Still Smarter

Yes the sound of automatic weapons being cocked is enough to put the
willies up anyone Jacquie. Like my old Dad, all his mates would say
"Hi Jack" and in Heathrow Airport shouted from the entrance did not
bode well !!

Citric Acid will give it a bit of zip too, but be careful .

So, this year the chucks went bonkers, and just about every one went broody.
A couple did it twice.
We let them hatch a few each, although some only produced one or two.
Tail end of the summer and we now just have 3 with chicks.
Momma 3 is constrained in a run wth 10, (big surprise there),
and two others have been sharing 9, running wild.
Momma one went to bed tonight,abandoning her chicks.
Tonight we had fun catching momma two and seven chicks.
One of the missing chicks is male for sure, and to be honest, we have enough egg layers now that if Foxy Loxy takes the orphans, I really don't care.
You can't really appreciate what free range means, unless you try it, for real.
But the eggs are maybe worth the grief.
And we have happy chucks.
Don't ask the fate of cockerels.
But my cat is currently curled up with a full tummy.

Robert.

gaza the instructor wrote: Fri Oct 23, 2020 6:10 pm Citric Acid will give it a bit of zip too, but be careful .

You beat me to it.
Tartaric or malic might be smoother.

We do free-range with fences. We have happy chucks. We grow the males and keep the girls as layers.

You see funny " this house runs on prosecco" signs. THIS house runs on eggs.

It is surprising how many we use, and their versitiliy. Just putting 12 on to hard boil now.

One boiling Egg said to another "Bloody 'el it's hot in here !"
Number One replied " You wait till they get you out,
they beat you're head in."

I grew up with the TV ad "Go work on an egg!"
And they weren't trying to get us all to work in invitro fertillisation!

Robert.

And then silly Edwina Curry said they're not good for you after all . Wtf do politicians know about anything, apart from being economical with the truth. They should butt out.

I put a label on our fermenting compartment that reads, 'FERMENTING COMPARTMENT '. Guess what I found in there when I'd got 4 25L fermenters lined up, yep full, of feckin towels again. I'm thinking maybe get a padlock

You need to get a 'sleep teach' thing going on for the other half.
She needs to learn that "airing cupboards" are a thing of the past.

Robert.

Put the towels in the shed, see if that helps

I'll have to make compromises to save me from further grief . Dont want a wives with knives type scenario. Happy wife = happy life.
Spent 6 hrs driving all the way down sarf today visiting one of my sprogs in Arundel. Had to cope with absolute feckin lunatics on the M25. Wish I had a ray gun mounted on my car roof so that I could atomise some of the twats I came across today. They obviosly had a death wish so it wouldn't matter, would it?

BB you need more power and speed.

@bb will Halfords fit one.

That said. I do like gaza's idea.

Man with the fastest gun wins!! When I wind the new
one up they stay well clear and the Police are nice to
you, even Sting Ha Ha.

It's not more power and speed I need Gaza. I need to develop my telepathic powers so that I can tell who will swap lanes without indicating right in front of me or brake cos they've dropped their phone etc. The standard of driving on't M25 isn't great. It's more like driving in Aus, peeps overtake in any lane without warning and wipe your nose entering the lane in front. Us country folk aren't used to it. The stress levels rise on the M25 for sure

Noticed I was accumulating a lot of demijohns of low wines so today was a spirit run. boiler on at 0930 and still running @ 1900.
25 jars @ about 94/95 so far.
Managed to crack my test jar.. Was taking a temp reading to correct the reading and stupidly dropped the very pointy temp sensor in.. 94 on the hydrometer and 14 neutral temp so happy enough with that. Could probably run it quicker but enjoying sitting here reading my book and listening to music.
Although I seem to remember the last time I said I was "happy enough with that" I think I went and replaced all the mesh packing with SPP so maybe this time I need to get a 4" column.

At least a 4" column. Get some enormous fermenters tooooo

Mild distillation distraction is indeed a pleasant thing.
But you have to plan it to scale.

Robert.

If it don't make your back ache, your aint doing it right

I thought that you were already Mr. pumper man, to save yer back?

Robert..

I am, and have them in various sizes.

... but there are still things you can't pump.

Like wot??

One of the advantages of emptying all the demijohns that were full of low wines meant I had empty demijohns to fill with low wines..
Did a stripping run on a 5th gen sour mash I started fermenting pre #1 lockdown... Opened the fermenter and it just smelled incredible, had a cheeky taste about half way through the run and it's really nice.
Filled two demijohns with low wines, a fermenter with backset and started gen 6 on its way..
I figure I'll keep the low wines and put them in the thumper when I finally do a spirit run on this sour mash (up to now I've just been chucking the low wines in with neutral on the column) but I figure I've finally got something worth running.

Good one!
Glad to hear of someone having a result.
Always room to learn something new.

Robert.