revisesociology 3Speak Podcast: Recent Episodes
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https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/azkptast
So need to panic.
Probs not as fast as @starkerz but I'm happy enough with this!
It helps to have some constants amidst these crazy market fluctuations.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/roaezhlx
I recenlty taught myself the basic beginners algos, here's a chilled solve.
For now i'm happy just to be able to do this as this was impossible for me when I was a kid. How times have changed with the Internet!
I could probably do this in 2 mins, i'll be aiming to speed up, am currently learning the faster methods. More to follow, if yer lucky!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/bbhlufly
The battle to keep my young trees alive in the heat began this week with temperatures getting up to the high 30s!
In this video I do a quick tour around the trees - I planted around 12 and so far 1 has died, but judging by the bark that’s because some animal got to it, not because of lack of water.
You also get to see my irrigation set-up, it’s a pretty crude gravity fed system, after pumping up from a well and I have to move the hose by hand, but I only need to water every two to three days and with only 12 trees it’s manageable for a year.
I’d actually be happy doing this with double the amount of trees, so I’m going to plant at least another dozen this coming winter, fruiting trees that is.
I’ll be planting a lot more forest like trees which I won’t be watering wider around the land!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/wohlbyje
It’s been raining this week in East Central Portugal, which is something of a novelty for early June.
It’s a good thing - saves me having to water the trees for a few days as they got a good soaking and obviously it’s not as hot when it’s raining so they aren’t burning through all that water at pace either.
The annoying thing was it started when I was doing some sanding in the house, for which I require a battery powered sander which requires batteries which require charging.
And no sun = very little charge for the battery I’ve got doing the charging.
As a result I found myself at a lose end while waiting for the big battery to charge so it could charge my little sander batteries - hence the video.
Although TBH I didn’t find the rain that annoying, it was nice excuse to sit around and drink coffee and ponder things.
And it’s a funny thing but I feel much more at home here when it rains - probably because it just feels more like the UK!
Anyway, I ended up with this brief look at the rain and how the sanding and inside of the house is coming along!
Enjoy!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/vdkypekm
Just a quick walk around the land while I gently plan out what the next phases are for my HUGEL BEDS….
At the top of the land I’ve got some pretty large ones with the base layers already made up - consisting of mainly pine branches and broom, AKA kindling in waiting.
Fire risk aside, these beds have ended forming a fairly natural looking boundary between the upper living and parking area which is relatively flat, before the land drops away into its rather steep slope.
I consider the next step for these beds which is basically as follows:
- Bark chips layer, I’ve got plenty from chopping wood.
- Any dirt I can find
- A thin layer of bought in compost - the thinner the better as I’m a tight wad.
- Then I’ll plant as soon as the first rains come in autumn.
I’ll have to think carefully about what I put in these - it will need to be acid loving plants.
Roses spring to mind for starters…
I also have a look at where I’m going to make ‘the mother of all huge beds’ - just to the side of the final upper olive terrace - I can drop A LOT of material in there and handily enough there’s a nearby area of excess dirt from the path construction and another nearby area that I want to dig out and level off, a perfect combination.
I’m determined to burn as little as possible going forwards, all of this matter is soil waiting to built, and a man simply MUST hugel!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/ovvfzazg
It’s Strimming time here in East Central Portugal….
Mainly because the rains are coming to an end and it’s also fining time from the GNR if they catch you with the borders of yer land unkempt and with knee high grass like mine was at the beginning of this week, but no more.
I’ve attacked the lower field this week with blade and wire and learned a lot about strimming.
Mainly that the wire for me is much more efficient than the blade and if yer careful you don’t have to keep losing it by knicking it against rocks, logs and fencing.
I also learned that I’d probably have been better off streaming some of my grass a couple of weeks ago - the more difficult areas where there’s lots of stuff for the wire to catch on.
As it was this week I couldn’t see where I was going for much of the time and the grass was so long I’m probably going to have to go back over much of it.
I also couldn’t get too close to the annoying falling down fence in the middle of the lower field, - I couldn’t get rid of it as it’s locked in by grass - so a bit of a catch 22 there.
Anyway, a quick before and after video for your viewing pleasure.
ENJOY!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/zxyzbnzv
Spring is very much here, which means it’s a busy time on the land.
Just a quick update of how the house is progressing (slowly, but getting there!), a quick walk down the new track which is settling in nicely, a look around the lower fields and the new huge beds made with olive cuttings and finishing at the fruit tree area, which badly needs a tidy up!
So much to do!!!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/rqaluklg
This is a before and after video for prosperity of my new track up the house.
First half is what it used to look like (very beautiful) and the second half is with the track (not so beautiful but much more functional).
Of course it looks like carnage atm, but TBH for a freshly created scar of dirt and rock, it looks pretty good.
And I can now drive up to the house and get building materials up there.
Includes digger interlude, so feel free to bring yer inner five year old along!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/naedjpuc
honestly don’t remember the last time I was SO excited….
Watching this digger (non brand-name JCB) make a track and sharka on my land.
Well, not the WHOLE two day process, but some of it as captured in this video!
HONESTLY…. In this short clip you see so many barrow loads of earth moved so far in a matter of seconds.
To do this by hand would be, well, soul destroying, so much so in fact that I hadn’t even considered doing this by hand!
This was Thursday - towards the end of the two days it took to make me a track up to my house and a sharka.
But more than the sheer efficiency of industrial machinery, quite literally witnessing the power of capital IRL, I’m just enthused by this whole experience.
REAL WORK, in the REAL WORLD!
And now I’ve got a track, I can get shit delivered up to the top of land.
I got back home on Thursday feeling like it was XMAS, which is novel for me given that I don’t celebrate XMAS, there was just something so VERY AWESOME about the whole experience.
I mean let’s face it - fuck the lambo, I’ll take a DIGGER any day!
Gimme something than can make roads rather than something that’ll be taken out of action by a fucking pothole!
ALL SYSTEMS GO!
Credit inspiration for the title:
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/yljtsqhq
It’s been raining here in East Central Portugal, after a LONG dry winter.
This is good as my IBCs are filling up from my roof rainwater harvesting system, water I’ll need to do a concrete floor in the house in a few weeks.
It’s also got me thinking about my longer term water storage plans, and I take a trip up to the highest point of my land where I’ve decided to build a pond and bury some brash piles in the process.
Killing two birds with one stone, I feel smart!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/jqpfnabu
I've finally pruned nearly all of the olive trees to my satisfaction, and here's a tour of them!
We went for a gentle prune this year, the idea being that if you go easy on them they produced something next year, rather than giving them a hard prune which means they have a year off.
I haven't tidied up most of the prunings yet, that's a nice gradual job for the remainder of march - sorting out some of the wood I can use for next year and what really isn't worth saving so can be buried or burned at the end of March.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/zttajulm
I got the first stage of my irrigation system set up on Monday - a simple 12 volt submerisble pump from my well up to two IBCs.
Total vertical lift of around 5 metres, going through 50 metres of tube.
Flow rate = around 300 litres an hour which is fine!
From the IBCs I can drip-irrigate my trees using gravity. No more buckets!
AND this is a nice emergency buffer incase my well goes dry over summer.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/vejumbbo
I had a friend come over and help me prune some olive trees the other day.
We took it relatively easy and just gave some of the trees a gentle prune - the method I've opted for is to take around a third off each tree, that way I should get a decent crop next year.
The general principle of pruning is easy enough - cut out anything growing inward, anything crossing and anything dead.
Even though we only gave half my trees a relatively gentle prune, there is a lot of wood left lying around as you can see from this video.
This is mainly because these trees hadn't been pruned in several years.
All good for me: more olives next year and days worth of decent firewood - olive makes EXCELLENT firewood!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/jfgerpoq
We had a stats reset this week and I tried out a new buiild with BASH30 focussing on agility and intelligence, it worked nicely as I rinsed through some higher level dungeons including a new one!
I also tweak some gear in this vdieo for what seems to be an even better outcome!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/opwsozxx
Having finally dragged out and burned most of the brash that we cut out last srping, saving enough to create a decent flooor covering, I finally got around to pruning some of the young oaks a couple of days ago.
I've no idea what I'm doing TBH - so I've adopted a policy of pruning as little as possible, mainly just cutting out dead branches or anything that's so straggly it doesn't stand a chance.
For the most part, however, I've left the very young trees alone, and tried to do as little as possible with them.
There are a few older trees, several years old that I'll wait and get someone in to show me how to care for them, they need a bit of attention some of them.
It's going to take a good few hours to get around all the trees, and once I've pruned those that need it, and cleared out anything that's blocking light, for the older trees, then I'll come back and muluch in probably March, don't really need that in Winter.
It's good to be doing somethig constructive at last!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/blwluwba
TBH I haven't had a very productive week but I managed to make it to Spain yesterday to get some cheap butane, and then hit the land.
It was such a beautiful day I couldn't help but just pause and wander around, making this short video.
I did a bit of chain saw work after and split some wood, and bit of tidying.
Embarrasingly this was probably the most productive day of my week so far!
Oh and the moon was up yesterday morning, seemed appropriate at the time, but what a difference a day can make!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/wjwtudam
An insight into the grind of being a Splinterlands' Cards Renter.
Fortunately I'm working class roots here so I'm used to the sweat inducing labour required to keep on top one's Splinterlands rental prices 10-15 or so every day.
I thought I'd put this video up as it does kind of reflect an apsect of my dail life ATM. I do this daily, with different flavours depending on time of season.
ATM, with EOS a couple of days away, things (rental prices!) are looking up so the grind is good.
The only real challeng is 'twatts' who put their rentals on so low it upsets the auto-finder which sets my card price search parameters below their's - i have to check manually and change some card prices by hand to make sure this doesn't happen!
You also get an idea what kind of prices I think I can get at this time of year.
Anyway, this is life ATM, at least part of it!
Enjoy!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/xyogcots
It's Olive harvesting season, which means I need to clear around my trees before we begin getting the olives off the trees.
The standard method of harvesting is to put down a net around the tree and then rake/ shake the olives off - you can be fairly abrupt with the trees apparently and there's no need to trim all the leaves and small branches off for the oil harvest, which is what we'll be doing next week.
But in order to get the nets down without snagging them (and them only surviving one season) the trees have to be reasonably clear around the bases.
In this video I walk around the land and consider which trees are worth clearing around and which not, some just aren't worth doing because the yield this year is too small, others just have too much shit around them!
I guess this also serves as a November land update, it's looking good as November is a beautiful time of year in East Central Portugal.
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/gqlftxfa
Cryptoraiders is my cutest crypto investment so far this 2021, and the returns are FANTASTIC too!
Cryptoraiders is an NFT gme based on Polygon in which you send your Raiders through Dungeons to try and win loot, but be warned, there is a chance that your raiders will be defeated by other players' monsters which reside in said dungeon.
At least that's the future-model, hopefully to be live within a month or so - ATM you can raid three dungeons for loot risk free.
Watch the video for a talk and walk through the following:
- The Cryptoraiders characters, stats and inventories.
- The basic gameplay in dungeons
- The cryptoraiders OpenSea marketplace (on Polygon so cheap fees!)
- The Cryptoraiders Bank - earn a 200% yield on raider tokens!
- The (very fun and active) community - Discord, Twitter and Medium.
The main cryptoraiders website is here.
You might also like this static blog post on Crypto Raiders I did a while back.
NB The floor price for a Gen 1 Raider is currently 0.14 ETH - I bought my first Gen 1 at 0.04 and my second at 0.1, so there's a very healthy looking price trend on these too!
P.S. Apologies for not quite full screening the video, my bad, I don't do too many videos, but for this particular topic I thought it was easier!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/qwoqcycq
I decided recently to rent my entire Splinterlands deck out: it's much less stressful than playing, especially with some of the excellent tools on Peakmonsters
The site I use to organise my rentals is Peakmonsters which has some excellent tools for keeping on top of the rentals.
It's a tricky business maximising returns because card hodlers are prepared to rent out cards for widely different prices and the prices players are prepared to pay varies according to how far we are through the season.
However I only have a relatively small deck and it's easy enough for me to check and adjust prices once or even twice a day.
The video simply covers how I do this!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/pljzslcg
Following clearing my nearly 2 HA of Oak, Pine and Eucalyptus Woodland I'm now into the next phase of the land project which is general tidying of said woodland AND auditing and mulching some of my younger mainly oak trees.
I do want to keep some Pine and Euc, but I'm keen to see more oaks growing up in those areas, and so the plan is to encourage the younger saplings that have migrated over from the Oak area (not in this video) with a bit of pruning out of dead wood and some mulch where required.
I'm only mulching on the 10 metre fire strip around the boundary as the treest left in there are bit exposed, in the inner woodland I've left a bit more humus so they should be fine.
This video is just a quick walk around of the pine woodland area and a look at the state of play: the brash piles, the stacked wood and some of the younger trees too.
On reviewing this I don't why the video is in Landscape, I used my iPad which while more designed for video seems to insist on portratit, hopefully I can just adjust the settings so it's in landscape.
Maybe a microphone for next time too!
Oh, And I accidentally uploaded this to Imovie twice, so it repeats from half way through, it's really only 16 minutes long!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/chasqlnj
With a cup of proper English Tea in my hand, I finally got around to counting the number of Portuguese olive trees on my land - 45 in total, not counting the little self-seeded baby ones.
And a quick pause to look at my awesome new 'driveway' (read gravel chucked on the dirt) too.
This land must have been a proper family micro-business back in the day as there's no way even a very large family could consume the amount of olives that are going to be produced from these trees.
I'm going to have to get a team of people to come pick these for me in November, they can have a decent share of the oil, there's no way I need 45 trees worth of the damned stuff.
Not the best video in the world, but I do make the effort to count in some very bad Portuguese and it's another tour of land, been a few weeks since I've walked my way around!
Here's a look back at the main lower field....
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/merasbqm
The frog chorus down by the natural swimming pool near my cabin in Alpedrinha is intense, to say the least. So I dug out my microphone and wandered down to record the cacophony at dusk last night.
It's more of a sound recording rather than a video, it gets really LOUD at about four minutes in.
Thankfully I kind of like frog song!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/guzttwxo
In this video, part three of my land tour, I head up around the Woodland boundaries - Eucalyptus into Pine and then Oaks at the end.
I also take a trip down to the olive terraces (again!)
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/ttpwzfgj
This is the second part of my three part tour of my land in Portugal. (Part one is here:https://peakd.com/hive-123046/@revisesociology/hwiejjdf)
I start off at the kitchen area, head up through the battered shower area, through the pine woodland, take in the beautiful olive terraces and end up at the house.
I shot this last week and I mention filling in the Sharka as a hugel bed. I've since changed my mind about that - I'm now chipping, cutting down to compost or burning all the brash, needs must! Besides, I want to keep the Sharka as is!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/hwiejjdf
Just a little tour of the land - part one. Featuring the lower boundary and olive fields and a few other bits. I had to break it down into three videos as it takes so long to get around. Parts two and three will feature the 'middle' woodlands and house (part 2) and then I think I can cram the upper outer woodlands into one final video to make part 3.
I also talk through a few pointers about what i plan to do. Walking around and talking is great for thinking things through!
I did the video last week, so early April 2021, amazing how much things have changed already since it's been raining quite a lot!
https://3speak.tv/watch?v=revisesociology/faenlxyb
I only did one run in the last week, had a week off over Xmas, so I thought I'd do a video of my one run up my local hill/ almost a mountain - >250 metres of ascent in 2.5Ks uphill, and then back down again.
I only recorded the first half, uphill and a brief surround at the top - some nice views.
Excuse the snot. That's the way it is!
This is just my usual weekly 5K, not a bad standard run if you ask me!
https://www.strava.com/activities/4553960256