morning my orange pulp from the juicer, egg boxes and shells, loo roll holders and loose tea have all been chopped up and composted. It also disappears within a week. it’s quite a nice ritual doing it and I’m
old enough not to care what my nosey neighbours think ☀️
Love your scarf Richard. I love the colours.
Thanks Carol!
I'm still tired from yesterday's clean up at our local park by the river.
About 20 of us showed up, most with gas mowers and strimmers. I brought a rake, as my cutting tools are electric, and there's no electricity there to plug into. We burned the dried grass and leaves.
After several hours, we were served pizza and beverages. I stuck to Pepsi this time.
Two weeks ago, we did the village clean up. Hot dogs, with a choice of beer, cider or pop. I had a cider. We filled a pick-up truck with garbage bags. The dump takes the clean up bags for free.
Lots of hands made the work go quicker.
Now, if only I could get a couple of armies to do my yard and house. So much to do, so little me.
~ Jon in rural BC, Canada
Hi Richard and Paul, I agree will everything you say I can honestly say that I really try to clean up outside my home and clear litter, People stop in cars in my road eat lunch and throw it all out of the car window sometimes I think how long will it be there if I do not go out and clean it up and no one ever does, whats outside there gate is not there problem. Pride in there Country has gone out the door I am 76 and yes I am moaning so sorry love to you both xx
That's terrible Madeline...I wouldn't moan, I'd be downright angry if people did that. How inconsiderate.
Oh you made my day. 😂😂 ANYWAY, which way? NEXT! Happy Easter , Joyce
Happy Easter to you too!
Cooking lunch in Toronto. Periodic bursts of laughter.
You two are so naughty.
On the disgusting topic of disgusting trash: I was clearing dead brush from an
area behind the perimeter fence of the allotments this morning until ice pellets
accelerating from the sky convinced me it would be a good idea to go home.
I walked out along the new paved bike trail. We are applying for a grant to plant
a pollinator garden in this area which now that the snow has melted looks rather large!
At least 45 feet by 14 - 15 feet. I did clear 12 by 12 today and stacked the trash.
I was thinking if this would be England I could eventually make a big bonfire. Over
here that would score me a lot of noisy fire trucks and a big juicy hefty fine. Maybe
even a psych evaluation to check for pyromaniacal tendencies. It's Toronto ya know...
they pathologize everything over here.
Someone(s) are scooping their dog(s)' poops into those very colourful plastic bags
and flinging them onto the trees. So it's like a very shitty Christmas in the decor department.
WTF? Seriously. Jerks will do things when they know that no one can
see. I am not going to undecorate the trees even though I can see them. No.
There is one of these colourful almost fluorescent bags of poop in the area I am clearing. Have not
got to it yet and will be using instruments with long handles.
Not moaning. Just reporting.
I think a member of our group who loves to take pictures with her kickass digital camera
should send these decorative tree images to the city counsellor's office. Not that I think anyone
can do anything about it. Not really. Signs are not a deterent. We already have signs at the
allotments but people come in when they are not supposed to
and don't even bother to pick up after the dogs. It's horrible.
Just in case you don't realize this, Toronto is a world class city. Yes, definitely. Hm.
be keen stay green
Happy Sunday afternoon to the both of you. Our city is having a debate on stopping the recycle program. Its just bonkers to think that at this day and age. Richard I have never understood the Dick name for Richard and the Bill name for William. They are two differnt names! Your trees are beautiful they have their sparkle😁
Looking forward to sowing my Cheeky Prince seeds! I think I’ll hang off for another two weeks yet though seeing as our last frost is May 15th. What do you think? Great chat as usual x
Good morning 🌞
Morning! 😃
If we could only clone you two and spread you world wide there would be loads less depression and self destructive thoughts. I was thinking the tea bag would not go to the eye but a much darker celestial place you had mentioned earlier.
I guess I was thinking about the easy and quick manoeuvre required for it to reach the eye....lol
Great chat ...I agree we need to start in our own space.keeping it picked up and clean...the money to photograph black hole could be used for this earth. Just a thought. Any way question ....is using animal poo defeating the purpose of organic and a vegan diet?...just asking ..will miss you Friday💌
I know that meerkats do eat insects and small lizards....but we're not strict vegetarians anyway so it doesn't worry us too much at this moment.
Anna. That's a really interesting question about animal poo and organic and vegan. I'm going to mull that today. 🤔
@@RichardandPaul I am not strict either someone brought it up when I was talking about organic gardening and eventually eating the produce which led to good Lord how do I know? Thanks for your response 🌹
I pick up bits all the time we live near a social club and the amount of glasses is amazing I do it to stop it being smashed I get funny looks but don’t care
In our little village ppl will complain about your bit of kerbstone not being weeded properly rather than having picked up plastic litter from the accidentally ripped open plastic recycling sacks on recycling pickup day. So much to plastic blindness, even in a small community. I have sown lobelia and cosmea in our kerbstone just last week, let's see how ppl will find that :D We had all the time the moment the Kyoto treaty was signed. If all had bloody well stuck to it, we would not have the problems now. I am soo ticked off.
I so love the image of the singularity and I was not disappointed. Imagine, we look back into the past, it might have already changed its shape, its colour, its size; and we do not know about it.
The other 27 countries do not know about Halloween and Guy Fawkes Day, they do not celebrate these. As most European countries are still Roman Catholic influenced they rather celebrate 1st November which is All Hallow (Remembrance of all Dead) and 11th November which is Martinmas/Saint Martin. The first is a bank holiday so they wanted to make sure that we all can have a lie in from drinking the night before because of Brexit.
I will be sowing my Cheeky Prince seeds this week. Do they need to climb?
They can climb or sprawl Cathie. 😊. We will try a bit of both with ours. 🤔
What kind of plant is a cheeky prince?
It's a pumpkin cross between a crown prince and uchiki kuri... we've named it cheeky prince.
Hooray for the Black Hole mention Richard! For Paul ;) : ua-cam.com/video/13qDxyJRCjo/v-deo.html (it's the institute where my partner works (on the tiny detector in the telescopes)). And as far as I understand, why they didn't do it before is because technology and (hu)man nature wasn't that far to be able to work together. They worked hard on improving the telescopes to be able to work together. And they needed to work together to 'photograph' the far away black hole (with many telescopes pretending being one strong big one) as 'our' nearer black hole is difficult to 'photograph' as we are in a flattish ring and between us and the black hole there are many other things (like Richard said). But I'm also not a scientist! Nevertheless very exciting. :)
Today is palm sunday
I don't have Facebook to send pictures of my squash seeds from you guys. I could put them on Instagram. I'm broomstickflyer66 lol
Great!
What are you doing about Brexit? Or what can I do about Trump. Sometimes moaning is all you can do.
We communicate with our local Member of Parliament. . We email him regularly. We also sign any petitions that are circulating. We take the action that we can. We also moan... it's a natural thing to do. But we also take any positive action that we are able to.
So sorry, but it's harder and harder to listen to you bark at Paul the way you do.
Well it is meant to be humorous....R.
@@RichardandPaul Sorry, again, but perhaps I'm just a tad sensitive to this sort of interaction because I was raised in two homes with a bunch of screamers.
@@mandyofmarymac Our 'duscussions' in our house when I was young was mostly around the dinner table. Otherwise we were a non-shouting family. And with Richard and I we are so used to each other that a good bark now and again never harms. 😊 Two homes with a bunch of screamers certainly does not sound fun though! 🤔 Though don't fret on us, it's just jesting and life. 😊
We certainly don't scream at each other...but I do have a loud voice...but that's part of who I am and my self expression. Sorry if that doesn't sit well with you.
@@paulsavident The important issue here is that you are alright with it Paul. I'll keep my nose out of your business from now on.