I cant imagine the spraying being that accurate and not causing surface contamination.
I have seen farmers spray, they are not that accurate.
Spraying has NOT been sanctioned, only the pre-treatment of seed. Why do you deliberately not understand this?
out2grass and Jennyanydots Do not accuse any members of being Nazis just because they disagree with you.
Play the ball, not the man. Repetition will result in infractions.
But the Wildlife Trusts said neonicotinoids pose a significant environmental risk, particularly to bees and other pollinators.
Sugar beet does not need pollinating.
Its a pesticide that kills bees
Yes I know, it's also a systemic one that gets into the sap of the plant. The seed is treated before planting so there's no surface contamination that bees could come into contact with. The specific crop is sugar beet which does not flower.
UK have approved it, despite it kills bees.
Did you not read the content: It is only being applied to non-flowering crops. Bees don't come into it.
The control is for flea beetle that otherwise will decimate the crop.
Images were shared on twitter. How? No doubt by the expensive fancy iPhone on a new contract.
It's all a matter of priorities.
EU at risk of implosion as Bundesbank's ‘plan to print Deutsche Marks’ exposed.
Here's a link to the story in The Express
The story is also in several other publications.
It would appear that the food is to last a week according to this.
I understand this is just to replace the free school dinner that the children were entitled to so it's one meal on 5 days of the week.
Not much social distancing going on there. Just going to make things worse.
Please do not create new Brexit rant threads. Post merged here.
I am considering merging all Brexit rant threads.
Display MoreThe days of swapping between multiple pairs of glasses could soon be over.
A company has unveiled "adjustable" specs that the wearer can tune on the fly based on what they're using them for.
With the twist of a dial, users can adjust the focus to swap between reading, driving, screen use and more, The Times reports.
US firm Voy reckons the tech, which it calls "nano-precision glasses", will spell the end of requiring several pairs of specs for different activities.
Costing $79 (£59) a pop, the Voy Tunable Glasses can adjust the focus level anywhere between -5D to +2D.
"Turn the wheel away from the nose to for a more negative power, or turn the wheel towards the nose for a more positive power until you can see clearly," Voy writes on its website.
Sounds like a godsend for those of us who need glasses, my correction is around -3D. Like the sound of the sunglasses. 
Not silly prices either.
Just been out tending to the banana palms. The frost had caused the exposed fronds to collapse so I've now cut them short (about 8") where they're still solid and put a thick layer of fleece over the crowns. The new leaves in the centres look fine but I still had to trim them to get the fleece on properly. Also put an extra layer around the trunks as well.
Forecast is for a relatively mild week.
-3°C this morning and we're on the coast. Coldest of this winter so far.
Is that a inside plant Heero? I think I've got them too.
Definitely. It's in the bathroom at the moment. I posted some pictures in this thread when it last flowered a while ago. and a member here was able to identify the plant.
We watched Barbarella (Queen of the Galaxy). Very kitsch but some nice eye candy.
TV this evening is the usual Saturday desert, a couple of films on CH4 but they don't appeal and most of the smaller channels are repeats so it's back to the library for content. We've been re-watching "Cowboy Beebop" during the week and are onto season 2.
Slightly odd as the 4 main characters and the dog (Ein) die at the end of season 1 (Toys in the Attic) 
I'm guessing that the originators were unsure whether it would be popular enough for a second season.
We watch with the original Japanese sound track and English subs.
Another cold day but no risk of rain so I've got some laundry done and out to dry. Next three days are rain free so hopefully I can get right up to date.
Nasturtiums and begonias seem to have bought it. I fleeced up the geraniums. Fronds on the banana palms are beginning to turn brown as expected. Soon be time to trim them short and put fleece over the crowns.
Display MoreTrain bosses are investigating after social distancing signs were apparently stolen from seats and flogged as crop tops online.
Cheeky fashion student Mhari Thurston-Tyler, 20, used the Chiltern Railways signs to make the crop top before selling them on second-hand clothes app Depop for £15.
Mhari listed the clothing on Thursday night as a makeshift size 10 boob tube - but it quickly went viral after the Depop listing was posted on Twitter.
The blue signs had been wrapped around train seats on Chiltern Railways to encourage social distancing among passengers.
They read: "Keep this seat free to maintain social distancing when possible."
my prediction is that in ten years time the whole EU experiment will just be a distant memory.
That would be my take as well. I can see a Franco-Prussian alliance of some kind with possibly a rag-tag of Benelux countries hanging on their coat tails.
The Bromeliad plant that came from my mothers is flowering again. It's looking very green and healthy.
Display MoreAN 11ft orca "killer whale" has been rescued after it became stranded on a British beach.
The huge marine mammal was saved by locals in Orkney, an island off the north-eastern coast of Scotland.
They rushed to help the young whale - thought to be only three or four years old - on Monday.
After an hour of being stranded, the orca was successfully re-floated back to sea.
It was initially reported as an ordinary dolphin to the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) who were shocked to find an orca so close to the UK.
Dan Jarvis, 35, a welfare development and field support officer at BDMLR, led a team of divers to help the Orkney residents in their recovery mission.
He said: "Our team were shocked to find this animal was an orca, as it was initially reported as a dolphin.
Story, pictures and video on link.
Very cold today. First time for many years that the frost hasn't lifted by noon even in the sun. At least the rain has moved away.
I went back a bit here but can't remember whether I posted this:
There was a young lady from Exeter,
And all the young men wanted sex with her,
Just to be rude,
She lay in the nude,
Whilst her parrot, a pervert, took pecks at her.
There has been snow overnight in Kent but here it's just rain and very cold at 2°C.
I've no idea what bash is
It's a shell in UNIX, Linux or Android. Effectively the same thing as command.com in windows. I prefer to use csh (seashell) which is a shell with a C like syntax.
The target is 2m a week, not a day.
And that assumes they (NHS, civil servants and Army) can deliver. I doubt it will happen.
By scaring everybody witless in the spring they were able to easily enforce a lockdown and people also kept their distance. Now they don't and the doom and gloom predictions have been shown to be worthless.
It won't be so easy this time. Expect trouble.
I've been learning some more bash but expressions are doing my head in. It's like algebra and that never made sense to me at school.
I'm doing some embeded* C programming at the moment but it's been a while since I last did some so it's taking time to get back into it. Syntax is all.
*Built into a product, actually an LED matrix sign that is used on public transport systems.
Glad to hear you're safe and sound Norra. 
According to my redtop there is a risk that the "Beast from the East" will rear it's head this week. Looking at the synoptic charts there's a strong flow developing from the East mid-week with high pressure over Scotland. Make sure anything delicate is protected or under cover.
