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On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 15:52:33 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
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And it won't decompose the bodies........

..... as well as an acid bath does.

..or a urg wormery.

My wormery is an unmitigated disaster.
After six weeks they are still struggling with eating the original
four days worth of vegetable waste from the kitchen.

Just as my wife forecast :-)

Absolutely. With the supreme confidence of one who's never even
bothered to try it, I say a wormery's pointless. What some people
here might, perhaps, call a "fad". Or "snake oil". Or commercial
exploitation of those with spare money jingling about.

(Talking of which, in Tesco this afternoon I found an unusual bit of
lost property: a ten-bob note! I couldn't have been more surprised if
it had been a doubloon.)

Mike.

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On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 15:52:33 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
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"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in
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from contains these words:

And it won't decompose the bodies........

..... as well as an acid bath does.

..or a urg wormery.

My wormery is an unmitigated disaster.
After six weeks they are still struggling with eating the
original
four days worth of vegetable waste from the kitchen.

Just as my wife forecast :-)

Absolutely. With the supreme confidence of one who's never even
bothered to try it, I say a wormery's pointless.

Yes, indeed.
If there is a wormery fancier in the audience, now is the time to
speak up in defence of worm compost.

What some people
here might, perhaps, call a "fad". Or "snake oil". Or commercial
exploitation of those with spare money jingling about.

Yes,m indeed.

(Talking of which, in Tesco this afternoon I found an unusual bit of
lost property: a ten-bob note! I couldn't have been more surprised
if
it had been a doubloon.)

Hey, if it is in good condition, it will be worth something, but
probably not as much as a ten pound note.

Franz

Franz Heymann wrote:
"Mike Lyle" wrote
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(Talking of which, in Tesco this afternoon I found an unusual bit
of
lost property: a ten-bob note! I couldn't have been more surprised
if
it had been a doubloon.)

Hey, if it is in good condition, it will be worth something, but
probably not as much as a ten pound note.

Franz, that's a shockingly unworthy thought. I, of course, handed it
in to a bemused checkout kid, explaining carefully what it was; she
in turn passed it one slightly older rung up the supermercantile
power-ladder, while I left the premises.

Interestingly, the Bank of England note in question had had one end
cut off: I surmise that somebody had rather naively been trying to
prove that a nine-bob note wasn't as queer as people thought.

Mike (working hard on the clockwork orange and chocolate fireguard
concepts to prove I may not be so daft after all).