Companion Planting (Friendship Group)

[Bigmallly]

You must be very, very ugly then

Who you calling ugly?................

[veggiechicken]

You may have been cute as a baby, but one wonders about how you've matured........

[Bigmallly]

I've aged pretty well, still have an eye for the girls..........................then again, my eye is not very good these days......

[veggiechicken]

I've aged pretty well, still have an eye for the girls..............[ATTACH=CONFIG]29111[/ATTACH]............then again, my eye is not very good these days......

I don't think her eye is too good either! Nor some of her other bits......

[snohare]

Wake up you lot! I go out for the day on an adventure and leave you all in charge and what happens - nothing!!

Ok VC, I'll bite. What was the adventure ? Didn't you think to ask four of us along, or am I the only one who thinks Enid Blyton when reading these posts ? (Ok, Mallly is not quite Timmy the dog...but surely we can have a stand-in)
Di, I can only apologise for the non-distaff side of the human race... We are all frail, us mortals, with feet of clay that sometimes reach up past the neck !

[veggiechicken]

Oh, I give up on you Snohare! You were all invited along - to the Malvern Spring Show in, would you believe, Malvern. A full report will be found at http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...may_64685.html
Have you been having adventures today, Snowy?

[snohare]

No, no adventures for me today Veggie. I was at a garden party yesterday afternoon - small garden, lots of small kiddies, parents and grandparents - like something out of a Giles Cartoon it was, I expected to see a Thelwell pony running riot at any point - great fun to socialise for once, but I soon tired. After that I headed home and had a thirteen hour (!) snooze. Finally got up after a long long lie in, still wanted to keep sleeping...have spent the day snacking, reading Melvyn Bragg's "The Adventure of English", and have just awoken from another three hour snooze.
Anyone got a spare working body clock they don't want ? Mine doesn't work...I think I am on what I call double time days, where it runs twice as fast as normal whiles...alas the rest of me does not keep up !
Had I been fit I would have tried to visit my parents, but this is one of those phases I go through where I always seem to feel as if I am wearing a suit of lead armour. On second thoughts, does anyone know of a library that needs a very large doorstop ?

[veggiechicken]

I'd feel tired after that garden party too, Sno, you're not unusual there! If you're reading Melvyn Bragg does that mean you've finished Clive Cussler?
As for Body clocks - why don't you swap with BigM, his seems stuck at 5am.
Maybe your chosen vocation is Library Draught excluder?

[snohare]

Yes, I finished "Inca Gold", despite my disgust at the poor quality of the science in it. Good plot, but I must say I prefer my heroes a bit more frail and bumbling and human, as in my experience they are - it must be so much easier to be heroic when you are possessed of superhuman strength/speed/skills/loyalty/buddies/bank balance...what I couldn't do with an Admiral Sandecker, vintage car collection, and a fleet of ships and helicopters at my disposal ! (It would fairly make muck spreading at the allotment easier... )
Melvyn's book by comparison <going into Anorak mode now> is much more worthy, in the same way that walking to the supermarket in the rain is. Like a walk in the rain though, there are all sorts of surprising delights to be found...absolutely fascinating to read the convolutions by which all the words I just typed found their way into our language. Now I know which ones were Old English, early Latin, Norman, French, etc - and much more importantly,why. (Did you know that "their" is one of the few Danish words in the English tongue ?) It is like seeing the innards of a computer for the first time, you are never able to think of it the same again...my hat off to Mr Bragg for his eruditeness. (And Shakespeare...and Philip Sidney...I'm off to invent some words now. )

[veggiechicken]

I'd like Melvyn Bragg if it wasn't for his droning voice. It puts me right off the man. Irrational I know but the mere mention of his name makes me yawn! The book does sound interesting though so maybe, I'll switch off my inner ear so that I can't hear him when I read it. (That doesn't make sense but you know what I mean!)

[snohare]

As for Body clocks - why don't you swap with BigM, his seems stuck at 5am.
Maybe your chosen vocation is Library Draught excluder?

Hmm...Admittedly it would be a career involving long lies...but where would I ever find a library open 24 hours ? (Heaven knows, I have had a lifelong hunt for such a thing... And of course, it is bad for the self esteem to have people walking all over you...not to mention sore when they mistake your ears for complimentary slippers
No, I think draught excluder is more a job for Mallly. Black, bristly, and with way too much...er, personality for people to even contemplate walking over him !

[veggiechicken]

The thought of anyone mistaking your ears for slippers is just too much to take without spluttering Perhaps you're more suited to a genteel reading room, with big leather armchairs and a roaring log fire......

[snohare]

You do realise that if you switch off your inner ear, you will lose out on the best part of the book - the most wonderful thing about it is how well balanced his views are...
Worth reading for this bit alone:
"...hindsight is the bane of history. It is corrupting and distorting and pays no respect to the way life is really lived - forwards, generally blindly, full of accidents, fortunes and misfortunes, patternless and often adrift. Easy with hindsight to say we would beat Napoleon at Waterloo: only by a whisker, according to the honest general who did it. Easy to say we would win the Second World War: ask those who watched the dogfights of the Battle of Britain in Kent in 1940. Easy to say the Berlin Wall was bound to fall. Which influential commentator or body of opinion said so in the 1980s ? Hindsight is the easy way to mop up the mess which we call history; it is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled. As often as not, when the dust was flying, no one at the time knew what the outcome might be."
Best description of history I have read in my entire life !

[snohare]

Perhaps you're more suited to a genteel reading room, with big leather armchairs and a roaring log fire......

Nah, that's just a pipe dream !

[veggiechicken]

..... but I don't have to listen to Melvyn reading it. Somebody with a more alive voice please!