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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: David Nicholson on January 25, 2014, 07:26:46 PM
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1: Celery
When I was a boy celery had white stems because it was grown properly (stems were covered with a paper 'overcoat' and were then earthed up) and stems were blanched. Today it's always green and tastes of nothing at all. Report of conversation today in local supermarket between greengrocery deputy manager and miserable old f**t (yes, it was I!) MOF: do you have any proper celery please? GGDM: it's there on the bottom shelf sir. MOF: that's not proper celery the stems on proper celery are white not green. GGDW: that's how our customers like it sir. MOF: Oh. When did you ask them them, or is it that you screw the farmer's down to the last penny and they can't afford to grow it properly on the pittance you pay them? At this point GGDM quickly finds he is needed behind the scenes.
2: Broken tills
Are you, like me, fed up of seeing notices on non-working tills saying "This till is not working at the moment because of a technical problem" Close observation this afternoon carried out by your reporter, MOF, of the situation in a branch of that up-market purveyor of undergarments etc., whilst Mrs MOF availed herself of some of that company's stock. Till is not working because of aforesaid technical fault. Supervisor turns up followed by a till worker. "You can go on that one" supervisor says. And it happens, and technical fault is suddenly cured! Not only that but supervisor then takes away till worker from adjacent till and replaces till worker by broken till notice. When supervisor is next in vicinity MOF poses question "Do I take it that "technical problem" is a euphemism for " we haven't enough staff because we are screwing down staff costs in order to be able to pay exorbitant dividends to shareholders"? Supervisor looks 'daggers' at MOF and stalks off. Result: MOF 1. Knicker purveyor 0.
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;D ;D ;D
Didn't think I would get a laugh today.
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......in a branch of that up-market purveyor of undergarments etc......,
Not the one with an ampersand in its name? It is six years since Jeremy Paxman said that their undergarments no longer provided the kind of support required by the British male. I agree, bought some recently and it is rubbish; so much so that I have sent it back to the Chief Executive with a short note containing my comments; await reply with interest.
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Michael, you might know that with David in one of his "phases" there's usually some fun involved -
good that the forum has brought you a wee laugh at a tough time - we're thinking of you :-*
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;D ;D ;D
Didn't think I would get a laugh today.
Thinking of you Michael and if I've helped a tiny bit for a tiny portion of time then I'm very pleased.
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If this was facebook, I would like you all three: Michael, David and Maggi!
Lina.
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If this was facebook, I would like you all three: Michael, David and Maggi!
Lina.
Lina,
Some of us like them even though we're not on FB! ;D
cheers
fermi
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Can we have some rain please!
While I'm enjoying the sun and heat, 16.6C today, the plants in the front garden aren't. They're wilting
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Take some of mine, please! :-D
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Yesterday , my wife's car started running rough then eventually gave up the ghost . Because her car is less than a year old we had it taken back to the Subaru dealership on a salvage truck . Pictured below is one of the problems . There were 5 others . At least they were not eating my seeds!!
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Hi Steve, is this the new Turbo mouse power, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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I know that we complain that everything costs more money these days - but this seems a ridiculously expensive mousetrap even if Subaru's are multi-purpose vehicles........
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Nice one Maggi !! I will pass that on to my most illustrious leader .
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Maggi, I love you! :-* Thanks for this morning burst of laughter! ;D ;D ;D
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Zephirine « Reply #6 on: Today at 05:54:25 AM »
Thanks for this morning burst of laughter! ;D ;D ;D
My goodness Zeph, I am astounded that you are able to read at that time of the day, let alone laugh ;D This is a time when I am turning over and thinking there is still plenty of time for another dream and more snoring! :-[
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Hey, dear Maggie-the-marmot, I thought there was some kind of saying that said :
(after a looong day in the garden)
"Yawning at 10 (pm) and laughing at 5,
Makes a girl healthy, happy, and thrive" ?
...or something of the kind.. :-\
;D ;D ;D
PS: I'm afraid you were mislead by the SRGC clock: it is 4.57 here, not "2.57"!!! ;D
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That sounds like a good motto, Zeph - I must try to live by it!
And yes, the forum clock is having fun with us - now, if the sun would only shine - I would go for a snooze in the garden.
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Just wanted to say how upset I am by the fire at the Glasgow School of Art. Not only devastating for the students losing all their work but also for everyone who, like myself, absolutely love the building. The library is/was my favourite room anywhere :(
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It's a disaster on so many levels, Darren.
I think it's still hard to believewhat has happened but the firemen have done a truly amazing job to get everyone out safely and save the bulk of the building. The library is the most iconic room in Glasgow - maybe in Scotland - so that loss is being felt very deeply. Staff and students in shock - this will take a long time to get over - and put back as much as possible. The students losing work will be given special treatment, I'm sure.
We hear that the fire may have started because of an installation for a degree show, where a projector was too close to some expandable foam - if that's true it's even worse. Does no-one teach the students about basic safety - and, dare I say, common sense precautions?
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The tragedy is that a fire prevention system was to be installed during the summer break - stable door and horse comes to mind.
However, there seems to be a determination to rebuild the damage and destruction both externally and internally. I heard that the Westminster Govt. has promised to fund this. The archives have been saved so details of every item will be known and craftmen/women should be able to reconstruct the library to its former condition -the only minus is that it will be a copy.
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I have been determinedly upbeat this year - now it feels like too much of an effort - Andy Murray played like a dead duck at Wimbledon today - our hopes are dashed. :'( :'(
Bulgarians will be delighted and I thought that Gregor Dimitrov played a great game - SIGH - but wouldn't you think/hope that having Maria Sharapova as his girlfriend was enough for the boy? :-X
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A roe deer walked through my garden again last night and ate the flowers off Oenothera 'Sunset Boulevard'. They were just starting to flower again on the side shoots after being beheaded a few weeks ago.
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I feel I need to get this off my chest and I think this is the appropriate place to do it...
Neighbours... we have some good and some bad, but one lot in particular, opposite us are giving me the ... a lot of irritation.
They insist on feeding the local population of cockatoos, the sulphur crested variety. I'm not sure if those of you residing outside of Australia fully appreciate what this means. In fact I'm quite certain you do not! Cockatoos are not like any bird you have in England or Europe. They are very large, very bold and extremely verbose. I can't adequately describe the sound of a flock of 20 or 30 sulphur crested cockatoos at close range. Their call is better described as a scream. My six year old daughter slaps her hands over her ears because the sound is so loud that it causes her pain (sensitive young ears). However, the noise is not my main torment. Cockies, as we call them, like to chew things. Their beaks are incredibly powerful and they can easily drop whole branches, as thick as your thumb off trees with a single bite. They will tear bark off trees; prune off growing shoots; bite off flower buds and flowers; demolish and eat fruit and pull plants, particularly bulbs right out of the ground. I am NOT exagerating. Here is a list of destruction reaped by them in recent months:
Verbascum bombyciferum plant; chewed to pieces, motivation - unknown
Abutilon hybridum; flower buds snipped off and dropped, motivation - unknown
Gladiolus bulbs; uprooted and chewed to bits, motivation - unknown but possibly food
Quince tree; fruit chewed to pieces and eaten, branches bitten off and mangled, motivation - food and entertainment
Brugmansia sanguinea - flowers and flower buds bitten off and dropped - motivation, unknown (possibly trying to get high?)
Precious Tropaeolum azurerum - snipped off at ground level and allowed to drop uncerimoniously, motivation - pure evil.
We spoke to these people years ago about this and we were told that the elderly mother, infirmed and living with them "loved the birds" and that it was her "only joy in life". Well, her joy was MY PAIN, but she has since passed away, bless her soul (choke) and they seem to be STILL FEEDING THE BIRDS!!!
I'm going to approach them politely again and ask that they please stop feeding the birds... wish me luck. I only hope I can keep my cool.
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Richard,
Here in the USA folks keep Sulphur-crested Cockatoos as "pets". They are not very appropriate as pets, except for those that are extremely well trained and devoted to the bird. They make extremely strong pair bonds and will bond strongly with a human. Their call is as loud as a jet engine! This is not an exaggeration! They are also extremely intelligent. Even if the birds have been bred and raised by humans, they are still basically wild birds. Most of our other domestic animals have been with us for thousands of years (dogs, sheep, goats, etc.).
I can imagine the difficult situation you are in. My wife is involved in bird rescue - I have been able to witness a Cockatoo's destructive power, intelligence, and natural desire to scream or be loud. I can imagine that a flock could destroy a whole garden easily. I hope that you find a solution to this situation soon. Hopefully there is enough habitat for them that they will leave your garden alone, once the feeding stops.
Around here, one can lead a wild turkey to a pit trap by leaving a trail of grain to the covered pit. Once the feeding ends, maybe you could lead the Coockatoos away by leaving a small amount of their favorite food for them. Everyday move it farther away, in a direction that will be best for both. When they are some distance away, in a good habitat, they may get distracted by other things and leave your garden in peace.
Another suggestion - maybe you can ask the native people. I'm sure that they know what to do - if they are willing.
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Sorry Robert, I realised my signature was misleading and confusing so I changed it. My name is Jamus, not Richard. Richard was the speaker of the quote I posted.
Yes I have heard that Americans are fond of keeping Australian birds as pets (Cate Blanchett, Nicolle Kidman, Kylie Minogue - no wait, she's in the uk). Seriously though, it's a bad idea especially around kids. A cockatoo will bite your finger clean off before you can blink. I wouldn't let my kids NEAR one couped up in a cage. THe birds are quite mad to begin with but keep one in a small cage and it becomes damned well dangerous.
I need to approach these people but I have to do it in a way that doesn't result in a dispute.
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Same problem here in our area Jamus. We have asked , begged a neighbour 2 doors away not to feed those destructive rascals but he continues to do so . He even admits that they have destroyed his Oregon wooden window frames .At the moment a large flock descends every morning on my garden destroying the most precious bulbs in flower . like a pan of 12 Iris ret. "Katherine Hodgkin" in flower which I wanted to take to the Ferny Creek Hort. Soc. Rock Garden meeting this Sat. I planted masses (cheap to buy in bulk) of Anemone coronaria and Ranunculus asiaticus in the "Dry Garden" of this Horticultural Soc . and now there are hardly any flowers or foliage left .
In a nearby national Park there are signs "It is forbidden to feed the birds " bud bus loads still do the opposite ,mostly tourists from Asia -for the record I am NOT a racist .
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Otto doesn't it drive you mad?! They breed up to populations which wouldn't exist without the supplimental food from humans, and seem to hang around, hoping for a feed. Hanging around for a cockie means chewing everything in site because why? Because that's what cockies do! I am really mad about it and I wish people would realise the impact they have on those around them and be a bit courteous/considerate.
What about explosive bird scarers?
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You might like to mention that it is generally not recommended that you feed wild birds here in Australia (especially where snow is not an issue) as it makes them reliant on humans which is not good. I used to have a pet galah which ate all the rumber around the car windows and doors. He ate an electric cord which was his downfall.
Another bird that I don't particularly want in my garden is currawongs which I have heard kill little birds. There is a flock of currawongs which have gradually made their way from the top driveway to the gums further down and now they are in the top part of the garden.
Lovely voices but not their habits.
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Konrad Lorenz (in King Solomon's Ring) has the line ' Sentimental old ladies, the fanatical sponsers of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals have no compunction in keeping a grey parrot or cockatoo in a relatively small cage or even chained to a perch'. I was going to ask what cockatoos taste like! When we had huge trouble with rabbits in the garden I spent a year studying the damage they did day by day. It didn't help with the damage too much (though we caught a few), but coming to understand the behaviour of an animal (possibly including themselves) might enable the neighbours to appreciate the cockatoos at further remove.
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Get a shotgun!
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As satisfying as it would seem to blast the cockatoos to bits john, I don't actually hate them. I just want them to go into the bush where they belong and stay there! It's not even an option. We don't have guns here in Australia without a good reason, and in a populated area like this you wouldn't dream firing a shotgun. The police would turn up very promptly.
Pat you're right, it's very bad for the birds and there are lots of examples of sick birds here. They get a kind of mange disease and look really revolting.
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Get a shotgun!
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Tempting a proposition as that may be as an remedy for my neighbours who built a huge ugly extension (that makes the Great Wall of China look like an apprentice project) overlooking my terrace I expect it's as illegal in Australia as it is here in the UK.
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Folks are tracking the cockatoos : http://cockatoo.wingtags.com/ (http://cockatoo.wingtags.com/)
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When I lived in Callander (Perthshire, Scotland) in the early 70s, our local dentist, who lived in a large stone villa around the corner from us, bred ducks and geese in his garden. His house, like others in the street, had a rather large garden. He boasted that he'd shot 200 collared doves from his sitting room with a .22 rifle. They were trying to pinch the duck feed. He could have easily netted the garden.
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Irritation of the day: the oxymoron "vanilla bean". Beans are either bean shaped (e.g. coffee bean) or come in pods, and the beans inside are bean (kidney) shaped. Vanilla pods are not bean shaped and contain no beans inside, so why has some idiot coined the name "vanilla bean" when "vanilla pod" already exists!?
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I hear you Anthony. I have quite a large Vanilla planifolia growing in our bathroom, which is yet to flower but the parent plant from which the cutting came did flower and I was involved in an attempt to cure the pods, which was at least partially successful. It did smell vanillary, just not very strong.
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Irritation of the day: the oxymoron "vanilla bean". Beans are either bean shaped (e.g. coffee bean) or come in pods, and the beans inside are bean (kidney) shaped. Vanilla pods are not bean shaped and contain no beans inside, so why has some idiot coined the name "vanilla bean" when "vanilla pod" already exists!?
Thanks for that Anthony I've renewed your membership of the BOF's Club for another year. Here's a few of the issues that have concerned me today: Tourists; Caravans; BMW's; Volvos; British Telecom; The Commonwealth Games; Elderly ladies who can't make up their mind if they want tea or coffee; Their elderly husbands who try to carry a tray in the same hand as their walking stick before depositing tray and contents over my feet; David Cameron, who is surely to blame that there are only two roads into and out of Devon; Motor Homes; Young ladies in highly coloured cars who firmly believe that they are the only ones on the road; My local garden centre who yet again have no JI No. 2 (or 3 come to that) but do have vanilla cookies.
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Oh, forgot. Cyclists particularly the one out in front who thinks he's Nibile and the rest are the peloton and the normal rules of the road are suspended.
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;D ;D ;D
Here's another: Air New Zealand advertising holiday flights to Rarotonga on sale for $269 ONE WAY. I suspect you can't actually buy a one way ticket to Rarotonga! No doubt cost of the return flight is the one that makes you fall off your seat! I even see ads on the backs of buses for a particular Opera in Sydney, followed by the Auckland - Sydney airfare (one way). Are you supposed to stay there?
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Are you supposed to stay there?
Was this a personalised advert?????? :-X
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My sympathy about cockatoo depradations. In my garden they steal all passionfruit before they are ripe, and remove the seeds from all the citrus fruit, leaving bits of peel, half shredded oranges and shredded seed coats all over the lawns and garden. They used to annoy a neighbour by stripping the fruit from his pecan tree. A flock of about 30 used to fly in about 4pm and put on a show of stealing the nuts, accompanied by screeching and aerobatics. My neighbour had an air rifle and routinely fired a few slugs (very illegal, but apparently inneffective against cockatoos) at which they all flew off screeching like banshees. But the following morning at about 5 am they would all arrive in absolute silence, gorge themselves for about half an hour and decamp without a sound, only to repeat the performance day after day, until the crop was gone. Solution: remove tree! It worked - now they raid my garden instead.
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You poor thing Peter. At least they are in the trees and not in the irises.
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Was this a personalised advert?????? :-X
If I tried to buy a one way ticket to Australia they would send for the Spanish Inquisition. I don't qualify.
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Shooting them would be much more fun ;D
When I lived in Callander (Perthshire, Scotland) in the early 70s, our local dentist, who lived in a large stone villa around the corner from us, bred ducks and geese in his garden. His house, like others in the street, had a rather large garden. He boasted that he'd shot 200 collared doves from his sitting room with a .22 rifle. They were trying to pinch the duck feed. He could have easily netted the garden.
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I received some seeds wrongly labelled: two packets of Gynandriris sisyrinchium spelled two ways - Gynadriris and below it Gynanriris on the list of seed. I emailed the Ministry for Primary Industries to explain the error to them, which would have been spotted had they noticed the two versions of spelling, or just put sisyrinchium into the MAF list. I heard nothing so emailed them again this week. This was their response!
"Thank you for your email.
I must apologise to you, it appears that the email dated 10 October was erroneously placed in the actioned file, when in fact it was a pending item.
As a result it wrongly appeared in our record as if we had no communication from you, and as a result the seeds were destroyed after 28 days (as is the normal practice).
We regret that this has happened.
I have forwarded this email to the Supervisor of MPI at the Mail Centre for his attention on Monday.
Regards,"
Muppets! >:(
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Drought and heat and now blowing a gale. The garden is a wreck. It's the same every year. Gardening here is like trying to build card houses in a cyclone.
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We have the gale, but no drought or heat.
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I planted out some crocuses so I would not have so many to repot next year. Voles or mice have been eating them. They have also attacked Crocus pulchellus but there are so many small corms and seed in the ground they coud eat all the big ones and not wipe them out. I planted 4 lots of big tulips about 3 weeks ago and they are being eaten or carried off for winter storage. I have picked up three and a half in other parts of the garden. A deer is doing a bit of browsing but so far no serious damage.
To cap it all the cold frame has been flooded at least three times since the 16th and is not draining as well as it used to. Of course it hasn't stopped raining for more than a few hours at a time. It flooded on October 6th but dried out quickly then.
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Perhaps you should resort to planting bulbs in chicken wire baskets, Roma ? At least it would make the little blighters work harder to steal your bulbs.
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It's the time of the SRGC Seed Exchange - my busiest time of the year - and BT has managed to have a major problem with their blasted email service today. I am livid. As if I'm not usually ratty enough around November! ::)
From what Ian has discovered, it is a fairly widespread problem, so I suppose I'm not the only whose work is being completely disrupted. Fume! Fume!
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Flippin' slugs! I've not really been bothered by them before, with the odd one or two in the veg patch of course, but the bulbs have always been left alone. Not this year! Having munched on Galanthus seedpods I put down a few pellets and quickly caught an offender. More nibbling so a couple more strategically placed pellets around some particular treasures. Despite this Narcissus flowers have been munched when barely open! The critters must have almost crawled over the slug pellets to get to them!! Grrr! :'( Regular noctural forays for me and my size 10 1/2 boots tonight! >:(
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Thats it had enough >:(, I have turned my phone volume off. I am really fed up with all these calls. From morning to night all I do it get up and down to take calls that are off no interest to me. Ok thats my moaning over :)
Angie :)
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I sympathise, Angela - I find the automated calls particularly annoying since I can't tell them to shove off - and that we're registered with the TPS and so they shouldn't be phoning us in the first place.
Makes me ratty, very ratty.
P.S. I was going to ring to ask you to lend me a fiver, but I'll send a card, instead......... ::) ;D
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I sympathise, Angela - I find the automated calls particularly annoying since I can't tell them to shove off - and that we're registered with the TPS and so they shouldn't be phoning us in the first place.
Makes me ratty, very ratty.
P.S. I was going to ring to ask you to lend me a fiver, but I'll send a card, instead......... ::) ;D
;D ;D Maggi we can't have TPS as its a business line or so they say. ::) Getting even more depressed now, trying to lose weight and a friend has just come around with a huge container of Scottish Tablet. Oh well it is the month to EAT, drink and be merry ;D
Angie :)
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Arggggh. Can't get Scottish tablet here! :'(
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Thats it had enough >:(, I have turned my phone volume off. I am really fed up with all these calls. From morning to night all I do it get up and down to take calls that are off no interest to me. Ok thats my moaning over :)
Angie :)
Angie
I have bought the answer to your frustrations - the new BT phone.
It blocks all unwanted calls using the following steps -
As a call comes in the caller is automatically asked whose calling. If they refuse the call is not put through and can then be blocked forever.
If they give their name then the system asks you if you wish to accept call - you can then decide to block or accept or divert to answerphone.
If you are out and the caller has given a name they are directed to the answerphone. There is a beep to tell you that you have a message and a symbol on the phone. Again you can block the call when you hear the message or save the number as a contact.
For friends and other callers you want then you set up a contact list. You can select their name and dial their number as per usual phones. Anyone on the list phoning you will come straight through to you,
Added bonus - the numbers you are dialling appear as large numerals -
BT8500 Advanced Call Blocker Cordless Home Phone (Twin Handset Pack) available on Amazon
Thoroughly recommend it. Deals with those really irritating International calls as well as UK.
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Arggggh. Can't get Scottish tablet here! :'(
Yes, but I'm sure you can buy all the ingredients and make your own :D
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I'm sure I can, but then it would be New Zealand tablet. ;D
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As a call comes in the caller is automatically asked whose calling.
If it's the one I encountered yesterday, you are actually requested to state your name then press the hash key. This will defeat anyone who cannot work out which key is the hash (#) key. So you'll actually screen both unwanted calls and incompetent callers. It took me two attempts, as the first time round I accidentally pressed the star (*) key instead of the hash (#) key.
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Sounds as if the automated calls that are so numerous lately would be blocked straight away by this system.
I hope you bought your via the SRGC's Amazon link, Art?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&linkCode=ur2&tag=scorocgarclu-21&linkId=ES4VS2YU3CF6QP3W (http://www.amazon.co.uk/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&linkCode=ur2&tag=scorocgarclu-21&linkId=ES4VS2YU3CF6QP3W)
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I'm sure I can, but then it would be New Zealand tablet. ;D
My tablet tastes of apple ::) :P
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Its been bliss , no ringing and today :) I only got 6 calls and nobody left a message. Told my friends to call me on my mobile or leave a message. Will look at these phone so thanks. I suppose I need to turn the ring volume up again, just wanted a few days without having to get up and down all the time, good exercise though.
I have never tried making tablet, everyone that knows me knows that I can't cook. We have a lovely ice-cream shop in a place called Stonehaven . She does ice-cream with tablet in it and then she pours hot toffee sauce all over it and even worse she then fills the tub with sweets, What a nightmare eh :) :) :) :)
Angie :) :)
Next time I have one of these tubs I will take a picture.
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I'm betting that shop is Giulianotti's Ice cream Parlour in Stonehaven - am I right? Wonderful place!
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Sounds as if the automated calls that are so numerous lately would be blocked straight away by this system.
I hope you bought your via the SRGC's Amazon link, Art?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&linkCode=ur2&tag=scorocgarclu-21&linkId=ES4VS2YU3CF6QP3W (http://www.amazon.co.uk/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&linkCode=ur2&tag=scorocgarclu-21&linkId=ES4VS2YU3CF6QP3W)
I received the info direct from BT and bought direct from them - otherwise of course I would.
If I find anything I want on Amazon, I log into the Forum and buy thro' the link.
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Thanks on all counts, Art! I'm considering those phones myself.
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Second Fire for the month (the first was Monday) a few km from our place!
Not a good prospect this early into the summer :(
The worst thing was that the Fire Authority's website showed today's fire was a few hundred metres away from our house :o
But it was actually close to where the last one was - which is still too close for comfort,
fermi
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Second Fire for the month (the first was Monday) a few km from our place!
Not a good prospect this early into the summer :(
The worst thing was that the Fire Authority's website showed today's fire was a few hundred metres away from our house :o
But it was actually close to where the last one was - which is still too close for comfort,
fermi
When I read this it really it gives me an awful feeling. I do hope everyone will be alright. I can't imagine what folks have gone through in the past watching their beloved homes disappear. I hope there wont be anymore fires and everyone and their homes will be safe.
Angie :(
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Angie,
thanks for your concern.
Fortunately the fire-fighters were there pretty quickly and later there was a downpour which hopefully put out any remaining embers.
We're having a brief respite with cooler weather over the weekend so we'll enjoy it while we can,
cheers
fermi
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I've got a moan to add to everyone else's, why is it when you are trying to back out of a parking space in a supermarket car park other car drivers carry on drive ring past you even though they can clearly see you are trying to get out. It took me ages to get out of Asda in Boston.
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I've got a moan to add to everyone else's, why is it when you are trying to back out of a parking space in a supermarket car park other car drivers carry on drive ring past you even though they can clearly see you are trying to get out. It took me ages to get out of Asda in Boston.
Try Waitrose, prices might be a little higher but the customers are more polite ;D
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That would mean going all the way into Lincoln to my nearest store, a 68 mile round trip. Also I'm not much of a city person, all those crowds, too much of a country person.
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I think it would be a 240 mile round trip for us to visit a Waitrose...... definitely can't afford that!
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where would that be maggi? Glasgow?, Edinburgh?
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There are branches there, but I think Stirling would be the nearest.... :-\
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Your right it would be a good old trek
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Your right it would be a good old trek
Yeah, AND the ice cream would have melted before we got home - a dead loss!
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;D
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We have three species of super market: Pak 'n Save; Countdown and New World. We have all three less the 1km from us and within a couple of hundred metres of each other.
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That's not bad Anthony, what are the car drivers like over there? Yesterday As soon as I saw a gap in the traffic I went for it, anyone who came along had to wait :)
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Worst drivers I've ever come across. Going round roundabouts the wrong way; jumping red lights; crossing two/three lanes of a motorway at 45º to turn off; more than 50% use no indicators; more than 20% drive with their fog lights on at night (only fog is between their ears) and I regularly see people driving along the motorway at night with no lights on and no-one flashes or toots them, so they are blissfully unaware or belong to the "I know where I'm going" (no indicators) or "I can see where I'm going so don't need my lights" (no lights = invisible to other drivers) brigade.
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For some reason this seems to be a good (?) year for moles. Talpa is burrowing through the beds at a vast rate of knots, I don't know whether to be pleased that there are plenty of worms etc to keep him going in the ground or petrified that all the snowdrop pots will be undermined, the roots left dangling and the bulbs have no nourishment this year and do nothing next. We have tried smelly things in the run and music etc in the past. The traps are out.
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Hi Brian I have heard that if you take one of those big soft drink bottles, cut the bottom end off and stick it in the ground the vibrations when the wind is blowing scare moles off. I've not tried it myself, no moles around here.
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Thanks John, we tried that, it just makes hills elsewhere.
Lunchtime update, mole is no more. Phew, well done David!
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Well done Brian