Where I am today

[Easydrinker]

I will not go too deep into this.
Moles can learn to live with steady noise and vibrations.
And while usually solitary, will share certain tunnels.
Usually in verges, think of them as mole super highways,usually no mole lives there, but several moles will maintain the tunnels, as they pass through.
I know of a few verges outside my own gate which are ridddled like this but the ground makes them too difficult to stop.
Equally, I know of at least two places where the the moles cross the road, underground.

What each and every mole wants, is a tunnel system that it can maintain/patrol every 4 hours or so, seeking bio-mass,(worms and wrigglies), that have fallen into the tunnels.

They use these super highways to discover established tunnel sites/territories that have become vacant.
Maybe, because someone caught the incumbent resident.

A couple of years ago, I caught a mole in a 20 acre field, and looked around.
Intuition or luck, told me it was a 'highway' tunnel.
I caught 3 more in the same hole, and eventually cleared the field.

I have been doing/learning this stuff for while now,and can become quite boring in the subject!

Robert.

[Icefever]

I find that interesting...we've had a mole turn up in the kitchen garden....me thinks I need you to pop on down Robert....or a video on how to catch the little fecker...

Ice.

[buffalobob]

I used to know a farmer who nailed all his trapped moles to a fence, as a warning to others he said. Don't know why, they're partially sighted at best and live underground
All good stuff Robert , I didn't know they were loners. I took it for granted that a load of molehills meant many moles.

[Easydrinker]

'Round these parts, and indeed in Northern France, it was customary for moles to be hung from the 'barbs' of barbed wire fencing, to show the catchers' prowess.
While I am all for showing kids real life, I do believe that a nice walk in the country, with yer parents does not have include that, at least for city kids.
A row of maggoty moles is not a pleasant sight.
And it must be over 30 years since I saw a game keepers 'game-line', where he hung all the rooks, jays,magpies etc. that he had shot.
Probably to show his boss that he was on the ball.
I will stick a link to accumulated mole info on the end of this post.
Just some info that I have picked up over time, not my personal findings.

moles info.rtf

Robert.

[Mash]

Good read. Thanks.

We have had a new Shepherd move in locally. A clearly experienced hand, and still nails dead rooks/magpies to send a message to them. I am surprised in these times someone hasn't messaged him.

[gaza the instructor]

If you so much as leave a worm on the pavement around here,
Some beast lovin' vegan,lesbian, bare footed Greenpeace type
will want you burn't at the stake for animal cruelty. Which I find
quite amusing as the only wild life we get around here is the
bouncers throwing arseholes out the local night club.

[Easydrinker]

My friend excitedly throws worms towards his chickens to eat.
I carefully put them where chickens can't find them.
Worms deserve to be underground, doing good.
Suicidal, half wit worms were meant for the chickens.

Robert.

[Mash]

Used to feed snails to the wild boar never considered vegan,lesbian, bare footed Greenpeace types.

[Easydrinker]

Now, a porcine would eat a vegetarians' sandal, with or without the foot being in it.

Robert.

[Easydrinker]

Today I bottled stout #24 of this years stouts.
#8 and #21 were/are fecking outstanding.
Most of the rest are simply good, a couple of the others are below par.
I'll accept that.
Mix these in with the other beers made, and you can see that I have been busy.
A few sugar brews for neutral.
A few wines.
I really must get around to using that sack of whisky malt.
Thank feck for a couple more months of LONG, dark nights.
To get stufff done.

Lockdown?
Gives me time to do stuff.

Robert.

[gaza the instructor]

I like you ED been busy in my shed. Blood Orange Gin,
my new Spicy Xmas Gin , should be good to taste Sunday.
A Newcee Brown kit beer which smells NICE, and of
course more neutral. It is stopping boredom.!!

[StillDave]

Having been getting bored with constantly making UJSSM most of the summer, I havn't had a brew going for at least two months. But recently on here I saw someone mention Odin's Rye bread whisky and that grabbed my attention, so today I got stuck in and about an hour ago pitched the yeast into 5 gallons of it!
4x500gms of Pumpernickel from Aldis @ 89p each, plus 5 kilos of sugar gave me a potential ABV of just under 10%......watch this space!!

[gaza the instructor]

It was me buddy sorry bout that. Tastes ok as white dawg but,
Give it some time and oak and yes nice. I added a very small strip
of Orange zest (about an inch) and 6 coffee beans to 1.8ltrs with 20g
USA light Oak spirit at 60%.
As I say turned out nice .

[Mash]

I have thought about coffee beans before. What flavour do think they bring?

[gaza the instructor]

Ehh Yes Mash!! Bet you could not guess, although very faint
In fact not Coffee just a more sort of Adult taste. A bit like
rounding all the corners of a square and ending up with ???
Know wot I mean old chap??

[Mash]

I wondered if you would get a darker sweeter brown roasted flavour, not necessarily coffee.

Smokey perhaps. Similar to oaking.

[Mash]

What sort of dosage rate? What is the extraction time?

Wondering if is useful for port?

[gaza the instructor]

Small dose 4 or so beans per litre and I leave in for the oaking process.

[Easydrinker]

I made a Stout, yesterday now, not today.
As I switched the boiler to boil, I spotted the chocolate malt, which I had forgotten to add in the late stages of mashing.
Broke out a saucepan, and did a quick bit of catch-up.
The colour,taste and smell that chocolate malt brings to a brew were so evident.
Skin of the teeth episode there.

Robert.

[Mash]

That'll be fine. It is a recognised method for darker malts.

[Mash]

Small dose 4 or so beans per litre and I leave in for the oaking process.

Righto. I will give it a go.
Will try a couple in a bottle of red first to find the flavour.
Cracking idea. Thanks.

[Easydrinker]

Got away with that one, and it is now chugging like a train.

Today, I poked my head into an MRI scanner.
The strange noises that that machine makes have affected me.
And may or may not help sort my twisted head.

A simple neutral strip run is happening tonight.


I end the day in a different place to where I started it.
But I am applauding the NHS.

Robert

[Mash]

Excellent news on your treatment.
They will have a wiring diagram now, to sort it out.
NHS
Keep grinning and keep us posted.

[Easydrinker]

Today I got around to cancelling my motor insurance.
That was a pisser.
And they charged £56 to do so.
But, the bike arrived.

Robert.

[buffalobob]

A bit like Gaza, I had a bit of a problem down below a couple of weeks ago. To be exact, I had a bit of blood in my pee. With a little trepidation I went to have my bladder and prostate examined. Unlike Gaza the camera didn't go up my A hole it went up my P hole. No damage found so had a scan of my kidneys, no damage there either. It looks like a one off event. I just wanted to say if anyone finds themselves in the same position don't delay cos you're worried about a camera going up your willie. It isn't painful at all, it is a weird sensation but not a painful process. It was interesting having a tour of my insides to be honest, I could see everything on a screen
PS, the best part was having gel rubbed on my genitalia I thought that bit was rushed tbh.