Moan, moan, moan - 2014

[Maggi Young]

Your right it would be a good old trek

Yeah, AND the ice cream would have melted before we got home - a dead loss!

[johnstephen29]

 

[Anthony Darby]

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.

[johnstephen29]

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

[Anthony Darby]

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.

[Brian Ellis]

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.

[johnstephen29]

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.

[Brian Ellis]

Thanks John, we tried that, it just makes hills elsewhere.

Lunchtime update, mole is no more.  Phew, well done David!

[johnstephen29]

Well done Brian