If consumers in the UK stopped buying Chinese crap then maybe the big dirty coal mines in Aus would be that little bit smaller. 
Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.
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Steel
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- Location
- Finley, Riverina, Australia
Nuclear is the way we should be going. We have huge reserves of uranium and stable geography making it safer here than earthquake prone areas like Japan.
The new nuclear power station not far from @Bald Rick has been abandoned by Hitachi.......a severe error for our government....but there you go.
Hitachi cancels its £20bn Wylfa Newydd power plant
Hitachi has announced that it is abandoning its plans to build a new nuclear power station on the island of Anglesey, off the coast of north Wales.
Will have to to burn more coal.... @Farmer Roy .
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
I don't think any Brits that haven't seen the coal trains in Aus or flown over the open cast mines or over the sea off QLD and seen all the enormous ships stacked up waiting to load have any idea of the scale of things. Just the size of the trains and how regular they are running is mind blowing.
them Ausses must be making a fortune diging up coal to pollute the world
Steel
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- Location
- Finley, Riverina, Australia
Bloody miners are. That keeps the Aussie dollar high and ag returns low.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Our first year with this mulberry tree - looks to have plenty of fruit 
I don’t know if you have them in the UK, but in my childhood every house backyard or chook pen had one of these growing in it.
Then of course, there were always the primary school projects of raising silk worms on their leaves as well
I don’t know if you have them in the UK, but in my childhood every house backyard or chook pen had one of these growing in it.
Then of course, there were always the primary school projects of raising silk worms on their leaves as well
New Puritan
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- Location
- East Sussex
Yes we have mulberries here in the UK. I have a hazy memory there was some sort of Royal order that they were grown in parks in the 1800s or something. We've got two dwarf ones in our garden, that I planted with my daughter last winter.
we had two big very old trees in my childhood home. I cant remember ever making anything with the fruit, just that there used to be a huge amount of berries, an incredible amount of bees, wasps etc on the rotting fruit under the trees and a very distinctive smell to the leaves, almost nettle like. also that the fruit stained hands and clothing a deep purple.
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Haha - I’m about 1200 km further north than you, that might make a difference 
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- Location
- southern riverina Australia
I'm stoked. The one at mums died recently. But I discovered today I've acquired a replacement
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
Chopped mine down last year.
Way too big and way too close to the house, never had a useful crop and even if it did I have no use for them.
My Grandpa was keen on them which is why they are around on our places but have never known the fruit to be used for anything.
Way too big and way too close to the house, never had a useful crop and even if it did I have no use for them.
My Grandpa was keen on them which is why they are around on our places but have never known the fruit to be used for anything.
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Mum used to make jam out of ours once upon a time. I just love eating them.
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Err, we just pick the fruit & eat it fresh
or bake it in pies
or make jam out of it
but mainly, just eat it off the tree
or bake it in pies
or make jam out of it
but mainly, just eat it off the tree
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
In an Australian environment, the other thing about a mulberry is they are a great shade tree during the summer
That’s a pretty important function here, especially in a house garden
That’s a pretty important function here, especially in a house garden
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Usually ripe around hay season here. Used to walk past the tree and spend 5 minutes under it picking out the slightly reddish tinge ones. Not a fan of over ripe ones.
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
The chooks soon clean up any fallen ones, or birds pick them off the trees. Never seem to have many fallen ones on the ground, that’s for sure