What I have learned today:Quote from: rogerzilla on 05 October, 2017, 08:37:40 am"corn" is a flexible word in British English used to describe any cereal crop, usually wheat. A cornfield is generally full of wheat or barley, and cornflowers grow in wheatfields.Maybe it's the pernicious US influence, or my lack of a rural upbringing, but I tend to think of 'corn' as meaning maize rather than barley or wheat.(wheat fields were not part of the landscape where I grew up in East Kent, so I wouldn't have seen cornflowers very often - it was all hops, orchards or brassicas round my way; these days it's all oilseed rape or new housing estates)
"corn" is a flexible word in British English used to describe any cereal crop, usually wheat. A cornfield is generally full of wheat or barley, and cornflowers grow in wheatfields.
I thought hops were making something of a comeback with the craft beer revolution
Personally, I still rate Goldings and Fuggles very highly but that's probably because I'm a Kentish Man (as opposed to a Man of Kent).
WD40 degreaser appears to attack hospital-variety rubber gloves. We had a box of 100 bought for the nurses who looked after the Inlaw Paw, and I'm using them up in the Workshop. After using a cloth soaked in it I could pull the fingertips off.
Kim, you are very bad!
Quote from: T42 on 08 October, 2017, 01:43:46 pmWD40 degreaser appears to attack hospital-variety rubber gloves. We had a box of 100 bought for the nurses who looked after the Inlaw Paw, and I'm using them up in the Workshop. After using a cloth soaked in it I could pull the fingertips off.This is why you should never use oil-based lubes with condoms. I thought everyone knew that?
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 05 October, 2017, 08:46:09 amI think cornflowers are similar to poppies in the places they like to grow, ie recently disturbed land. But dont mix up cornflower, cornflour, corn starch or cornmeal.
I think cornflowers are similar to poppies in the places they like to grow, ie recently disturbed land.
That The Adventure Syndicate exists, I found out by reading http://theadventuresyndicate.com/blog/2017/8/7/adventures-in-kind-lee-craigie-on-the-tour-divide pointed to by a road.cc article and was hooked